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Meal families

Main meals

Lamb tajine with prunes

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Desserts

Vanilla 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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Poultry

Duck foie gras with honey

Served cold, warm or hot.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Poached scallops

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Cooked meats

Sabodet

Cooking sausage made from pork head, tongue, and fat.
Serve hot with potatoes, cabbage, beans, or lentils.
Serve cold, after cooking, with a salad.

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Desserts

Mango vacherin

Vacherin : dessert made of meringue filled with ice cream or sorbet, sometimes with fruit, and topped with whipped cream.

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Sea fish

Sea bass with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp with Nantua sauce

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

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Veal

Veal chop with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Beef

Rib steak with coarse salt and bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Main meals

Chicken rice pilaf

Pilaf : wheat, quinoa or rice cooked in a seasoned broth in the oven or or casserole dish.

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Game birds

Mallard salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Sea fish

Braised sea bass with fennel

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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Consommé and Soup

Frog legs velouté

Velouté  : soup with cream and egg yolk added.

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Cheeses

Zamorano artesano

Spain. Castile and León. Zamora.
Raw sheep's milk pressed uncooked cheese.
Ripening : 100 days minimum.

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Cheeses

Langres

France. Grand Est. Haute-Marne. Vosges. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte-d'Or.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 15 to 18 days.

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