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Meal families

Sheep and Goats

Lamb with port wine sauce

Port wine sauce : demi-glace (reduced sauce made from a brown stock) with Port added.

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Cheeses

Young Edam

Netherlands. Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 3 to 6 weeks.

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Pork

Pork filet mignon with duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes : purée of mashed potato and egg yolk baked until golden.

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Pork

Pork chop with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Cheeses

Dubliner vintage

Ireland. Cork.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : over 24 months.

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Sea fish

Brill in Dieppe sauce

Dieppe sauce : Normandy sauce (Bechamel with added cream) with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Munster quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Consommé and Soup

Chicken chorba

Algeria.
Soup with chickpeas, chicken, vermicelli, spices and fresh herbs.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Noisette of lamb with herbs

Noisette : small round piece of lean meat.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chicken rice pilaf

Pilaf : wheat, quinoa or rice cooked in a seasoned broth in the oven or casserole.

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Main meals

Gratin dauphinois with black truffle

Dish based on scalloped potatoes, garlic and fresh cream.

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Desserts

Christmas pudding

United Kingdom.
Dark-coloured Christmas cake, steamed for a long time with dried fruits, nuts, brown sugar or molasses and often beef kidney fat and flavoured with beer (Porter, Stout), alcohol (Cognac) or citrus juice. Before being served with cognac or flambéed rum.

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Sheep and Goats

Provencal leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Provencal : with sautéed tomato in olive oil with bread, garlic, onion and parsley.

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