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Meal families

Appetizers

Cod croquettes with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Sea fish

Hake fillets with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : oil emulsion with egg yolk, mustard and pepper, sometimes with a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Cheeses

Feuille de Dreux

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Eure et Loir. Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with white mould rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels remoulade

Remoulade : mayonnaise with capers, gherkins and mixed herbs (parsley, chives, chervil and tarragon).

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Main meals

Fondue fribourgeoise

Cheese fondue with vacherin cheese from Fribourg of different levels of maturity (Classic, Extra, Rustic).

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Cheeses

Dubliner vintage

Ireland. Cork.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : over 24 months.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Duck pithivier

Puff pastry cake filled with duck confit, duck foie gras with mushrooms, onions and whiskey.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Puttanesca pizza

Pizza made with anchovies, capers, olives and peppers.

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Cold starters

Meze

Eastern Mediterranean.
Small dishes (ten to a hundred, with eggplant caviar, dolmas, vegetable salads, tabbouleh, etc.) served on small plates (like antipasti) for a party or a family meal to accompany alcoholic beverages.

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Pork

Pork chop with Roquefort sauce

Roquefort sauce : Roquefort melted in milk with fresh cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed artichokes with shrimp

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Pork

Roast pork with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Others

Spring roll

Galette made from wheat or rice flour stuffed with pork or chicken meat or seafood with mushrooms and/or different vegetables chopped julienne style which is fried in oil in a wok or steamed.
Served hot.

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Sea fish

Rollmops

Herring fillet marinated in water, white vinegar, salt, onion, pepper and mustard and sometimes white wine, rolled into a cylindrical shape, often around an onion, a vinegar pickle or sauerkraut.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch fillets 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

Mesclun with goat cheese

Mesclun : salad with a mixture of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves of chicory, oak lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, baby spinach, arugula, escarole, radicchio and aromatic plants.

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Veal

Veal paupiettes and spring garnish

Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…

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