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Meal families

Sea fish

Halibut fillets with 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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Poultry

Duck foie gras

Served cold.

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Cheeses

Soumaintrain

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Yonne.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a marc de Bourgogne washed rind, light yellow to ochre in color.
Ripening : 3 to 8 weeks.

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Cheeses

Citeaux

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte d'Or. Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Cheeses

Brie à la truffe noire

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Brie.
Brie cut in half then topped with a preparation made from black truffle and mascarpone.

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Desserts

Tiramisu

Italy. Veneto.
A specialty made of Italian biscuits (Savoiardi) layered and soaked in coffee, with a mixture of whipped eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavored with cocoa.
Tiramisu literally means "Pull me up" (towards gastronomic bliss).

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Veal

Veal roast Orloff

Orloff : cooked veal sliced and covered with a sauce Soubise mixed with chopped mushrooms and onion puree (no cheese in the recipe).

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Sea fish

Rollmops

Herring fillet marinated in water, white vinegar, salt, onion, pepper, mustard, and sometimes white wine, rolled into a cylindrical shape, often around an onion, a pickled gherkin, or sauerkraut.

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Poultry

Ostrich steak with orange sauce

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine or a reduced veal or poultry stock.

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Beef

Beef tenderloin with duck foie gras and bordelaise sauce

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

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Beef

Roast beef tournedos

Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).

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Cooked meats

Prisuttu

Aged for 12 to 18 months.

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Desserts

Wild strawberry 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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Sauces

Marchand de vin butter

Butter mixed with shallots cooked in wine with lemon and parsley.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Macaroni bolognese

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Poultry

Beer chicken

Oven-baked chicken with a cream and beer sauce.

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Desserts

Oreillettes

France. Occitania. Aude. Gard. Hérault. Pyrénées-Orientales. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Alpes-Maritimes. Bouches-du-Rhône. Var.
Variety of fritter with thin and crispy batter often flavored with orange blossom water and dusted with powdered sugar.

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