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Meal families

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Mushroom pizza

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Ice cream and sorbets

Mandarin sorbet

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Cheeses

Rupert

United States. Vermont.
Raw cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and washed rind.
Ripening : 8 months.

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Cold starters

Botargo

Botargo : mullet roe (the Provençal name for mullet) salted and dried.

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Pork

Parsley ham

Ham sliced into cubes, cooked in a Burgundy white wine broth with mustard and wine vinegar, enveloped in a parsley gelée and flavored (with onion, shallot, thyme, bay leaf, garlic, etc).

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Cheeses

Olivet bleu

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loiret. Olivet.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Sauces

Provençal sauce

Provençal sauce : crushed tomatoes and a garlic clove sautéed in oil.

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Cheeses

Saint-Paulin

Canada. France.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Poultry

Squab with duck foie gras and black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

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Poultry

Supreme of fattened chicken with cream sauce

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Fouras mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish made with Bouchot mussels, garlic, a bouquet garni, Charentes butter, fresh cream, curry, shallots, egg yolks, and Pineau des Charentes (or alternatively, a dry white wine from Charente or Cognac, depending on the recipe).

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Poultry

Fattened chicken en vessie

En vessie : meat poach in pork bladder. Like cooking under vacuum.

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Sea fish

Bordeaux style shad

Bordeaux or Bordelaise style : with shallots, parsley, and red wine.

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Main meals

Mutton couscous

Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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