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Meal families

Desserts

Frangipane

Cream made with almonds mixed with pastry cream, butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.

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Sea fish

Salmon tartare with red caviar

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

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Pork

Pork confit

Served hot or cold.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak and grenailles potatoes

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Grenailles : small potatoes (diameter between 18 and 35 millimeters).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Red mullet risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Desserts

Twelfth night cake

Frangipane : almond-based cream mixed with pastry cream with butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.

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Sheep and Goats

Grilled lamb chops with herbes de Provence

Chops served with tomatoes and garlic cooked in oil.

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Caramel mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Stuffed mussels

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

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Desserts

Savarin with candied fruit

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetable tian

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Dark chocolate mousse tart

Tart shell filled with chocolate mousse.
Served cold.

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Poultry

Poultry with perigourdine sauce

Perigourdine sauce : Périgueux sauce (white wine reduction with blonde roux and diced black truffles) enhanced with onions, shallots and duck foie gras.

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Veal

Veal chop with bolognaise sauce

Bolognese sauce : meat-based sauce with soffritto (the Italian version of a mirepoix) made from onion, celery, and carrot. The various meats are minced or finely chopped and slow-cooked.

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