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Meal families

Cheeses

Crozier blue

Ireland. County Tipperary.
Soft-ripened blue-veined pasteurized sheep’s milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 4 to 11 months.

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Cold starters

Celery root remoulade

Remoulade : mayonnaise with capers, pickles, and a blend of herbs (parsley, chives, chervil, and tarragon).

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Cheeses

Asiago d’allevo

Italy. Trentino-Alto Adige.Pressed and cooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Offal and tripe

Bordeaux style veal kidney

Kidney cooked in red wine and finished with Bordelaise sauce.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Sautéed scallops with lemon butter

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood lasagna

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Sea fish

Sea bass with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Havarti

Denmark.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads with spices

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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Desserts

Wild strawberries mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Desserts

Merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish gratin with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Poultry

Stuffed goose neck Strasbourg-style

Goose neck stuffed with pork and veal meat, with Cognac, cream and black truffle.
Served hot.

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Sauces

Tomato sauce

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

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Veal

Blanquette de veau with mushrooms

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Freshwater fish

Pike with mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.

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Main meals

Monkfish tajine with confit lemon

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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