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Meal families

Sea fish

Skate with black butter sauce

Black butter: butter cooked until it turns a dark color, reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine vinegar).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sauerkraut

Sauerkraut : cabbage, finely chopped and fermented in brine.

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Rabbit

Rabbit with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Whippet

Cake in shape of a sphere made of two meringues welded with chocolate buttercream and covered with chocolate chips.

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Cheeses

Rebibes de L’Etivaz

Rebibes : cheese shavings.
L'Etivaz : Switzerland. Vaud. Hard unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.

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Desserts

Apple and walnut crumble with raisins

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Pork

Roast pork with orange

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

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Appetizers

Vegetable samosa

Samosa : triangular-shaped donut with stuffing and spices (coriander, turmeric) and chili pepper.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Poultry

Ginger chicken

Vietnam.
Chicken marinated with turmeric, ginger, chilli and honey served with rice.

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bass with fennel in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Offal and tripe

Lamb kidneys and red wine

Kidneys cooked in oil before simmered in wine.

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