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Meal families

Cheeses

Thomasville tomme

United States. Georgia.
Semi-soft raw cow's milk cheese with natural rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop boudin

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Sea fish

Sea bass and salmon tartar with sorrel sauce

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

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Desserts

Chocolate religieuse

Pastry made up of two choux filled with a flavored pastry cream and coated with fondant and buttercream.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with mushroom sauce

Mushroom sauce : sauce composed of a white or a brown sauce with mushrooms and other ingredients (butter, condiments, veal or poultry stock, wine, etc.).

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Consommé and Soup

Vichyssoise

Soup made of puréed potato, leeks, onions, cream, and chicken stock.
Served hot or cold.

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Game animals

Royal hare

A la royale : long cooked with red wine and Cognac and served boned.

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Main meals

Macaronade

France. Occitanie. Hérault. Sète.
Mix of meat or fish with pasta and tomato sauce.

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Sauces

Spiny lobster butter

Spiny lobster meat with butter.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

White truffle

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Cheeses

Chabichou

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Soft-ripened goat's milk cheese with a white mould rind.

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Poultry

Duck a l’orange with dauphine potatoes

A l'orange: sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.

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Beef

Grilled steak with marchand de vin butter

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached. Marchand de vin butter : reduction of red wine with shallots mixed with butter.

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Beef

Fleischschnacka

France. Alsace.
(Snail meat). Specialty consisting of a stuffing made from cooked meat (usually leftover pot-au-feu) with egg, onion, parsley, pepper and salt rolled in noodle dough before being pan-fried and then poached in broth.
Usually accompanied by roasted potatoes and green salad.

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Cheeses

French Gouda

France.
Semi-hard whole cow's milk cheese.

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Offal and tripe

Tripous

Aveyron speciality.
Dish made with small strips of veal, usually rolled in sheep pansette (usually lamb) and tied with twine. Cooking in a veal stock with salt, pepper, white wine, carrot and tomato.

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