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Meal families

Desserts

Liège waffle

Waffle with pearl sugar and a layer of liquid caramel, often flavored with cinnamon or vanilla.
It can be served with chocolate, creams, or fruit.

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Cheeses

Rocamadour

France. Occitania. Lot. Tarn-et-Garonne. (Quercy).
Soft-ripened goat cheese made from whole raw milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 6 days minimum.

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Desserts

Caramelized pear 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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Cooked meats

Caillette with herbs

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ardèche.
Type of pâté made with pork meat, Swiss chard, spinach or salad greens, chopped herbs and wrapped in pig's caul fat. It may also contain garlic, alcohol, spices, egg, chestnuts, nuts…
Served hot or cold.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk-fed lamb with garlic cloves

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Beef

Grilled entrecote over vine shoots with Bordeaux-style porcini mushrooms

Bordeaux-style porcini mushrooms : porcini mushrooms sautéed in olive oil with chopped shallots and breadcrumbs.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Creamy mushrooms

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Cold starters

Aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Moules marinière

Mariniere sauce : reduction of white wine and fish stock (or cooking juice of mussels) with shallots (or onion) lightly bound with butter.

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Desserts

Puits d’amour

Round, hollowed-out pastry made from puff or choux pastry, filled with jam (apricot, raspberry, or redcurrant jelly) or pastry cream, and topped with caramel or powdered sugar.

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Cold starters

Duck foie gras aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Cherry sorbet

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Poultry

Salmi of duckling

Duckling : young duck.
Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Beef

Bordeaux style entrecote with porcini mushrooms

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Pasta with pistou sauce

Pistou : provençal sauce made from crushed basil, garlic, and olive oil.

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Veal

Veal chop with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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