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Meal families

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Crab tart

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Mushroom pizza

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Desserts

Pear bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

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Rabbit

Rabbit gibelotte

Rabbit stew with white wine.

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Main meals

Aligot and grilled sausage

Aligot : mashed potatoes blended with butter, cream, and fresh Tome cheese from Aubrac, enriched with finely chopped or crushed garlic.

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Sauces

Paprika sauce

Paprika sauce : reduced velouté with cream, veal jus, onion, and paprika.

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Sea fish

Turbot with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Desserts

Devil’s food cake

Chocolate layer cake filled with chocolate cream and covered with chocolate icing.

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Poultry

Duck manchon confit

Duck wing drumette : upper part of the duck wing.

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Desserts

Pineapple vacherin

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

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Cooked meats

Poultry liver pâté with pistachios

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Poultry

Chicken cutlets Pozharsky

Pojarski : meatball with breadcrumbs, cream, and eggs, pan-fried until golden.

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Game birds

Roasted wood pigeon salmis

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Guacamole with lobster

Guacamole : preparation made with mashed avocado, fresh cilantro, lime juice, onions, fresh chili, tomatoes and salt.

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Desserts

Basque cake with rhum-flavoured pastry cream

Basque Country.
Cake filled with almond or rum and vanilla pastry cream.

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Cheeses

Comté vieux

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ain. Haute-Savoie. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Doubs. Jura. Saône-et-Loire.Pressed and cooked cheese made from cow's milk.
Ripening : 15 months minimum.

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Beef

Grilled entrecote over vine shoots with Bordeaux-style porcini mushrooms

Bordeaux-style porcini mushrooms : porcini mushrooms sautéed in olive oil with chopped shallots and breadcrumbs.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Steamed potatoes

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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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