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Consommé and Soup
Garbure
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gascony.
Cabbage soup with vegetables (broad beans, potatoes, turnip, green peas, onion, garlic, carrot, celeriac, etc) and typically meat pieces, often confit (duck, pork, goose giblets, pork shank, cured ham, sausage, etc).
Game birds
Wood pigeon salmis
Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.
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Grilled sea bream with a julienne of vegetable
Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.
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Lobster risotto with saffron
Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.
Sea fish
Grilled sole with melted butter
Melted butter sauce : melted butter with reduced lemon juice and possibly pepper or chili.
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Oven-baked croque-monsieur with bechamel sauce
Grilled ham and cheese sandwich with béchamel sauce, baked golden.
Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.
Eggs
Quail eggs with green sauce
Green sauce : Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with a puree of chervil, watercress, spinach, and parsley.
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Savaron
France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Auvergne.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind.
Similar to Saint-Nectaire but produced outside the designated appellation area.
Appetizers
Anchovy butter canapé
Anchovy butter : Softened butter mashed with anchovy fillets, garlic, and sometimes herbs.
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Botargo
Botargo : mullet roe (the Provençal name for mullet) salted and dried.
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Lamb with port wine sauce
Port wine sauce : a demi-glace (a reduced sauce made from brown stock) enriched with Port wine.
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Manchego viejo
Spain. Castilla-La Mancha.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 1 to 2 years.
Cold starters
Confit tomatoes
French cooking technique where tomatoes are slow-cooked at low temperature in olive oil with herbs (often garlic, thyme, and sometimes sugar) to concentrate the flavors.
Used as a garnish in Mediterranean cuisine.
Cooked meats
Sabodet
Cooking sausage made from pork head, tongue, and fat.
Serve hot with potatoes, cabbage, beans, or lentils.
Serve cold, after cooking, with a salad.
Shellfish and Seafood
Lobster with linden butter
Linden butter sauce : creamed linden infusion, reduced, then buttered.
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Scallops with saffron
Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.
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Baron of lamb en croute with his own juice
Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.
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Morbier
France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Jura.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind and crossed in the center by a thin line of ash from ash tree.
Ripening : 45 days minimum.
Veal
Veal Marengo
Marengo : cooked in a casserole with mushrooms, onion, tomato and white wine.
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