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Meal families

Desserts

Queen of Sheba cake

Chocolate and almond cake.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets 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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Cooked meats

Rillauds

Anjou speciality.
Pork belly with the rind browned and confit in fat.

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Desserts

Plum dartois

Dartois : two strips of puff pastry surrounding a filling.

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Desserts

Croquembouche

Tiered cake with choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel.

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Desserts

Plum pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Poultry

Pigeon a la provencale

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Roast Pauillac lamb with rosemary

Lamb under 11 weeks and between 11 and 15 kilos.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Mushroom gratin

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Sauces

Walnut sauce

Walnut sauce : sauce with chopped walnuts and mixed with olive oil and liquid cream. vinegar, cayenne pepper, and salt to taste.

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Pork

Parsley ham

Ham sliced in cubes cooked in a broth with white Burgundy wine with mustard and wine vinegar, jelly with parsley coated and flavored (with onion, shallot, thyme, bay leaves, garlic...).

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Poultry

Duck with red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : sauce of veal stock and red wine mixed with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper and thyme.

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Freshwater fish

Artic char a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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