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Meal families

Cheeses

Écume De Wimereux

France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Double cream soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 2 to 3 weeks.

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Veal

Veal grenadine with porcini mushrooms

Veal grenadine : Slice of meat cut from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.

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Others

Spring roll

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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Desserts

Mille-feuille

Pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Cheeses

Chevrotin des Aravis

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw goat’s milk with a natural rind.

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Desserts

Croquembouche with vanilla custard

Small cream puffs filled with vanilla cream and assembled with caramel.

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Cooked meats

Goose paté with goose foie gras and black truffle

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Desserts

Walnut succès cake

Macaron filled with walnut cream.

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Main meals

Parrillada

Argentina.
Various cuts of meat slow-cooked on a grill.

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Others

Spring rolls

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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Poultry

Geline with cream and morels

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Pork

Pork filet mignon with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

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Sea fish

Haddock brandade

Brandade : mixture of fish and olive oil.

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Game animals

Hare à la Cuillère with grilled bacon and chasseur sauce

A la cuillère : meat slow-cooked in a casserole dish (4 to 8 hours at 160°C), hollowed out and stuffed, then gratinéed before serving.
Chasseur sauce : brown sauce made from veal (and sometimes beef) stock, white wine, and butter, enhanced with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes, and finely chopped parsley.

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Desserts

Praline macarons

Macaron : cupcake made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Smoked salmon pie

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Cheeses

Munster

France. Grand Est. Alsace (Munster) and Lorraine (Munster Géromé).
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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