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Meal families

Sauces

Marinière sauce

Mariniere sauce : reduction of white wine and fish stock (or cooking juice of mussels) with shallots (or onion) lightly bound with butter.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetable tian

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Poultry

Grilled chicken supreme

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.

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Cold starters

Avocado with shrimp sauce

Shrimp sauce : fish velouté mixed with shrimp butter.

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Cheeses

Cabrales

Spain. Asturias.
Blue cheese made from raw cow's milk or a blend of two or three types of milk (cow, sheep, and goat), with a blue-green veined paste.
Ripening : 3 to 6 months.

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Sheep and Goats

Knuckle of lamb with olives

Knuckle of lamb : cut of meat located beneath the leg (gigot), surrounding the shinbone of the hind leg.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with Sarlat style potatoes

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.

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Poultry

Souvarov-style pigeon wings

Souvarov : stuffing with fresh foie gras and black truffle cooked in terrine.

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Poultry

Roast goose Alsatian style

Stuffed goose serve with sauerkraut.

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Desserts

Pithivier

Cake made with almond cream and puff pastry.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Chicken pie

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Sea fish

Skate with black butter sauce

Beurre noir (black butter sauce) : butter cooked until it takes on a dark color, in reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine, vinegar).

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Cheeses

Caillou du Rhône

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhone. Burgundy. Saône-et-Loire. Mâconnais.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with natural rind in the shape of a disk and consumed dry.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Desserts

Croquembouche

Tiered cake with choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. Pastry centerpiece with praline cream puffs or duchess bread rolls / Croquembouche with praline choux or duchess buns

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Sauces

Chocolate sauce

Chocolate sauce : red wine with butter, shallot, veal stock, pepper and cocoa.

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Cheeses

Ewephoria

Netherlands. Friesland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk.
Ripening : 12 months.

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