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Meal families

Desserts

Pear ambassadeur

Sponge cake soaked with Grand Marnier (sometimes kirsch) with a layer of custard filled with pear and covered with marzipan (usually green).

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Poultry

Casseroled chicken bonne femme

Bonne femme sauce : butter, button mushrooms, cream, shallot, parsley and white wine.

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Cheeses

Chaumes

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Commercial soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with a washed orange rind.

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Desserts

Almond tuiles

Petit four, made with ground almonds, cooked and flattened into the shape of a roof tile commonly added as garnish to dessert.

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Warm starters

Quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Sheep and Goats

Spit-roasted knuckle of lamb

Knuckle of lamb : meat joint from below the knee.

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Cheeses

Olivia

France. Provence. Sisteron.
Soft-ripened unpasteurised goat milk cheese flavored with mashed black olives and decorated with an olive and two savory leaves.

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Desserts

Rabote picarde

France.Apple coated with puff pastry.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti carbonara

Carbonara : pasta dish from Lazio with eggs, cheese (Pecorino Romano or Parmigiano-Reggiano), bacon (guanciale or pancetta), black pepper and optionally cream.

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Veal

Veal chop with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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