Sheep and Goats
Roasted saddle of lamb with spring vegetables
Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Sheep and Goats
Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Sea fish
Lemon sauce: butter, olive oil, lemon juice and white wine with parsley.
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Mariniere sauce : Reduction of white wine, fish broth (or mussel juice) with shallots (or onions) and butter.
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Two veal escalopes around bacon or ham and melted cheese.
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Madeira sauce : Demi-glace (brown stock reduced) with Madeira.
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Devil sauce : reduction of shallots and vinegar in equal parts, spicy, with veal stock and Spanish sauce simmered and reduced by half with tomato.
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Maitre d'hotel butter : softened butter mixed with shallot and parsley.
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Spain. Navarre.
Hard raw ewe's milk cheese in uncooked pressed with a colour ivory white or pale yellow and a blue-grey natural rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.
Sauces
Partial reduction of shallot or onion and red wine with a bouquet garni (parsley, thyme and bay leaf) bound with a veal stock or a Spanish sauce.
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White sauce : heated flour and butter to which a hot liquid is added (broth, water, cooking juices, wine).
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Russia. Ukraine. Brioche cake topped with cottage cheese, sometimes flavored.
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Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks. Served hot.
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Thai speciality.
Complex combinations of spices or herbs (green chillies, shallots, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime peel, coriander root, red turmeric, roasted cilantro (coriander) and cumin seeds, white peppercorns, shrimp paste and salt) with coconut milk, palm sugar and fish sauce.
Cheeses
Spain. Basque Country.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed.
Ripening : 60 days minimum.
Desserts
Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake covered with fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes jam, custard and whipped cream arranged in layers.
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France. Nord. Pas de Calais.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese annatto colored with a natural rind.
Ripening : 4 to 8 weeks.