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Meal families

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Leek and Chaource tart

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Eggs

Provencal style poached eggs

Poached eggs with garlic, onion, parsley, tomato and bread.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Sea-pie

Canada. Quebec.
Layered meat pie made with meat (beef, chicken, hare, moose, partridge, pork and veal or a simpler permutation of these).

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Sauces

Champagne sauce

Champagne with fresh cream, fish stock (or veal or poultry stock), shallots, parsley, salt and pepper.

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Cheeses

Tomme des Pyrénées

France. Pyrenees.
Cow's milk cheese covered in black wax or browned.

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Cooked meats

Trush 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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Sheep and Goats

Roast Pauillac lamb with new garlic

Lamb under 11 weeks and between 11 and 15 kilos.

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Main meals

Parrillada

Argentina.
Various cuts of meat slowly roasted on a grill.

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Poultry

Squab with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Soubise sauce : béchamel with onion, butter, fresh cream, salt and pepper.

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Sauces

Piquante sauce

Piquante sauce : white wine with a reduction of shallots, vinegar with chervil, pickles, parsley and demi-glace (reduced veal stock).

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Cheeses

Saint-Jorge Original

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 3 months.

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Warm starters

Snails in puff pastry

Dish made with puff pastry.

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Cheeses

Young Edam

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Guacamole with prawn

Guacamole : dip made by mashing ripe avocados and fresh cilantro, lime juice, onions, fresh peppers, tomatoes and salt.

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Cheeses

Brillat-Savarin

France. Burgundy. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. Forges-les-Eaux.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk fed lamb with ceps

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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