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Meal families

Cheeses

Etxegarai

Spain. Basque Country.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Sheep and Goats

Roast baron of lamb with spring vegetables

Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Veal

Veal tenderloin with porcini

Tenderloin : piece of meat cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Offal and tripe

Pork kidneys with mustard

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Sea fish

Sea bass in salt crust in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Patacabra

Spain. Aragon. Zaragoza.
Semi-soft pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a washed rind from a reddish color to a pale orange-brown color.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.

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Poultry

Duck breast Rossini

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Warm starters

Bouchée à la reine

France. Lorraine.
Individual puff pastry garnish with veal sweetbreads.

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Pork

Diots with red wine

Diot : minced pork sausage flavored with nutmeg cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Eggs

La mère Poulard omelette

Soufflé omelette cooked over a wood fire.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops and black truffle zabaione

Zabaione: egg yolk beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or not, to get a froth hot or warm and fragrant.

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Cheeses

Caillebotte

France. Brittany. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country. Poitou-Charentes. Pays de la Loire.
Cow's milk curdled with rennet.

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