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Meal families

Sauces

Normandy sauce

Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Cold starters

Beef bread with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Cheeses

Tarentaise reserve cheese

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.

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Desserts

Banana and raisins crumble with rhum

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Sea fish

Brandade de morue parmentière

Brandade with mashed potatoes.

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Warm starters

Quenelles

Plain quenelle : semolina or flour with butter, eggs, milk and/or water and seasoning.

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Cheeses

Chevrotin des Aravis

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Raw goat's milk semi-soft cheese with a natural rind.

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Desserts

Raspberry crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Cooked meats

Pâté en croûte

Terrine of different meats wrapped in jelly and baked in a pie crust.
Served cold.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads cassolette with mustard

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.
Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Sauces

Chocolate sauce

Red wine with butter, shallots, veal stock, pepper and cocoa.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops in olive oil and lemon

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Freshwater fish

Gefilte fish

Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.
Stuffed fish (with pike, hake… and served sliced) or large fish balls topped with a slice of carrot with a horseradish sauce.
Serve cold or warm.

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Cheeses

Tomme de brebis

Ewe's milk cheese, pressed and uncooked.

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