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Cheeses
Frinault
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loiret. Orléans.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized whole cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.
Sauces
Perigueux sauce
Perigueux sauce : reduction of white wine or Madeira with a blonde roux to which diced black truffles are added.
Shellfish and Seafood
Bay scallop carpaccio with tapenade
Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
Tapenade : garlic, capers, anchovy fillets, black olives, pepper, and olive oil.
Cured Meats
Pâté de campagne with black pepper
Pâté made with coarsely chopped ingredients such as pork, flavored with herbs and spices, and cooked in a terracotta dish.
Served cold or at room temperature.
Cheeses
Serra da Estrela curado
Portugal. Serra da Estrela.
Raw sheep's milk cheese curdled with wild thistle with a rind ocher in color.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Red berry 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.
Rabbit
Young rabbit fillet with white sauce
White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
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.
Freshwater fish
Pike with mousseline sauce
Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.
Poultry
Duck breast with sweet spices
Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.
Shellfish and Seafood
Lobster claws 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."
Beef
Beef daube with green olives
Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.
Cured Meats
Andouillette with Normandy sauce
Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.
Served hot.