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Meal families

Sea fish

Roasted John Dory 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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Sauces

Sweet and sour sauce

Sweet and sour sauce : tomato sauce with shallots, olive oil and laurel.

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Pork

Portuguese-style pork roast

Baked pork roast with paprika, chicken stock and white wine.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads cassolette with mustard

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.
Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Cheeses

Brillat-Savarin

France. Burgundy. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. Forges-les-Eaux.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.

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Desserts

Redcurrant pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Langres

France. Grand Est. Haute-Marne. Vosges. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte-d'Or.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Pork

Roast pork with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Cold starters

Cervelle de canut

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Lyon.
Cottage cheese beaten with cream and seasoned with chopped herbs (chive, shallot, parsley).
Usually served with toast, boiled potatoes or to season a salad.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with americaine sauce

Américaine Sauce : lobster coral mixed with chopped onions, cream, eggs, white wine, brandy, salt, cayenne pepper and softened butter.

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Cheeses

Saint-Jorge 6 meses

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 6 months.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with fresh cream

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Rabbit

Rabbit gibelotte with red wine

Rabbit stew with red wine.

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Cheeses

Creamy Lancashire

United Kingdom. Lancashire.
Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a pale yellow natural rind.
Ripening : 2 to 4 weeks.

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Poultry

Roasted squab à la goutte de sang

Cooked à la goutte de sang : fast cooking of meat moderately high for there to be surface coloration of the flesh but the interior remains red.

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Freshwater fish

Bordeaux style sturgeon

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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