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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Prawns in garlic butter

Garlic butter : butter with garlic.

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Appetizers

Spiny lobster butter canapé

Spiny lobster butter : spiny lobster meat with butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster a la nage

Nage : baking in a broth flavoured with butter, white wine, vegetables and herbs.

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Cheeses

Le bleu 1924

France.
Blue-veined cheese from pasteurized goat's, sheep's and cow’s milk.

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Offal and tripe

Frivolity fritters

Fritters of animals testicules.

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Game birds

Grilled wood pigeon à la goutte de sang with porcini raviole

Cooked à la goutte de sang : fast cooking of meat moderately high for there to be surface coloration of the flesh but the interior remains red.
Ravioles : filled pasta.

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Desserts

Lemon soufflé

Served hot.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with Dieppe sauce

Dieppe sauce : Normandy sauce (Bechamel with added cream) with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Cold starters

Salmon tataki with wasabi

Tataki : raw fish or raw meat cut in thin slices and seared, then marinated in rice vinegar or mirin before being seasoned with a condiment (generally ginger).

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Veal

Veal chop with morels and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : cream sauce with vin jaune (Jura wine) and shallot.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti alla puttanesca

Pasta cooked with tomato, salted anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and peppers.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with rosemary

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Veal

Rack of veal with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Pineapple crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Sea fish

Red sea bream a la provencale

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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