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Meal families

Beef

Entrecote with poivrade sauce

Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Cheeses

Fresh Écume De Wimereux

France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Double cream soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Sheep and Goats

Provençal leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Provençal style : accompanied by sautéed tomatoes with parsley, garlic-infused olive oil, and bread.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Boulangere potatoes

Boulangere potatoes : potatoes baked in the oven with onions in broth.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Mushroom quiche

Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Served hot or cold.

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Sauces

Devil sauce

Devil sauce : shallot and vinegar reduction with veal stock and espagnole sauce, simmered and reduced by half with tomato.

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Cooked meats

Pata negra

Ham from a 100% Iberian breed pig, raised free-range in the pastures of the Dehesa (in the Spanish provinces of Extremadura, northern Andalusia, and Salamanca, as well as in Alentejo, Portugal) and fed primarily with acorns.
This ham is sold with a black label.

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Beef

Beef tournedos with green peppercorn sauce

Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Pork

Diots with crozets

Diot : chopped pork sausage flavored with nutmeg and cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.
Crozets : pasta made with buckwheat flour and accompanied with Beaufort cheese strips.

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Cheeses

Chällerhocker

Switzerland. Saint-Gall.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind
Ripening : 8 to 12 months.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops in lemon

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Main meals

Royal couscous

Couscous : steamed wheat semolina served with fish, meat or vegetable stew accompanied by a spicy broth.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish a la nage

Nage : cooked in a delicate broth flavored with butter, white wine, vegetables, and aromatic herbs.

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Cooked meats

Andouillette

Pre-cooked sausage usually made from pork intestine (intestine and stomach), sometimes from veal (veal sweetbread), never smoked, to be pan-fried, oven-heated, or grilled.
Served hot.

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Cooked meats

Cold cut buffet

Buffet : all the dishes of the meal are served on a table, and the guests help themselves.

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Desserts

Praline merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Oysters and lemon

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