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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato gratin

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Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Stuffed clams

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Cheeses

Blue cheese

Sheep's, goat's and/or cow's milk cheeses with mold in the cheese in colors between blue and grey-green.

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Poultry

Duck aiguillette with red wine sauce

Aiguillette : thin strips of chicken breast.
Red wine sauce : sauce of veal stock and red wine mixed with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper and thyme.

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Beef

Tournedos Rossini and mashed potato with black truffle

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Cheeses

Brie de Meaux

France. Brie. Meaux.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with white mould rind.

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Cheeses

Pavé du Quercy

France. Occitania. Quercy.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and mould on the rind.

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Sea fish

Steamed John Dory in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed cardoon with tuna

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Appetizers

Gougères with Comté

Gougères stuffed with Comté cheese.

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Sea fish

Grilled sea bass with fennel in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Others

Mauricette

France. Alsace. Mulhouse.
Sandwich made from pretzel dough.

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Desserts

Red fruit trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake covered with fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes jam, custard and whipped cream arranged in layers.

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Desserts

Pineapple zabaione

Zabaione: egg yolk beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or not, to get a froth hot or warm and fragrant.

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Desserts

Apple bavarian cream

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

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