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Meal families

Pork

Mixed vegetables

Mixed vegetables : Vegetables cut into sticks, boiled, drained and mixed with peas.

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Desserts

Apricot charlotte

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

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Offal and tripe

Pieds paquets

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Sisteron. Bouches-du-Rhône. Marseille.
Dish made with sheep’s feet and stuffed tripe, filled with pork belly or salted pork, slowly simmered in a white wine and tomato sauce.

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Sea fish

Provençal style shad

Provençal style : accompanied by sautéed tomatoes with parsley, garlic-infused olive oil, and bread.

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Desserts

Apricot marquise

Marquise : dessert or frozen dessert made with chocolate mousse (white, milk or dark chocolate).

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Warm starters

Quenelles with Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach with a light white sauce

White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.

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Cheeses

Ardrahan

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind orange-colored.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Sheep and Goats

Provençal leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Provençal style : accompanied by sautéed tomatoes with parsley, garlic-infused olive oil, and bread.

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Cheeses

Goat brie cheese

Canada. Ontario.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Cooked meats

Andouille de Charlieu

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Charlieu.
Pork sausage using mainly of pork heart and throat marinated in red wine with herbs and spices.
Served hot or cold.

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Desserts

Paris-Brest

Pastry in the shape of a crown, made of choux pastry filled with praline mousseline cream and topped with flaked almonds.

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