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Meal families

Desserts

Pièce montée

Traditional dessert served during a communion, a wedding or a festive meal. It usually has an architectural form and significant ornamentation.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop tartar with lime and curry sauce

Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.

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Poultry

Young turkey with Champagne sauce

Champagne sauce : Champagne with fresh cream, fish stock (or veal or poultry stock), shallots, parsley, salt and pepper.

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Desserts

Pear bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Sauces

Red pepper sauce

Sauce made with cream, olive oil, onion and red pepper.

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Others

Chow mein

Meat (beef, pork or chicken) or shrimps cooked with vegetables (celery, cabbage, bean sprouts) bound with a starch-thickened sauce.
Serve with stir-fried noodles (Yakisoba).

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Cooked meats

Young partridge terrine

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Sea fish

Monkfish bourride

Bourride : fish stew stewed together with a brunoise of vegetables served with aioli or mayonnaise with olive accompanied by croutons rubbed with garlic oil.

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Poultry

Geline with black truffle

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Cheeses

Kunik

United States. New York.
Triple cream pasteurized goat's and cow’s milk cheese with a white mould rind.

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Main meals

Langoustine sushi

Sushi : cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients : seafood, vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits.

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Freshwater fish

Trout au bleu with hollandaise sauce

Blue: cooked in court-bouillon and vinegar.
Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Desserts

Cofee bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak and grenailles potatoes

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Grenailles: small potatoes (diameter between 18 and 35 millimeters).

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Main meals

Souvlaki

Cyprus. Greece.
Small pieces of meat (lamb, beef, mutton, pork, chicken) diced and marinated in lemon juice and olive oil with vegetables, herbs (oregano, thyme), pepper and salt, then grilled on a spit or on a skewer.
Served in a plate or on pita bread.

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