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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel risotto

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

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Desserts

Stollen

France. Grand Est. Alsace.
Cake made from bread dough with candied fruits, dried fruits and spices dusted with powdered sugar.

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Eggs

Peasant omelette

Omelet with mushrooms, bacon, potatoes and Comté cheese.

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Sea fish

Monkfish in americaine sauce

American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with quince

Served cold, warm or hot.

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Cooked meats

Chorizo

Pork sausage with paprika.

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Sauces

Chocolate sauce

Chocolate sauce : red wine with butter, shallot, veal stock, pepper and cocoa.

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Pork

Pork chop with Roquefort sauce

Roquefort sauce : Roquefort melted in milk with fresh cream.

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Cheeses

Brocciu secu

France. Corsica.
Sheep’s milk cheese made from a combination of milk and whey.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Manchego curado

Spain. Castilla-La Mancha.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 3 to 6 months.

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Desserts

Condé apricots

Vanilla rice pudding cake topped with syrupy apricots.

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Sea fish

Monkfish tail with green peppercorn sauce

Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Sheep and Goats

Mutton daube

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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