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Meal families

Poultry

Bordeaux style duck confit

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Cooked meats

Duck terrine with orange

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Poultry

Duck Montmorency

Duck served with a poultry cream sauce and Montmorency cherries.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Artichokes and hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Veal

Veal medallion with chanterelle

Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm) cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with parsley sauce

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Parsley sauce: parsley, lemon juice and olive oil or butter.

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Game animals

Haunch of wild boar

Haunch : leg.

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Cheeses

Durrus

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 3 to 5 weeks.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Fettucine Alfredo with porcini

Fetuccine Alfredo : pasta dish consisting of long pasta mixed with butter and parmesan cheese.

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Cheeses

Montasio fresco

Italy. Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese with brushed rind.
Ripening : 2 months maximum.

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Sauces

Poivrade sauce

mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, diced bacon, herbs (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or venison stock and black peppercorns.

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Consommé and Soup

Zurrukutuna

Basque Country.
Soup with cod, peppers and garlic.

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Cheeses

Pavé du Nord demi-vieux

France. Nord. Pas de Calais.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese annatto colored with a natural rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Desserts

Macarons of Saint-Emilion

Sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, sugar, almonds and bitter almonds.

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Sea fish

Trout fillets Gravlax

Gravlax: fresh salmon marinated with dill, spices and herbs, salt, sugar with a mustard sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with rosemary

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Desserts

Caramel charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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