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Shellfish and Seafood
Baked oysters with curry sauce
Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.
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Glazed fattened chicken with sweet spices
To glaze : to spread honey over the skin of an animal before cooking in order to achieve a crispy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.
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.
Cooked meats
Rillettes de Tours
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Cold cut made from shredded pork meat, slowly cooked over low heat in fat and seasoned with salt, pepper, spices, and Vouvray wine.
Desserts
Banana and coconut crumble
Crumble : a baked dish consisting of a layer of fruits, vegetables, meat, etc., topped with a crumbly mixture of butter, flour, and sugar, baked until the topping is crisp.
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Vatrushka with raisins
Russia. Ukraine.
Brioche-style cake filled with cream cheese, sometimes flavored.
Shellfish and Seafood
Bay scallops with a lemon sauce
Lemon sauce : butter, lemon, cream and mustard.
Served cold.
Poultry
Duck breast with green peppercorn sauce
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.
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Veal frikandel
Minced veal with breadcrumbs, eggs and onion cooked in a round patty shape and served with a spicy sauce.
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Duck breast with poached pears and red wine sauce
Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.
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Jeffs’ Select Gouda
United States. Minnesota. Wisconsin.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese annatto colored with a natural rind.
Ripening : at least 2 months.
Freshwater fish
Eel with lemon butter
Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.
> view pairingsSheep and Goats
Roast baron of lamb with spring vegetables
Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Cheeses
Rupert
United States. Vermont.
Raw cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and washed rind.
Ripening : 8 months.
Warm starters
Tempura
Japan.
Tempura : frying batter made with flour, egg and ice water, in which all sorts of vegetables cut into slices or matchsticks, seafood or fish are dipped before frying in sesame oil.
Generally, tempura is dipped in a sauce (dashi, mirin, and soy sauce, flavored with condiments like grated ginger and daikon radish) and served with noodles or rice.
Poultry
Poached chicken with supreme sauce
Supreme sauce : velouté of poultry and/or veal that is reduced and enriched with cream.
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Lobster fricassee
Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.
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