Cheeses
Shropshire blue
United Kingdom.
Blue unpasteurised cow's milk cheese and orange in color.
All dishes:
Meal families
Sauces
Turkey mole
Mole : sauce made with peanut, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread or tortilla (fried and crumbled).
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Tropézienne
Brioche split in two and filled with a mixture of pastry cream and buttercream and topped with pearl sugar.
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Off Kilter
United States. Washington.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind with beer (Scotch ale).
Sea fish
Sea bass with spring vegetables
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
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Duck breast with Sarlat style potatoes
Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.
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Potée
Mixture of meat or sausage, vegetables and baked potatoes in broth cooked several hours in an earthenware pot.
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Orange beef
Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.
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Kunik
United States. New York.
Triple cream pasteurized goat's and cow’s milk cheese with a white mould rind.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Spinach and ricotta lasagna
Ricotta: Italian or Maltese cheese made from the whey of other cheeses, sheep or cow.
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Spoon hare with grilled bacon and chasseur sauce
A la cuillère : meat slow-cooked in a casserole (4-8 hours at 160°C) , hollowed and filled then browned before serving.
Chasseur sauce : made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.
Main meals
Provencal wild boar daube
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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Petit Saint-Nectaire
France. Auvergne. Pays des monts-Dore (Cantal, Puy de Dôme).
Semi-hard pasteurized or unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 21 days minimum.