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Meal families

Seafish

Sea bream with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Consommés, Broths and Soups

Fish soup

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spring vegetable 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.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Poultry

Catalan-style chicken

Chicken with onions, prunes, pine nuts and tomato.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch with red butter sauce

Red butter sauce : shallots and red wine with butter.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Chocolate dome cake

Dark chocolate dome filled with chocolate mousse.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Eggplant tian

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Feathered game

Mallard salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Seafish

Halibut fillets with white sauce

White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.

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Veal

Braised veal chop

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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Cheeses

Crater Lake Blue

United States. Oregon.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 90 days.

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Cheeses

Maasdam

Netherlands. North Holland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with waxed rind.
Ripening : 1 to 3 months.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Praline macarons

Macaron : cupcake made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.

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