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Meal families

Sea fish

Turbot with mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.

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Cooked meats

Andouille sausage

Pork sausage crafted from the complete pork belly, including both the stomach and intestines.
Served cold as first course.

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Poultry

Catalan-style chicken

Chicken with onions, prunes, pine nuts and tomato.

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Veal

Blanquette de veau with mushrooms

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallops cassolette porcini mushrooms

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with spices

Navarin : stew.

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Cheeses

Black Betty

Netherlands. North Holland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with black waxed rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Consommé and Soup

Frog legs velouté

Velouté  : soup with cream and egg yolk added.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Desserts

Damson pavlova

Pavlova : meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted rack of lamb with Pont-Neuf potatoes

Pont-Neuf potatoes : rectangular potatoes cut like big french fries and fried in oil twice.

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Salads

Caprese salad

Tomato, mozzarella, and basil salad.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Crab lasagna

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Sea fish

Citrus gravlax salmon

Gravlax : fresh salmon marinated with dill, spices, and herbs, cured with salt and sugar, served with a mustard sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Seven hour leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Seven hours : slow-cooked in wine with garlic and herbs until the meat falls off the bone.

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Desserts

Praline succès cake

Macaron filled with praline cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle with rice

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