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Meal families

Beef

Orange beef

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fouace angevine

France. Touraine.
Hot bread roll stuffed with rillettes.

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Sauces

Bourguignonne sauce

Partial reduction of shallot or onion and red wine with a bouquet garni (parsley, thyme and bay leaf) bound with a veal stock or a Spanish sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Artichokes pinzimonio

Pinzimonio : raw vegetables soaked with seasoned olive oil.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Limpets

Aquatic snail with a shell broadly conical in shape.

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Sea fish

Hake with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with porcini

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Poultry

Spatchcocked pigeon

Spatchcock : bird prepared for grilling or roasting by removing the backbone and sternum and flattening it out before cooking.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Hearts of palm in vinaigrette

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Others

Snail cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Desserts

Tropézienne

Brioche split in two and filled with a mixture of pastry cream and buttercream and topped with pearl sugar.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles

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Desserts

Gâteau basque with rhum-flavoured pastry cream

Basque Country.
Cake filled with almond or rum and vanilla pastry cream.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fennel tart

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Pork

Roast pork with sweet spices

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with supreme sauce

Supreme sauce : chicken or veal velouté reduced before adding the cream.

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