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Meal families

Cheeses

Tomme de Savoie

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese with a washed rind of gray colour.
Ripening : 70 days minimum.

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Pork

Pork filet mignon with black truffle sauce

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

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Consommé and Soup

Chowder

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente. Vendée.
Fish soup that can be served with potatoes or slices of bread.

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Poultry

Duck confit with Sarlat style potatoes

Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.

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Sauces

Henri IV sauce

Bearnaise sauce with veal stock.

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Main meals

Truffade

Sort of pancake made with thinly sliced potatoes cooked in goose fat and mixed with thin strips of tome fraiche until it sticks in a sort of thick pastry, sometimes decorated with fresh parsley.

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Desserts

Pâté aux prunes

France. Pays de la Loire. Maine-et-Loire.
Pie in short pastry or puff pastry with unpitted plums.

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Salads

Tuna Nicoise salad

Raw vegetable salad with tuna, boiled eggs and olive oil.

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Desserts

Pineapple aumoniere

Diced pineapple cooked in filo pastry.

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Sea fish

Poached sole with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Banana split

Ice cream-based dessert made with a banana cut in half lengthwise and three scoops of ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry in France, three scoops vanilla in Belgium) all of which are topped with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Celery root puree

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Shellfish and Seafood

Fried squid rings

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Salads

Lobster salad with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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