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La Sentinelle
Canada. Quebec.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 weeks.
Shellfish and Seafood
Scallops in sweet and sour sauce
Sweet and sour sauce : Tomato sauce with shallot, olive oil and bay leaf.
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Croquembouche
Tiered cake with choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. Pastry centerpiece with praline cream puffs or duchess bread rolls / Croquembouche with praline choux or duchess buns
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Cherry merveilleux
Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.
Cheeses
Rollot
France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Oise. Somme. (Picardy).
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Sheep and Goats
Rack of lamb 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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Smoked Gouda
Netherlands.
Smoked, pressed and uncooked cheese made from whole cow's milk.
Sauces
Brown sauce
Brown sauce : reduced brown stock and tomato concentrate or brown roux with added butter, onion and bacon, flavored with bouquet garni.
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Trout with smoked bacon
Trout served with smoked bacon bits and seasoned with persillade (a mixture of parsley and garlic).
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Vol-au-vent financiere
Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).
Financiere sauce : Demi-glace (a reduced sauce made from brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef) enhanced with Madeira and truffle essence.
Cheeses
Grana Padano Riserva
Italy. Po River Valley.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : over 20 months.
Game animals
Haunch of wild boar with huntsman sauce
Haunch : leg.
Huntsman sauce : poivrade sauce thickened with cream, blood, and redcurrant jelly.
Sea fish
Smoked salmon marinade
Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.
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