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Meal families

Main meals

Tartiflette with Munster

Tartiflette : gratin dish made with cream, potatoes, cheese and bacon bits, baked with cheese.

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Cold starters

Meze

Eastern Mediterranean.
Small dishes (ten to one hundred, with eggplant caviar, dolmas, vegetable salads, tabbouleh, etc.) served on small plates (like antipasti) for a party or family meal to accompany alcoholic beverages.

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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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Beef

Entrecote winegrower’s style

Vigneronne sauce : red wine reduction with shallots and butter.

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Desserts

Hazelnut bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

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Desserts

Tropézienne

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Brioche split in two and filled with a mixture of pastry cream and buttercream, topped with pearl sugar.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Red mullet risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Sea fish

Salmon carpaccio with lime

Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.

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Cheeses

Blarney Castle

Ireland. Cork.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a natural rind.

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Cheeses

Humboldt Fog

United States. California.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind coated in edible vegetable ash and a thin line of ash in the center.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Warm starters

Duck foie gras with black truffle in puff pastry

Duck foie gras with black truffle wrapped in puff pastry.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Vanilla ice cream

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Desserts

Apple turnover

Turnover : pastry made with puff pastry filled with fruit compote.

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Sheep and Goats

Mutton carbonade

France. Southern France.
Stew with red wine, onions, garlic and meat scraps.

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Appetizers

Accras cod

Lightly spiced cod fritter.
Serve hot as an appetizer or as a starter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with linden butter

Linden butter sauce : creamed linden infusion, reduced, then buttered.

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