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Meal families

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Beef

Chateaubriand Vert-pré

Chateaubriand : piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet..
Vert-pré : maitre d'hotel butter accompanied by watercress

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustine cassolette with cream sauce

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with honey

Served hot, warm or cold.

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Cheeses

Anabasque

United States. Wisconsin.
Semi-soft pasteurized sheep's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Cold starters

Cervelle de canut

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Lyon.
Cottage cheese beaten with cream and seasoned with chopped herbs (chive, shallot, parsley).
Usually served with toast, boiled potatoes or to season a salad.

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Desserts

Eton mess

English speciality.
Dessert made with strawberries, pieces of meringue, and cream.

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Sea fish

Roasted sole with mushrooms and cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Mirlitons de Rouen

France. Normandy. Rouen.
Tartlet filled with a cream made from butter, cream, eggs, ground almonds, sugar and vanilla.

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Cheeses

Amablu

United States. Minnesota.
Semi-soft blue-veined raw cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 75 days.

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Desserts

Apple cobbler

United States.
Cobbler : dessert with both a top and bottom crust with a fruit filling poured into a baking dish.

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Sea fish

Darne of monkfish with green peppercorn sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac before being reduced, added with crushed pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bream a la provencale

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

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Freshwater fish

Bordeaux style sturgeon

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed morels

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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