Desserts
Plum pavlova
Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.
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Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.
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Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Cheeses
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
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Melted butter with reduced lemon juice and possibly pepper or chili.
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Piedmontese speciality. Cold dish of thinly sliced veal with tuna accompanied by lemon mayonnaise, capers and anchovies.
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France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde. Médoc.
Pork sausage made from pork stomachs, chitterlings and ham cut into strips cooked in a spicy, garlicky vegetable broth.
Cold starters
Mayonnaise : oil emulsion with egg yolk, mustard and pepper, sometimes with a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.
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Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.
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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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United Kingdom. Lancashire.
Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 3 to 24 months.
Poultry
Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.
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Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in an earthenware container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.
Beef
Chateaubriand : piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet..
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.