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Meal families

Main meals

Sushi

Cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients : seafood, vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits.

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Cheeses

Livarot

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripenedcow's milk cheese, square-shaped with a washed rind, orange color.

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Warm starters

Porcini raviole

Ravioles : filled pasta smaller and less thick than raviolis.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Oysters and pork crépinettes

Oysters with sausage meat.

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Cheeses

Saint-Paulin

Canada. France.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled eggplant and goat cheese salad

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Consommé and Soup

Frog legs veloute

Velouté  : soup with cream and egg yolk added.

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Game birds

Roasted wood pigeon with black truffle juice

Truffle juice: juice obtained during sterilization of the truffle.

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Desserts

Almond tuiles

Petit four, made with ground almonds, cooked and flattened into the shape of a roof tile commonly added as garnish to dessert.

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Pork

Pork filet mignon with duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes : purée of mashed potato and egg yolk baked until golden.

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Freshwater fish

Artic char with cream sauce

Cream sauce : Bechamel sauce with cream.

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Pork

Galette with andouille from Guéméné

France. Brittany.
Grilled pork sausage wrapped in a cold buckwheat galette.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster Thermidor

Lobster meat mixed with a béchamel sauce and Cognac, shallots, fish stock and mustard served in its shell. It can also be served with an oven-browned cheese crust.

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Sea fish

Suquet de peix

Fish stew with potatoes.

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Game animals

Marinated venison with huntsman sauce

Huntsman sauce : pepper sauce with blood from the meat, cream and red currant jelly.

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