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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Lasagne with cream and morels

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Shellfish and Seafood

Octopus galician style

Galician style : octopus cooked in boiling water and cut into slices of one centimeter thick covered with olive oil, salt and sprinkled with paprika or chili.
Served with boiled potatoes.

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Cheeses

Cabécou du Fel

France. Midi-Pyrénées.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

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Main meals

Nigirizushi

Rice with vinegar hand-pressed and topped with a food (raw or cooked fish, seafood, vegetables, etc.) served generally with wasabi.

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Desserts

Panettone

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont.
Brioche with candied fruit, raisins and citrus zest.

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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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Offal and tripe

Veal kidneys with black truffle juice

Truffle juice: juice obtained during sterilization of the truffle.

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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

Cassata

Italy. Sicily. Sponge cake with fruit juices or liqueur stuffed with ricotta cheese and a chocolate or vanilla filling. Covered with a shell of marzipan, usually green, and topped with candied fruit.

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Sauces

Henri IV sauce

Bearnaise sauce with veal stock.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with honey

Served hot, warm or cold.

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Game animals

Jugged hare Saint-Hubert

Sauteed hare, flambéed with Cognac, red wine marinade and button mushrooms.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp ceviche

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Desserts

Raspberry bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruit, cream, sometimes jam.

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Desserts

Malakoff 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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Cheeses

Trappe de Timadeuc

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Soft pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 6 weeks.

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