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Meal families

Pork

Diots with lentils

Diot : chopped pork sausage flavored with nutmeg and cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Mandarin bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

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Cheeses

Cabricharme

Belgium. Ardennes.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 6 weeks.

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Poultry

Coq au vin

Wine stewed chicken.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops cassolette with black truffle

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sheep and Goats

Knuckle of lamb confit

Knuckle of lamb : cut of meat located beneath the leg (gigot), surrounding the shinbone of the hind leg.

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Seafish

Basquaise-style tuna

Basque-style : cooked tuna accompanied by onion, pepper and tomato.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with mushrooms and cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pineapple sable

Sablé : cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).

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Poultry

Chicken with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Hot Starters

Quenelles with Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

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Miscellaneous

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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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Tropézienne

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Brioche split in two and filled with a mixture of pastry cream and buttercream, topped with pearl sugar.

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Offal and tripe

Calf’s liver with bordelaise sauce

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Roast grapefruit

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Damson tart

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