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Meal families

Desserts

Chocolate religieuse

Pastry made up of two choux filled with a flavored pastry cream and coated with fondant and buttercream.

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Beef

Beef Stroganov

Russia.
Speciality with beef, mushrooms, onions, paprika and smetana (sour clotted cream).

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Cheeses

Lamb chopper

United States. California.
Semi-soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 3 to 6 months.

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Main meals

Provencal wild boar 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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Others

Pinchitos

Spain. Andalusia. Extremadura.
Skewers of small cubes of marinated meat (usually pork or chicken) threaded onto a skewer and cooked on charcoal braziers.
The marinade is made from olive oil, aromatic herbs, spices (garlic, cumin, turmeric, oregano, paprika, pepper, thyme, etc.) and salt.

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Veal

Axoa

Basque Country.
Stew with shredded beef, onions, tomatoes sauté and flavoured with red Espelette pepper.

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Beef

Beef Wellington

Beef fillet in puff pastry with spices like curry or ginger.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Smoked salmon quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Meatball stew

Canada. Quebec.
Meatballs (beef,pork) and spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg) served in a simmered and reduced sauce.

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Beef

Chateaubriand with béarnaise sauce

Chateaubriand : piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet..
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Sheep and Goats

Seven hour shoulder of lamb

Seven hour : Slow-cooking leg of lamb in wine with garlic and herbs until it is fall-off-the-bone tender and luscious

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Porcini fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Cheeses

Brocciu

France. Corsica.
Ewe's milk cheese combining milk and whey.

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Cheeses

Patachouffe

Belgium.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese with a beer-washed rind.

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Beef

Chili con carne

Beef meat and chili peppers with various vegetables (red beans, onion, tomato ...) and spices (garlic, cumin ...).

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Beef

Roast beef tenderloin with porcini mushroom sauce

Porcini sauce : porcini mushrooms and shallots with veal stock, cream and white wine.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chanterelle with cream

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