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Meal families

Ice cream and sorbets

Pear ice cream

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Pork

Parsley ham

Ham sliced into cubes, cooked in a Burgundy white wine broth with mustard and wine vinegar, enveloped in a parsley gelée and flavored (with onion, shallot, thyme, bay leaf, garlic, etc).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster Bellevue

Bellevue : presentation of a shellfish (typically lobster or spiny lobster served in medallions), a whole fish, or a meat (often poultry) cooked whole, served cold and coated with aspic jelly.
Often accompanied by mayonnaise or andalouse sauce (mayonnaise with tomato puree and spices), vegetables, or hard-boiled eggs.

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Desserts

Saint-Honoré

Puff pastry or shortcrust base topped with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream-filled choux puffs glazed with caramel around the edges.
The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or a Chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian meringue).

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Eggs

Toupinel egg

Poached egg served in a baked potato and topped with Mornay sauce.

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Beef

Roasted rib steak with chanterelles

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Poultry

Duck breast Rossini

Rossini : piece of meat, cut into medallion (several centimeters thick) on a slice of bread golden-browned in butter, topped with a slice of seared foie gras and covered with three truffle slices. The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added grated black truffle.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Crab lasagna

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Sea fish

Gurnard with white wine

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Cooked meats

Lyon-style andouillette

Cooked andouillette with onions, deglazed cooking juices with vinegar.
Served hot.

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Beef

Beef daube and mashed potato with black truffle

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Tourtière du lac Saint-Jean

Canada. Quebec.
Layered meat pie made with meat (beef, chicken, hare, moose, partridge, pork and veal or a simpler combination of these meats) with broth and potato cubes.

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Game birds

Roast young partridge with lingonberries

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Cheeses

Cabot Clothbound Cheddar

United States. Vermont.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk cheese coated in butter or lard and wrapped in an additional layer of cloth.
Ripening : 9 to 14 months.

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Desserts

Mirabelle plum pavlova

Pavlova : meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

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Consommé and Soup

Mussel soup

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Veal

Sautéed veal with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Sea fish

Monkfish and spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Main meals

Gratin dauphinois

Dish based on scalloped potatoes, garlic and fresh cream.

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