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Meal families

Cheeses

Vacherin des Bauges

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance. Bauges Mountains.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Thin scallop tart

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with Sarlat style potatoes

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.

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Game animals

Doe fillet with huntsman sauce

Huntsman sauce : pepper sauce with blood from the meat, cream and red currant jelly.

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Cheeses

Soumaintrain

France. Burgundy. Yonne.
Pasteurized or unpasteurised cow's milk cheese with a washed rind with Marc de Bourgogne from pale yellow to ocher color.
Ripening : 3 to 8 weeks.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato salad with black truffle oil

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Others

Sterlet caviar

Russian caviar.

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Cold starters

Cervelle de canut

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Lyon.
Cottage cheese beaten with cream and seasoned with chopped herbs (chive, shallot, parsley).
Usually served with toast, boiled potatoes or to season a salad.

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Sea fish

Hake fillets with mayonnaise

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clams mariniere with thyme

Mariniere sauce : Reduction of white wine, fish broth (or mussel juice) with shallots (or onions) and butter.

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Cheeses

Curé nantais

France. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Malakoff

France. Normandie. Seine-Maritime. Pays de Bray. Gournay-en-Bray.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind younger than the Gournay cheese.

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Desserts

Condé apricots

Vanilla rice pudding topped with apricot in syrup.

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Main meals

Macaronade

France. Occitanie. Hérault. Sète.
Mix of meat or fish with pasta and tomato sauce.

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Beef

Entrecote with sauce poivrade

Pepper 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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