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Meal families

Beef

Beef cheek daube with red wine and braised endive

Daube : stew made with braised meat (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in red or white wine, vegetables, garlic, and herbes de Provence.

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Cheeses

Beaufort fruity

France. Savoie.
Firm, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 6 months minimum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled zucchini

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Poultry

Lemon chicken

Piece of chicken marinated in lemon before cooking.

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Poultry

Chicken with chasseur sauce

Chasseur sauce : made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

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Sea fish

Darne of monkfish with green peppercorn sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Green peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac before being reduced, added with crushed pepper green, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb in herbs crust

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Desserts

Banana soufflé

Served hot.

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Sauces

Spiny lobster butter

Spiny lobster meat with butter.

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Cheeses

Le Trou du Cru

Commercial soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with a washed rind with marc de Bourgogne.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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Salads

Lobster salad with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Batavia lettuce

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sauteed green asparagus with olive oil

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Cheeses

Roth Private Reserve

United States. Wisconsin.
Hard raw cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : over 6 months.

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