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Meal families

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Leek quiche

Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Served hot or cold.

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Desserts

Mango sable

Sablé : cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).

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Cooked meats

Speck

Austria. Tirol.
Smoked and cured ham with juniper notes.

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Main meals

Galette saucisse

France. Brittany.
Grilled pork sausage rolled in a cold buckwheat galette.

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Poultry

Glazed fattened chicken with sweet spices

To glaze : to spread honey over the skin of an animal before cooking in order to achieve a crispy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.
Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Sea fish

Sole with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Consommé and Soup

Pauchouse

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Specialty made from pieces of lean freshwater fish (pike, perch, zander) and fatty fish (eel, carp, salmon, tench, trout), cooked in a white wine sauce and served with croutons, bacon bits, and potatoes.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with clams and toasted bread

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Beef

Beef tournedos with béarnaise sauce

Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Fish sauerkraut

Sauerkraut with haddock, monkfish and salmon.

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Game animals

Roasted venison with huntsman sauce

Huntsman sauce : poivrade sauce thickened with cream, blood, and redcurrant jelly.

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Pork

Pork chop with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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