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Meal families

Poultry

Duck foie gras with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.
Served hot.

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Warm starters

Escargots en croûte

Dish made with bread dough.

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Cooked meats

Hare pâté with mushroom

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Fruits

Brasucado

France. Cevennes.
Cooking chestnuts over a wood fire in a large frying pan.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed piquillo peppers with cod

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Polenta

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Sauces

Bercy sauce

Bercy sauce : Reduction of chopped shallots with peppercorns mixed with white wine with meat glaze and whipped with butter.

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Desserts

Cherry and pistachio crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Rabbit

Rabbit with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cheeses

Manchego viejo

Spain. Castilla-La Mancha.
Hard ewe's milk cheese pressed and uncooked wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 1 to 2 years.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with provencal herbs

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed cardoon with meat

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines a la nage

Nage : baking in a broth flavoured with butter, white wine, vegetables and herbs.

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb with garlic cream

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

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Cheeses

Mascaré de Banon

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Raw sheep's and goat’s milk cheese curdled in a chestnut leaf.

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