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Meal families

Cold starters

Egg in aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Beef

Grilled entrecote cooked over vine shoots with porcini Bordeaux style

Porcini Bordeaux style : porcini mushrooms sautéed in olive oil with chopped shallots and breadcrumbs.

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Sauces

Montpellier butter

Butter mixed with garlic, capers, herbs (chervil, watercress, spinach, tarragon, parsley), gherkin, shallot, anchovy fillet and hard-boiled egg.

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Desserts

Mirlitons de Rouen

France. Normandy. Rouen.
Tartlet filled with a cream made from butter, cream, eggs, ground almonds, sugar and vanilla.

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Desserts

Liège waffle

Waffle with pearl sugar and a layer of liquid caramel, often flavored with cinnamon or vanilla.
It can be served with chocolate, creams or fruits.

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Cheeses

Délice de Bourgogne

France. Burgundy. Yonne.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Flageolets puree

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Poultry

Duck a l’orange with dauphine potatoes

A l'orange: sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with sweet spices

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.
Served hot, warm or cold.

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Main meals

Inarizushi

Fried tofu stuffed with rice, sweetened and vinegared.

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Sauces

Madeira sauce

Demi-glace (brown stock reduced) with Madeira.

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Sauces

Mole

Mexico.
Sauce made with peanut, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

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Cheeses

Grayson

United States. Virginie.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese with a natural orange rind.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch and spring garnish with beurre blanc sauce

Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…
Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bream with fennel 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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