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Meal families

Cooked meats

Mallard terrine

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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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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Cheeses

Curé nantais

France. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese.

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Others

Club sandwich

Sandwich of toasted bread often cut into quarters or halves and held together by hors-d'œuvre sticks, sliced with white turkey or chicken, grilled bacon, lettuce, tomato slices and mayonnaise.

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Sea fish

Sea bass in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Tourangelle-style tart

Rillons : pieces of pork meat confit in its own fat and seasoned with salt, pepper, spices and sometimes: garlic, parsley, vinegar.

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Consommé and Soup

Pork goulash

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Cooked meats

Andouillette sausage with shallots

Sausage cooked with white wine, butter and shallot.

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Warm starters

Goat cheese raviole

Ravioles : filled pasta smaller and less thick than raviolis.

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Desserts

Lemon and mascarpone macaron

Macaron : cupcake made with two meringue cookies and a cream or ganache between them.

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Desserts

Peach Conde

Vanilla rice pudding topped with peaches in syrup.

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Desserts

Saint-Honoré

Puff or shortcrust pastry coated with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream puff topped with caramel around. The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or chiboust cream (custard mixed with Italian meringue).

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Game birds

Roasted young partridge with porcini

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Fruit sorbet

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