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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with saffron

Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.

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Miscellaneous

Snails cassolette with cream and morel

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sauces

Perigourdine sauce

Perigourdine sauce : Périgueux sauce (white wine reduction with blonde roux and diced black truffles) enhanced with onions, shallots and duck foie gras.

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Poultry

Duck daube

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Cheeses

Olivet cendré

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loiret. Olivet.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow’s milk with a natural rind coated in charcoal ash.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Cheeses

Frinault bleu

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loiret. Orléans.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized whole cow's milk with natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Furred game

Wild boar fillet with bordelaise sauce

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

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Cheeses

Brique du Forez

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Loire. (Forez).
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Cheeses

Ardrahan

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind orange-colored.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Cheeses

Manchego viejo

Spain. Castilla-La Mancha.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 1 to 2 years.

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Poultry

Duck a l’orange with dauphine potatoes

A l'orange : sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Seafood 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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Cheeses

Brabander

Netherlands. North Holland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with waxed rind.
Ripening : 6 to 9 months.

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Cold starters

Crab mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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