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Pan bagnat

Tuna sandwich or anchovies with salad, olive oil and sliced hard-boiled egg.

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Desserts

Raspberry bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Poultry

Chicken with chasseur sauce

Chasseur sauce : made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

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Cheeses

Clothbound Cheddar

Cheddar coated in butter or lard and wrapped in additional layer of cloth.
Ripening : 7 months minimum.

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Cooked meats

Venison pâté

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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Warm starters

Duck foie gras with black truffle in puff pastry

Puff pastry coating duck foie gras with black truffle.

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Cooked meats

Grilled andouillette sausage skewers with shallots

Sausage cooked with white wine, butter and shallot.

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Desserts

Praline macaron

Macaron : cupcake made with two meringue cookies and a cream or ganache between them.

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Cheeses

Gougères with Chaource

Gougères stuffed with Chaource cheese.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Endive with Bechamel

Bechamel sauce : Butter and flour (roux) made with milk or cream.

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Cheeses

Gournay

France. Normandie. Seine-Maritime. Pays de Bray. Gournay-en-Bray.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Pork

Pork fricassee

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

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Sea fish

Marinated anchovies with white wine

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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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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