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Meal families

Cooked meats

Poultry liver pâté with pistachios

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Offal and tripe

Calf’s brain with black butter

Beurre noir (black butter sauce) : butter cooked until it takes on a dark color, in reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine, vinegar).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Sautéed scallops

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Cheeses

Pavé du Quercy

France. Occitania. Quercy.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Desserts

Peach 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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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.

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Cheeses

Bayley hazen blue

United States. Vermont.
Blue cheese made from raw cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.

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Others

Croque-madame with bechamel sauce

Grilled ham and cheese sandwich with fried egg or poached egg on top.
Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.

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Pork

Pork crépinettes with apple

Crépinettes : minced pork wrapped in caul fat.

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Others

Snails cassolette with chanterelles

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sheep and Goats

Knuckle of lamb with thyme

Knuckle of lamb : cut of meat located beneath the leg (gigot), surrounding the shinbone of the hind leg.

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Main meals

Ravioles du Dauphiné with fresh cream

Dauphiné raviole : filled pasta (cottage cheese and parsley).

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Desserts

Dark chocolate

Dark chocolate : with more than 70% cocoa.

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Cheeses

Brie de Melun

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Melun.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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