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Meal families

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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Poultry

Hot chicken

Spicy fried chicken served on slices of white bread with pickle strips.

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Beef

Rib steak with potatoes and thyme

Provencal garnish : crushed tomatoes, eggplant, garlic and parsley boiled in oil.

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Desserts

Chocolate profiteroles

Small pastry puffs with custard or vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate.

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Cold starters

Duck foie gras in 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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Game birds

Young partridge with cranberries

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch a l’unilateral / Pike-perch cooked unilaterally / Zander cooked unilaterally

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with salmon

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Others

Chop suey

Meat (beef, pork or chicken) or shrimps cooked with vegetables (celery, cabbage, bean sprouts) bound with a starch-thickened sauce.
Usually served with rice.

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Cheeses

Tomme au marc

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Beaufortain, Bauges and Tarentaise.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese covered with a thick layer of grape pomace.

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Desserts

Peach bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruit, cream, sometimes jam.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Banana split

Ice cream-based dessert made with a banana cut in half lengthwise and three scoops of ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry in France, three scoops vanilla in Belgium) all of which are topped with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

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Desserts

Peach bourdaloue

Peach and frangipane pie sprinkled with crushed macaroons

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Consommé and Soup

Vichyssoise

Soup made of puréed potato, leeks, onions, cream, and chicken stock.
Served hot or cold.

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Appetizers

Casse-museau

France. Touraine.
Goat cheese log baked with butter and flour.
Serve warm, not hot.

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Cheeses

Shropshire blue

United Kingdom.
Blue unpasteurised cow's milk cheese and orange in color.

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