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Meal families

Beef

Rib steak with coarse salt and bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb with garlic cream

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Garlic cream : sauce made with cream and cooked garlic.

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Appetizers

Munster sablé

Served as an appetizer or before dessert.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Baked oysters with horseradish

Horseradish : herb grown for its hot mustard-flavored root.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach

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Poultry

Squab with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Soubise sauce : béchamel with onion, butter, fresh cream, salt and pepper.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Main meals

Jambalaya

United States. Louisiana. New Orleans.
A type of paella made with rice, very spicy, with seafood, fish, or meat.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with spices

Navarin : stew.

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Cheeses

Smoked Gubbeen

Ireland. Cork.
Oak smoked soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a washed rind then wrapped in black wax.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch with mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.

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Sheep and Goats

Herb roasted leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

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Sea fish

Grilled salmon a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Cheeses

Feta

Greece.
Sheep's milk cheese curdled in brine.

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Main meals

Monkfish tajine with confit lemon

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato gratin with mushrooms

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Desserts

Frangipane

Cream made with almonds mixed with pastry cream, butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.

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Sheep and Goats

Confit lamb epigrams

Epigrams : lamb breast pieces.

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