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Rustic food buffet
Buffet : all the dishes of the meal are served on a table, and the guests help themselves.
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Grilled beef tournedos with peppercorn sauce
Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac, enhanced with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock, and heavy cream.
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Le Gruyère alpage réserve
Switzerland. Bern. Fribourg. Jura. Neuchâtel. Vaud.
Cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk, pressed in a hemp cloth and cooked, with few or no holes.
Cheese is produced from mid-May to mid-October.
Ripening : 10 months minimum.
Veal
Veal escalope with Normandy sauce
Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.
> view pairingsMushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Dolma
Grape leaves or vegetables (eggplant, cabbage, zucchini, bell pepper, tomato, etc) stuffed with spices, onion, rice and sometimes ground meat.
> view pairingsOffal and tripe
Bordeaux style lamb kidneys
Kidney cooked in red wine and topped with bordelaise sauce.
> view pairingsDesserts
Coffee charlotte
Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.
> view pairingsFreshwater fish
Pike-perch with sorrel sauce
Sorrel sauce : a white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter, cream, and fish stock.
> view pairingsDesserts
Cherry mille-feuille
Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.
> view pairingsPizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie
Fouace angevine
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Warm round loaf filled with pork rillettes.
Others
Frog legs with persillade sauce
Persillade sauce : blend of chopped parsley and garlic mixed with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil and vinegar.
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