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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled eggplant and goat cheese

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Cheeses

Pavé du Nord demi-vieux

France. Nord. Pas de Calais.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese annatto colored with a natural rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Warm starters

Spinach and ricotta pie

Ricotta: Italian or Maltese cheese made from the whey of other cheeses, sheep or cow.

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Poultry

Duck breast with poached pears and red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : sauce of veal stock and red wine mixed with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper and thyme.

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Sauces

Chasseur sauce

Made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

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Sauces

Turkey mole

Mole : sauce made with peanut, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

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Sauces

Henri IV sauce

Bearnaise sauce with veal stock.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with white wine sauce

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Others

Lamb and chicken gyros

Gyros: greek sandwich, derived from the döner kebab, with meat, onion, tomato and tzatziki sauce on pita bread.

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Cheeses

Écume De Wimereux with black truffle

France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Soft-ripened raw double cream cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Sea fish

Darne of monkfish with green peppercorn sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac before being reduced, added with crushed pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Cheeses

Grand Chimay

Belgium. Thiérache.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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