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Meal families

Veal

Veal paupiettes and spring garnish

Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

White truffle risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels cassolette with spinach

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Main meals

Tablier de sapeur

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhone. Lyon.
Gras-double (tripe cooked with onions) cooked in broth and marinated in white wine before being cut into a triangle and then breaded and fried.
Usually served with steamed potatoes and mayonnaise, gribiche sauce or tartar sauce.

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Desserts

Neigeux with strawberry

Whipped egg whites folded with runny cream cheese and covered with strawberries and fruit purée.

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Salads

Mesclun with black truffle

Mesclun : salad with a mixture of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves of chicory, oak lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, baby spinach, arugula, escarole, radicchio and aromatic plants.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Garlic prawns

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Cooked meats

Pork liver pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Pork

Roast pork with orange

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Sauces

Shrimp butter

Butter mixed with mixed shrimp.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Duck pithivier

Puff pastry cake filled with duck confit, duck foie gras with mushrooms, onions and whiskey.

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Cold starters

Prawn cocktail

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

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Pork

Pork fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Desserts

Peach bourdaloue

Peach and frangipane pie sprinkled with crushed macaroons

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Desserts

Condé apricots

Vanilla rice pudding topped with apricot in syrup.

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