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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Penne pasta in Arrabbiata sauce

Arrabiata sauce: tomato sauce simmered with garlic, pepper, fresh parsley or basil and sprinkled with grated pecorino romano.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled eggplant and Chavignol

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb with pomegranate

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Consommé and Soup

Lamb chorba

Algeria.
Soup with chickpeas, lamb, vermicelli, spices and fresh herbs.

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Veal

Classic blanquette de veau

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Main meals

Fish and couscous

Couscous : steamed semolina served with meat stew (lamb, chicken, merguez) accompanied by a spicy broth. Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Veal

Lucullus veal escalope

Two veal escalopes around bacon or ham and melted cheese.

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Beef

Beef tenderloin with morel cream sauce

Morel sauce: chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Cheeses

Charolais

France. Burgundy.
Produced in Allier, Loire, Rhone and Saone-et-Loire.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

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Salads

Grapefruit salade

Grapefruit salad with shrimp, lettuce, smoked salmon…

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Main meals

Truffade

Sort of pancake made with thinly sliced potatoes cooked in goose fat and mixed with thin strips of tome fraiche until it sticks in a sort of thick pastry, sometimes decorated with fresh parsley.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch fillets with cream

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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