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Meal families

Beef

Grilled beef with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Offal and tripe

Marseille pieds paquets

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Bouches-du-Rhône. Marseille.
Dish made of sheep's feet and stomach stuffed with pork belly or salt pork simmered in a white wine sauce and tomato.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio with lemon

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

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Freshwater fish

Trout au bleu with hollandaise sauce

Blue: cooked in court-bouillon and vinegar.
Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Others

Frog legs with garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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Eggs

Eggs Benedict

Two halves of English muffin topped with fried bacon, poached egg and hollandaise sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Peas risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Risotto

Reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Main meals

Baeckeoffe

France. Alsace.
Dish of potatoes, meat and vegetables cooked with spices and white wine.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb in puff pastry

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish with white wine sauce

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

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Wild mushroom tart

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Sea fish

Cold salmon mayonnaise

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

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Salads

Tuna Nicoise salad

Raw vegetable salad with tuna, boiled eggs and olive oil.

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Others

Snail cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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