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Meal families

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 paté with duck foie gras

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Freshwater fish

Pike with mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.

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Poultry

Glazed spring chicken with sweet spices

To glaze : to spread honey over the skin of an animal before cooking in order to achieve a crispy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.
Roast duck with orange sauce.
Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Poultry

Lemon chicken

Piece of chicken marinated in lemon before cooking.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato galette with black truffle

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Sauces

Anchovy sauce

Anchovy sauce : anchovy and herb sauce with shallot and oil.

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Main meals

Gratin dauphinois with black truffle

Dish based on scalloped potatoes, garlic and fresh cream.

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Desserts

Red berry charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Cheeses

Goat camembert

Soft-ripened cheese made from goat's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Desserts

Fontainebleau with strawberries

Fontainebleau : dessert made with fresh cow's milk cheese and whipped cream.

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Salads

Mesclun

Mixed salad composed of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves of chicory, oak leaf lettuce, lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, spinach shoots, arugula, escarole, radicchio or aromatic herbs.

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Cheeses

Extra aged Mimolette

France. Hauts-de-France. Nord. Pas-de-Calais.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk colored with annatto.
Ripening : over 24 months.

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Main meals

Nigirizushi

Vinegared rice hand-pressed and topped with an ingredient (raw or cooked fish, seafood, vegetables, etc.), usually served with wasabi.

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