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Meal families

Pork

Pig’s trotters pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Desserts

Fresh fruit soup

(pineapple and peach)

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Sauces

Spiny lobster butter

Spiny lobster meat with butter.

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Sauces

Marchand de vin butter

Butter mixed with shallots cooked in wine with lemon and parsley.

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Desserts

Vanilla 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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Desserts

Profiteroles au chocolat

Small choux pastry puffs filled with pastry cream or vanilla ice cream, and covered in chocolate.

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Desserts

Sablé

Cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustine with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Cheeses

Veigadarte

Spain. Castile and León.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind rind coated in oak ash.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Consommé and Soup

Fish soup

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustine cassolette with cream sauce

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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