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Sheep and Goats
Seven-hour lamb
Seven hours : slow-cooked in wine with garlic and herbs until the meat falls off the bone.
Cold starters
Meze
Eastern Mediterranean.
Small dishes (ten to one hundred, with eggplant caviar, dolmas, vegetable salads, tabbouleh, etc.) served on small plates (like antipasti) for a party or family meal to accompany alcoholic beverages.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Peach turnover
Turnover : pastry made with puff pastry filled with fruit compote.
Beef
Roasted rib steak with red wine sauce
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.
Offal and tripe
Bordeaux style veal kidney
Kidney cooked in red wine and finished with Bordelaise sauce.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Christmas pudding
United Kingdom.
A dark-colored Christmas cake, slowly steamed with dried fruits, nuts, brown sugar or molasses, and often beef suet. It is flavored with beer (such as porter or stout), a spirit like brandy, or citrus juice. Traditionally, it is flambéed with cognac or rum before serving.
Furred game
Steak of doe with huntsman sauce
Huntsman sauce : poivrade sauce thickened with cream, blood, and redcurrant jelly.
Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie
Fouace angevine
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Warm round loaf filled with pork rillettes.
Pork
Ham with wine lees
France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Ham that has been macerated in Burgundy wine lees for three to five weeks..
Served cold as an appetizer or as a starter.
Cheeses
Tomme de brebis Corse
France. Corsica.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk.
Ripening : 3 to 12 months.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Mandarin bavarian cream
Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.
Feathered game
Young partridge in chartreuse of vegetables
Young Partridge : under 8 months old.
Chartreuse : a dish cooked in a bain-marie, made of braised cabbage (or other vegetables) layered alternately with meat to create a contrast of colors.
Should be unmolded and served hot.
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.
Cheeses
Andazul
Spain. Andalusia.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.
Seafish
Sea bass Nice style
Nice-style : fish cooked with garlic, anchovies, capers, onion, olives, tomato sauce, and a herb bouquet.