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Sheep and Goats
Lamb with port wine sauce
Port wine sauce : a demi-glace (a reduced sauce made from brown stock) enriched with Port wine.
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Bordeaux style lamprey
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde.
Fish cooked in a red wine sauce mixed with its blood and served with garlic croutons.
Sheep and Goats
Seven hour leg of lamb
Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Seven hours : slow-cooked in wine with garlic and herbs until the meat falls off the bone.
Main meals
Truffade
Type of pancake made from thinly sliced potatoes cooked in goose fat, mixed with fine strips of fresh tomme cheese until it forms a thick, sticky paste. Sometimes garnished with fresh parsley.
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Darne of monkfish with green peppercorn sauce
Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.
Cheeses
Burrata
Italy. Apulia.
Fresh and stretched-curd cheese made from buffalo or cow's milk, filled with cream and sealed with an edible raffia tie.
Desserts
Florentins
Very thin, crispy biscuit made with a thin layer of chocolate topped with a mixture of almonds, fresh cream, candied orange peel, and honey.
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Grilled merguez
Merguez : sausage made from minced meat (beef and/or mutton) with seasonings (garlic, caraway, coriander, cumin, paprika, chili…).
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Polish meat pierogi
Poland.
Pierogi : stuffed dumpling cooked in boiling water.
Filled with minced meat, cabbage, and mushrooms.
Served hot or cold.
Sauces
Maitre d’hotel butter
Maître d'hôtel butter : softened butter mixed with finely chopped parsley, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
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Scallops in sweet and sour sauce
Sweet and sour sauce : Tomato sauce with shallot, olive oil and bay leaf.
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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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Fleur d’Audresselles
France. Hauts-de-France. Nord. Pas-de-Calais.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a salted water washed rind and colored with annatto.
Ripening : 4 to 6 weeks.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Lobster risotto with saffron
Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.