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Meal families

Desserts

Cassata

Italy. Sicily. Sponge cake with fruit juices or liqueur stuffed with ricotta cheese and a chocolate or vanilla filling. Covered with a shell of marzipan, usually green, and topped with candied fruit.

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Beef

Charolais fillet with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Game birds

Thrushes cassolette with black olive

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sea fish

Salmon with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Sea fish

Roasted John Dory 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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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp gratin

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Shellfish and Seafood

Limpets

Aquatic snail with a shell broadly conical in shape.

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Sea fish

Turbot with mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce with whipped cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels remoulade

Remoulade : mayonnaise with capers, gherkins and mixed herbs (parsley, chives, chervil and tarragon).

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Mushroom quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Desserts

Caramel 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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Desserts

Pineapple 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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Beef

Braised oxtail

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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