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Meal families

Cold starters

Aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Sauces

Choron sauce

Bearnaise sauce with tomato.

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Desserts

White chocolate merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Desserts

Dark chocolate mousse tart

Tart filled with chocolate mousse.
Served cold.

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Desserts

Chocolate ganache

Mixture of fresh cream and chocolate.

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Game animals

Bordeaux style wild boar fillet

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Cheeses

Maroilles

France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Nord. Avesnois.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Veal

Lucullus veal escalope

Two veal escalopes around bacon or ham and melted cheese.

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Sea fish

Bordeaux style shad

Bordeaux : shallots, parsley and red wine.

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Cheeses

Soumaintrain

France. Burgundy. Yonne.
Pasteurized or unpasteurised cow's milk cheese with a washed rind with Marc de Bourgogne from pale yellow to ocher color.
Ripening : 3 to 8 weeks.

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Salads

Caux-style salad

Salad with endive, gruyere cheese, ham, nut, apple and a sauce with cream and lemon.

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Sea fish

Grilled shad with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Cheeses

Camembert

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Salads

Fattoush

Lebanese speciality salad of raw vegetables (purslane, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, radish, onion) seasoned with sumac.

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