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Vol-au-vent
Vol-au-vent : a round puff pastry shell intended to serve several people (with a diameter of at least 15 centimeters), filled with a mixture of meat, sweetbreads, fish, shellfish, snails, mushrooms… all bound together with a sauce (bisque, béchamel, cream, Nantua sauce…).
Poultry
Roasted duckling à la goutte de sang
Duckling : young duck.
Cooked à la goutte de sang : quick sear over medium-high heat to brown the surface of the meat while keeping the inside pink.
Veal
Veal escalope with cream sauce and morels
Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.
Beef
Roast beef with peppercorn sauce
Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac, enhanced with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock, and heavy cream.
Shellfish and Seafood
Lobster with melted butter
Lobster served with melted butter enhanced with reduced lemon juice, and optionally, pepper or chili.
Freshwater fish
Pike with beurre blanc sauce
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.
Desserts and Sweet Courses
Baklava
Balkans. Bulgaria. Greece. North Africa. Middle East. Turkey…
Dessert made of several layers of thin phyllo dough sheets separated with melted butter or oil, in which there is a mixture of dried fruits (hazelnuts, walnuts, or pistachios), sometimes finely ground and crushed spices (cloves), then immersed in a sweet liquid (water with lemon juice, orange blossom, honey, rose, etc).