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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels cassolette with spinach

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Desserts

Caramel pavlova

Pavlova : meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

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Offal and tripe

Bordeaux style tricandilles

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde.

Specialty made from pork tripe, sliced and blanched in a court-bouillon, then grilled and enhanced with garlic and a touch of fresh pepper.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Sauces

Garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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Main meals

Vegetable curry

Base : eggplant, zucchini, potato , etc

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Main meals

Chicken gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Dish usually served with rice.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Iced coffee parfait with gingerbread

Parfait : frozen dessert made with heavy cream, eggs, and a flavoring (alcohol, fresh or dried fruit purée, chocolate, vanilla, etc.).

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Beef

Entrecote with poivrade sauce

Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Pork

Pork roast with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Cheeses

Murol

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Puy-de-Dôme.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk and a reddish-orange colored washed rind with a hole in the middle.

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Others

Spring roll

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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Sea fish

Halibut fillets with white sauce

White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.

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Cheeses

Curé nantais

France. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique.
Raw cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste.

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