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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Appetizers

Stuffed olives

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk-fed lamb with garlic cloves

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Beef

Tournedos Rossini and mashed potato with black truffle

Rossini : piece of meat, cut into medallion (several centimeters thick) on a slice of bread golden-browned in butter, topped with a slice of seared foie gras and covered with three truffle slices. The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added grated black truffle.

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Cheeses

Brie de Nangis

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Brie.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Desserts

Frangipane

Cream made with almonds mixed with pastry cream, butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.

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Cold starters

Bottarga toast

Botargo : mullet roe (the Provençal name for mullet) salted and dried.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken en vessie

En vessie : meat poach in pork bladder. Like cooking under vacuum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato croquettes

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Cold starters

Crab cocktail

Crab and egg salad with cocktail sauce (Cognac, ketchup, mayonnaise, Tabasco).

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Sauces

Ivory sauce

Ivory sauce : supreme sauce (chicken velouté with cream) and meat glaze.

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Cheeses

Mature Clothbound Cheddar

United Kingdom. Devon.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk cheese coated in butter or lard and wrapped in an additional layer of cloth.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Appetizers

Accras cod

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

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Others

Lamb and beef gyros

Gyros : greek-origin sandwich, derived from döner kebab, made with meat, onion, tomato and tzatziki sauce in pita bread.

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