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Meal families

Sheep and Goats

Lamb with spring vegetables and Soubise sauce

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.
Soubise sauce : béchamel with onion, butter, fresh cream, salt and pepper.

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Desserts

Walnut succès cake

Macaron stuffed with a walnut cream.

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Beef

Bordeaux style beef tournedos

Tournedos: slice cut from the end portion of tenderloin.
Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Cooked meats

Hare 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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Others

Frog legs with garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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Desserts

Milk pastilla

Filo coated with honey, almond and pistachio and covered with custard flavored with orange flower water.

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Pork

Diots with red wine

Diot : minced pork sausage flavored with nutmeg cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Cold starters

Tomatoes and tomato

Tomatoes stuffed with tomato tartare

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Freshwater fish

Trout in aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Cooked meats

Cold cuts plate

Assorted cold meats and sausages.

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Appetizers

Garlic bread

Bread with garlic butter.

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