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Meal families

Game birds

Mallard salmis

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

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Desserts

Raspberry ganache

A blend of fresh cream, white chocolate, and raspberry coulis.

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Desserts

Dacquoise

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Landes. Dax.
Dessert cake composed of several discs of meringue pastry with almonds and hazelnuts (sometimes with added coconut or pistachios) with butter cream and covered with icing sugar.
Serve cold.

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Desserts

Vanilla 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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato salad with black truffle oil

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Cheeses

Bijou

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Cheeses

Kachkéis

Luxembourg.
Melted cheese made from skimmed cow's milk then curdled into processed cheese (heated with butter, water and salt)

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Artichokes a la croque au sel

À la croque au sel : raw vegetables dipped in salt, like radishes.
In general, avoid serving wine with raw artichoke.

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Sauces

Matelote sauce

Matelote sauce : red wine reduction with chopped mushrooms, shallots, onions and bouquet garni with brown roux.

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Poultry

Squab with duck foie gras and black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

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Cooked meats

Rabbit pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Desserts

Blueberry bavarian cream

Bavarois : chilled molded dessert made with custard or fruit purée, combined with whipped cream and gelatin.

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Sauces

Ketchup

Sauce based on tomato sauce, vinegar and sugar.

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Poultry

Goose confit

Served hot.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti al limone

Pasta with cream and lemon.

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