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Meal families

Cold starters

Provencal aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.
Anchovies, olives, peppers with tomato and Provencal herbs in jelly.

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Main meals

Dauphiné raviole with fresh cream

Dauphiné raviole : filled pasta (cottage cheese and parsley).

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Freshwater fish

Fish quenelles with Nantua sauce

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

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Sea fish

Sole bonne femme

Bonne femme sauce : butter, button mushrooms, cream, shallot, parsley and white wine.

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Cold starters

Prawn cocktail

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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Desserts

Pineapple bavarian cream

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed eggplant

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Desserts

Florentins

Crispy biscuit made with a thin layer of chocolate covered with a mixture of almonds, crème fraîche, candied orange peel and honey.

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Beef

Grilled beef with pommes paillasson and peppercorn sauce

Pomme paillasson : pancake of grated and fried potatoes.
Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Poultry

Peking fattened chicken with sweet spices

Glazed : spreading honey on the skin of an animal before cooking to obtain a crunchy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.
Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Sea fish

Roasted John Dory in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Game birds

Roasted pheasant with Perigueux sauce

Perigueux sauce : white wine or Madeira reduction with a blond roux and diced black truffles.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop carpaccio with citrus

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Cooked meats

Country style terrine

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Beef

Beef daube with carrots

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Polenta

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