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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Rice pudding

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Cold starters

Kipper pâté

Served cold.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Pigeon pie

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Pork

Catalan pork cheek

Pork cheek stewed with a slice of ham, garlic and Seville orange peel.
Sauce based white wine, veal stock and Seville orange juice.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce : a white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter, cream, and fish stock.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Fettucine Alfredo

Italy. United States.
Pasta dish made with long pasta mixed with butter and Parmesan cheese.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Blanquette of bay scallop blanquette with Noilly Prat

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.
Noilly Prat : vermouth with notes of chamomile and coriander.

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Cheeses

Ardrahan

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind orange-colored.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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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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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Crémets d’Anjou

Egg white beaten with whipped cream and red berries.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb in herbs crust

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Pork

Roast piglet

Piglet : less than 3 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Mounassou

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Corrèze.
Potato cake with cream, pork and shallots.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Croquembouche with vanilla custard

Small cream puffs filled with vanilla cream and assembled with caramel.

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Sheep and Goats

Baron of lamb with porcini mushrooms

Baron : rear half of a lamb carcass including the back, rump, belly and both rear legs.

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Seafish

Normandy style sole fillets

Sole fillets in a fresh cream sauce with cider, mushrooms, shrimp, and mussels.

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