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Meal families

Beef

Rump steak with Colbert sauce

Colbert sauce : maitre d'hotel butter with gravy and tarragon.

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Desserts

Rhubarb pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Main meals

Oxtail daube with red wine

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Cheeses

Triple Play Extra Innings

United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened cheese from pasteurized goat's, sheep's and cow’s milk without rind.
Ripening : over a year.

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Others

Oriental style pita

Pita : round flatbread used to catch food or to make a sandwich.
Also refers to the turnover oven-baked and stuffed with food.

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Sea fish

Sea bream a la provencale

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Sauces

Provencal sauce

Crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley boiled in oil.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Brussels sprouts gratin

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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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Main meals

Spicy gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : vegetable stew (celery, onion, pepper) with a thick and very fragrant broth to which seafood (usually crab, shrimp or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken and smoked meat : andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Usually served with rice.

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Sheep and Goats

Provencal roasted shoulder of lamb

Provencal : with sautéed tomato in olive oil with bread, garlic, onion and parsley.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Quiche

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

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Cheeses

Chaource

France. Champagne-Ardenne.
Soft-ripened raw whole cow’s milk cheese with rind.

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