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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Saint-Honoré

Saint-Honoré : puff pastry or shortcrust base topped with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream-filled choux puffs glazed with caramel around the edges.
The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or a Chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian meringue).

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Pork

Black pudding with Sarlat style potatoes

Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.

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Cheeses

Gorgonzola dolce

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont.
Blue cheese made from cow's milk.
Ripening : less than 3 months.

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Beef

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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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Cheeses

Tomme de brebis

Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp tempura

Tempura : japanese speciality. Fritter of seafood or vegetables.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Risotto

Reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Chocolate and orange marquise

Marquise : dessert or frozen dessert made with chocolate mousse (white, milk or dark chocolate).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Pasta with white truffle

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Poultry

Chicken en barbouille

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher. Indre. Berry.
En barbouille : chicken stewed in red wine with blood sauce.

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Seafish

Bouillabaisse

Provençal fish stew.
The name of this dish is said to come from Provençal Occitan bolh (boiling) and abaissar (to lower): bouille and abaisse.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti alle vongole

Pasta with clams and persillade sauce.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Baked Alaska

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Cheeses

Blue Stilton

United Kingdom. Derbyshire, Leicestershire. Nottinghamshire.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized whole cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 9 weeks minimum.

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Sauces

Mole chicken

Mole : sauce made with peanuts, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread, or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

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