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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Flageolet beans with butter

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles and bay scallop cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Beef

Rump steak with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with porcini

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

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Poultry

Duck aiguillette with cherry

Aiguillette : thin strips of chicken breast.

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Poultry

Beer chicken

Chicken cooked in the oven with a cream and beer sauce.

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Freshwater fish

Fish quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Cheeses

Dancing fern

United States. Tennessee.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Main meals

Carbonade flamande

Beef, horse or pork stew with onions cooked with dark beer.

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Desserts

Chocolate bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Desserts

Praline bavarois

Bavarois : cold moulded dessert made ​​with custard or fruit puree, mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine.

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Sea fish

Monkfish and spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Chicken and porcini pie

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