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Beef
Beef bourguignon
Slow-cooked beef in red wine in a covered pot, with mushrooms, pearl onions, and bacon.
Served with boiled potatoes or pasta.
Shellfish and Seafood
Spiny lobster à l’américaine
American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."
Cheeses
Villageois blanc
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime. Deux-Sèvres.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a bloomy rind.
Freshwater fish
Fish quenelles with americaine sauce
American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."
Sauces
Chocolate sauce
Chocolate sauce : red wine with butter, shallot, veal stock, pepper and cocoa.
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Woodstock of salmis
Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.
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Croque-madame with bechamel sauce
Grilled ham and cheese sandwich with fried egg or poached egg on top.
Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.
Desserts
Empress rice pudding
Rice pudding mixed with Bavarian cream, flavored with kirsch and candied fruits.
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Duck foie gras with black truffle sauce
Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.
Served hot.
Cold starters
Oyster tartare
Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.
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Agde-style bourride
Bourride : fish stew stewed together with a brunoise of vegetables served with aioli or mayonnaise with olive accompanied by croutons rubbed with garlic oil.
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Tablier de sapeur with tartare sauce
France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhône. Lyon.
Tartar sauce : mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles and chopped parsley.
Dish usually served with steamed potatoes.
Desserts
Lemon miror glaze cake
Miror glaze cake : cold dessert made of mousse on a sponge cake, topped with a glaze.
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