Alsace Riesling

Cold starters

Smoked salmon rolls with cottage cheese

Prefer a pairing with a dry wine.

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Salads

Smoked salmon salad

The richer the smoked salmon, more the wine must be marked by the acidity.

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Freshwater fish

Snail butter

Butter with garlic, shallot and parsley.

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Miscellaneous

Snails in the Burgundy style

Snails with parsley butter (butter, garlic, and parsley mixed).

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Hot Starters

Snails puff pastry

Dish made with puff pastry.

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Cheeses

Sofia

United States. Indiana.

Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind coated in edible vegetable ash, and containing two additional layers of ash cutting the cheese.

Ripening : 1 week.

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Seafish

Sole with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Seafish

Sole with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Seafish

Sole with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with seafood

Prefer a pairing with a dry wine with mineral notes.

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Main courses

Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.

Dish usually served with rice.

Prefer a pairing with a wine with some residual sugar.

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Cold starters

Spiny lobster aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster Thermidor

Spiny lobster meat with a béchamel sauce and Cognac, shallot, fish stock and mustard that can be gratinéed.

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Cold starters

Spiny lobster with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Miscellaneous

Spring roll

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.

Served hot.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spring vegetable aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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