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Sea fish
Sea bream in salt crust
Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.
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Roast young partridge with spring vegetables
Young Partridge : under 8 months old.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Carrots Vichy
Carrots sliced into thick rounds and cooked in a mixture of butter, water, lemon juice, and sugar.
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Patacabra
Spain. Aragon. Zaragoza.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk cheese and washed rind from a reddish color to an orange-brown color.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.
Game birds
Pheasant in chartreuse of vegetables
Chartreuse : a dish cooked in a bain-marie, made of braised cabbage (or other vegetables) layered alternately with meat to create a contrast of colors.
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Wild strawberries mille-feuille
Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.
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Bretonne sauce
Bretonne sauce : garlic and onion reduction with white wine added with fresh tomato and reduced.
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Steamed mussels with pistou
Pistou : provençal sauce made from crushed basil, garlic, and olive oil.
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Marinated chicken salad
Chicken pieces marinated in olive oil and sherry vinegar.
Served with a salad of onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes…
Poultry
Glazed fattened chicken with sweet spices
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.
Others
Pork pita
Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with sliced pork meat, hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).
Shellfish and Seafood
Cockles and bay scallop cassolette
Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.
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Dante
United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 6 months minimum.
Sauces
Americaine sauce
American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."