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Cold starters
Vegetable aspic
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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Valençay
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher. Indre. Berry.
Soft-ripened cheese made from goat's milk with a bloomy rind.
Freshwater fish
Pike-perch with red butter sauce
Red butter sauce : shallots and red wine with butter.
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Veal grenadine with vin jaune
Veal grenadine : Slice of meat cut from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.
Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.
Sheep and Goats
Saddle of lamb in salt crust
Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.
Poultry
Ostrich tournedos with béarnaise sauce
Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).
Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Endive with Bechamel
Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.
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Spiny lobster à l’américaine
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."
Sea fish
Grilled salmon a l’unilateral
A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.
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Andouille de Vire with cider sauce
Andouille : pork sausage crafted from the complete pork belly, including both the stomach and intestines.
Cider sauce : cider, butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and white wine.
Served hot.
Main meals
Chicken raviole and consommé with black truffle
Ravioles : stuffed pasta, smaller and thinner than traditional ravioli.
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Tartiflette with Mont d’or
Tartiflette : gratin dish made with cream, potatoes, cheese and bacon bits, baked with cheese.
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Trifecta
United States. New York.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from a blend of pasteurized sheep’s and cow's milk with a beer-washed rind (Saison).
Ripening : 2 years.
Desserts
Sablé
Cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).
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