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Meal families

Veal

Veal chop with morel mushrooms and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted milk-fed lamb

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spider crab and pistou

Pistou : provençal sauce made from crushed basil, garlic, and olive oil.

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Desserts

Wild strawberries mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Desserts

Candied pineapple sable and fresh coriander

Sablé : cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).

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Consommé and Soup

Pork goulash

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles and scallops cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fennel and salmon tart

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Desserts

Mocha cake

Mocha cake : sponge cake with coffee-flavored buttercream.

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Pork

Jambonneau with lentils

Jambonneau : small ham or boneless shank.

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca artesano tierno

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk, white in color.
Ripening : 21 to 60 days.

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Poultry

Orange chick

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

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Others

Mixed skewers

Skewer with lamb, beef, pepper and kidney.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Roasted lobster with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Pork

Pork crépinettes

Minced pork wrapped in caul fat.

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Poultry

Duck breast with Fougerolles Griottines

Griottines : cherries macerated in a kirsch liqueur.

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