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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp tempura

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Poultry

Duck breast Rossini

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Sauces

Chasseur sauce

Made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato cake with black truffle

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Shellfish and Seafood

Oysters with zabaione

Zabaione: egg yolk beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or not, to get a froth hot or warm and fragrant.

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Poultry

Geline with chanterelle

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Freshwater fish

Pike and leek purée with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Tomme Trappe Echourgnac

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 6 weeks.

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Sea fish

Sea bass with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Cheeses

Irish porter cheddar

Ireland. County Limerick.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with hard pressed paste and porter beer wrapped in black wax.
Ripening : 6 to 10 months.

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Poultry

Orange chick

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Sheep and Goats

Mutton daube

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Cheeses

Rigotte de Condrieu

France. Rhône-Alpes. Loire.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese with natural rind annatto colored.

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