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Meal families

Sauces

Shrimp butter

Butter mixed with blended shrimp.

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Main meals

Burgundy style potée

Mixture of salted pork, vegetables and potatoes cooked in broth for several hours in a casserole dish.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Eggplant caviar

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Desserts

Rose des sables with chocolate milk

Rose des sables : cornflakes covered in chocolate.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster gratin cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk-fed lamb with potato gratin and morels

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Offal and tripe

Tripes à la mode de Caen

France. Normandy.
Stew made with the four parts of a veal’s stomach (rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum) and an ox foot.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chinese noodles

Pasta cooked in a broth (herbal, chicken, etc).

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Poultry

Roasted duckling with cherries

Duckling : young duck.

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Poultry

Danish roast goose

Roast goose stuffed with onion, apple and prunes.

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Veal

Grilled veal tendron

Tendron : french butcher's cut from the veal breast containing cartilage and layers of fat and meat.

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Beef

Charolais beef pavé with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac, enhanced with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock, and heavy cream.

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Poultry

Stuffed capon with morel msuhrooms and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

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Desserts

Cherry merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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