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Meal families

Desserts

Apple 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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Salad

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Poultry

Duck aiguillette with cherry

Aiguillette : thin strips of chicken breast.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Saintonge mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish with bouchot mussels and garlic, bouquet garni, Charentes butter, cream, saffron, shallots, egg yolks and Pineau des Charentes (or dry white wine of Charentes or Cognac).

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Sauces

Provencal sauce

Crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley boiled in oil.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Linguine alle vongole

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Desserts

Lemon 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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Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads with endive fondue

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

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Sauces

Supreme sauce

Supreme sauce : chicken or veal velouté reduced before adding the cream.

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Pork

Stuffed pig’s trotter

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Poultry

Duck breast Rossini

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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Poultry

Spatchcocked chicken with garlic and rosemary

Spatchcock : bird prepared for grilling or roasting by removing the backbone and sternum and flattening it out before cooking.

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Sea fish

Sea bass in salt crust 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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Main meals

Paella

Rice dish with saffron cooked with olive oil, vegetables, meat and-or fish, shellfish cooked in a pan called paella.

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Poultry

Supreme of fattened chicken stuffed with black truffle and pommes mousseline

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.
Potatoes mousseline : mashed potatoes mixed with egg yolks and whipped cream.

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