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Meal families

Poultry

Pigeon en vessie with cream sauce

En vessie : meat poach in pork bladder. Like cooking under vacuum.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cold starters

Salmon pâté with a lemon sauce

Lemon sauce : butter, lemon, cream and mustard.
Served cold.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Salmon lasagna

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Main meals

Ravioles du Dauphiné in black truffle broth

Dauphiné raviole : filled pasta (cottage cheese and parsley).

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Offal and tripe

Provençal style tripe

Tripe served with pan-seared tomatoes tossed with parsley, garlic, onions, and bread.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop carpaccio with lemon

Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with forty cloves of garlic

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

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Cheeses

Saint-Albray

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Béarn.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Poultry

Roasted capon with forestière sauce

Forestière sauce : sauce based on butter, mushrooms, fresh cream, and shallots.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb daube

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Offal and tripe

Tripes à la mode de Caen

France. Normandy.
Stew made with the four parts of a veal’s stomach (rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum) and an ox foot.

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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

Spaghetti al limone

Pasta with cream and lemon.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Zucchini feta tart

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Warm starters

Spiced pork nem

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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