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Meal families

Ice cream and sorbets

Quince ice cream

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Desserts

Mille-feuille

Pastry with three layers of puff pastry, alternating with two layers of pastry cream and coated with icing sugar or fondant.

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Desserts

Framboisier cake and vanilla sauce

Framboisier : cake based on raspberry with sponge cake and cream.

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Sea fish

Monkfish in 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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Desserts

Sachertorte

Austria. Vienna.
Chocolate cake stuffed with apricot jam.

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Consommé and Soup

Fish a la nage with saffron

Nage : baking in a broth flavoured with butter, white wine, vegetables and herbs.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with melted butter and parsley

Parsley sauce: parsley, lemon juice and olive oil or butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops in olive oil and lime

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Sheep and Goats

Provencal roasted leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Provencal : with sautéed tomato in olive oil with bread, garlic, onion and parsley.

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb in salt crust

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Main meals

Nigirizushi

Rice with vinegar hand-pressed and topped with a food (raw or cooked fish, seafood, vegetables, etc.) served generally with wasabi.

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Sheep and Goats

Baron with garlic cream

Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.

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