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Meal families

Desserts

Dark chocolate mousse tart

Tart filled with chocolate mousse.
Served cold.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Ginger prawn

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Artichokes and hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Cooked meats

Prosciutto di Parma

Italy. Parma.
Ham from the pork breeds : Duroc or Large White and slaughtered at the age of 9 months.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.

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Poultry

Braised duck with turnips

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel risotto

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

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Cheeses

Manchego viejo

Spain. Castilla-La Mancha.
Hard ewe's milk cheese pressed and uncooked wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 1 to 2 years.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Mushroom fricassee

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Meat pie

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Game animals

Jugged hare a la royale

Civet cooked in a red wine sauce with garlic and shallot before being bound in blood.

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Desserts

White wine poached pears cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sea fish

Steamed sea bass with black truffle

Steam or stew : Steaming in a container closed by a lid.

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Sea fish

Monkfish blanquette with saffron

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Cooked meats

Young partridge pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Tellines with garlic

Tellines: small clams of Camargue with long flat shell.

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