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Meal families

Cooked meats

Lorrain paté with garden salad

France. Lorraine. Baccarat.
Puff pastry with chopped pork and veal marinated in wine (white or red) with shallot, laurel, parsley and thyme.
Served hot.

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Sauces

Black truffle butter

Black truffle butter: butter with black truffle and Cognac.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Endive with Bechamel

Bechamel sauce : Butter and flour (roux) made with milk or cream.

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Poultry

Salmi of guinea fowl with cabbage

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

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Desserts

Apricot charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Pork

Cold roast pork with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : oil emulsion with egg yolk, mustard and pepper, sometimes with a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Beef

Beef Wellington

Beef fillet in puff pastry with spices like curry or ginger.

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Desserts

Devil’s food cake

Chocolate layer cake stuffed with chocolate cream and topped with chocolate icing.

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Sea fish

Skate with black butter sauce

Black butter: butter cooked until it turns a dark color, reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine vinegar).

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Main meals

Chicken couscous

Couscous : steamed semolina served with meat stew (lamb, chicken, merguez) accompanied by a spicy broth. Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Sauces

Henri IV sauce

Bearnaise sauce with veal stock.

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Veal

Roast veal Orloff

Orloff : cooked veal sliced and covered with a sauce Soubise mixed with chopped mushrooms and onion puree (no cheese in the recipe).
Served hot.

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Poultry

Orange chick

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Sheep and Goats

Stew of lamb

Navarin : stew.

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Cheeses

Maroilles

France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Nord. Avesnois.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Roquefort pie

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