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Meal families

Desserts

Plum dartois

Dartois : two strips of puff pastry surrounding a filling.

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Game birds

Quail fillet with sweet spices

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

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Pork

Pork shoulder with diable sauce

France. Alsace.
Pork shoulder coated in a mustard sauce with garlic, shallot and parsley, wrapped in pig's caul fat.

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Beef

Chateaubriand

Piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet.

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Cold starters

Crab aspic with herbs

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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Sea fish

Roasted monkfish 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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Sea fish

Sea bream with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Main meals

Jambalaya a la provencale

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Preparation based on chicken and saffron rice.

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Cold starters

Sea bass and red tuna carpaccio

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Poultry

Roasted capon with black truffle under the skin

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.

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Cooked meats

Sabodet

Baked sausage made from pig's head, tongue and fatty pork.
Served hot with potatoes or cabbage, beans, lentils.
Served cold, after cooking, with a green salad.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels with curry sauce

Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.

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Cheeses

Mont d’or

France. Franche-Comté. Haut-Doubs.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Available from September 10 to May 10.

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Cheeses

Hermelín

Czech Republic.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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