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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Stuffed cucumber with cottage cheese and smoked salmon
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Touraine-style quiche
Quiche made with shortcrust pastry filled with a mixture of eggs, cream, Rillettes de Tours, and rillons.
Rillons : pieces of pork slowly cooked in their own fat and seasoned with salt, pepper, spices, and sometimes garlic, parsley, or vinegar.
Desserts
Peach trifle
Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake soaked in fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes layered with jam, custard, and whipped cream.
> view pairingsMushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Prawn risotto
Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
> view pairingsVeal
Classic blanquette de veau
Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.
Desserts
Caramelized pear mille-feuille
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.
> view pairingsVeal
Fricandeau of veal with sorrel sauce
Fricandeau : thin slice of veal larded and braised or pan-fried.
Sorrel sauce : a white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter, cream, and fish stock.
Sea fish
Duo of John Dory and turbot with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.
> view pairingsCold starters
Lobster 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.
> view pairingsBeef
Rib steak in a salt crust
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.
Cooked meats
Poultry paté en croûte
Terrine of assorted meats, oven-baked in a pastry crust and set in natural gelatin.
Served cold.
Shellfish and Seafood
Lobster salpicon
Salpicon : hot or cold preparation of ingredients cut into small dice and bound with a cream or a sauce.
> view pairingsPoultry
Roasted duck with spring vegetables
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
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