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Meal families

Poultry

Coq au vin

Wine stewed chicken.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Saintonge mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish with bouchot mussels and garlic, bouquet garni, Charentes butter, cream, saffron, shallots, egg yolks and Pineau des Charentes (or dry white wine of Charentes or Cognac).

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Main meals

Tartiflette with Mont d’or

Tartiflette : dish made with cream, potatoes, cheese and bacon.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Asparagus with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Sea fish

Zarzuela

Spain. Catalonia. Valencia.
Mixture of shellfish, crustaceans and fish simmered in a sauce (sofregit) based on olive oil with garlic, herbs, onion, tomato.…
Like a paella without rice .

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with morels and meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Poultry

Poached fattened chicken with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Main meals

Chicken waterzooi

Belgium.
Fish or chicken stew with vegetables and herbs whose broth is bound with butter or cream.

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Sauces

Green sauce

Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with mashed chervil, cress, spinach and parsley.

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Main meals

Oxtail daube with red wine

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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Sauces

Nantua sauce

Fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Sea fish

Salmon carpaccio

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

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Cheeses

Palet de Bourgogne

France. Burgundy.
Soft cow's milk cheese with the rind dipped in Marc de Bourgogne.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

White asparagus vinaigrette

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Cheeses

Baratte

France. Burgundy. Saône-et-Loire.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese with natural rind planted with a blade of straw.

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