Main meals
Aligot
Aligot : mashed potatoes mixed with butter, cream, crushed garlic, and melted cheese (Tome fraîche de l’Aubrac).
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Main meals
Aligot : mashed potatoes mixed with butter, cream, crushed garlic, and melted cheese (Tome fraîche de l’Aubrac).
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Pâté in puff pastry made with duck and pork meat with mushroom or truffle, Cognac, shallot, egg, breadcrumbs, apple, spices, pepper and salt taken into jelly.
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Pork sausage using the small intestine of the pig.
Served hot.
Cooked meats
Sausage cooked with white wine, butter and shallot.
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Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Hard, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.
Silver label printed in blue and red.
Sauces
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.
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United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.
Veal
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.
Consommé and Soup
Ukraine.
Soup with beetroot, mushrooms, vegetables (carrot, cabbage, cucumber, beans, onion, potato, tomato) and meat (beef, pork or chicken).
Beef
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached. Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..
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France. Burgundy. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. Forges-les-Eaux.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.
Reduced sauce made from brown stock and tomato paste or a brown roux with butter, onion and flavored bacon with a bouquet garni.
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France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ardèche.
Typical pâté made with pork meat, Swiss chard, spinach or salad, chopped herbs and wrapped in pig's caul fat. There may also be garlic, alcohol, spices, egg, chestnuts, walnuts…
Served cold or hot.