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Meal families

Desserts

Pecan pie

Often served with whipped cream.

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Sheep and Goats

Blanquette of lamb with fresh mint

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.

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Cooked meats

Rillettes

Pork meat cooked long over low heat in its own fat.
Served cold.

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Game animals

Venison fillet 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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Beef

Grilled beef tournedos with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Flat oysters

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Appetizers

Arancini al burro

Italy. Sicilia.
Breaded and fried rice balls or cones 8 to 12 cm in diameter, usually stuffed with diced ham and mozzarella./ Served hot.

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Poultry

Duckling Montmorency

Duckling : young duck.
Duckling served with a poultry cream sauce and Montmorency cherries.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster Bellevue

Bellevue: spiny lobster meat slices placed in a row on the shell and served cold.

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Cheeses

Villageois

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime. Deux-Sèvres.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and mould on the rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel

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Sheep and Goats

Milk fed lamb with thyme

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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