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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Arcachon gravettes prepared Bordelaise-style

Gravette : Arcachon bay oyster.
Bordeaux style : with small sausages or warm crépinettes.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Chocolate Saint-Honoré

Saint-Honoré : puff pastry or shortcrust base topped with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream-filled choux puffs glazed with caramel around the edges.
The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or a Chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian meringue).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Hearts of palm salad

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Main courses

Provençal wild boar daube

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Seafish

Pan-fried sea bass pavé

Fish pavé : a thick, boneless, meaty cut taken from a fish fillet.

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Cheeses

Brie de Melun

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Melun.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Cheese pie

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Flan

Flan : eggs beaten into milk and flour, baked in the oven.

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Main courses

Pork colombo

France. French Guiana.
Colombo : highly aromatic stew prepared with a marinade of spice blend (garlic, lime, coriander, turmeric, mustard seeds, bay leaf, chili pepper, black pepper, thyme) and then sautéed in oil with various vegetables (eggplant, plantain, carrots, green beans, potatoes, or very often rice) and tropical fruits.

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Seafish

Sea bass with herbes de Provence in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Seafish

Salmon carpaccio

Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.

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