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Meal families

Main meals

Oxtail daube with red wine

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Desserts

Puits d’amour

Hollowed round cake in puff pastry or choux pastry stuffed with jam (apricot, raspberry or redcurrant jelly) or custard and topped with caramel or icing sugar.

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Beef

Tournedos Rossini

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Cold starters

Tomatoes and tomato

Tomatoes stuffed with tomato tartare

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Desserts

Plum dartois

Dartois : two strips of puff pastry surrounding a filling.

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Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads with morels

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

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Cheeses

Old Mimolette

France. Nord Pas de Calais. Semi-hard cow's milk cheese annatto colored.
Ripening : 12 to 18 months.

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Cooked meats

Hare pâté with mushroom

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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Shellfish and Seafood

Crab aumoniere

Crab meat cooked in filo pastry.

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Sea fish

Hake fillet with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Desserts

Queen of Sheba cake

Chocolate and almond cake.

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Poultry

Teriyaki chicken

Teriyaki : grilled or roasted food in a sauce made up of mirin, sake and soy sauce.

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Beef

Beef braised in red wine

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Squid a la nicoise

Squid cut into thin slices and baked with tomato sauce and herbs.
Served with potatoes or rice.

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