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Hot Starters

Spinach and ricotta quiche

Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Ricotta : Italian or Maltese cheese made from whey of other cheeses, from sheep or cow milk.

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Sauces

Mint sauce

Mint sauce : vinegar with sugar and chopped mint leaves.

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Freshwater fish

Sautéed pike-perch and spring garnish with beurre blanc sauce

Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Sheep and Goats

Provençal mutton daube

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

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with spices

Navarin : stew.

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Cheeses

Écume De Wimereux with black truffle

France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Double cream soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Poultry

Gaston Gérard chicken

France. Burgundy. Dijon.
Chicken cooked with grated Comté cheese, crème fraîche, Dijon mustard, paprika and Burgundy white wine.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seafood salpicon

Salpicon : hot or cold preparation of ingredients cut into small dice and bound with a cream or a sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Asparagus gratin

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Cheeses

Tomme Trappe Echourgnac

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Dordogne (Périgord).
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 weeks.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops with citrus fruits

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Palets aux raisins

Round-shaped biscuit with raisins.

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Sauces

Lobster butter

Lobster butter : lobster meat with butter.

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Cheeses

Gratte-paille

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with linden butter

Linden butter sauce : creamed linden infusion, reduced, then buttered.

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