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Meal families

Cheeses

Grayson

United States. Virginia.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow’s milk with a natural rind orange-colored.

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Cheeses

Écume De Wimereux with black truffle

France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Double cream soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bass with fennel and beurre blanc sauce

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

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Salads

Crudite salad

Do not serve fine wine.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Provençal scallops

Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Sea fish

Hake with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Sea fish

Bourride

France. Occitania. Aude. Gard. Hérault. Pyrénées-Orientales. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Alpes-Maritimes. Bouches-du-Rhône. Var.
Steamed white fish soup (monkfish, sea bass, mackerel, mullet), served with a vegetable brunoise (carrot, celery, onion, leek, etc) and accompanied by aioli or olive oil mayonnaise, with garlic-rubbed croutons.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Endive and ham gratin

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with melted butter

Lobster served with melted butter enhanced with reduced lemon juice, and optionally, pepper or chili.

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Desserts

Strawberry and rhubarb crumble

Crumble : a baked dish consisting of a layer of fruits, vegetables, meat, etc., topped with a crumbly mixture of butter, flour, and sugar, baked until the topping is crisp.

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Cheeses

Charolais

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Produced in Allier, Loire, Rhone and Saone-et-Loire.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

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Desserts

Apple and rhubarb crumble

Crumble : a baked dish consisting of a layer of fruits, vegetables, meat, etc., topped with a crumbly mixture of butter, flour, and sugar, baked until the topping is crisp.

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Desserts

Wild strawberry 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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