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Croque-madame with bechamel sauce

Grilled ham and cheese sandwich with fried egg or poached egg on top.
Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Poached scallops

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Others

Lamb and beef pita

Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with minced meat (lamb, beef), hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).

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Game birds

Young partridge with porcini mushrooms

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Cheeses

Grilovaný Hermelín

Czech Republic.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a bloomy rind grilled.

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Cheeses

Charloe

United States. Ohio.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk cheese with an orange-colored washed-rind.
Ripening : 2 months.

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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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Lasagna with cream and morel mushrooms

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Asparagus flan

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sautéed green asparagus in olive oil

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Veal

Rack of veal with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cold starters

Marinated fish paté

Served cold.

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Offal and tripe

Bordeaux style lamb kidneys

Kidney cooked in red wine and topped with bordelaise sauce.

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Beef

Rib steak with coarse salt

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Desserts

Peach 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.

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Warm starters

Snails in bread crust

Dish made with bread dough.

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Desserts

Chocolate Saint-Honoré

Saint-Honoré : puff pastry or shortcrust base topped with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream-filled choux puffs glazed with caramel around the edges.
The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or a Chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian meringue).

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Ice cream and sorbets

Red berry sorbet

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Cold starters

Italian style melon

Melon slices wrapped in Parma ham.
Match the pairing between the saltiness of the ham or the sweetness of the melon according to the type of melon (intensity).

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