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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tuna lasagna

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Chocolate Saint-Honoré

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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Rabbit

Rabbit gibelotte

Rabbit stew with white wine.

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Seafish

Halibut fillets with white sauce

White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Braised scallops

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Pizza pescatore

Pizza made with mussels and squid.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Parmesan risotto

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Pigeon pie

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Miscellaneous

Snails in the Burgundy style

Snails with parsley butter (butter, garlic, and parsley mixed).

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Seafish

Salmon tartare with sesame oil

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Origano breadsticks

Breadsticks : small, dry, and elongated breadsticks served as an appetizer.

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Surchoix

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 4 to 6 months.
Gold label.

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Cheeses

Burrata

Italy. Apulia.
Fresh and stretched-curd cheese made from buffalo or cow's milk, filled with cream and sealed with an edible raffia tie.

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Seafish

John Dory with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Main courses

Pork colombo

France. French Guiana.
Colombo : highly aromatic stew prepared with a marinade of spice blend (garlic, lime, coriander, turmeric, mustard seeds, bay leaf, chili pepper, black pepper, thyme) and then sautéed in oil with various vegetables (eggplant, plantain, carrots, green beans, potatoes, or very often rice) and tropical fruits.

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Pork

Mixed vegetables

Mixed vegetables : Vegetables cut into sticks, boiled, drained and mixed with peas.

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