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Meal families

Cold starters

Vitello tonnato

Piedmontese speciality. Cold dish of thinly sliced veal with tuna accompanied by lemon mayonnaise, capers and anchovies.

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Pork

Portuguese-style pork roast

Baked pork roast with paprika, chicken stock and white wine.

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Veal

Roast veal tenderloin

Tenderloin : piece of meat cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Provencal scallops

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Blintz with crab and potatoes with curry

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Cheeses

Castelmagno

Italy. Cuneo. Castelmagno, Pradleves and Monterosso Grana.
Semi-hard raw whole cow's milk cheese with a washed rind, sometimes some milk from ewe or goat may be added to the cow's milk.
Ripening : 2 to 5 months.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pounti

France. Occitania. Aveyron. Rouergue.
Pâté made from wheat or rye flour with chard, eggs, milk, bacon or sausage meat and prunes cooked in a casserole or terrine.
Generally eaten with a salad.
Served cold.

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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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Cheeses

Calvander

United States. North Carolina.
Hard, cow's milk cheese.

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Poultry

Goose confit

Served hot.

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Beef

Beef tongue with Madeira sauce

Madeira sauce : Demi-glace (brown stock reduced) with Madeira.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood pasta

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seared bay scallop with Noilly Prat

Noilly Prat : vermouth with notes of chamomile and coriander.

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