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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Prawn risotto

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

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Poultry

Guinea fowl with paprika sauce

Paprika sauce : reduced velouté with cream, veal jus, onion, and paprika.

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Main meals

Mushroom fondue

Fondue made with Gruyère, Vacherin Fribourgeois, and mushrooms.

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Cheeses

Trillium

United States. Indiana.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Cold starters

Cold lobster bavarois

Cold starter with coral and lobster coulis in jelly.

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Poultry

Goose confit

Served hot.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seafood skewers

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Main meals

Shrimp dim sum

Dish of small bites or individual portions served in small bamboo steamers or on small plates.

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Beef

Bordeaux style rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Poultry

Poultry with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Eggs

Eggs Benedict

Two halves of a toasted English muffin topped with fried bacon, a poached egg, and Hollandaise sauce.

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Main meals

Tartiflette with Mont d’or

Tartiflette : gratin dish made with cream, potatoes, cheese and bacon bits, baked with cheese.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish and Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Cheeses

Vacherin d’Abondance

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind encircled with a strip of spruce bark.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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