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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Crémets d’Anjou

Egg white beaten with whipped cream and red berries.

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Hot Starters

Vegetable nems

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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Feathered game

Quail fillet 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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Seafish

Monkfish in red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.

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Miscellaneous

Snail cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Miscellaneous

Frog legs provençal

Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Cured Meats

Lonzu

France. Corsica.
Salted charcuterie, washed with wine before being dried and peppered, then smoked.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Cheesecake

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Seafish

Brill with dieppoise sauce

Dieppoise sauce : A Normandy-style sauce (béchamel with added fresh cream) enriched with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Mushroom pie

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with potatoes

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

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Seafish

Salmon quenelles with a lemon sauce

Lemon sauce : butter, olive oil, lemon juice and white wine with parsley.

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Beef

Roast beef tournedos

Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).

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Cheeses

La Bouille

France. Normandy. Seine-Maritime. La Bouille.
Double cream soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Pork

Pork roast with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Cheeses

Saint-Marcellin

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Drôme. Isère. Savoie.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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