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Meal families

Pork

Diots with lentils

Diot : minced pork sausage flavored with nutmeg cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Cold starters

Spiny lobster with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : oil emulsion with egg yolk, mustard and pepper, sometimes with a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Sea fish

Provencal hake steak

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Desserts

Angel’s food cake

Type of sponge cake with vanilla served topped with red fruit sauce and strawberry.

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Sauces

Chasseur sauce

Made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Fouras mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish with bouchot mussels and garlic, bouquet garni, Charentes butter, cream, curry, shallots, egg yolks and Pineau des Charentes (or dry white wine of Charentes or Cognac).

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Sauces

Pistou

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Sauce made from crushed basil, garlic and olive oil.

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Cheeses

Charloe

United States. Ohio.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Sauces

Cream sauce

Cream sauce : Bechamel sauce with cream.

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Sea fish

Darne of salmon in a beurre blanc sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Blintz with salmon and shirred eggs

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Cheeses

Tomme de brebis

Ewe's milk cheese, pressed and uncooked.

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Desserts

Flan

Flan : beaten eggs with milk and flour, baked.

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