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Meal families

Appetizers

Fish fritters with tartar sauce

Tartar sauce : mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles and chopped parsley.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Sea fish

Roast sea bass 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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Cheeses

Picolin

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted milk fed lamb

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Offal and tripe

Frivolity fritters

Fritters of animals testicules.

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Beef

Tournedos Rossini

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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Poultry

Poached chicken with supreme sauce

Supreme sauce : chicken or veal velouté reduced before adding the cream.

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Freshwater fish

Roasted pike-perch 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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Ice cream and sorbets

Lemon sorbet

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