All dishes:

Pork

Pork roast with duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes : purée of mashed potato and egg yolk baked until golden.

Veal

Rack of veal with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

Pork

Tandoori pork tenderloin

Tandoori : meat or fish marinated and coated in yogurt mixed with spices (garam masala, ginger, garlic, cumin, cayenne pepper).

Poultry

Duck salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

Poultry

Bresse chicken with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato gratin with porcini mushrooms

Eggs

Soufflé omelette

Sea fish

Smoked haddock with poached eggs in cream sauce

Beef

Bordeaux style sautéed rib steak

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

Cold starters

Meatloaf

Mixture of minced meat (lamb, beef, pork, veal, etc) with milk, breadcrumbs, onion, egg and spices, baked in the oven or in a pot and usually rectangular in shape.
Served cold, warm or hot.

Cheeses

Pecorino Toscano

Italy. Tuscany.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from whole raw sheep’s milk with a natural rind and straw-colored crust.
Ripening : 20 days minimum.

Desserts

Fraisier cake

Cake made with strawberries, sponge cake and cream, usually covered with a layer of marzipan.

Offal and tripe

Bordeaux style veal kidney

Kidney cooked in red wine and finished with Bordelaise sauce.

Sea fish

Suquet de peix

Fish stew with potatoes.

Game animals

Haunch of wild boar with huntsman sauce

Haunch : leg.
Huntsman sauce : poivrade sauce thickened with cream, blood, and redcurrant jelly.

Sea fish

John Dory with zucchini in parchment

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Steamed zucchini

Cheeses

Brie de Meaux

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Meaux.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

Desserts

Fruit tart with jam

Shellfish and Seafood

Langoustines with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed cardoon with meat

Rabbit

Young rabbit fillet with white sauce

White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.

Cheeses

Black Betty

Netherlands. North Holland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with black waxed rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

Main meals

Chicken tajine with prunes

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.