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Meal families

Pork

Mixed vegetables

Mixed vegetables : Vegetables cut into sticks, boiled, drained and mixed with peas.

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Beef

Beef tenderloin with morel cream sauce

Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Desserts

Mocha cake

Mocha cake : sponge cake with coffee-flavored buttercream.

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Beef

Hachis parmentier

Mashed potato combined with diced meat. French equivalent of cottage or shepherd's pie.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb with 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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Cheeses

Persillé de Tignes

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Tarentaise. Tignes.
Blue cheese made from a blend of raw goat’s (80%) and cow’s (20%) milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and natural rind.

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Desserts

Chocolate cake with coffee custard

Custard : mixture of milk or cream, egg yolks and sugar flavored with vanilla.

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Veal

Fricandeau of veal with sorrel sauce

Fricandeau : thin slice of veal larded and braised or pan-fried.
Sorrel sauce : a white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter, cream, and fish stock.

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Sauces

Piquante sauce

Piquante sauce : white wine–based sauce with a reduction of shallots and vinegar, flavored with chervil, pickles, and parsley, and finished with a veal demi-glace.

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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.

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