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Meal families

Main meals

Potée

Mixture of meat or sausage, vegetables and baked potatoes in broth cooked several hours in an earthenware pot.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fresh goat cheese quiche

Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Served hot or cold.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster with a lemon sauce

Lemon sauce : lemon, olive oil.

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Game birds

Roast young partridge

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Pork

Marinated pork skewers

Marinated pork with garlic, oregano, paprika, and salt.

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Appetizers

Summer roll

Vietnam.
Summer roll : shrimp, vegetables, or beef or pork wrapped in raw rice paper (bánh tráng).
Served cold.

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Main meals

Pot-au-feu

French beef stew with vegetables (carrot, turnip, leek, potato, celeriac, onion, , etc) and spices (bouquet garni and clove).

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Desserts

Plum dartois

Dartois : two strips of puff pastry surrounding a filling.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Poultry

Roasted duckling with Rouen sauce

Duckling : young duck.
Rouen sauce : cider or full-bodied red wine reduced with shallots sweated in butter, combined with brown veal stock, parsley, salt, and pepper, and thickened with a purée of chicken liver.

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Desserts

Zimtsterne

France. Grand Est. Alsace.
Soft almond biscuit.

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