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Beef
Grilled rib steak with peppercorn sauce
Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac, enhanced with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock, and heavy cream.
Desserts
Raspberry mille-feuille
Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.
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Oysters with jelly
Oysters poached in their own juice and served on a lemon-flavored jelly made from poultry broth.
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Steak au poivre
Beef flambéed with Cognac and served with a pepper sauce flavored with white wine, Marsala, or Port, and optionally accompanied by mustard.
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Grilled sea bream a l’unilateral with spices
A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.
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Rack of lamb 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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Onion breadsticks
Breadsticks : small, dry, and elongated breadsticks served as an appetizer.
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Small oysters
Small oysters (number 5 : between 30 and 45 grams).
Don't forget the bread and butter as an accompaniment.
Cheeses
Laguiole
France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Cantal. Aveyron.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 4 to 24 months.
Desserts
Lemon and mascarpone tart
Mascarpone : equivalent of « crème fraîche » in Italian cuisine.
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Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut : finely shredded cabbage, finely chopped and fermented in brine.
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Boulette de Cambrai
France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais. Avesnes.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind flavored with tarragon, parsley, and pepper, then hand-shaped into a cone.
Ripening : 3 to 6 weeks.
Desserts
Mango vacherin
Vacherin : dessert made of meringue filled with ice cream or sorbet, sometimes with fruit, and topped with whipped cream.
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Green peppercorn sauce
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.
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