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Meal families

Cheeses

Twig farm washed rind wheel

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard cheese from raw goat's and cow’s milk with a yellowish-golden rind washed with lees of cider.
Ripening : 2 to 3 months.

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Cold starters

Meatloaf with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Cooked meats

Rabbit 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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Sea fish

Grilled sole with melted butter

Melted butter : melted butter with reduced lemon juice and possibly pepper or chili.

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Pork

Parsley ham

Ham sliced in cubes cooked in a broth with white Burgundy wine with mustard and wine vinegar, jelly with parsley coated and flavored (with onion, shallot, thyme, bay leaves, garlic...).

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Offal and tripe

Abignades

Goose tripe and blood cooked.
Served on fried breath with goose fat.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops skewers with béarnaise sauce

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

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Cheeses

Roth Private Reserve

United States. Wisconsin.
Hard raw cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : over 6 months.

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Cheeses

Cabrales

Spain. Asturias.
Semi-hard blue-green veined raw cow's milk or mixture of two or three kinds of milk (cow, sheep and goat).
Ripening : 3 to 6 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Oyster mushroom

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Sauces

Marchand de vin butter

Butter mixed with shallots cooked in wine with lemon and parsley.

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Cheeses

Rocamadour

France. Quercy.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.
Ripening : 6 days minimum.

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Cold starters

Cervelle de canut

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Lyon.
Cottage cheese beaten with cream and seasoned with chopped herbs (chive, shallot, parsley).
Usually served with toast, boiled potatoes or to season a salad.

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Beef

Provencal-style estouffade of beef

Estouffade : cooked slowly with very little liquid in a closed container.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Roast lobster

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Sauces

White sauce

Heated flour and butter to which a hot liquid is added (broth, water, cooking juices, wine).

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Cooked meats

Rillettes

Pork meat cooked long over low heat in its own fat.
Served cold.

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