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Meal families

Game birds

Stuffed quails and Porto sauce

Port wine sauce : demi-glace (reduced sauce made from a brown stock) with Port added.

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Beef

Rib steak in salt crust

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with maitre d’hotel butter

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.
Maitre d'hotel butter : softened butter mixed with shallot and parsley.

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Others

Frog legs persillade

Persillade : mixture of parsley and garlic chopped with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil.

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Sea fish

Sole with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Poultry

Stuffed guinea fowl

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Cheeses

Roncal

Spain. Navarre.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed with a colour ivory white or pale yellow and a blue-grey natural rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Poultry

Guinea fowl with orange

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

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Desserts

Cherries flambéed with kirsch

Poached cherries in syrup and coated with caramel, flambéed and served on vanilla ice cream.

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Cheeses

Monsieur-Fromage

France. Upper Normandy. Seine-Maritime. La Bouille.
Soft-ripened double cream cow's milk cheese with rind.

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Main meals

Flemish waterzooi

Belgium.
Fish or chicken stew with vegetables and herbs whose broth is bound with butter or cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Salpicon of lobster

Salpicon : preparation hot or cold of ingredients diced and bound by a cream or sauce.

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Sea fish

Pan seared salmon

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.

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