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Meal families

Beef

Lucullus tongue

Mille-feuille with slices of smoked beef tongue and duck foie gras.

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Cheeses

Pont-l’Evêque

France. Normandy.
Soft cow's milk cheese, square-shaped with a beige or orange rind.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with morels and meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Ginger prawn

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Shellfish and Seafood

Roasted spiny lobster with sweet spices

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Main meals

Chicken couscous

Couscous : steamed semolina served with meat stew (lamb, chicken, merguez) accompanied by a spicy broth. Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster with lemon sauce

Lemon sauce: lemon, olive oil.

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Desserts

Mirlitons de Pont-Audemer

France. Normandy. Pont-Audemer.
Waffle rolls with almonds filled with praline mousse and closed at the ends with chocolate.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam

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Pork

Black pudding with Sarlat style potato

Sarlat style potatoes : potatoes cooked in duck fat with garlic and parsley.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Pear sorbet

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Shellfish and Seafood

Ginger shrimp

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Salads

Mesclun with black truffle

Mesclun : salad with a mixture of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves of chicory, oak lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, baby spinach, arugula, escarole, radicchio and aromatic plants.

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Poultry

Ostrich tournedos with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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