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Meal families

Desserts

Chocolate bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with 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."

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Pork

Pork crépinettes with apple

Crépinettes : minced pork wrapped in caul fat.

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Desserts

Frangipane tart

Frangipane : almond-based cream mixed with pastry cream with butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.

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Pork

Pork filet mignon with duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes : purée of mashed potato and egg yolk baked until golden.

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Cheeses

Saint-Honoré

Canada. Quebec.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Desserts

Raspberry ganache

A blend of fresh cream, white chocolate, and raspberry coulis.

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Cheeses

Ossau-Iraty

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Béarn. Basque Country.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk.

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Desserts

Molten dark chocolate cake

Dark chocolate : with more than 70% cocoa.

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Cooked meats

Duck paté with duck foie gras and black truffle

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Sheep and Goats

Bordeaux style lamb

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Cheeses

Shropshire blue

United Kingdom.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk colored with annatto.
Ripening : 10 to 12 weeks.

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Desserts

Savarin with rum

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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Cheeses

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.

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Cooked meats

Grenier médocain

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde. Médoc.
Andouille made from pork stomachs, intestines, and strips of ham, cooked in a garlicky, spiced vegetable broth.

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