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Shellfish and Seafood
Scallop carpaccio with a lemon sauce
Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.
Lemon sauce : lemon, olive oil.
Shellfish and Seafood
Scallops with americaine sauce
American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."
Sauces
Provençal sauce
Provençal sauce : crushed tomatoes and a garlic clove sautéed in oil.
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Saddle of lamb and spring garnish
Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.
Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…
Desserts
Caramelized pear 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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Taupinette charentaise
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente. Roullet-Saint-Estèphe.
Soft-ripened dome-shaped cheese made from raw goat's milk with a bloomy rind covered in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 4 weeks.
Sauces
Devil sauce
Devil sauce : shallot and vinegar reduction with veal stock and espagnole sauce, simmered and reduced by half with tomato.
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Pike quenelles with sauce homardine
Sauce homardine : Lobster bisque with cream.
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Chicken with morels and vin jaune sauce
Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.
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Duck a l’orange with mashed potatoes
A l'orange : sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.
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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.
Shellfish and Seafood
Marinated scallops in olive oil and lemon
Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.
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