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Meal families

Beef

Pan seared rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Sea fish

Sole with meuniere sauce

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

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Desserts

Savarin with candied fruit

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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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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Cheeses

Romans

France. Dauphiné.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Cheeses

Provolone dolce

Italy. Lombardy.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese with veal rennet.

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Cheeses

Idiazábal ahumado

Spain. Basque Country.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed.
Ripening : 60 days minimum.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Chicken pie

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb daube

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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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster with americaine sauce

Américaine Sauce : lobster coral mixed with chopped onions, cream, eggs, white wine, brandy, salt, cayenne pepper and softened butter.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Roquefort croustade

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Cheeses

Gubbeen Extra Matured

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind covered in black wax.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Boulangere potatoes

Boulangere potatoes : baked potatoes with onions in broth.

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Main meals

Pike-perch matelote with pinot noir

Matelote : red wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Eggs

Eggs Benedict

Two halves of English muffin topped with fried bacon, poached egg and hollandaise sauce.

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Veal

Veal tenderloin with porcini

Tenderloin : piece of meat cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Beef

Lucullus tongue

Mille-feuille with slices of smoked beef tongue and duck foie gras.

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Game birds

Roasted mallard with black truffle juice

Truffle juice: juice obtained during sterilization of the truffle.

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