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Meal families

Sea fish

Sea bass with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Pork

Braised pork chop

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Desserts

Pear dartois

Dartois : two strips of puff pastry surrounding a filling.

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Cooked meats

Sabodet

Baked sausage made from pig's head, tongue and fatty pork.
Served hot with potatoes or cabbage, beans, lentils.
Served cold, after cooking, with a green salad.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Scallop tart

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Cooked meats

Hare pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Appetizers

Gougères

France. Burgundy.
Speciality, small pastry puffs with cheese.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Desserts

Strawberry pastilla

Filo coated with honey, almond and pistachio and covered with custard and topped with strawberry and icing sugar.

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Sheep and Goats

Abbacchio cacciatore

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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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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Cheeses

Curé nantais

France. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese.

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Desserts

Streusel cake

Streusel: Alsatian brioche on which there's a kind of crumble made from butter, cinnamon, flour, almonds and sugar powder.

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Cold starters

Zakuski

Russia.
Hors-d'œuvre served as starter to a meal (caviar, cold cuts, smoked or marinated fish, malossol, salads…).

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