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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster parisienne

Lobster cooked in a white wine broth, served cold and topped with mayonnaise, truffle, egg white, chervil and tarragon accompanied by tomatoes stuffed with mixed salad.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak with spring vegetables and herb butter

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Herb butter : softened butter mixed with chopped herbs (chives, parsley and tarragon), pepper and salt.

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Warm starters

Cheese soufflé

Served hot.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish with bouchot mussels and garlic, bouquet garni, Charentes butter, cream, shallots, egg yolks and Pineau des Charentes (or dry white wine of Charentes or Cognac).

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb and spring garnish

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…

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Sauces

Henri IV sauce

Bearnaise sauce with veal stock.

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Salads

Olivier salad

Salad of diced vegetables (boiled potato, carrot, pickles, peas...) and other food (egg, diced ham, chicken…) and dressed with mayonnaise.

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Surchoix

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Hard, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 to 6 months.
Gold label.

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Sea fish

Brill in Dieppe sauce

Dieppe sauce : Normandy sauce (Bechamel with added cream) with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Rabbit

Rabbit with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Poultry

Chicken with morel and cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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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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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio

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

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