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Meal families

Beef

Beef tournedos with bordelaise sauce

Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).
Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Sheep and Goats

Sautéed Maintenon style lamb chops

Maintenon : lamb chops baked with a roux mixed with button mushroom, ham, onion, black truffle and breadcrumbs.

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Cheeses

Vacherin d’Abondance

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind encircled with a strip of spruce bark.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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Pork

Jambonneau confit

Jambonneau : small ham or boneless shank.

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Sauces

Walnut sauce

Walnut sauce : sauce with chopped walnuts mixed with olive oil and fresh cream, cayenne pepper, salt and vinegar.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb noisette with sweet spices

Noisette : round-shaped piece of meat taken from the leg, loin, or rack.
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.

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Sauces

Black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

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Cheeses

Pavé d’Auge

France. Normandy. Pays d'Auge.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Appetizers

Lobster butter canapé

Lobster butter : lobster meat with butter.

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Offal and tripe

Pieds paquets

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Sisteron. Bouches-du-Rhône. Marseille.
Dish made with sheep’s feet and stuffed tripe, filled with pork belly or salted pork, slowly simmered in a white wine and tomato sauce.

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Desserts

Floating island

Beaten egg whites baked in a mold, in the oven and in a bain-marie, accompanied by crème anglaise.
Generally topped with caramel.

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Sauces

Sweet and sour sauce

Sweet and sour sauce : Tomato sauce with shallot, olive oil and bay leaf.

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Desserts

Raspberry 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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Game animals

Venison salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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