Shellfish and Seafood
Seafood carpaccio
Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
Shellfish and Seafood
Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
Main courses
United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Dish usually served with rice.
Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie
Pizza topped with shrimp, mussels, or squid on a tomato sauce base.
Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie
Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Served hot or cold.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
Shellfish and Seafood
Salpicon : hot or cold preparation of ingredients cut into small dice and bound with a cream or a sauce.
Hot Starters
Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).
Cold starters
Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.
Cheeses
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loir-et-Cher. Selles-sur-Cher.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and bloomy rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 10 to 30 days.