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Meal families

Desserts

Red fruit charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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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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Sea fish

Marinated anchovies with white wine

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

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Desserts

Pineapple bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruit, cream, sometimes jam.

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Main meals

Scallop and shrimp raviole with paprika

Paprika sauce : velouté reduced with cream, veal sauce, onion and paprika.

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Desserts

Mirlitons de Pont-Audemer

France. Normandy. Pont-Audemer.
Waffle rolls with almonds filled with praline mousse and closed at the ends with chocolate.

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Poultry

Chicken a la provencale

Chicken cooked with garlic, onion, parsley, tomato…

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Desserts

Rice Condé

Rice pudding with an egg and sugar mixture added at the end of cooking.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp gratin

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Game animals

Bordeaux style wild boar

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Appetizers

Socca

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes.
Galette made from chickpea flour and olive oil cooked and browned over a wood fire.
Served hot.

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Desserts

Cofee merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Poultry

Pullet in demi deuil with Albufera sauce

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.
Albufera sauce : supreme sauce (cream of poultry and/or veal reduced and added with cream) supplemented with meat glaze and sometimes duck foie gras and Port wine.

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Rabbit

Rabbit gibelotte

Rabbit stew with white wine.

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