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Meal families

Salads

Langoustines salad with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Grilled lobster

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Desserts

Black and red fruit pavlova

Pavlova : meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

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Poultry

Aiguillette of guinea fowl with poivrade sauce

Aiguillette : thin slice cut lengthwise from a poultry breast.
Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Desserts

Neigeux with strawberry

Whipped egg whites filled with cottage cheese, topped with strawberries and a fruit coulis.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Meat pie

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Others

Shish kebab

Mediterranean cuisine.
Skewersed grilled or roasted meat.

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Beef

Boeuf à la mode

Meat slowly cooked in a pot over low heat with white wine, carrots, onion, and broth flavored with herbes de Provence.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with white grapes

Served cold, warm or hot.

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Extra

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 to 8 months.
Black label.

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Beef

Grilled beef with poivrade sauce

Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Poultry

Roasted capon with forestière sauce

Forestière sauce : sauce based on butter, mushrooms, fresh cream, and shallots.

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Others

Oriental style pita

Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with minced meat (lamb, beef, chicken, etc.), hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).

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