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Pork
Diots with cabbage
Diot : chopped pork sausage flavored with nutmeg and cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.
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Beef Wellington
Beef fillet in puff pastry with spices such as curry or ginger.
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Squab 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.
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Pike quenelles with Nantua sauce
Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.
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Sea bass fillets a l’unilateral
A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.
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Fines de claire oyster
Fines de claire : oysters matured for 4 -8 weeks in oyster ponds.
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Red curry
Thailand.
Complex combination of spices or aromatic herbs (garlic, shallot, red chili, galangal, shrimp paste, salt, kaffir lime, coriander root, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, pepper and lemongrass) with coconut milk and fish sauce.
Sheep and Goats
Roasted rack of lamb with Pont-Neuf potatoes
Pont-Neuf potatoes : rectangular potatoes cut like big french fries and fried in oil twice.
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Scallops and persillade sauce
Persillade sauce : blend of chopped parsley and garlic mixed with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil and vinegar.
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Raspberry mille-feuille
Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.
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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.
Sea fish
Zarzuela
Spain. Catalonia. Valencia.
Mixture of shellfish, crustaceans and fish simmered in a sauce (sofregit) based on olive oil with garlic, herbs, onion, tomato, etc
Like a paella without rice .
Desserts
Whippet cookie
Dry biscuit topped with dome-shaped marshmallow, all coated in chocolate.
Sometimes, you find a fruit jelly between the marshmallow and the biscuit.
Freshwater fish
Trout with smoked bacon
Trout served with smoked bacon bits and seasoned with persillade (a mixture of parsley and garlic).
> view pairingsVeal
Veal grenadine with porcini mushrooms and potatoes
Veal grenadine : Slice of meat cut from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.
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