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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with 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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Sauces

Tartar sauce

Tartar sauce : mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles and chopped parsley.

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Pork

Pork roast with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Desserts

Mandarine givrée

Mandarine sorbet served in a mandarine.

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Main meals

Sea tartiflette

Dish made with cream, potatoes, cheese, and seafood and/or fish, gratinated with cheese.

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Cooked meats

Duck terrine with orange

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Game birds

Young partridge salmis

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cannelloni with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Zucchini flan

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Cheeses

Vieux Lille

France. Hauts-de-France. Nord. Pas-de-Calais.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 5 to 6 months.

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Others

Oven-baked croque-monsieur with bechamel sauce

Grilled ham and cheese sandwich with béchamel sauce, baked golden.
Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.

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Beef

Beef daube with black olives

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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