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Warm starters
Spinach and ricotta quiche
Quiche : shortcrust pastry topped with a mixture of eggs and cream combined with seafood, vegetables, meat, and/or cheese.
Ricotta : Italian or Maltese cheese made from whey of other cheeses, from sheep or cow milk.
Sea fish
Baked sea bream with Bercy sauce
Bercy sauce : Reduction of chopped shallots with peppercorns mixed with white wine with meat glaze and whipped with butter.
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Gratte-paille
France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Freshwater fish
Fish quenelles with americaine sauce
American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."
Cheeses
Soumaintrain refined with blackcurrant and blackcurrant liqueur
France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Soumaintrain stuffed with blackcurrant berries soaked in blackcurrant liqueur.
Ripening : 2 to 3 days.
Poultry
Duck breast with green peppercorn sauce
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac and reduced, then combined with pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.
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Pigeon salmis
Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.
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Young partridge with porcini mushrooms
Young Partridge : under 8 months old.
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Crumbly Lancashire
United Kingdom. Lancashire.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 to 8 weeks.
Main meals
Chicken tajine with almonds and dates
Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.
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Roasted provençal rack of veal
Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.
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Caramel and mascarpone
Mascarpone : equivalent of « crème fraîche » in Italian cuisine.
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Tournedos Rossini with porcini mushrooms
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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Scallops with a julienne of vegetable
Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.
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