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Meal families

Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Hot dog

Elongated bread stuffed with a cooked sausage and a seasoning (chutney, ketchup, mustard, onion, etc.).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Raspberry vacherin

Vacherin : dessert made of meringue filled with ice cream or sorbet, sometimes with fruit, and topped with whipped cream.

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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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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops in sweet and sour sauce

Sweet and sour sauce : Tomato sauce with shallot, olive oil and bay leaf.

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Main courses

Tofailles

France. Grand Est. Vosges.
Slow-cooked dish (1h30 to 2h) made with onions, potatoes, bacon slices or lardons and white wine, with or without leeks.
Served with a green salad.

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Feathered game

Wood pigeon salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Seafish

Bouillabaisse

Provençal fish stew.
The name of this dish is said to come from Provençal Occitan bolh (boiling) and abaissar (to lower): bouille and abaisse.

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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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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Black fruit pavlova

Pavlova : meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

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Cheeses

Tomme crayeuse

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Annecy.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 2 months minimum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Artichokes mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Beef

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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Poultry

Roasted duck 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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Poultry

Salmi of duckling

Duckling : young duck.
Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Tricolor ice cream bombe

Ice cream bomb : ice cream in a spherical or semi-spherical Ihape.
Tricolor : pistachio, strawberry and vanilla ice creams with meringue.

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