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Meal families

Cheeses

Curé nantais

France. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique.
Raw cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Green asparagus quiche

Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Served hot or cold.

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Pork

Pork filet mignon 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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Consommé and Soup

Lobster gazpacho

Gaspacho : soup made from blended raw vegetables and served cold.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with provençal herbs

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

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Cheeses

L’Amuse Signature Gouda

Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with orange waxed rind.
Ripening : 2 years.

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Cold starters

Prawn cocktail with avocado

Shrimp salad with egg and cocktail sauce (Cognac, ketchup, mayonnaise, Tabasco) and avocado.

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Sea fish

John Dory with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Cold starters

Zakuski

Russia.
Various appetizers served with the aperitif (caviar, cold cuts, smoked or marinated fish, malossol pickles, salads…).

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Cheeses

Castelmagno

Italy. Cuneo. Castelmagno, Pradleves and Monterosso Grana.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from whole buffalo’s milk with a washed rind, sometimes, a small amount of sheep's or goat's milk may be added.
Ripening : 2 to 5 months.

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Sea fish

Sea bass fillets a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Poultry

Galette with chicken

Galette : savory crepe.

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Sauces

Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Sea fish

Darne of salmon with beurre blanc sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Poultry

Guinea fowl with orange

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

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