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Meal families

Consommé and Soup

Minestrone

Vegetable soup with beans, sometimes pasta or rice, accompanied by a pesto (sauce made with olive oil, basil, garlic and grated cheese).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles and bay scallop cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Risotto alla milanese

Arborio or Carnaroli rice cooked in a butter-based broth with beef marrow, onion, white wine, flavored and colored with saffron.

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Cheeses

Louis d’Or

Canada. Quebec.
Hard raw cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 9 months.

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Sea fish

Roast sea bass 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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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch with red butter sauce

Red butter sauce : shallots and red wine with butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam

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Warm starters

Lobster raviole with black truffle cream

Ravioles : filled pasta smaller and less thick than raviolis.

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Desserts

Cadet Mathieu

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Apple tart with puff pastry.

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Others

Crab rolls

Canada. Quebec.
Hot dog-style bun filled with salad and mayonnaise sauce.

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Poultry

Chicken en barbouille

En barbouille : chicken cooked with the blood to thicken the sauce.

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Sea fish

Atascaburras

Spain. Albacete and Cuenca speciality.
Brandade done with salt cod, olive oil, potato and chestnut.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Flamiche

France. Picardy.
Puff pastry tart with leeks and cream.

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Desserts

Raspberry bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted noisettes of lamb

Noisette : small round piece of lean meat.

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Sauces

Barbecue sauce

Sauce made from tomato and vinegar with a smoky note and various ingredients (garlic, oil, onion, honey, mustard, paprika, chili pepper, etc.).

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