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Meal families

Sea fish

Sea bass fillets a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Desserts

Dark chocolate

With more than 70% cocoa.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with orange

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Goat cheese and bacon quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Cooked meats

Game animal pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Poultry

Salmi of pigeon

Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Cold starters

Avocado with shrimp sauce

Shrimp sauce : fish velouté mixed with shrimp butter.

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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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Desserts

Framboisier cake

Cake based on raspberry with sponge cake and cream.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Seafood quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Poultry

Poule au pot

Chicken stuffed with vegetables (carrots, turnips, leeks, onions, cloves) cooked like a pot-au-feu.

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Main meals

Matelote

Matelote : red wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Sauces

Perigueux sauce

White wine or Madeira reduction with a blond roux and diced black truffles.

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Poultry

Pigeon en vessie with cream sauce

En vessie : meat poach in pork bladder. Like cooking under vacuum.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops in lemon

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Poultry

Stuffed fattened chicken

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Desserts

Strawberry pierogi

Poland.
Pierogi : Pasta stuffed and cooked in boiling water.
Stuffed with sour cream, sugar and strawberry.
Served hot or cold.

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