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Meal families

Desserts

Peach Melba

Halved peaches and raspberry sauce with vanilla ice cream.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with quince

Served hot, warm or cold.

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Appetizers

Accras cod

Slightly spicy cod fritters.
Serve warm or at apéritif as input.

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Poultry

Roast duckling

Duckling : young duck.

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Pork

Boudin blanc with apples

Boudin blanc : white sausage made of white meat with milk instead of blood.

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Poultry

Duckling Montmorency

Duckling : young duck.
Duckling served with a poultry cream sauce and Montmorency cherries.

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Cheeses

Zamorano artesano

Spain. Castile and León. Zamora.
Hard raw ewe's milk cheese in uncooked pressed.
Ripening : 100 days minimum.

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Sauces

Charcutiere sauce

Reduction of shallots, white wine and vinegar wet demi-glace (equal parts of veal stock and espagnole sauce simmered and reduced by half) with mustard and julienned pickles.

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Cooked meats

Cold cut buffet

Buffet : all the dishes of the meal are served on a table, the guests serve themselves.

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Sea fish

Sea bass with orange sauce

Spain. Valencia. Valencia.
Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops in bitter-sweet

Sweet and sour sauce : tomato sauce with shallots, olive oil and laurel.

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Main meals

Tablier de sapeur

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhone. Lyon.
Gras-double (tripe cooked with onions) cooked in broth and marinated in white wine before being cut into a triangle and then breaded and fried.
Usually served with steamed potatoes and mayonnaise, gribiche sauce or tartar sauce.

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Cheeses

Le Gruyère

Switzerland.
Hard unpasteurized cow's whole milk cheese.
Ripening : 5 months minimum.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Cheeses

Roth Private Reserve

United States. Wisconsin.
Hard raw cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : over 6 months.

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Sheep and Goats

Provencal grilled lamb

Provencal : with sautéed tomato in olive oil with bread, garlic, onion and parsley.

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