All dishes:

Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster with a lemon sauce

Lemon sauce : lemon, olive oil.

Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with financiere sauce

Financiere sauce : Demi-glace (a reduced sauce made from brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef) enhanced with Madeira and truffle essence.

Sheep and Goats

Lamb noisette with sweet spices

Noisette : round-shaped piece of meat taken from the leg, loin, or rack.
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

Walnut meringue tart

Others

Croque-madame with bechamel sauce

Grilled ham and cheese sandwich with fried egg or poached egg on top.
Béchamel sauce : white roux (half butter, half flour) thinned with milk or cream.

Cheeses

Roasted Camembert

Desserts

Raspberry trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake soaked in fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes layered with jam, custard, and whipped cream.

Desserts

Puits d’amour

Round, hollowed-out pastry made from puff or choux pastry, filled with jam (apricot, raspberry, or redcurrant jelly) or pastry cream, and topped with caramel or powdered sugar.

Game birds

Quail fillet 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.

Cheeses

Beenleigh Blue

United Kingdom. Devon.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk.

Salads

Lobster salad

Game birds

Spit-roasted pheasant

Veal

Roasted veal chop with tarragon

Desserts

Kouign amann

France. Brittany. Finistère. Douarnenez.
Crispy cake made with bread dough containing butter and sugar, folded in layers, like puff pastry but with fewer layers.
Served warm or hot.

Desserts

Mango yule log

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Chaource cheese soufflé tart

Desserts

Chocolate and orange trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake soaked in fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes layered with jam, custard, and whipped cream.

Shellfish and Seafood

Roasted lobster with spices

Sea fish

Braised salmon

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

Sea fish

Roasted John Dory with beurre blanc sauce

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

Poultry

Mi-cuit duck foie gras

Served cold.

Eggs

Mushroom omelette

Cheeses

Tomme des Pyrénées

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrenees-Atlantique. France. Occitania. Ariège. Aude. Haute-Garonne. Hautes-Pyrénées. Pyrénées-Orientales.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk made from sheep's, goat’s and/or cow’s milk often coated with a black or golden paraffin rind.

Poultry

Pineapple chicken