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Meal families

Sauces

Tartar sauce

Mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles and chopped parsley.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Saint george mushroom

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Veal

Veal filet mignon with forestiere sauce

Forestiere sauce : sauce made from butter, mushrooms, crème fraîche and shallots.

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Cold starters

Aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Poultry

Duck a l’orange and celery purée

A l'orange: sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.

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Desserts

Dark chocolate mirror cake

Miror cake : mousse set on a sponge base topped with a glaze.

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Desserts

Raspberry pavlova

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

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Cheeses

Chiriboga

Germany. Allgäu.
Semi-soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : at least 2 months.

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Beef

Charolais fillet with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Oysters a l’americaine

Oysters dipped in batter, then in breadcrumbs and fried in lard.
Served hot.

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Cheeses

Bleu d’Auvergne

France. Massif Central.
Pasteurized or raw cow's milk blue cheese.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Clams risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Saintonge mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish with bouchot mussels and garlic, bouquet garni, Charentes butter, cream, saffron, shallots, egg yolks and Pineau des Charentes (or dry white wine of Charentes or Cognac).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sauteed morel

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