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Meal families

Desserts

Apple and walnut crumble with raisins

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Main meals

Pike-perch matelote with pinot noir

Matelote : red wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Freshwater fish

Roasted pike-perch fillets with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Game birds

Papillot of young partridge

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak and grenailles potatoes

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Grenailles: small potatoes (diameter between 18 and 35 millimeters).

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Seafood pie

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Beef

Grilled beef tournedos with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster fricassee

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

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Cheeses

Bleu de Bresse

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Bresse.
Blue-veined cow's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Serra da Estrela curado

Portugal. Serra da Estrela.
Raw sheep's milk cheese curdled with wild thistle with a rind ocher in color.

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Cheeses

Saint-Nectaire

France. Auvergne. Pays des monts-Dore (Cantal, Puy de Dôme).
Semi-hard pasteurized or unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 28 days minimum.
Bear the mention « Saint-Nectaire laitier ».

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Desserts

Mocha cake with nuts

Mocha cake : sponge cake with coffee-flavoured buttercream.

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Cheeses

Cabecou

France. Midi-Pyrénées.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

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Sea fish

Sea bass in escabeche

Escabeche : marinade based on oil and vinegar (or citrus juice).

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Sheep and Goats

Stew of mutton

Navarin : stew.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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