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Venison fillet with poivrade sauce
Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.
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Hare à la Cuillère with grilled bacon and chasseur sauce
A la cuillère : meat slow-cooked in a casserole dish (4 to 8 hours at 160°C), hollowed out and stuffed, then gratinéed before serving.
Chasseur sauce : brown sauce made from veal (and sometimes beef) stock, white wine, and butter, enhanced with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes, and finely chopped parsley.
Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice
Crayfish risotto
Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
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Chateaubriand Vert-pré
Chateaubriand : cut of meat in the tenderloin filet with a thickness of 4 to 8 cm cut..
Vert-pré : maitre d'hotel butter accompanied by watercress.
Cooked meats
Rillettes de Tours
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Cold cut made from shredded pork meat, slowly cooked over low heat in fat and seasoned with salt, pepper, spices, and Vouvray wine.
Sheep and Goats
Braised leg of lamb with rosemary
Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.
Warm starters
Ficelle picarde
France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Oise. Somme. (Picardy).
Crêpe filled with a preparation of mushrooms, crème fraîche, York ham with shallot, nutmeg, onion and topped with grated Emmental cheese.
Warm starters
Seafood vol-au-vent
Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).
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Veal chop with gremolata
Gremolata : chopped parsley with garlic and grated lemon zest.
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Mussel risotto
Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
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Provençal scallops
Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.
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Melted butter sauce
Melted butter sauce : melted butter with reduced lemon juice and possibly pepper or chili.
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Steamed John Dory with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.
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