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Meal families

Cooked meats

Young partridge terrine

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Sea fish

John Dory and turbot with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Appetizers

Crescent dogs

Sausage filled with cheese, wrapped in puff pastry.

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Poultry

Coq au vin blanc

Alsatian speciality.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Celery root puree

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Main meals

Spicy gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : vegetable stew (celery, onion, pepper) with a thick and very fragrant broth to which seafood (usually crab, shrimp or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken and smoked meat : andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Usually served with rice.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Quiche lorraine

Shortcrust filling with eggs and cream mixed with bacon.

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Desserts

Charlotte royale

Charlotte made with bavarian cream and ladyfingers.

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Sea fish

Pickled herring

Herring marinated in vinegar with carrot, lemon, bay leaf, onion, mustard and sometimes served with fresh cream.

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