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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pie Munster

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Cheeses

Tomme au marc

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Beaufortain, Bauges and Tarentaise.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk covered with a thick layer of grape pomace.

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Beef

Gardiane de taureau

Bull meat marinated in red wine before being cooked slowly over low heat.
Served with rice.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Hawaiian pizza

Pizza made with pineapple and ham pieces, mozzarella, on a tomato sauce base.

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Desserts

Pears cassolette with white wine

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Cheeses

Clonmore

Ireland. Cork.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with an orange waxed rind.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Zucchini gratin

Pairs well with grilled shellfish, fish, or white or red meat.
Served cold, warm or hot.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Baked oysters with a julienne of leek

Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.

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Cooked meats

Glazed ham

Glazed : spreading a shiny, often sweet, substance over food before finishing the cooking, so that when served, the food has a shiny appearance.

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Offal and tripe

Tripe

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Veal

Fricandeau of veal

Fricandeau : thin slice of veal larded and braised or pan-fried.

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Cheeses

Tomme de Trappe Echourgnac affiné au vin de noix

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Dordogne (Périgord).
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk and walnut liqueur washed rind.
Ripening : 2 to 3 weeks.

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Beef

Entrecote with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Poultry

Beer chicken

Oven-baked chicken with a cream and beer sauce.

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Cheeses

Tarentaise reserve cheese

United States. Vermont.
Raw cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and washed rind.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Scallop tart

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Cold starters

Crab aspic with herbs

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Beef

Roasted rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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