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Meal families

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fish pie

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Warm starters

Vegetable nems

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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Offal and tripe

Lamb sweetbreads with morel cream sauce

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

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Cold starters

Chicken meatloaf stuffed with crayfish

Ballotine : piece of meat, game, fish, or poultry that is deboned, rolled, stuffed, and tied, cooked in a casserole or set in jelly.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Salmon pizza

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Sheep and Goats

Salt-crusted lamb

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Desserts

Pineapple and mango vacherin

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

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Desserts

Red berry 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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Poultry

Danish roast goose

Roast goose stuffed with onion, apple and prunes.

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Desserts

Kouign amann

France. Brittany. Finistère. Douarnenez.
Crispy cake made with bread dough containing butter and sugar, folded in layers, like puff pastry but with fewer layers.
Served warm or hot.

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Desserts

Praline macarons

Macaron : cupcake made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.

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