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Meal families

Cooked meats

Charcuterie board

Assorted cold meats and sausages.

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Sauces

Nantua sauce

Fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Sauces

Maltese sauce

Maltese Sauce : hollandaise sauce base flavored with the juice of blood oranges and garnished with blanched orange zest.

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Desserts

Gingerbread charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Desserts

Tiramisu

Italy. Veneto.
Speciality made of Savoyard biscuits (Savoiardi) or sponge fingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa.
Tiramisu literally means "pull me up" (to the gourmet bliss).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Zucchini tian

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Desserts

Pineapple miror cake

Miror cake : mousse set on a sponge base topped with a glaze.

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Desserts

Praline bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Poultry

Pullet in demi deuil with Albufera sauce

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.
Albufera sauce : supreme sauce (cream of poultry and/or veal reduced and added with cream) supplemented with meat glaze and sometimes duck foie gras and Port wine.

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Sheep and Goats

Stew of lamb with black olives

Navarin : stew.

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Sheep and Goats

Pistache Saint-Gaudinoise

France. Midi-Pyrénées. Haute Garonne.
Mutton stew with white bean, pork, lard and garlic.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Provencal Bay scallop

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cockle risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Warm starters

Bouchée à la reine

France. Lorraine.
Individual puff pastry garnish with veal sweetbreads.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras cooked au torchon

Duck foie gras rolled and cooked in a cloth.
Served cold.

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Main meals

Galette saucisse

France. Brittany.
Grilled pork sausage wrapped in a cold buckwheat galette.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Beetroot tartar

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Poultry

Phat kaphrao kai

Thailand.
Stir-fried minced chicken with basil and chilli.

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Cold starters

Scallop shell of fish with mayonnaise

Cold dish with macedonia, cold fish (hake, salmon), mayonnaise and letttuce.

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