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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked over a pine needle fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop ceviche

Ceviche : cold dish made with shellfish or fish marinated in citrus juice (usually lime) with seasonings (garlic, cilantro, cumin, white onion, chili pepper, pepper, salt, etc).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Apple bonne femme

Baked apples on slices of bread with caramel.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Peach mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak and grenailles potatoes

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Grenailles : small potatoes (diameter between 18 and 35 millimeters).

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Sicilian pizza

Pizza made with anchovies, onion, tomato, herbs, and cheeses (Caciocavallo and Tomme).

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Furred game

Roasted doe fillet with huntsman sauce

Huntsman sauce : poivrade sauce thickened with cream, blood, and redcurrant jelly.

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Hot dog

Elongated bread stuffed with a cooked sausage and a seasoning (chutney, ketchup, mustard, onion, etc.).

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Main courses

Vegetable curry

Base : eggplant, zucchini, potato , etc

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Eggs

Quail eggs with green sauce

Green sauce : Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with a puree of chervil, watercress, spinach, and parsley.

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Beef

Entrecote winegrower’s style

Vigneronne sauce : red wine reduction with shallots and butter.

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Poultry

Sautéed duck aiguillette

Aiguillette : thin slice cut lengthwise from a poultry breast.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Farci poitevin

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Vegetable pâté with bacon, cooked wrapped in cabbage leaves.

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Pork

Pork filet mignon with chocolate sauce

Chocolate sauce : red wine with butter, shallot, veal stock, pepper and cocoa.

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Sauces

Newburg sauce

Newburg sauce : lobster butter with cream, egg yolks, onions, and Sherry or Madeira.

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