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Meal families

Sauces

Poivrade sauce

mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, diced bacon, herbs (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or venison stock and black peppercorns.

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Desserts

Opera

Pastry with Joconde cake, coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache.

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Desserts

Cofee religieuse

Pastry made up of two choux filled with a flavored pastry cream and coated with fondant and buttercream.

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Cheeses

Idyll gris

United States. Michigan.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 12 to 21 days.

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Cooked meats

Pork pâté

Served cold.

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Sheep and Goats

Seven-hour lamb

Seven hour : Slow-cooking leg of lamb in wine with garlic and herbs until it is fall-off-the-bone tender and luscious

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Desserts

Baklava

Speciality of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey…
Dessert made of many layers of filo pastry dough separated with melted butter, or oiled dough layered in which there's a mixture of dried fruit (hazelnuts, walnuts or pistachios), sometimes spices (cloves) finely ground and crushed, which is then dipped in a sweet liquid (lemon and sugar water, orange blossom, honey, rose ...).

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Cheeses

Jeffs’ Select Gouda

United States. Minnesota. Wisconsin.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese annatto colored with a natural rind.
Ripening : at least 2 months.

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Consommé and Soup

Pauchouse

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Speciality made with fresh-water fish pieces (pike, perch, pike-perch) and fatty fish (eel, carp, salmon, tench, trout) cooked with white wine sauce and accompanied by croutons, bacon and potatoes.

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Cheeses

Bethmale de chèvre

France. Pyrenees. Ariège.
Semi-hard pasteurized goat's milk cheese de pasta prensada no cocida with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 4 months.

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Desserts

Douillon à la pomme

Francia. Normandy.
Cored apple stuffed with granulated sugar with a teaspoon of Calvados and butter or jam for the children, baked in a shortcrust or puff pastry.

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Main meals

Koftas

Meatballs (half beef, half lamb) mixed with spices and/or onions and fried in oil.

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Veal

Veal tenderloin with vin jaune

Tenderloin : piece of meat cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.
Vin jaune sauce : cream sauce with vin jaune (Jura wine) and shallot.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops blanquette with Noilly Prat

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.
Noilly Prat : vermouth with notes of chamomile and coriander.

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