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Desserts and Sweet Courses
Strawberry trifle
Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake soaked in fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes layered with jam, custard, and whipped cream.
Main courses
Paella valenciana
The ten mandatory ingredients are : carob bean, green bean, rabbit, chicken, rice, tomato, olive oil, water, saffron and salt, all cooked in a utensil called Paella.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Pear charlotte
Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.
Poultry
Pigeon 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.
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).
Served hot.
Cheeses
Olivet cendré
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loiret. Olivet.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow’s milk with a natural rind coated in charcoal ash.
Ripening : 4 weeks.
Cheeses
Mascarpone
Italy. Lombardy. Lodi.
Fresh cheese made from buffalo or cow's milk with very high fat content, coagulated by adding lemon juice or white vinegar.
This is the equivalent of the cream in Italian cuisine.
Poultry
Chicken supreme with maitre d’hotel butter
Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.
Maître d'hôtel butter : softened butter mixed with finely chopped parsley, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Spaghetti carbonara
Italy. Lazio.
Carbonara : pasta dish with eggs, cheese (pecorino romano or parmigiano reggiano), bacon (guanciale or pancetta), black pepper and sometimes cream.
Shellfish and Seafood
Eclade
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked over a pine needle fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.
Offal and tripe
Roast veal kidney with horseradish sauce
Horseradish sauce : velouté with grated horseradish added.
Sheep and Goats
Seven hour braised leg of lamb with sweet potatoes
Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
One thigh is called Chump. Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.
Seven hours : slow-cooked in wine with garlic and herbs until the meat falls off the bone.