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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Peach mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Sauces

Maitre d’hotel butter

Maître d'hôtel butter : softened butter mixed with finely chopped parsley, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.

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Cured Meats

Jamón ibérico

Dry-cured ham produced from black Iberian pigs (pure breed or crossed with at least 50% black Iberian pig with Duroc pigs).

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Sauces

Perigueux sauce

Perigueux sauce : reduction of white wine or Madeira with a blonde roux to which diced black truffles are added.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Hazelnut cookie

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Stuffed olives

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Coffee and chocolate marquise

Marquise : dessert or frozen dessert made with chocolate mousse (white, milk or dark chocolate).

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Accras cod

Lightly spiced cod fritter.
Serve hot as an appetizer or as a starter.

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Seafish

Cold salmon mayonnaise

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

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

White chocolate merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Seafish

Salt-crusted sea bass

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Feathered game

Young partridge salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Cured Meats

Andouillette with white wine

Andouillette cooked with white wine and deglazed with cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Polenta

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Sauces

Red pepper sauce

Red pepper sauce : sauce made with crème fraîche, olive oil, onion, and red bell pepper.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Batavia lettuce

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Seafish

Bouillabaisse with saffron

Provençal fish stew. The name of this dish comes from the Provençal Occitan bolh (boiling) and abaissar (reduce) : bouille et abaisse.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Strawberry salad

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