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Meal families

Offal and tripe

Roast veal kidney with horseradish sauce

Horseradish sauce : velouté with grated horseradish added.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti alla puttanesca

Pasta dish made with tomatoes cooked with salted anchovies, garlic, capers, olives, and chili.

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Consommé and Soup

Frog legs soup

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Doubs. Haute-Saône. Jura. Territoire de Belfort.
Vegetable broth with frog legs.

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Cheeses

Moses Sleeper

United States. California.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with bloomy rind.
Ripening : 6 to 12 weeks.

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Salads

Mesclun with black truffle

Mesclun : mixed salad composed of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves from chicory, oak leaf lettuce, lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, spinach shoots, arugula, escarole, radicchio or aromatic herbs.

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Cooked meats

Jamón ibérico

Dry-cured ham produced from black Iberian pigs (pure breed or crossed with at least 50% black Iberian pig with Duroc pigs).

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Sea fish

Monkfish in red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.

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Salads

Nicoise salad

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes.
Crudités salad with anchovies or tuna, hard-boiled eggs and olive oil.
Do not serve fine wine.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Rabbit pie

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Cold starters

Aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Poultry

Salt-crusted poultry

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Eggs

Quail eggs with green sauce

Green sauce : Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with a puree of chervil, watercress, spinach, and parsley.

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Cooked meats

Caillette with herbs

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ardèche.
Type of pâté made with pork meat, Swiss chard, spinach or salad greens, chopped herbs and wrapped in pig's caul fat. It may also contain garlic, alcohol, spices, egg, chestnuts, nuts…
Served hot or cold.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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