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Meal families

Beef

Grilled beef with sauce poivrade

Pepper sauce: mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, diced bacon, herbs (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or venison stock and black peppercorns.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pissaladiere

Bread dough topped with onions (caramelized or puree), olives, garlic and anchovies.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with quince

Served hot, warm or cold.

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Beef

Chateaubriand

Piece of beef meat from 4 to 8 cm cut in the tenderloin filet.

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Sauces

Maitre d’hotel butter

Softened butter mixed with shallot and parsley.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop fricassee

Fricassée : stew of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or chicken in cream sauce.

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Desserts

Mango bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Main meals

Inarizushi

Fried tofu stuffed with rice, sweetened and vinegared.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken in demi-deuil with albufera sauce

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.
Albufera sauce : supreme sauce (cream of poultry and/or veal reduced and added with cream) supplemented with meat glaze and sometimes duck foie gras and Port wine.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Desserts

Croustillons

Deep-fried balls with sugar.

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Cheeses

Tête de moine

Switzerland. Bernese Jura.
Semi-cooked or semi-hard pressed raw whole cow's milk cheese.

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Cheeses

Sainte-Maure de Touraine

France. Touraine. Sainte-Maure de Touraine.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese.
Ripening : 10 days minimum.

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Warm starters

Waffle with Maroilles cheese

Waffle topped with thin lamellas of cheese Maroilles.
Generaly served with a green salad.

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Cheeses

Robiola 3 latti

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont. Langhe.
Soft-ripened cheese from unpasteurised goat's, sheep's and cow’s milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Beef

Roast beef tenderloin with porcini mushroom sauce

Porcini sauce : porcini mushrooms and shallots with veal stock, cream and white wine.

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