All dishes:

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Crema catalana with black truffle

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Shakshouka

Maghreb.
Shakshouka : poached eggs in a sauce with onions, peppers and tomatoes, usualy seasoned with cumin, paprika, and harissa.

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Peach meringue cake

Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop tartare with lime and curry sauce

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.
Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.

Beef

Rib steak with coarse salt and bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

Cold starters

Eggs with Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

Poultry

Squab with duck foie gras and black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

Fruits

Candied almonds

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Christmas pudding

United Kingdom.
A dark-colored Christmas cake, slowly steamed with dried fruits, nuts, brown sugar or molasses, and often beef suet. It is flavored with beer (such as porter or stout), a spirit like brandy, or citrus juice. Traditionally, it is flambéed with cognac or rum before serving.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Pimientos de Padrón

Beef

Grilled entrecote over vine shoots

Veal

Veal grenadine with vin jaune

Veal grenadine : Slice of meat cut from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.
Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Iced nougat with candied fruits and honey

Shellfish and Seafood

Roasted spiny lobster with sweet spicy butter

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

Fresh pear mousse with citrus juice

Pork

Roasted jambonneau

Jambonneau : small ham or boneless shank.
Can be breaded and eaten cold with a salad.

Feathered game

Flambé woodcock

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Asparagus gratin

Seafish

Grilled tuna

Freshwater fish

Trout with morel mushrooms and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

Cheeses

Holey cow

United States. California.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized whole cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : at least 2 months.

Sauces

Mole turkey

Mole : sauce made with peanuts, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread, or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

Hot Starters

Spinach and ricotta raviole

Ravioles : stuffed pasta, smaller and thinner than traditional ravioli.
Ricotta : Italian or Maltese cheese made from whey of other cheeses, from sheep or cow milk.

Sheep and Goats

Lamb ribs