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we know what bits and pieces mean, but we'd like to know what we'd be getting if we book this meal for Christmas Eve, thanks in advance
APERITIF ALPENROSE - MISE EN BOUCHE
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TERRINE DE PIGEON AUX GRIOTTES ET AU BLOC DE FOIE GRAS DE CANARD
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FEUILLETE DE SAINT JACQUES AU MUSCADET
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TOURNEDOS DE MAGRET DE CANARD
SAUCE GIROLLES
GRATIN DE POMMES DE TERRE
FAGOTS D’ASPERGES VERTES BARDEES
A LA POITRINE DE PORC FUMEE
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FEUILLES DE CHÊNE A L’HUILE D’OLIVE
EN ACCOMPAGNEMENT DE TROIS FROMAGES DE NOTRE SAVOIE
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CAMELIA AGRUMES AUX FRUITS ROUGES
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CAFE ET MACARONS
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partially translated (google) but don't count too much on it.
APERITIF ALPENROSE - PLACEMENT
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TERRINE with cherries PIGEON AND foie Gras
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PUFF OF SANTIAGO TO MUSCADET
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TOURNEDOS DUCK BREAST
SAUCE GIROLLES
GRATIN POTATOES
GREEN ASPARAGUS bristling bundle of
THE smoked pork belly
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OAK LEAVES TO THE OLIVE OIL
IN SUPPORT OF OUR THREE CHEESE SAVOIE
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CAMELIA CITRUS FRUIT RED
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COFFEE AND BUTTONS
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Bon Appetit!
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thanks, had already tried that and babel fish, ideally someone with a good level of French will let us know what it means.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Aperitif Alpenrose (which could be anything) - with nibbles (ditto)
Terrine of pigeon, with sour cherries and duck liver foie gras
Scallops in pastry with muscadet
'Tournedos' of duck breast (grilled, I guess)
Mushroom (chanterelle) sauce
Potato gratin
Asparagus bundles with belly of pork
Oak leaf lettuce with olive oil to accompany 3 Savoie cheeses
A'camelia' (their fancy name for a pud) of citrus and red fruits
Coffee and macaroons
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If I was looking at the menu my 20yr old 16+ French would tell me:
APERITIF ALPENROSE - MISE EN BOUCHE - A speciality aperitif of your AlpenRose hotel
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TERRINE DE PIGEON AUX GRIOTTES ET AU BLOC DE FOIE GRAS DE CANARD - a terrine of pigeon with griottes (don't know this one might be some sort of nut), and a piece of duck pate (fattened duck liver)
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FEUILLETE DE SAINT JACQUES AU MUSCADET - haven't got a clue, but it sounds like a piece of pastry in the style of St Jacques with Muscadet wine
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TOURNEDOS DE MAGRET DE CANARD - this is little duck 'steaks' probably the breast fillets)
SAUCE GIROLLES - sauce girolles!!
GRATIN DE POMMES DE TERRE - Potato gratin
FAGOTS D’ASPERGES VERTES BARDEES - parcels of asparagus and guessing at green French beans
A LA POITRINE DE PORC FUMEE - something to do with smoked pork - could be fancy bacon!!
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FEUILLES DE CHÊNE A L’HUILE D’OLIVE - haven't a clue, possibly pastry with Olive Oil
EN ACCOMPAGNEMENT DE TROIS FROMAGES DE NOTRE SAVOIE - accompanied by three cheeses of the region
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CAMELIA AGRUMES AUX FRUITS ROUGES - something with red fruits - possibly a white gelled milk based dish with red fruits
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CAFE ET MACARONS - coffee and macaroons (light Almond nibbles).
I'll be interested to learn the missing items when a native French speaker gets hold of it.
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Standee, Is it the 'Girolles' that you're worried about? If so don't be, the Girolle is a small alpine mammal, about the size of a Marmot, and although they're not what one might call handsome they're very tasty - a bit like chicken.
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surely chanterelles are just chanterelles?
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sorry my German is not too hot!
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well the St Jaques are scallops, and they'll be in a little puff pastry thing of some sort
chene is a lettuce in this context, otherwise an oak tree - oak leaf - with cheese. No pastry in sight.
No idea what camelia is in this context, but agrumes are citrus - I wouldn't have thought any milk would be involved.
griottes are morello style cherries.
Sounds a nice meal! But only if you like very underdone duck, I suspect.
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Megamum,
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Girolles are Chanterelles?
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Yep, the same
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Feuillete are scallops
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No, coquilles St Jacques (St Jacques for short, in this instance) are scallops. A feuilleté is a dish which involves pastry (usually puff pastry)
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Feuilles de chene is an oak leak lettuce? Which word is lettuce?
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None, it means oak leaves, again an abbreviation
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You know it makes sense.
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had a phone call in the middle of that - pedantica is much more authoritative than I. But if your idea of duck is a chinese style shredded effort, maybe it's not for you
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Mmmm...........I think I like griottes then - I love morello cherries esp. with Duck!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Nice rare magret de canard is one of my particular favourites
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Pedantica, Ah.............so I was right about the feuillete being connected in some way to pastry, I had a suspicion that it was a light fluffy 'puff' pastry style thing. I'm sure I seen a sweet puff pastry dish linked to the term in the past.
Coquilles St Jacques as Scallops would make sense - there would be quite a link up with Cockles - the English word for that specific small clam. Scallops being part of the same family. Yummy! I like scallops too. [wonders]I wonder if the OP needs an additional guest [/wonders] LOL
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I'm in!
Sounds like a nice well balanced meal. 
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thanks folks;
Duck and Scallops are two of our favourites, so we're in!
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FAGOTS
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barry, a fagot is either a minced meat ball made from offal, or a bundle of sticks typically for a fire - not what you think and are laughing about - I promise it was the other two descriptions first 
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Megamum, my granny used to call us kids "thundering faggots" when we were small and being naughty, can you imagine her shouting that at young uns today 
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Fagots followed by Spotted dick, a traditional English dinner
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Boredsurfing, Yes, and delicious too. There is a pork butchers in Chelmsford that does the most wonderful traditionally made fagots.
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a minced meat ball made from offal
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i think those are faggots, rather than fagots. In both English and French fagots are bundles of firewood? Or asparagus?
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pam w, yup, its the "bundle" I reckon - the tie of asparagus together or sticks etc
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Definitely - all cut to the same height and tied up with some chives, or something like that. And larded with pork belly.
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You know it makes sense.
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red 27, brilliant
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'm hungry...
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