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Meal families

Desserts

Strawberry 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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Shellfish and Seafood

Prawns in garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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Main meals

Baked Mont d’or

Baked Vacherin Mont-d'Or cheese.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Saintonge mouclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes. Charentes-Maritimes.
Dish with bouchot mussels and garlic, bouquet garni, Charentes butter, cream, saffron, shallots, egg yolks and Pineau des Charentes (or dry white wine of Charentes or Cognac).

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Poultry

Stuffed goose neck with duck foie gras

Goose foie gras. Served hot with garlic and parsley potato or with a salad.

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Consommé and Soup

Frog legs soup

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Doubs. Haute-Saône. Jura. Territoire de Belfort.
Vegetable broth with frog legs.

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Poultry

Supreme of guinea-fowl

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.

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Cheeses

Edam

Netherlands. Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Provolone piccante

Italy. Lombardy.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese with kid rennet.

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Desserts

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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Rabbit

Rabbit with red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : sauce of veal stock and red wine mixed with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper and thyme.

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Cheeses

Bleu d’Auvergne

France. Massif Central.
Pasteurized or raw cow's milk blue cheese.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sautéed porcini and black truffle

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Beef

Pastrami

Beef salted, smoked and cut in thin slices.

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Desserts

Peach pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Manchego fresco

Spain. Castilla-La Mancha.
Hard ewe's milk cheese pressed and uncooked wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 2 weeks minimum.

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