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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp nem

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Morel mushroom pie

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Sauces

Paprika sauce

Paprika sauce : reduced velouté with cream, veal jus, onion, and paprika.

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Cheeses

Danish blue

Denmark.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized whole cow's milk.
Ripening : 2 to 3 months.

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Consommé and Soup

Veal goulash

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Cheeses

Comté fruité

France. Franche-Comté.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Stuffed clams

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Bay scallop risotto

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

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Main meals

Pot roast

United States.
Dish made with a piece of beef slowly braised in liquid with vegetables such as carrots, celery, onions, and potatoes.

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Pork

Saint-Hubert suckling pig

Saint-Hubert : stuff with chicken breast, pork, veal and smoked bacon, chestnut, onion, leek and potato.

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Desserts

Dark chocolate

Dark chocolate : with more than 70% cocoa.

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Eggs

Eggs Benedict

Two halves of a toasted English muffin topped with fried bacon, a poached egg, and Hollandaise sauce.

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Sauces

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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Pork

Portuguese-style pork roast

Oven-roasted pork with paprika, chicken stock, and white wine.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Endive with Bechamel

Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.

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Sea fish

Fresh anchovies marinated in white wine

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Consommé and Soup

Mussel soup

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Game birds

Roast young partridge with spring vegetables

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Others

Snails cassolette with chanterelles

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Appetizers

Pistade de moules

France. Occitania. Hérault. Sète.
Preparation made with raw mussel meat mixed with an anchovy, chili pepper and olive oil sauce.
Eaten on a slice of grilled bread.

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