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Meal families

Poultry

Catalan-style chicken

Chicken with onions, prunes, pine nuts and tomato.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with garlic and thyme

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Sheep and Goats

Roast knuckle of lamb

Knuckle of lamb : cut of meat located beneath the leg (gigot), surrounding the shinbone of the hind leg.

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Cheeses

Rembrandt extra aged Gouda

Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a orange waxed rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Desserts

Red berry mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Cooked meats

Cochonnailles à la lyonnaise

Cochonnailles : charcuterie.

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Cooked meats

Young partridge pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Pork

Pork roast with sweet spices

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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Cheeses

Ashbrook

United States. Vermont.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind and crossed in the center by a thin line of ash from ash tree.
Ripening : 3 months.

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Main meals

Baked Mont d’or

Baked Vacherin Mont-d'Or cheese.

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Beef

Bordeaux style grilled entrecote

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Desserts

Red berry trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake soaked in fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes layered with jam, custard, and whipped cream.

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Sauces

Salmi sauce

Salmi sauce : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Cheeses

Caerphilly

United Kingdom. Wales.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a natural rind.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with thyme and black olives

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

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Sea fish

Pavé of salmon a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Cooked meats

Poultry pâté with citrus fruit

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Cheeses

Ricotta

Ricotta : Italian or Maltese cheese made from whey of other cheeses, from sheep or cow milk.

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