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Meal families

Pork

Roast pork with orange

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Consommé and Soup

Lamb chorba

Algeria.
Soup with chickpeas, lamb, vermicelli, spices and fresh herbs.

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Cheeses

Boerenkaas

Netherlands.
Semi-soft raw whole cow’s milk cheese.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with garlic and thyme

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

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Cheeses

Olivet cendré

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loiret. Olivet.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with ash-covered rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio with dill and basil

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Poultry

Stuffed fattened chicken

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Pork

Saucisse de Morteau

France. Franche-Comté.
Smoked sausage.

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Veal

Veal escalope with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Freshwater fish

Eel in green sauce

Flemish speciality : pieces of eel cooked in a mixture of finely chopped fresh herbs and served in a sauce of green herbs.

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Poultry

Guinea fowl with cream

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Salmon lasagne

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Cold starters

Italian style melon

Melon slices coat with Parma ham.
Match the saltiness of the ham according to the sweetness of the melon.

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Desserts

Strawberry miror cake

Miror cake : mousse set on a sponge base topped with a glaze.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Carrots Vichy

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