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Meal families

Miscellaneous

Frog legs provençal

Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Pork

Pork roast with duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes : purée of mashed potato and egg yolk baked until golden.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with morels and vin jaune sauce

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.
Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

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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 usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Sauces

Beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with spices

Navarin : stew.

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Sauces

Anchoïade

Sauce made of garlic, anchovy, capers and olive oil.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Dark chocolate fondant cake

Dark chocolate : with more than 70% cocoa.

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Freshwater fish

Trout aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with linden butter

Linden butter sauce : creamed linden infusion, reduced, then buttered.

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Beef

Roast beef with poivrade sauce

Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Beef

Steak au poivre

Beef flambéed with Cognac and served with a pepper sauce flavored with white wine, Marsala, or Port, and optionally accompanied by mustard.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Pea risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Cheeses

Good Thunder

United States. Minnesota.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a beer-washed rind (Brown ale).
Ripening : 3 to 4 weeks.

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Seafish

Sea bass fillets whith cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Summer pudding

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Fruit soup

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Veal

Braised calf’s head

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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