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Veal
Braised veal medallion
Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm thick) sliced from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.
Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.
Sea fish
Sole fillets with dieppoise sauce
Dieppoise sauce : A Normandy-style sauce (béchamel with added fresh cream) enriched with mussel or oyster cooking juice.
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Kachkéis
Luxembourg.
Melted cheese made from skimmed cow's milk then curdled into processed cheese (heated with butter, water and salt)
Cooked meats
Pâté de campagne with black pepper
Pâté made with coarsely chopped ingredients such as pork, flavored with herbs and spices, and cooked in a terracotta dish.
Served cold or at room temperature.
Cheeses
Old Gouda
Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from whole cow's milk.
Ripening : 10 to 12 months.
Main meals
Mique lotoise
France. Occitania. Lot. Tarn-et-Garonne. (Quercy).
A type of bread dumpling cooked in a broth with meat (usually salt pork, short ribs, and hock, sometimes also andouille sausage) and vegetables (carrot, cabbage, turnip, leek, potato).
Served hot or cold.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Stuffed mushrooms with taramasalata
Taramasalata : delicacy made from fish roe (cod or mullet), blended with olive oil, crème fraîche, and lemon.
In France, it is typically served with blinis.
Cold starters
Meatloaf
Ballotine : piece of meat, game, fish, or poultry that is deboned, rolled, stuffed, and tied, cooked in a casserole or set in jelly.
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Pike-perch with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.
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Tempura
Japan.
Tempura : frying batter made with flour, egg and ice water, in which all sorts of vegetables cut into slices or matchsticks, seafood or fish are dipped before frying in sesame oil.
Generally, tempura is dipped in a sauce (dashi, mirin, and soy sauce, flavored with condiments like grated ginger and daikon radish) and served with noodles or rice.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Farci poitevin
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Vegetable pâté with bacon, cooked wrapped in cabbage leaves.
Desserts
Lemon miror glaze cake
Miror glaze cake : cold dessert made of mousse on a sponge cake, topped with a glaze.
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Duck a l’orange with spices
A l'orange : sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.
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Mixed salad
A salad that combines various ingredients in addition to raw, seasoned leafy greens with a vinaigrette.
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