All dishes:

Desserts

Sablé with salted butter and cherry jam

Sablé : cake, usually round with fluted edges, made from shortcrust pastry (butter, flour, sugar, and sometimes egg yolk).

Appetizers

Stuffed olives

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

Sheep and Goats

Roasted rack of lamb 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.

Beef

Beef daube with green olives

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

Desserts

French king cake

Round brioche with candied fruit flavored with orange blossom.

Sea fish

Trout fillets Gravlax

Gravlax : fresh salmon marinated with dill, spices, and herbs, cured with salt and sugar, served with a mustard sauce.

Beef

Grilled steak with marchand de vin butter

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached. Marchand de vin butter : reduction of red wine with shallots mixed with butter.

Desserts

Floating island

Beaten egg whites baked in a mold, in the oven and in a bain-marie, accompanied by crème anglaise.
Generally topped with caramel.

Shellfish and Seafood

Clams with mariniere sauce

Mariniere sauce : reduction of white wine and fish stock (or cooking juice of mussels) with shallots (or onion) lightly bound with butter.

Desserts

Chocolate macarons

Macaron : cupcake made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.

Desserts

Vanilla panna cotta

Cheeses

Lincoln log

United States. Michigan.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

Poultry

Duck foie gras confit

Served on toasts as an appetizer.
Served cold.

Desserts

Roasted peaches with almonds

Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines a la nage

Nage : cooked in a delicate broth flavored with butter, white wine, vegetables, and aromatic herbs.

Main meals

Salted pork with lentils

Salt pork : salt-cured pork.

Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with turnips

Navarin : stew.

Cheeses

Quadrello di Bufala

Italy. Lombardy.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized buffalo milk with a pale pink to oatmeal washed rind.

Desserts

Fresh pear mousse with citrus juice

Cold starters

Langoustines with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads with spices

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

Pork

Pork chop with lentils

Cheeses

Ardrahan

Ireland. Cork.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a washed rind orange-colored.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

Appetizers

Roquefort bites