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Meal families

Poultry

Green curry chicken

Green curry : Thai speciality. Complex combinations of spices or herbs (green chillies, shallots, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime peel, coriander root, red turmeric, roasted cilantro (coriander) and cumin seeds, white peppercorns, shrimp paste and salt) with coconut milk, palm sugar and fish sauce.
Pair according to the hotness of the spices.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bouzigues oysters

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Beef

Beef 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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Desserts

Frangipane

Almond based cream with butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum mixed with pastry cream.

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Desserts

Fontainebleau

Dessert made with fromage frais and whipped cream.

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Desserts

Sticky toffee pudding

United Kingdom.
Brown sugar sponge cake made with chopped dates and covered with a toffee sauce.
Served with custard, vanilla ice cream or single cream.

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Desserts

Pineapple charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Cheeses

Caerphilly

United Kingdom. Wales.
Hard pasteurized or raw cow's milk cheese with white hard pressed paste and a natural white rind.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch fillets with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Poultry

Braised pigeon

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Cheeses

Trappe de Bricquebec

France. Normandy.
Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Toucy

France. Burgundy. Auxerrois.
Soft goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.

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Cheeses

Saint-Winoc

France. Nord. Pas de Calais.
Soft-ripened raw whole cow's milk cheese with a blond beer-washed rind.
Ripening : 5 to 6 weeks.

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Cheeses

Tomme de Trappe Echourgnac affiné au vin de noix

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese and a washed rind with walnut licor.
Ripening : 2 to 3 weeks.

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Poultry

Chicken in cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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