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Meal families

Game animals

Bordeaux style wild boar

Bordelaise sauce : reduction of dry red wine with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme with butter and flour.

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Poultry

Chicken with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Cheeses

Garrotxa

Spain. Catalonia. Tarragona.
Semi-soft pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a with a mouldy rind of gray or bluish-grey colour.
Ripening : 4 to 8 weeks.

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Desserts

Gingerbread 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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Cold starters

Avocado with shrimp sauce

Shrimp sauce : fish velouté mixed with shrimp butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop boudin

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Cheeses

Bethmale de chèvre

France. Pyrenees. Ariège.
Semi-hard pasteurized goat's milk cheese de pasta prensada no cocida with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 4 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Crab lasagne

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Cold starters

Beef bread with tomato sauce

Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.

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Sea fish

Poached sole with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Beef

Beef tenderloin with red wine emulsion

Red wine emulsion: red wine brought to the boil, flambéed, then reduced with veal stock and crème fraîche before being added to butter and whisked.

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