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Meal families

Beef

Grisons dried beef

Switzerland. Graubünden.
Salted beef with spices and herbs before air-dried.

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Cheeses

Ardrahan

Ireland. Cork.
Semi-soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Cheeses

Robiola 3 latti

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont. Langhe.
Soft-ripened cheese from unpasteurised goat's, sheep's and cow’s milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Pork

Diots with lentils

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

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Pork

Stuffed pig’s trotter

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Cheeses

Chambarand

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Isère.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Veal

Veal medallion with porcini and potato

Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm) cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Cheeses

Gorgonzola dolce

Italy. Lombardy.
Blue-veined cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : less than 3 months.

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Beef

Grilled hanger steak with marchand de vin butter

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached. Marchand de vin butter : reduction of red wine with shallots mixed with butter.

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Cheeses

Charloe

United States. Ohio.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Desserts

Lemon miror cake

Miror cake : mousse set on a sponge base topped with a glaze.

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Cooked meats

Hare pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Veal

Veal medallion with chanterelle

Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm) cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Beef

Braised beef with carrots

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Freshwater fish

Gudgeon russian style

Gudgeon cooked in white wine, mixed with gelatine, mayonnaise and broth served with chopped parsley and sometimes a dash of lemon or vinegar.

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Sea fish

Sea Bream carpaccio with citrus fruits

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Imam bayildi

Turkey.
Braised eggplants stuffed with garlic, onion, tomato in olive oil and simmered in the oven.
Served with rice.

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Sauces

Cream sauce

Cream sauce : Bechamel sauce with cream.

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Cooked meats

Lyon-style andouillette sausage

Small chitterling sausage cooked with onions, meat juices deglazed with vinegar.

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Sea fish

Brandade

Brandade : mixture of fish and olive oil.

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