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Meal families

Cheeses

Idyll gris

United States. Michigan.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 12 to 21 days.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with black truffle sauce

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

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Cheeses

Picodon

France. Massif Central. Cevennes.
Soft goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.

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Cheeses

Soumaintrain

France. Burgundy. Yonne.
Pasteurized or unpasteurised cow's milk cheese with a washed rind with Marc de Bourgogne from pale yellow to ocher color.
Ripening : 3 to 8 weeks.

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Cheeses

Cabrales

Spain. Asturias.
Semi-hard blue-green veined raw cow's milk or mixture of two or three kinds of milk (cow, sheep and goat).
Ripening : 3 to 6 months.

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Desserts

Chocolate and raspberry parfait

Parfait : frozen dessert made from fresh cream and eggs with a flavouring (alcohol, crushed fresh or dried fruit, chocolate, vanilla ...).

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Poultry

Roasted capon with forestiere sauce

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed cardoon with meat

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Shellfish and Seafood

Grilled shrimp

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops and black truffle zabaione

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

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Game birds

Salmi of quails

Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Desserts

Fresh fruit soup

(pineapple and peach)

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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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