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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Mashed flageolet beans

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Poultry

Confit duck leg with Sarlat style potatoes

Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Tellines mariniere with herbs

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Bouches-du-Rhône. Gard. (Camargue)
Tellines : small mollusks with a long flat shell.
Mariniere sauce : reduction of white wine and fish stock (or cooking juice of mussels) with shallots (or onion) lightly bound with butter.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pineapple aumoniere

Diced pineapple cooked in filo pastry.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Coffee charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Beef

Boeuf à la mode

Meat slowly cooked in a pot over low heat with white wine, carrots, onion, and broth flavored with herbes de Provence.

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Poultry

Roast chicken 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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Seafish

Roasted cod fillets with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Hawaiian pizza

Pizza made with pineapple and ham pieces, mozzarella, on a tomato sauce base.

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Cheeses

Grilovaný Hermelín

Czech Republic.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a bloomy rind grilled.

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Offal and tripe

Veal kidney with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Merveilles

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Italy. Aosta Valley. Switzerland. Romandy.
Variety of fritter with thin and crispy batter often flavored with orange blossom water and Armagnac and covered with sugar or honey.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with potatoes

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

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Fraisier cake

Cake made with strawberries, sponge cake and cream, usually covered with a layer of marzipan.

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Cheeses

Plaisir au Chablis

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk cheese with an orange-colored washed-rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Poultry

Chicken in curry sauce

Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.

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