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Meal families

Cold starters

Salmon pâté with lemon sauce

Lemon Sauce: butter, lemon, cream and mustard.

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Sauces

Albufera sauce

Supreme sauce (cream of poultry and/or veal reduced and added with cream) supplemented with meat glaze and sometimes duck foie gras and Port wine.

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Game birds

Young partridge with cabbage

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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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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Desserts

Praline

Mixture of almonds and caramel and crushed hazelnuts.

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Desserts

Rose des sables with chocolate milk

Rose des sables : cornflakes coated with chocolate.

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Cheeses

Villageois

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime. Deux-Sèvres.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and mould on the rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Desserts

Osterlammele

France. Alsace.
Sponge cake in the shape of lamb sprinkled with icing sugar.

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Cold starters

Zakuski

Russia.
Hors-d'œuvre served as starter to a meal (caviar, cold cuts, smoked or marinated fish, malossol, salads…).

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted milk fed lamb with savory

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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Sea fish

Zarzuela

Spain. Catalonia. Valencia.
Mixture of shellfish, crustaceans and fish simmered in a sauce (sofregit) based on olive oil with garlic, herbs, onion, tomato.…
Like a paella without rice .

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Warm starters

Salmon in puff pastry and a julienne of vegetable

Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.

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Pork

Lomo en adobo

Marinated tenderloin of pork with garlic, oregano, paprika and salt.

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Cold starters

Duck foie gras in aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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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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Shellfish and Seafood

Fried seafood

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