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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish and Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Garlic shrimp scampi

Scampi: langoustine without head.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles

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Beef

Grilled rib steak with porcini

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch a l’unilateral / Pike-perch cooked unilaterally / Zander cooked unilaterally

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood tagliatelle

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Poultry

Pigeon en vessie with cream sauce

En vessie : meat poach in pork bladder. Like cooking under vacuum.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Sheep and Goats

Spit-roasted leg of lamb with tarragon

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Pork

Porchetta

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes. Italia.
Boneless suckling pig, stuffed with its flesh and offal with herbs (garlic, bay leaf) roasted over a wood fire.
Eat cold, sliced ​​or fried with oil and tomato.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb offal fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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