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Twig farm goat tomme
United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened cheese made from goat's milk with a natural rind ranging in color from grey to brown.
Ripening : 3 to 5 months.
Poultry
Duck breast with poached pears and red wine sauce
Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.
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Fruit zabaione
Zabaione : egg yolks beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or non-alcoholic, in order to obtain a hot or warm foamy and flavored preparation.
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Tomme de brebis Corse
France. Corsica.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk.
Ripening : 3 to 12 months.
Sea fish
Blanquette of salmon
Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.
Desserts
Gingerbread charlotte
Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.
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Spiny lobster Bellevue
Bellevue : presentation of a shellfish (typically lobster or spiny lobster served in medallions), a whole fish, or a meat (often poultry) cooked whole, served cold and coated with aspic jelly.
Often accompanied by mayonnaise or andalouse sauce (mayonnaise with tomato puree and spices), vegetables, or hard-boiled eggs.
Freshwater fish
Pike quenelles with Mornay sauce
Mornay sauce : béchamel sauce with grated cheese.
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Soumaintrain
France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Yonne.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a marc de Bourgogne washed rind, light yellow to ochre in color.
Ripening : 3 to 8 weeks.
Offal and tripe
Lamb sweetbreads with morel cream sauce
Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.
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Seafood gumbo
United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Dish usually served with rice.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Boulangere potatoes
Boulangere potatoes : potatoes baked in the oven with onions in broth.
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Meze
Eastern Mediterranean.
Small dishes (ten to one hundred, with eggplant caviar, dolmas, vegetable salads, tabbouleh, etc.) served on small plates (like antipasti) for a party or family meal to accompany alcoholic beverages.
Sheep and Goats
Roast baron of lamb with herbs
Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.
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Monkfish tail with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.
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Trout fillets Gravlax
Gravlax : fresh salmon marinated with dill, spices, and herbs, cured with salt and sugar, served with a mustard sauce.
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