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Meal families

Poultry

Orange chick

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Desserts

Strawberry bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruit, cream, sometimes jam.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Squid ink risotto

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

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Cheeses

Cheddar

United Kingdom (Cheddar, Somerset).
Cow's milk cheese with pale yellow colour and strong flavour.
Available in soft, medium, hard and extra hard.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with clams and toasted bread

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Game animals

Jugged hare Saint-Hubert

Sauteed hare, flambéed with Cognac, red wine marinade and button mushrooms.

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Poultry

Braised duck with turnips

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Bay scallop risotto

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

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Desserts

Gingerbread charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Offal and tripe

Lamb kidneys and red wine

Kidneys cooked in oil before simmered in wine.

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Main meals

Moitie-Moitie fondue

Mont d'or cheese fondue with gruyère.

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Cheeses

Maroilles

France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Nord. Avesnois.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Warm starters

Bouchée à la reine

France. Lorraine.
Individual puff pastry garnish with veal sweetbreads.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Cheese pie

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Beef

Steak au poivre vert

Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac before being reduced, added with crushed pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Cheeses

Bethmale de chèvre

France. Pyrenees. Ariège.
Semi-hard pasteurized goat's milk cheese de pasta prensada no cocida with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 4 months.

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Sea fish

Sea bass fillets in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Cooked meats

Rabbit 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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti bolognese

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