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Meal families

Main meals

Young wild boar daube

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Veal

Veal chop with bolognaise sauce

Bolognese sauce : meat-based sauce with soffritto (the Italian version of a mirepoix) made from onion, celery, and carrot. The various meats are minced or finely chopped and slow-cooked.

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Veal

Veal chop with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cheeses

Sainte-Maure de Touraine

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Sainte-Maure de Touraine.
Soft-ripened goat cheese made from whole raw milk with a natural rind of mold ranging from light grey to bluish grey, salted and ash-covered on the surface, adorned with a stalk of rye engraved with the producer's name.
Ripening : 10 days minimum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cockle risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Desserts

Savarin with rum

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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Cold starters

Fish pâté

Served hot.

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Warm starters

Quenelles with Nantua sauce

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crab claws with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Choucroute garnie

Cooked sauerkraut served with cured meats, meat, and potatoes, accompanied by Alsatian beer or Alsace white wine.

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Poultry

Duck breast with Fougerolles Griottines

Griottines : cherries macerated in a kirsch liqueur.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken in demi-deuil with albufera sauce

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.
Albufera sauce : supreme sauce (cream of poultry and/or veal reduced and added with cream) supplemented with meat glaze and sometimes duck foie gras and Port wine.

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Others

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.

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