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Meal families

Appetizers

Goat cheese gougères

Gougères stuffed with goat cheese.

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Sea fish

Brill in Dieppe sauce

Dieppe sauce : Normandy sauce (Bechamel with added cream) with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Sauces

Turkey mole

Mole : sauce made with peanut, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

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Main meals

Salt pork with lentils

Salt pork : salt-cured pork.

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Sauces

Black truffle sauce

Fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.

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Cold starters

Celery root remoulade

Remoulade : mayonnaise with capers, gherkins and mixed herbs (parsley, chives, chervil and tarragon).

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Pork

American pork spare ribs

American : BBQ sauce with paprika.

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Sheep and Goats

Provencal mutton 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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Cheeses

Comté vieux

France. Franche-Comté.
Hard, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 15 months minimum.

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Desserts

Devil’s food cake

Chocolate layer cake stuffed with chocolate cream and topped with chocolate icing.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Beetroot tartar

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pizza Margherita

Pizza with basil, mozzarella and tomato (represents the three colors of the Italian flag).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Saintonge mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish with bouchot mussels and garlic, bouquet garni, Charentes butter, cream, saffron, shallots, egg yolks and Pineau des Charentes (or dry white wine of Charentes or Cognac).

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