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Meal families

Game birds

Salmi of mallard

Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Roast Pauillac lamb with rosemary

Lamb under 11 weeks and between 11 and 15 kilos.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seared scallops with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Queen of Sheba cake

Chocolate and almond cake.

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Cheeses

Berkswell

United Kingdom. West Midlands.
Hard sheep's raw milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Veal

Blanquette de veau

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Offal and tripe

Lamb sweetbread with morel cream

Morel sauce: chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Red mullet risotto

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

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Desserts

Pineapple carpaccio

Pineapple cut in very thin slices topped with a vanilla syrup.

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Warm starters

Seafood vol-au-vent

Vol-au-vent : hollow case for several people (diameter of at least 15 centimeters) of puff pastry with meat, sweetbreads, fish, crustaceans, snails, mushrooms mixed in a sauce (bisque, béchamel sauce with cream, Nantua sauce…).

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Desserts

Pineapple 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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