Sea fish
Grilled salmon a l’unilateral
A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.
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Meal families
Cold starters
Celery root remoulade
Remoulade : mayonnaise with capers, gherkins and mixed herbs (parsley, chives, chervil and tarragon).
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Provencal hake steak
Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.
Rabbit
Rabbit cacciatore
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.
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Mendiant
France. Alsace.
Cake made with stale bread, seasonal fruit and milk slowly baked in a buttered pan.
Preferably served warm.
Cheeses
Tricorne
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime. Deux-Sèvres.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 2 to 3 weeks.
Eggs
Eggs mimosa
Hard boiled egg with the yolk (part) mixed with mayonnaise and herbs before being placed in the white, the rest of the egg yolk crumbled over (like mimosa).
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Chicken fricassee with mushrooms
Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.
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Milk fed lamb with wild mushrooms
Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.
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Mont Saint-Francis
United States. Indiana.
Raw goat's milk semi-hard cheese with a yellow washed rind.
Sheep and Goats
Catalan lamb marinade
Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.
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Grilled quails with sweet spices
Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.
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Bordeaux style rib steak
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.
Beef
Fleischschnacka
France. Alsace.
(Snail meat). Specialty consisting of a stuffing made from cooked meat (usually leftover pot-au-feu) with egg, onion, parsley, pepper and salt rolled in noodle dough before being pan-fried and then poached in broth.
Usually accompanied by roasted potatoes and green salad.