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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles and bay scallop cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Quenelles with Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop tartare

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Squid ink risotto

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Fougasse with Gruyère and bacon

Shortcrust filling with eggs and cream mixed with bacon.

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Seafish

Roasted turbot with confit shallots and red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Custard tart

Shortcrust pastry filled with egg custard, baked in the oven.

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Poultry

Roasted capon en demi-deuil

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Candied chestnut vacherin

Vacherin : dessert made of meringue filled with ice cream or sorbet, sometimes with fruit, and topped with whipped cream.

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Seafish

Sole with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Seafish

Salmon quenelles with a lemon sauce

Lemon sauce : butter, olive oil, lemon juice and white wine with parsley.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Coffee and chocolate charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Vol-au-vent financiere

Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).
Financiere sauce : Demi-glace (a reduced sauce made from brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef) enhanced with Madeira and truffle essence.

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