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Meal families

Salads

Grapefruit salade

Grapefruit salad with shrimp, lettuce, smoked salmon…

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Beef

Roast piece of beef 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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato cake with black truffle

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Cheeses

Chavroux

Industrial soft cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk.

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Poultry

Pigeon with sweet spices

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Desserts

Chocolate pavé

Chocolate cake cut into cubes.

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Cold starters

Zakuski

Russia.
Hors-d'œuvre served as starter to a meal (caviar, cold cuts, smoked or marinated fish, malossol, salads…).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Ricotta cannelloni

Ricotta: Italian or Maltese cheese made from the whey of other cheeses, sheep or cow.

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Desserts

Strawberry pierogi

Poland.
Pierogi : Pasta stuffed and cooked in boiling water.
Stuffed with sour cream, sugar and strawberry.
Served hot or cold.

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Cheeses

Hopelessly Bleu

United States. Texas.
Soft blue-veined pasteurized goat's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 2 to 3 months.

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Beef

Steak au poivre

Beef meat flambéed in Cognac and served with peppercorn sauce flavored with white wine, Marsala or Porto and possibly accompanied by mustard.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Prawns

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Main meals

Tielle

France. Occitanie. Hérault. Sète.
Pie garnish with squid, octopus or cuttlefish mixed with spicy tomato sauce.

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Desserts

Pecan pie

Often served with whipped cream.

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Warm starters

Salmon in puff pastry and a julienne of vegetable

Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.

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Sea fish

Gravlax

Gravlax: fresh salmon marinated with dill, spices and herbs, salt, sugar with a mustard sauce.

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Desserts

Strawberry bavarian cream

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sautéed wild mushrooms

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Appetizers

Tapas

Canapés.

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Sauces

Albufera sauce

Supreme sauce (cream of poultry and/or veal reduced and added with cream) supplemented with meat glaze and sometimes duck foie gras and Port wine.

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