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Meal families

Sea fish

Grilled turbot with melted butter

Melted butter : melted butter with reduced lemon juice added, and optionally pepper or chili.

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca semicurado

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk, ranging in color from straw yellow to orange.
Ripening : 2 to 5 months.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Grilled shrimp

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Sea fish

Grilled herrings with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Sauces

Dieppoise sauce

Dieppoise sauce : A Normandy-style sauce (béchamel with added fresh cream) enriched with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops cassolette with porcini

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Main meals

Beef rendang

Indonesia.
Rendang : dish made with meat or vegetables slowly cooked in coconut milk with spices (lemongrass, turmeric, galangal, ginger, chili).

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Cold starters

Botargo

Botargo : mullet roe (the Provençal name for mullet) salted and dried.

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Poultry

Stuffed turkey

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with morel cream sauce

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach

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Sea fish

Wing with beurre noisette

Beurre noisette (brown butter) : butter cooked until it reaches a light brown color and a nutty aroma, then strained into a cold container to stop the cooking.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with sweet spices

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

Mint sauce

Mint sauce : vinegar with sugar and chopped mint leaves.

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Poultry

Squab salmis

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

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Cold starters

Tomatoes with tomato

Tomatoes stuffed with a tomato tartare.

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