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Meal families

Sea fish

Grilled red mullet with an anchovy butter

Anchovy butter : softened butter mixed with mashed anchovies, garlic and sometimes herbs.

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Game birds

Salmi of mallard

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

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Cheeses

Gabietou

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Béarn.
Semi-soft raw cow and sheep's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 90 days.

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Desserts

Praline

Mixture of almonds and caramel and crushed hazelnuts.

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Poultry

Stuffed goose

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Asparagus with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops skewers with coral sauce

Coral sauce : roe of scallops mixed with fresh cream and spices.

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Beef

Chateaubriand Vert-pré

Chateaubriand : piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet..
Vert-pré : maitre d'hotel butter accompanied by watercress

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Desserts

Plum pavlova

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

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Cheeses

Caillebotte

France. Brittany. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country. Poitou-Charentes. Pays de la Loire.
Cow's milk curdled with rennet.

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Poultry

Stuffed capon with morels and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : cream sauce with vin jaune (Jura wine) and shallot.

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Salads

Lobster salad with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Game animals

Bordeaux style wild boar fillet

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Cheeses

Tête de moine

Switzerland. Bernese Jura.
Semi-cooked or semi-hard pressed raw whole cow's milk cheese.

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Sauces

Black butter sauce

Black butter: butter cooked until it turns a dark color, reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine vinegar).

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Desserts

Croquant

Croquant : almond biscuit.

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Cold starters

Spiny lobster in 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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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Seafood pie

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