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Consommé and Soup
Chowder
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente. Vendée.
Fish soup that can be served with potatoes or on slices of bread (toasted or not).
Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie
Two peppers pizza
Pizza with yellow and red bell peppers and mozzarella.
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Pike-perch with sorrel sauce
Sorrel sauce : a white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter, cream, and fish stock.
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Squab with duck foie gras and black truffle sauce
Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.
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Crab aspic with herbs
Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.
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Honey glazed salmon with lemon
To glaze : to spread honey over the skin of an animal before cooking in order to achieve a crispy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.
Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.
Desserts
Frangipane
Cream made with almonds mixed with pastry cream, butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.
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Bouchée à la reine
France. Grand Est. Meurthe-et-Moselle. Meuse. Moselle. Vosges.
Individual puff pastry filled with a savory mixture cut into small cubes or slices (poultry, sweetbreads, ham, mushrooms) and bound together with a thick sauce (béchamel sauce, financière sauce, suprême sauce).
Sheep and Goats
Milk-fed lamb with potato gratin and morels
Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.
> view pairingsShellfish and Seafood
Bay scallop carpaccio with duck foie gras
Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
> view pairingsBeef
Beef tenderloin with duck foie gras and bordelaise sauce
Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.
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Duck manchon confit with cabbage
Duck wing drumette : upper part of the duck wing.
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Roasted rack of lamb with persillade sauce
Persillade sauce : blend of chopped parsley and garlic mixed with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil and vinegar.
> view pairingsSauces
Perigueux sauce
Perigueux sauce : reduction of white wine or Madeira with a blonde roux to which diced black truffles are added.
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