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Meal families

Desserts

Banana and raisins crumble with rhum

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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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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Ice cream and sorbets

Pear ice cream

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Main meals

Ratatouille

Vegetable stew (eggplant, zucchini, onion, pepper, tomato) cooked with olive oil and garlic.
Served hot or cold.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Macaroni gratin

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Shellfish and Seafood

Flat oysters

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Desserts

Kouign amann

France. Brittany. Douarnenez.
Crispy cake made with bread dough containing butter and sugar folded in layers, like puff pastry but with fewer layers.
Eat hot or warm.

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Appetizers

Anchovy breadsticks

Breadsticks : sticks of crisp and dry bread.

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Cheeses

Pouligny Saint-Pierre

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher. Indre. Berry. Pouligny-saint-pierre.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and mould on the rind.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Tuna pizza

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Desserts

Vatrushka with lemon

Russia. Ukraine. Brioche cake topped with cottage cheese, sometimes flavored.

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Main meals

Tablier de sapeur

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhone. Lyon.
Gras-double (tripe cooked with onions) cooked in broth and marinated in white wine before being cut into a triangle and then breaded and fried.
Usually served with steamed potatoes and mayonnaise, gribiche sauce or tartar sauce.

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Beef

Rib steak cooked over vine shoots

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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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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Sea fish

Sea bass supreme with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Leek quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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