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Meal families

Sauces

Barbecue sauce

Sauce made from tomato and vinegar with a smoky note and various ingredients (garlic, oil, onion, honey, mustard, paprika, chili pepper, etc.).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish with white wine sauce

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Smoked salmon quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Main meals

Cabbage potée

Potée : mixture of meat or sausage, vegetables and baked potatoes in broth cooked several hours in an earthenware pot.

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Freshwater fish

Artic char a l’unilateral

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

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Beef

Rib steak and celery purée

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Beef

Tournedos Rossini and mashed potato with black truffle

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato gratin with porcini

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Shellfish and Seafood

Grilled shrimp scampi

Scampi: langoustine without head.

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Desserts

Red fruit charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Pork

Grilled rouelle of pork

Rouelle : a thick slice of meat cut from the hind leg.

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Veal

Provencal veal paupiettes

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Game birds

Roasted mallard with black truffle juice

Truffle juice: juice obtained during sterilization of the truffle.

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Appetizers

Cheese breadsticks

Sticks of crisp and dry bread.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tuna lasagne

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bream a l’unilateral with spices

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

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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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