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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Vanilla religieuse

Religieuse : pastry composed of two small choux pastries filled with flavored pastry cream and covered with fondant and buttercream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio with tapenade

Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
Tapenade : garlic, capers, anchovy fillets, black olives, pepper, and olive oil.

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Sauces

Ravigote sauce

Ravigote sauce : cold or hot acidic sauce based on velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).

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Quenelles with Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

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Poultry

Supreme of fattened chicken

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.

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Seafish

Sautéed darne of salmon

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.

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Cheeses

Murol

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Puy-de-Dôme.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk and a reddish-orange colored washed rind with a hole in the middle.

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Beef

Beef braised in red wine

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Poultry

Duckling Montmorency

Duckling served with a sauce made from poultry velouté and Montmorency cherries.

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Cheeses

Tricycle

United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a natural rind.

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Maroilles waffle

Waffle topped with thinly sliced Maroilles cheese.
Served with a green salad.

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Veal

Braised cushion of veal

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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