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Meal families

Main meals

Truffade

Sort of pancake made with thinly sliced potatoes cooked in goose fat and mixed with thin strips of tome fraiche until it sticks in a sort of thick pastry, sometimes decorated with fresh parsley.

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Sea fish

Brill in Dieppe sauce

Dieppe sauce : Normandy sauce (Bechamel with added cream) with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Salads

Langoustines salad in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Main meals

Shrimp jambalaya

United States. Louisiana. New Orleans.
Kind of paella with shrimp, rice and spicy.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Meat pie

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Beef

Beef carpaccio with Parmesan cheese

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Cooked meats

Pork rinds

Pieces of pork meat confit in its own fat and seasoned with salt, pepper, spices and sometimes: garlic, parsley, vinegar.

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Desserts

Mirlitons de Rouen

France. Normandy. Rouen.
Tartlet filled with a cream made from butter, cream, eggs, ground almonds, sugar and vanilla.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Hearts of palm in vinaigrette

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Cheeses

Bleu d’Auvergne

France. Massif Central.
Pasteurized or raw cow's milk blue cheese.

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Desserts

Strawberry miror cake

Miror cake : mousse set on a sponge base topped with a glaze.

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Poultry

Green curry chicken

Green curry : Thai speciality. Complex combinations of spices or herbs (green chillies, shallots, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime peel, coriander root, red turmeric, roasted cilantro (coriander) and cumin seeds, white peppercorns, shrimp paste and salt) with coconut milk, palm sugar and fish sauce.
Pair according to the hotness of the spices.

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