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Meal families

Desserts

Flan

Flan : beaten eggs with milk and flour, baked.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seared bay scallop with Noilly Prat

Noilly Prat : vermouth with notes of chamomile and coriander.

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Main meals

Dauphiné raviole with fresh cream

Dauphiné raviole : filled pasta (cottage cheese and parsley).

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with thyme

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Sea fish

Grilled red mullet 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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Warm starters

Spanakopita

Greece.
Many layers of filo pastry stuffed with spinach and shallot, egg, onion, feta or ricotta.

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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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Poultry

Bordeaux style duck confit

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Cheeses

Curé nantais

France. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese.

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Desserts

Fig pavlova

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

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