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Meal families

Beef

Roasted beef tenderloin with porcini mushroom sauce

Porcini mushroom sauce : porcini mushrooms and shallots with veal stock, cream and white wine.

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Cheeses

Sainte-Maure de Touraine

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Sainte-Maure de Touraine.
Soft-ripened goat cheese made from whole raw milk with a natural rind of mold ranging from light grey to bluish grey, salted and ash-covered on the surface, adorned with a stalk of rye engraved with the producer's name.
Ripening : 10 days minimum.

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Others

Grilled cheese

Hot sandwich on white bread with butter and cheese.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Onion tart

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Sea fish

Turbot with Champagne zabaione

Zabaione : egg yolks beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or non-alcoholic, in order to obtain a hot or warm foamy and flavored preparation.

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Desserts

Tiramisu

Italy. Veneto.
A specialty made of Italian biscuits (Savoiardi) layered and soaked in coffee, with a mixture of whipped eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavored with cocoa.
Tiramisu literally means "Pull me up" (towards gastronomic bliss).

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Poultry

Duck leg salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Cooked meats

Country style terrine and onion confit

Pâté made with coarsely chopped ingredients such as pork, flavored with herbs and spices, and cooked in a terracotta dish.
Served cold or at room temperature.

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Sea fish

Toro

Toro : belly of large tuna.

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Sea fish

Salmon steak with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Appetizers

Spiny lobster butter canapé

Spiny lobster butter : spiny lobster meat with butter.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with cream sauce

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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