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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

Diots with cabbage

Diot : minced pork sausage flavored with nutmeg cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Pork

Portuguese-style pork roast

Baked pork roast with paprika, chicken stock and white wine.

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Cheeses

Calvander

United States. North Carolina.
Hard, cow's milk cheese.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Imam bayildi

Turkey.
Braised eggplants stuffed with garlic, onion, tomato in olive oil and simmered in the oven.
Served with rice.

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Cheeses

Tête de moine

Switzerland. Bernese Jura.
Semi-cooked or semi-hard pressed raw whole cow's milk cheese.

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Poultry

Souvarov fattened chicken

Souvarov : stuffing of uncooked foie gras and black truffle cooked in a terrine.

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Cheeses

Soumaintrain

France. Burgundy. Yonne.
Pasteurized or unpasteurised cow's milk cheese with a washed rind with Marc de Bourgogne from pale yellow to ocher color.
Ripening : 3 to 8 weeks.

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Beef

Chateaubriand

Piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet.

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Game animals

Spoon hare with grilled bacon and chasseur sauce

A la cuillère : meat slow-cooked in a casserole (4-8 hours at 160°C) , hollowed and filled then browned before serving.
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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Cheeses

Olivet cendré

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loiret. Olivet.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with ash-covered rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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