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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Prawn risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops cassolette with porcini

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Salads

Langoustines salad with orange butter and tarragon

Orange butter : reduced orange juice with butter and cream.

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Desserts

Mandarin bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

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Cheeses

Petit suisse

France. Normandy.
Fresh cheese made from pasteurized cow’s milk enriched with cream.

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Main meals

Alsatian style süriruawa

Süriruawa : turnips preserved in salt.

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Cheeses

Gorgonzola

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont.
Blue cheese made from cow's milk.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with herbs

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

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Sea fish

Provençal grilled sea bream

Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Poultry

Tandoori chicken

Tandoori : meat or fish marinated and coated in yogurt mixed with spices (garam masala, ginger, garlic, cumin, cayenne pepper).

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Desserts

Candied chestnut vacherin

Vacherin : dessert made of meringue filled with ice cream or sorbet, sometimes with fruit, and topped with whipped cream.

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Sea fish

Grilled tuna steak with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Beef

Bordeaux style grilled entrecote

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

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Poultry

Goose with red wine sauce

Goose marinated in red wine before cooking.

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Veal

Veal grenadine with morel cream sauce

Veal grenadine : Slice of meat cut from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.
Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Warm starters

Seafood vol-au-vent

Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).

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