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Meal families

Desserts

Poached peaches in white wine

Peaches cooked in wine syrup with toasted almonds.

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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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Shellfish and Seafood

Seared scallops with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cold starters

Zakuski

Russia.
Hors-d'œuvre served as starter to a meal (caviar, cold cuts, smoked or marinated fish, malossol, salads…).

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Poultry

Salmi of pigeon

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

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Desserts

Dark chocolate mousse tart

Tart filled with chocolate mousse.
Served cold.

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Veal

Veal tenderloin with porcini

Tenderloin : piece of meat cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Cheeses

Pavé correzien

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Limousin. Corrèze.
Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 5 to 6 months.

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Cheeses

Mimolette

France. Nord Pas de Calais. Semi-hard cow's milk cheese annatto colored.

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Desserts

Frozen zabaione

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

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Cheeses

Beaufort fruity

France. Savoie.
Firm, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 6 months minimum.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk fed lamb with thyme flower

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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