All dishes:

Poultry

Roasted duckling with Rouen sauce

Duckling : young duck.
Rouen sauce : cider or full-bodied red wine reduced with shallots sweated in butter, combined with brown veal stock, parsley, salt, and pepper, and thickened with a purée of chicken liver.

Sauces

Melted butter sauce

Melted butter sauce : melted butter with reduced lemon juice and possibly pepper or chili.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Braised endives

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pineapple with whipped cream

Chantilly cream : whipped cream with sugar.

Cheeses

L’Explorateur

France. Île de France. Seine-et-Marne. Saint Siméon.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with garlic

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

Poultry

Souvarov-style pigeon

Souvarov : stuffing with fresh foie gras and black truffle cooked in terrine.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with seafood

Seafish

Sea bream tartare with citrus

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

Sauces

Tartar sauce

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

Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with thyme

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

Furred game

Saddle of hare cooked on the spit

Poultry

Squab with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Praline

Mixture of caramelized and crushed almonds and hazelnuts.

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.

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Peaches with meringue

Baked peaches topped with meringue.

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Walnut mocha cake

Mocha cake : sponge cake with coffee-flavored buttercream.

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Quince upside-down cake

Seafish

Salmon carpaccio

Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed zucchini

Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop tartare

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

Ice cream and sorbets

Honey ice cream

Cheeses

Aged cheese

Seafish

Monkfish and spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.