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Shellfish and Seafood

Prawn aumoniere

Prawn meat cooked in filo pastry.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Champagne sauce

Champagne sauce : Champagne with fresh cream, fish stock (or veal or poultry stock), shallots, parsley, salt and pepper.

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Main meals

Mutton couscous

Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Freshwater fish

Roast pike-perch in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Offal and tripe

Veal kidneys with Madeira sauce

Madeira sauce : Demi-glace (brown stock reduced) with Madeira.

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Desserts

Cadet Mathieu

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Apple tart with puff pastry.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seared scallops with white wine and mousseline spinach

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Cheeses

Délice de Bourgogne

France. Burgundy. Yonne.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Mashed potato

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Poultry

Squab with duck foie gras and black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Hearts of palm in vinaigrette

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Cheeses

Saint-Winoc

France. Nord. Pas de Calais.
Soft-ripened raw whole cow's milk cheese with a blond beer-washed rind.
Ripening : 5 to 6 weeks.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Green asparagus with parmesan

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Poultry

Fattened chicken with morel sauce

Morel sauce: chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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