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Meal families

Sauces

Shrimp sauce

Fish velouté mixed with shrimp butter.

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Pork

Roast pork with orange

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

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Veal

Roast milk-fed veal

Milk-fed veal : calf of less than 20 weeks milk-fed only.

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Sauces

Brown butter sauce

Brown butter : cooked until a clear brown color and smells nutty poured through a strainer into a cold container to stop the cooking.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted rack of lamb with sweet spices

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Offal and tripe

Roasted veal kidneys with horseradish sauce

Horseradish sauce: velouté with grated horseradish.

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Cheeses

Bonchester

United Kingdom. Scotland.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with white mould rind.

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Desserts

Vacherin

Dessert with meringue crust filled with ice cream or sorbet, sometimes fruit and coated with whipped cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with cream

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Beef

Chili con carne

Beef meat and chili peppers with various vegetables (red beans, onion, tomato ...) and spices (garlic, cumin ...).

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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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Beef

Beef tournedos with béarnaise sauce

Tournedos: slice cut from the end portion of tenderloin.
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Cheeses

Bethmale

France. Pyrenees.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage

France. Rhône-Alpes. Dauphiné.
Blue-veined cow's milk cheese.

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Desserts

Vanilla 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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Cheeses

Cabécou du Fel

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seared scallops with white wine and mousseline spinach

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio with duck foie gras

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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