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Meal families

Beef

Tournedos Rossini and mashed potato with black truffle

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb in puff pastry

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Cheeses

Goat camembert

Soft-ripened goat's milk cheese with a white mould rind.

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Cheeses

Lincoln log

United States. Michigan.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Poultry

Chicken satay

Satay sauce : coconut milk and peanut butter with garlic, lime and spices (coriander, cumin and fennel).

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Beef

Grilled rib steak with béarnaise sauce

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached. Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with lemon sauce

Lemon sauce: lemon, olive oil.

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Cheeses

Etxegarai

Spain. Basque Country.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with mushroom sauce

Mushroom sauce : sauce composed of a white or a brown sauce with mushrooms and other ingredients (butter, condiments, veal or poultry stock, wine, etc.).

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Veal

Veal tenderloin with chanterelle

Tenderloin : piece of meat cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Scallop tart

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Desserts

Chocolate religieuse

Pastry made up of two choux filled with a flavored pastry cream and coated with fondant and buttercream.

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Poultry

Duck Apicius

Duck with honey and spices.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Baked yellow bell pepper

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Sea fish

Bluefin tuna carpaccio

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

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