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Meal families

Cheeses

Provolone dolce

Italy. Lombardy.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese with veal rennet.

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Game animals

Jugged hare a la royale

Civet cooked in a red wine sauce with garlic and shallot before being bound in blood.

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Sea fish

Monkfish tail with green peppercorn sauce

Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac before being reduced, added with crushed pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Sea fish

Rollmops

Herring fillet marinated in water, white vinegar, salt, onion, pepper and mustard and sometimes white wine, rolled into a cylindrical shape, often around an onion, a vinegar pickle or sauerkraut.

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Pork

Roast pork with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Desserts

Puits d’amour

Hollowed round cake in puff pastry or choux pastry stuffed with jam (apricot, raspberry or redcurrant jelly) or custard and topped with caramel or icing sugar.

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Cheeses

Big woods blue

United States. Minnesota.
Pasteurized blue-veined ewe's milk cheese.

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Sea fish

Marinated anchovies with white wine

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb and polenta

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Desserts

Walnut succès cake

Macaron stuffed with a walnut cream.

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