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Meal families

Sauces

Black truffle butter

Black truffle butter: butter with black truffle and Cognac.

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Warm starters

Quenelles with Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

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Desserts

Blueberry bavarois

Bavarois : cold moulded dessert made ​​with custard or fruit puree, mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine.

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Sheep and Goats

Roast baron of lamb with spring vegetables

Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Sheep and Goats

Blanquette of lamb with fresh mint

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Veal

Roast milk-fed veal with Saint Georges mushroom

Milk-fed veal : calf of less than 20 weeks milk-fed only.

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Desserts

Strawberry pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Desserts

Strawberry zabaione

Zabaione: egg yolk beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or not, to get a froth hot or warm and fragrant.

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Beef

Beef daube

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bream a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Offal and tripe

Tripous

Aveyron speciality.
Dish made with small strips of veal, usually rolled in sheep pansette (usually lamb) and tied with twine. Cooking in a veal stock with salt, pepper, white wine, carrot and tomato.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spider crab and pistou

Pistou : Provencal sauce of crushed basil, garlic and olive oil.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morels with cream

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Meatball stew

Canada. Quebec.
Meatballs (beef,pork) and spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg) served in a simmered and reduced sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Macaroni and cheese

Cooked macaroni pasta with a cheese sauce, generaly cheddar.

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca curado

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Semi-hard cheese from cow's milk, brown in color.
Ripening : over 5 months.

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