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Meal families

Poultry

Chicken confit

Generally eaten hot.

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Pork

Pork roast with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Cheeses

Old Mimolette

France. Hauts-de-France. Nord. Pas-de-Calais.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk colored with annatto.
Ripening : 12 to 18 months.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Blueberry shortcake

United Kingdom.
Shortcake : small dry cake topped with a layer of fruit, syrup, and whipped cream.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Chocolate Saint-Honoré

Saint-Honoré : puff pastry or shortcrust base topped with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream-filled choux puffs glazed with caramel around the edges.
The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or a Chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian meringue).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.

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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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Cold starters

Crab mayonnaise salad

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

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb with tapenade

Tapenade : garlic, capers, anchovy fillets, black olives, pepper, and olive oil.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with linden butter sauce

Linden butter sauce : creamed linden infusion, reduced, then buttered.

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Pork

Diots with cabbage

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

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Sauces

Sweet and sour sauce

Sweet and sour sauce : Tomato sauce with shallot, olive oil and bay leaf.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Lemon tart

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Orange givrée

Orange sorbet served in an orange.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed eggplants

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