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Meal families

Beef

Grilled rib steak with porcini

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with supreme sauce

Supreme sauce : chicken or veal velouté reduced before adding the cream.

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Cheeses

Clonmore

Ireland. Cork.
Pasteurized goat's milk hard cheese wrapped in orange wax.

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Condiments

Curry

Spicy preparation of yellow or orange color, very fragrant, ranging from very mild to very spicy.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops skewers with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks. Served hot.

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Sea fish

Darne of monkfish with green peppercorn sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac before being reduced, added with crushed pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Game animals

Jugged hare a la royale

Civet cooked in a red wine sauce with garlic and shallot before being bound in blood.

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Poultry

Chicken with curry sauce

Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.

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Sauces

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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Cold starters

Blintz with taramasalata

Greece. Turkey.
Specialty based on salted and cured roe (cod or mullet) added with olive oil and fresh cream and lemon.
In France, generally served with blinis.

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Poultry

Lemon chicken

Piece of chicken marinated in lemon before cooking.

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