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Meal families

Pork

Parsley ham

Ham sliced in cubes cooked in a broth with white Burgundy wine with mustard and wine vinegar, jelly with parsley coated and flavored (with onion, shallot, thyme, bay leaves, garlic...).

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Desserts

Pear and amandine tart

Tart with almond cream and pears.

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Poultry

Squab with black truffle juice

Truffle juice: juice obtained during sterilization of the truffle.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Sea fish

Hake with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Game birds

Pheasant with Perigueux sauce

Perigueux sauce : white wine or Madeira reduction with a blond roux and diced black truffles.

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Cheeses

Gruyère

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Franche-Comté.
Hard raw cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Old Kentucky Tomme

United States. Indiana.
Raw goat's milk semi-soft cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 4 to 8 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Penne pasta in Arrabbiata sauce

Arrabiata sauce: tomato sauce simmered with garlic, pepper, fresh parsley or basil and sprinkled with grated pecorino romano.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with black truffle slices

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.
Vin jaune sauce : cream sauce with vin jaune (Jura wine) and shallot.

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Cooked meats

Venison pâté

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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Sea fish

Sea bass Nice style

Nice-style : fish cooked with garlic, anchovy, capers, onion, olive, tomato sauce and bouquet garni.

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Others

Smoked meat

Canada. Quebec. Montreal.
Sandwich made with rye bread, sweet mustard and thin slices of stacked smoked beef.

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Desserts

Lemon and mascarpone macaron

Macaron : cupcake made with two meringue cookies and a cream or ganache between them.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak with peppercorn sauce

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with white wine sauce

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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