All dishes:

Desserts

Chocolate mousse with orange zest

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Farci poitevin

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Vegetable pâté with bacon, cooked wrapped in cabbage leaves.

Cheeses

Death & Taxes

United States. California.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a beer washed rind (Dark lager).

Poultry

Fattened chicken with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

Sea fish

Grilled sea bream a l’unilateral with spices

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

Cooked meats

Pâté en croûte

Terrine of assorted meats, oven-baked in a pastry crust and set in natural gelatin.
Served cold.

Desserts

Maltese strawberries

Strawberries served with orange juice and Cointreau.

Desserts

Strawberry gratin with rhubarb

Game birds

Roasted pheasant with eggplant

Appetizers

Breadsticks

Breadsticks : small, dry, and elongated breadsticks served as an appetizer.

Sheep and Goats

Confit lamb with eggplant

Warm starters

Ham puff pastry

Poultry

Spit-roasted guinea fowl

Desserts

Chocolate and morello cherry tart

Desserts

Pear ambassadeur

Sponge cake soaked in Grand Marnier (sometimes Kirsch), layered with pastry cream filled with pear, and topped with a layer of marzipan (typically green).

Sauces

Ketchup

Sauce based on tomato sauce, vinegar and sugar.

Pork

Pork crépinettes

Minced pork wrapped in caul fat.

Salads

Endive salad

Desserts

Pear pie

Cheeses

Pouligny Saint-Pierre

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher. Indre. Berry. Pouligny-saint-pierre.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a bloomy rind.

Desserts

Rice pudding with grape

Pork

Grilled pork leg slice

Leg slice : thick, round slice cut crosswise from the shank.

Sea fish

Smoked haddock with poached eggs in cream sauce

Poultry

Peking duck

To glaze : to spread honey over the skin of an animal before cooking in order to achieve a crispy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.