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Meal families

Cooked meats

Lyon style cochonnaille

Pork charcuterie served as a first course.

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Sea fish

Salmon a l’unilateral with sorrel sauce

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.
Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Poultry

Supreme of fattened chicken

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.

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Sheep and Goats

Pan fried lamb chops Maintenon style

Maintenon : lamb chops baked with a roux mixed with button mushroom, ham, onion, black truffle and breadcrumbs.

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Sea fish

Bordeaux style lamprey

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde.
Fish cooked in a red wine sauce mixed with its own blood and served with garlic croutons.

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Sea fish

Brandade de haddock

Brandade : mixture of fish and olive oil.

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Cheeses

Idiazábal ahumado

Spain. Basque Country.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed.
Ripening : 60 days minimum.

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Desserts

Cherries flambéed with kirsch

Poached cherries in syrup and coated with caramel, flambéed and served on vanilla ice cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bordeaux style Bay scallop

Bordeaux : shallots, parsley and white wine.

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Game animals

Salmi of venison

Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Cheeses

Brie de Nangis

France. Brie.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with white mould rind.

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