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Meal families

Cold starters

Sea bass carpaccio

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seafood soufflé

Served hot.

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Desserts

Caramel charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Eggs

Eggs mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Beef

Roasted rib steak with chanterelles

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Cheeses

Fat bottom girl

United States. California.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw sheep's milk with a washed rind with an orange color.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Macaroni bolognese

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops cassolette with porcini mushrooms

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sea fish

Pickled herring

Marinated herring in vinegar with carrot, lemon, bay leaves, onion, mustard and sometimes served with fresh cream

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Desserts

Savarin with rum

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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Game animals

Saddle of hare with poivrade sauce

Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Others

Barbecue

A meal, usually outdoors, where food is cooked on a grill or a spit.

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Desserts

Mango charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Beef

Rump steak with Colbert sauce

Colbert sauce : maitre d'hotel butter with gravy and tarragon.

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Beef

Grisons dried beef

Switzerland. Graubünden.
Beef salted with spices and herbs then dried.

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Main meals

Wild boar daube

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Cold starters

Duck foie gras 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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Beef

Rib steak over vine shoots

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with morel cream sauce

Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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