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Meal families

Desserts

Banana and coconut crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Sauces

Anchovy sauce

Sauce with anchovies, shallot, oil and herbs.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Cherry sorbet

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Sea fish

Bourride

France. Languedoc. Provence.
Fish stew based on stewed white fishes (monkfish, sea bass, mackerel, mullet) with a brunoise of vegetables (carrots, celery, onions, leeks ...) with aioli or mayonnaise with olive accompanied by croutons rubbed with garlic oil.

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Poultry

Chicken blanquette

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Beef

Tournedos Rossini and mashed potato with black truffle

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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Desserts

Chocolate dome cake

Dark chocolate dome filled with chocolate mousse.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Roast lobster

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Poultry

Beer chicken

Chicken cooked in the oven with a cream and beer sauce.

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Veal

Fricandeau of veal with sorrel sauce

Fricandeau : thinly sliced veal larded and braised.
Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Cheeses

Vacherin d’Abondance

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese wrapped in a strip of spruce bark.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Blintz with salmon and shirred eggs

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Main meals

Cottage cheese pierogi

Poland.
Pierogi : Pasta stuffed and cooked in boiling water.
Served hot or cold.

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Cheeses

Orval

Belgium.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind.

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Cold starters

Fresh Sainte-Maure and pistachio terrine

Sainte-Maure : goat cheese.

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