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Meal families

Sauces

Maitre d’hotel butter

Maître d'hôtel butter : softened butter mixed with finely chopped parsley, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.

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Salads

Langoustines salad with orange butter and tarragon

Orange butter : reduced orange juice with butter and cream.

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Desserts

Praline succès cake

Macaron filled with praline cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Karnıyarık

Turkey.
Stuffed eggplants with garlic, onion, parsley, pepper, tomato and ground meat.

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Desserts

Peaches with meringue

Baked peaches topped with meringue.

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Desserts

Savarin with candied fruit

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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Others

Smoked meat

Canada. Quebec. Montreal.
A rye bread sandwich with sweet mustard and many thin slices of stacked smoked beef.

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Sauces

Béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Red berry sorbet

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Shellfish and Seafood

Grilled clams

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Ice cream and sorbets

Pear sorbet

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Rabbit

Rabbit gibelotte with red wine

Rabbit stew with red wine.

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Others

Pinchitos

Spain. Andalusia. Extremadura.
Skewers of small cubes of marinated meat (usually pork or chicken) threaded on a skewer and cooked over charcoal braziers.
he marinade is made with olive oil, aromatic herbs, spices (garlic, cumin, turmeric, oregano, paprika, pepper, thyme, etc), and salt.

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Cheeses

Gubbeen

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a white to orange washed rind.

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