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Meal families

Sauces

Chocolate sauce

Red wine with butter, shallots, veal stock, pepper and cocoa.

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Beef

Pastrami

Beef salted, smoked and cut in thin slices.

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Desserts

Pink Charlotte with red fruit

Charlotte made with pink Reims biscuits dipped in champagne, milk or ratafia with red fruits (strawberry, raspberry, currant).

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Fruits

Brasucado

France. Cevennes.
Cooking chestnuts over a wood fire in a large frying pan.

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Veal

Roast milk-fed veal with Saint Georges mushroom

Milk-fed veal : calf of less than 20 weeks milk-fed only.

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Cold starters

Shrimp carpaccio

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle

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Main meals

Gratin savoyard

Dish based on reblochon with potatoes, bacon and sometimes onion.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Clam and green sauce

Green sauce : Mayonnaise mixed with mashed chervil, cress, spinach and parsley.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Smoked salmon lasagne with mixed herbs

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetables clafoutis

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with potatoes

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Cooked meats

Young partridge pâté

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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Sea fish

Red mullet with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with spring vegetables

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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