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Meal families

Salads

Grapefruit salade

Grapefruit salad with shrimp, lettuce, smoked salmon…

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Miscellaneous

Smoked meat

Canada. Quebec. Montreal.
A rye bread sandwich with sweet mustard and many thin slices of stacked smoked beef.

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Cheeses

Savaron

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Auvergne.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind.
Similar to Saint-Nectaire but produced outside the designated appellation area.

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Miscellaneous

Spring roll

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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Main courses

Potée

Mixture of meat or sausage, vegetables and baked potatoes in broth cooked several hours in an earthenware pot.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cockle risotto

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

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Poultry

Chicken with ivory sauce

Ivory sauce : supreme sauce (chicken velouté with cream) and meat glaze.

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Poultry

Aiguillette of guinea fowl with poivrade sauce

Aiguillette : thin slice cut lengthwise from a poultry breast.
Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Beef

White grape beef stew

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

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Sheep and Goats

Roast saddle of lamb

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Seafish

Sole fillets with white wine sauce

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Feathered game

Woodstock of salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Raspberry bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruits, cream, and sometimes jam.

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