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Meal families

Beef

Roast beef 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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Desserts

Chocolate and orange trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake soaked in fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes layered with jam, custard, and whipped cream.

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Cooked meats

Ham hock

Jambonneau : small ham or boneless shank.
Can be breaded and eaten cold with a salad.

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Main meals

Lamb couscous

Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Sauces

Mayonnaise

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Smoked salmon pizza

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Cooked meats

Andouillette with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.
Served hot.

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Sea fish

Lemon sole goujonnettes

Goujonnette : small fish fillet cut on the bias.

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Main meals

Vegetable curry

Base : eggplant, zucchini, potato , etc

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Cheeses

Yorkshire Wensleydale

United Kingdom. North Yorkshire.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep's and cow's milk, white in color.

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Desserts

Wild strawberry 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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach and goat cheese lasagna

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Sea fish

Pickled herring

Marinated herring in vinegar with carrot, lemon, bay leaves, onion, mustard and sometimes served with fresh cream

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Desserts

Ambassadeur

Sponge cake soaked in Grand Marnier (sometimes Kirsch), layered with pastry cream filled with candied fruits, and topped with marzipan (typically green).

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Sauces

Charcutiere sauce

Charcutière sauce  : reduction of shallots, white wine and vinegar deglazed with demi-glace (a rich brown stock-based sauce), finished with mustard and julienned pickles.

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Main meals

Wild boar daube

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

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