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Meal families

Sea fish

Angulas a la bilbaína

Basque Country.
Dish made with elvers, garlic, olive oil, and chili pepper.

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Warm starters

Quenelles

Plain quenelle : durum wheat semolina or flour with butter, eggs, milk and/or water, and seasoning.

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Cooked meats

Cold cuts plate

Assortment of cold meats and charcuterie.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish gratin with Nantua sauce

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

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Poultry

Chicken with cream sauce and mushrooms

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Game birds

Mallard salmis

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

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Sheep and Goats

Milk-fed lamb with porcini mushrooms

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Sautéed scallops with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Peaches with meringue

Baked peaches topped with meringue.

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Desserts

Devil’s food cake

Chocolate layer cake filled with chocolate cream and covered with chocolate icing.

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Cheeses

Lake’s Edge

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a bloomy rind and crossed in the center by a thin line of vegetable ash.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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Desserts

Frangipane tart

Frangipane : almond-based cream mixed with pastry cream with butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.

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Beef

Rib steak with coarse salt and bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Rabbit

Rabbit gibelotte with red wine

Rabbit stew with red wine.

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Cheeses

Le Gruyère bio classique

Switzerland. Bern. Fribourg. Jura. Neuchâtel. Vaud.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow’s milk with few or no holes and complying with the requirements of the « Bio Suisse » label.
Ripening : 6 to 9 months.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb irish stew

Ireland.
Mutton stew with carrots, onions, and potatoes.
Traditional dish.

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Cooked meats

Rabbit pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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