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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sautéed porcini mushrooms

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Sea fish

Turbot with orange sauce

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine or a reduced veal or poultry stock.

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Sea fish

Sea bass with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Sauces

Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Game animals

Hare salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Roast Pauillac lamb with new garlic

Lamb under 11 weeks and between 11 and 15 kilos.

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Sheep and Goats

Champvallon style lamb chops

Champvallon : baked between two layers of potatoes with poultry broth.

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Poultry

Roasted duckling with cherries

Duckling : young duck.

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Veal

Tête de veau with ravigote sauce

Ravigote sauce : cold or hot acidic sauce based on velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Stuffed spiny lobster

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

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Desserts

Mango sable

Sablé : cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).

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Poultry

Geline with black truffle

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Desserts

Apple strudel

Puff pastry filled with pieces of apple and raisins, usually seasoned with cinnamon and served warm with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, custard, or vanilla sauce.

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Sauces

Provençal sauce

Provençal sauce : crushed tomatoes and a garlic clove sautéed in oil.

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Sauces

Parsley sauce

Parsley sauce : parsley, lemon juice and olive oil or butter.

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Beef

Rib steak with bourguignonne sauce

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Bourguignonne sauce : partial reduction of shallot or onion and red wine with a bouquet garni (parsley, thyme and bay leaf) bound with a veal stock or a Spanish sauce.

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