All dishes:

Desserts

Hazelnut cake

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti alle vongole

Pasta with clams and persillade sauce.

Pork

Pork cheek with cider

Desserts

Chocolate yule log

Warm starters

Goat cheese raviole

Ravioles : stuffed pasta, smaller and thinner than traditional ravioli.

Poultry

Duck a l’orange with spices

A l'orange : sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.

Cheeses

Munster au cumin

Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster à l’américaine

American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."

Main meals

Schiffala

France. Grand Est. Alsace.
Smoked pork shoulder with sour turnips.

Cold starters

Provençal 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.
Anchovies, olives, peppers with tomato and Provençal herbs in jelly.

Sauces

Mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce mixed with whipped cream.

Sauces

Maltese sauce

Maltese Sauce : Hollandaise sauce flavored with blood orange juice and blanched orange zest.

Cheeses

Ovelha amanteigado

Portugal. Beira Alta.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw sheep's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 2 months.

Cheeses

Bossons macérés

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ardèche. Vivarais. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Bouches-du-Rhône.
Cheese made in a stoneware jar from leftover goat or sheep tomme, mixed with marc brandy, olive oil and white wine, all seasoned with aromatics (garlic, spices, aromatic herbs, onion, pepper, , etc).
Comes in the form of a spreadable paste on bread or potatoes.
Ripening : 2 months.

Salads

Crudite salad

Do not serve fine wine.

Desserts

Roasted pineapple in butter

Fruits

Lychee

Cheeses

Mignot

France. Normandy. Orne. Vimoutiers.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a natural rind.

Sea fish

Grilled cod with white wine

Sea fish

Pickled sardines

Main meals

Moroccan lamb tajine

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

Cheeses

Verano

United States. Vermont.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw sheep's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 to 6 months.

Beef

White grape beef stew

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

Shellfish and Seafood

Roasted lobster 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.