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Salads
Langoustines salad with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.
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Triple Play Extra Innings
United States. Wisconsin.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep’s, goat’s, and cow’s milk.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.
Cheeses
Gran Canaria
United States. Wisconsin.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep’s, goat’s, and cow’s milk with an olive oil washed rind.
Ripening : 2 years.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Artichokes a la croque au sel
À la croque au sel : raw vegetables dipped in salt, like radishes.
In general, avoid serving wine with raw artichoke.
Cheeses
Sofia
United States. Indiana.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind coated in edible vegetable ash, and containing two additional layers of ash cutting the cheese.
Ripening : 1 week.
Offal and tripe
Lamb’s brain with brown butter
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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Pear charlotte with caramel custard
Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.
Custard : mixture of milk or cream, egg yolks and sugar flavored with vanilla.
Main meals
Fish couscous
Couscous : steamed wheat semolina served with fish, meat or vegetable stew accompanied by a spicy broth.
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Diplomat pudding
Sponge cake soaked with Grand Marnier (sometimes kirsch) with a pastry cream filled with candied fruit and covered with Chantilly cream topped with a candied cherry.
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Fouras mouclade
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish made with Bouchot mussels, garlic, a bouquet garni, Charentes butter, fresh cream, curry, shallots, egg yolks, and Pineau des Charentes (or alternatively, a dry white wine from Charente or Cognac, depending on the recipe).
Sea fish
Darne of monkfish with green peppercorn sauce
Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.
Desserts
Sticky toffee pudding
United Kingdom.
Sponge cake made with brown sugar and finely chopped dates, topped with caramel (brown sugar).
Served with custard, vanilla ice cream or single cream.
Sheep and Goats
Beef irish stew
Ireland.
Beef stew with carrots, onions, and potatoes.
Traditional dish.
Shellfish and Seafood
Bay scallops with saffron
Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.
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