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Meal families

Cooked meats

Venison pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Game animals

Venison fillet with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Prawn aumoniere

Prawn meat cooked in filo pastry.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Salads

Parisian salade

Salad with lettuce, button mushroom, cheese (generally diced of Comté or Emmental), Jambon de Paris (diced), hard-boiled egg, potato and tomato.
Seasoned with a vinaigrette with parsley and pickles.

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Sea fish

Roasted turbot with shallot confit and red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : sauce of veal stock and red wine mixed with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper and thyme.

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Poultry

Catalan-style chicken

Chicken with onion, prunes, pine nuts and tomato.

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Cooked meats

Duck pâté with porcini

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Green asparagus with coriander

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Macaroni and cheese

Cooked macaroni pasta with a cheese sauce, generaly cheddar.

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Sauces

Tablier de sapeur with gribiche sauce

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhone. Lyon.
Usually served with steamed potatoes.
Gribiche sauce : sauce tartare (mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles, and chopped parsley) with chopped hard-boiled egg.

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Pork

Saucisse de Morteau

France. Franche-Comté.
Smoked sausage.

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Desserts

Vanilla religieuse

Pastry made up of two choux filled with a flavored pastry cream and coated with fondant and buttercream.

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Cheeses

Coach farm triple cream goat cheese

United States. New York.
Triple cream pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a white mould rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Pork

Bitter-sweet pork

Chine. Canton.
Dish of pork cut into small square pieces, fried and served in a sauce made from ketchup mixed with sugar or honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar and sometimes with: pineapple, carrot, chopped onions and/or pepper.

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