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Meal families

Sauces

Perigourdine sauce

Perigourdine sauce : Périgueux sauce (white wine reduction with blonde roux and diced black truffles) enhanced with onions, shallots and duck foie gras.

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Cheeses

Tomme de Savoie

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a grey washed rind.
Ripening : 70 days minimum.

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Cold starters

Shrimp aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Desserts

Chocolate religieuse

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

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Sea fish

Coulibiac

Russia.
Puff pastry filled with sea bass and salmon mixed with mushrooms, hard-boiled egg, onion and dill.

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Sea fish

Sea bass in escabeche

Escabeche : marinade made with oil and vinegar (or lemon juice).

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Warm starters

Vol-au-vent

Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with mushrooms and cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Salads

Nicoise salad

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes.
Crudités salad with anchovies or tuna, hard-boiled eggs and olive oil.
Do not serve fine wine.

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Offal and tripe

Provençal style tripe

Tripe served with pan-seared tomatoes tossed with parsley, garlic, onions, and bread.

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Sea fish

Monkfish tail with green peppercorn sauce

Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Sauces

Aïoli

Provençale sauce.
An emulsion made with garlic and olive oil, sometimes enriched with egg yolk or lemon juice.

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Sauces

Sweet and sour sauce

Sweet and sour sauce : Tomato sauce with shallot, olive oil and bay leaf.

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Cheeses

Le Trou du Cru

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte d'Or.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a marc de Bourgogne washed rind.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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Poultry

Duck aiguillette with white grapes

Aiguillette : thin slice cut lengthwise from a poultry breast.

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Cheeses

Taupinière du Poitou

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente. Roullet-Saint-Estèphe.
Soft-ripened dome-shaped cheese made from raw goat's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Provençal-style octopus

Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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