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Meal families

Cold starters

Prawn cocktail with avocado

Shrimp salad with egg and cocktail sauce (Cognac, ketchup, mayonnaise, Tabasco) and avocado.

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Sauces

Barbecue sauce

Sauce made from tomato and vinegar with a smoky note and various ingredients (garlic, oil, onion, honey, mustard, paprika, chili pepper, etc.).

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Warm starters

Salmon in puff pastry and a julienne of vegetable

Julienne : vegetables cut into batons.

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Eggs

Meurette sauce

Red wine sauce with bacon and onion compote.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Cheeses

Tarentaise reserve cheese

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.

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Cold starters

Lobster 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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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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetable Achaar

Pieces of vegetables (carrot, chayote, lemon, cabbage, green bean, onion…) cut into strips and cooked in oil with garlic, spices (turmeric, ginger, chilli) then vinegar.

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Cooked meats

Lyon-style andouillette sausage

Small chitterling sausage cooked with onions, meat juices deglazed with vinegar.

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Cheeses

Glacier blue

United States. Washington.
Blue-veined raw cow's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 75 days.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seafood gratin

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Salads

Piedmontese potato salad

Salad with pickles, ham, egg, potatoes, tomatoes mixed with mayonnaise.

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Desserts

Peach pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Pork

Roast pork 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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