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Meal families

Poultry

Geline with cream and morels

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Poultry

Hot chicken

Spicy fried chicken served on slices of white bread with pickle strips.

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Desserts

Apple turnover

Turnover : pastry made with puff pastry filled with fruit compote.

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Sheep and Goats

Seven-hour lamb

Seven hours : slow-cooked in wine with garlic and herbs until the meat falls off the bone.

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Sea fish

Monkfish in 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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Veal

Veal medallion with morels

Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm thick) sliced from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.

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Sauces

Tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Desserts

Merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Poultry

Goose with red wine sauce

Goose marinated in red wine before cooking.

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Cheeses

Livarot

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind orange-colored and square shape.

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