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Meal families

Cold starters

Fish loaf with green sauce

Green sauce : Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with a puree of chervil, watercress, spinach, and parsley.

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Cheeses

Tome des Bauges

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Bauges Mountains.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp tempura

Tempura : frying batter made with flour, egg and ice water, in which all sorts of vegetables cut into slices or matchsticks, seafood or fish are dipped before frying in sesame oil.
Generally, tempura is dipped in a sauce (dashi, mirin, and soy sauce, flavored with condiments like grated ginger and daikon radish) and served with noodles or rice.

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Beef

Rib steak with celeriac purée

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Lemon sorbet

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Sauces

Beurre blanc sauce

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

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bream with a julienne of vegetable

Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.

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Desserts

Calisson

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Mixture of candied melon and almond powder with an egg glaze, set on a sheet of unleavened bread.
One of the 13 traditional desserts of Provençal Christmas.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Dolma

Grape leaves or vegetables (eggplant, cabbage, zucchini, bell pepper, tomato, etc) stuffed with spices, onion, rice and sometimes ground meat.

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Poultry

Pigeon wings with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

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Veal

Veal chop with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Poultry

Geline with cream and morels

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Garlic prawns

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