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Meal families

Sauces

Chocolate sauce

Chocolate sauce : red wine with butter, shallot, veal stock, pepper and cocoa.

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Cooked meats

Country style terrine and onion confit

Pâté made with coarsely chopped ingredients such as pork, flavored with herbs and spices, and cooked in a terracotta dish.
Served cold or at room temperature.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallops with a lemon sauce

Lemon sauce : butter, lemon, cream and mustard.
Served cold.

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Beef

Grilled entrecote with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac, enhanced with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock, and heavy cream.

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Game animals

Roasted venison with huntsman sauce

Huntsman sauce : poivrade sauce thickened with cream, blood, and redcurrant jelly.

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Appetizers

Prawn ring

Ring : arranged in a circle.

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Sauces

Herb butter

Softened butter with chopped herbs (chives, tarragon, and parsley), pepper, and salt.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Blinis with salmon and shirred eggs

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Poultry

Bresse chicken with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Orange bavarian cream

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

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Cheeses

Arpéa de brebis

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country.
Soft-ripened cheese made from sheep's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 4 to 8 weeks.

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Sea fish

Pan-fried sea bass pavé

Fish pavé : a thick, boneless, meaty cut taken from a fish fillet.

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Desserts

Pineapple with whipped cream

Chantilly cream : whipped cream with sugar.

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Warm starters

Seafood vol-au-vent

Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).

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Poultry

Stuffed capon

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

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Cold starters

Tuna tataki with sesame

Tataki : raw fish or raw meat cut into thin slices that are seared, then marinated in rice vinegar or mirin before being seasoned with a condiment (often ginger)

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