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Meal families

Poultry

Geline with cream and morels

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Honey ice cream

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Sea fish

Baked sea bream in salt crust with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Desserts

Kouign amann

France. Brittany. Douarnenez.
Crispy cake made with bread dough containing butter and sugar folded in layers, like puff pastry but with fewer layers.
Eat hot or warm.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Boulangere potatoes

Boulangere potatoes : baked potatoes with onions in broth.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch and spring garnish with beurre blanc sauce

Spring garnish : carrots, onions, turnips, peas…
Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Desserts

Citrus fruit gratin

Gratin of citrus fruits : grapefruit, orange, fresh cream, egg, vanilla.

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Pork

Currywurst

Germany. Berlin.
Pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with curry ketchup.
Served with bread rolls (Brötchen) or with french fries.

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Desserts

Gâteau de Saint-Genix

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie.
Brioche filled and stuffed with red praline.

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Cold starters

Cervelle de canut

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Lyon.
Cottage cheese beaten with cream and seasoned with chopped herbs (chive, shallot, parsley).
Usually served with toast, boiled potatoes or to season a salad.

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Cooked meats

Grilled andouille sausage

Andouille : pork sausage using the large intestine of the pig.

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Cheeses

Timanoix

France. Brittany. Morbihan.
Soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese and a washed rind with walnut licor.
Ripening : 2 to 3 weeks.

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Salads

Vegetable salad with toro and anchovies

Toro : tuna taken from the belly.

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Desserts

Chocolate and pear dome cake

Dark chocolate dome filled with chocolate mousse.

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Warm starters

Bouchée à la reine

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

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Pork

Rouelle of pork with mojette beans

Rouelle : a thick slice of meat cut from the hind leg.
Mojette beans : white beans from Vendée.

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