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Meal families

Sauces

Horseradish sauce

Horseradish sauce : velouté with grated horseradish added.

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Cheeses

Hafod

United Kingdom. Wales.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from cow's milk with a natural rind ripened in an additional layer of cloth.
Ripening : 10 to 18 months.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Crab tart

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Sea fish

Roasted sea bass with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Beef

Beef tongue with sauce ravigote

Ravigote sauce : cold or hot acidic sauce based on velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).

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Desserts

Chocolate Saint-Honoré

Saint-Honoré : puff pastry or shortcrust base topped with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream-filled choux puffs glazed with caramel around the edges.
The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or a Chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian meringue).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop skewers with coral sauce

Coral sauce : scallop coral blended with crème fraîche and spices.

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Others

Provençal style snails

Snails with aioli sauce or tomato sauce.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Desserts

Savarin with rum

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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Poultry

Chicken wings with morel cream sauce

Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam fricassee

Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.

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Consommé and Soup

Fish soup

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seafood skewers

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Sauces

Lobster butter

Lobster butter : lobster meat with butter.

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