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Meal families

Cold starters

Salmon pâté with lemon sauce

Lemon Sauce: butter, lemon, cream and mustard.

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Beef

Braised beef cheek with carrots

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

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Desserts

Walnut macaron

Macaron : cupcake made with two meringue cookies and a cream or ganache between them.

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Beef

Grilled Chateaubriand

Chateaubriand : piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet.

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Cooked meats

Andouille of Vire with cider sauce

Andouille : pork sausage using the large intestine of the pig.
Cider sauce : cider, butter, fresh cream, shallots and white wine.
Served hot.

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Desserts

Rhubarb pavlova

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

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Game birds

Larded quail

Larded : push bits of bacon or Serrano.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled zucchini

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Cheeses

Arnéguy

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country.
Sheep's milk cheese.

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Main meals

Cassoulet of Castelnaudary

Cassoulet made with Lauragais white beans, goose confit, knuckle or shoulder of pork, sausage and pork rind, carrot, leek, tomato and celery.

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Desserts

Mango 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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Desserts

Red fruit bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Cheeses

Crozier blue

Ireland. County Tipperary.
Soft-ripened blue-veined pasteurized sheep’s milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 4 to 11 months.

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Warm starters

Spinach and ricotta tart

Ricotta: Italian or Maltese cheese made from the whey of other cheeses, sheep or cow.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Scallop tart

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Cooked meats

Brioche with pork rinds

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Savory brioche stuffed with pork scratchings (or duck, goose, chicken).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop skewers with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks. Served hot.

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