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Meal families

Sea fish

Halibut fillets with parsley sauce

Parsley sauce: parsley, lemon juice and olive oil or butter.

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Desserts

Pineapple Chantilly

Chantilly cream : whipped cream with sugar.

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Main meals

Rougaille

Rougaille : very spicy paste or sauce composed of fruits or vegetables cut with crushed ginger, minced onions and chilli.
Served chilled with the Carry.

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Desserts

Baklava

Speciality of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey…
Dessert made of many layers of filo pastry dough separated with melted butter, or oiled dough layered in which there's a mixture of dried fruit (hazelnuts, walnuts or pistachios), sometimes spices (cloves) finely ground and crushed, which is then dipped in a sweet liquid (lemon and sugar water, orange blossom, honey, rose ...).

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with honey

Served hot, warm or cold.

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Desserts

Pear bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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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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Desserts

White chocolate merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Pork

Black pudding with Sarlat style potato

Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.

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Sauces

Perigourdine sauce

Périgueux sauce (white wine reduction with a blond roux and diced black truffles) with onion, shallots and foie gras.

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Offal and tripe

Tripes à la mode de Caen

France. Normandy.
Stew made with calf's stomach and hoof.

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Sea fish

Skate with black butter sauce

Black butter: butter cooked until it turns a dark color, reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine vinegar).

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Poultry

Duck aiguillette with honey

Aiguillette : thin strips of chicken breast.

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Sauces

Americaine sauce

Lobster coral mixed with chopped onions, cream, eggs, white wine, brandy, salt, cayenne pepper and softened butter.

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