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Main dishes anchor the meal. This category gathers poultry, seafood, meat, pasta, grains, and plant-forward recipes with clear methods and satisfying structure.

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Turbotin Fermière

Chef Juliette

Turbotin Fermière

A whole young turbot poached at a tremble in red wine, laid over farmhouse aromatics, ringed with buttery mushrooms, and glazed until its sauce catches the light.

Turbotin à la Mode de Hollande

Chef Juliette

Turbotin à la Mode de Hollande

A whole young turbot, gently poached and crowned with scarlet lobster, comes to the table with floury potatoes and warm egg-and-butter sauce apart: plain, generous, and exacting only about heat.

Turbotin Mirabeau

Chef Juliette

Turbotin Mirabeau

Poached whole in Sauterne court-bouillon, this small turbot wears alternating ivory sauce vin blanc and mahogany sauce Genevoise, their seams marked with anchovy, then truffle and tarragon set in strict, delicious order.

Turbotin Parisienne

Chef Juliette

Turbotin Parisienne

Whole turbot poached gently in Sauternes, veiled with glossy sauce au vin blanc, marked by alternating truffle and mushroom, then ringed in scarlet crayfish: Parisian abundance disciplined for one home stove.

Turbotin Régence

Chef Juliette

Turbotin Régence

Turbotin Régence is orchestration on a platter: tender Chablis-poached turbot, five precise garnishes, and ivory Sauce Normande carrying black truffle, all arriving warm and ready at the same moment.

Turbotin Soufflé à la Reynière

Chef Juliette

Turbotin Soufflé à la Reynière

A whole young turbot opened from the back, rounded with cold fish mousseline, and shallow-poached until the filling swells, with two parts white-wine sauce to one part Soubise cullis.

Turbotin Feuillantine

Chef Juliette

Turbotin Feuillantine

A whole small turbot becomes a celebration dish: lobster mousseline within, coral-red lobster butter above, then black truffle and white oysters in disciplined rows, with cayenne-touched Béchamel served alongside.

Cold Chicken-Turbot

Chef Juliette

Cold Chicken-Turbot

A four-pound turbot poached at a tremble, chilled before it dries, and glossed with clear aspic: the cold centerpiece that proves careful temperature, not elaborate decoration, makes the grand plate.

Homard à l’Américaine

Chef Juliette

Homard à l’Américaine

Lobster shells blaze red over fierce heat, brandy catches, and tomato-wine liquor reduces to a shining sauce bound with coral and cold butter. The lesson is simple: after the finish, never let it boil.

Homard à la Bordelaise

Chef Juliette

Homard à la Bordelaise

Lobster blushed red in clarified butter, then wrapped in a Bordeaux-built sauce of white wine, brandy, fumet, Espagnole, and tomato, finished with cold butter for a generous table.

Homard Bouilli à la Hollandaise

Chef Juliette

Homard Bouilli à la Hollandaise

A whole lobster boiled in vinegar court-bouillon, opened on its linen-lined platter, and sent to table with floury potatoes and melted butter. Timing is the luxury, and twenty minutes decides it.

Homard à la Broche

Chef Juliette

Homard à la Broche

One lobster, one fierce oven, and a Champagne-butter baste: Homard à la Broche teaches the discipline of keeping shellfish glossy, succulent, and generous enough for a celebration table.

Homard Cardinal

Chef Juliette

Homard Cardinal

Poached lobster, truffled salpicon, and a cardinal-red sauce return to the shell under a fierce glaze, a composed French centerpiece whose success depends on heat, order, and speed.

Homard Clarence

Chef Juliette

Homard Clarence

Lobster, warm curry, buttered rice, and truffle arranged in its own shell, with a creamy cullis folded into Béchamel and more sauce passed generously at the table.

Homard à la Crème

Chef Juliette

Homard à la Crème

Homard à la Crème brings coral lobster and black truffle into an ivory brandy cream, teaching the discipline that matters most in rich sauces: reduce patiently, then finish below the boil.

Homard Grillé

Chef Juliette

Homard Grillé

Homard Grillé teaches restraint over the fire: a brief court-bouillon poach protects the flesh, butter carries the final heat, and sharp Devilled sauce Escoffier gives sweet lobster its proper counterpoint.

Homard à la Mornay, otherwise au Gratin

Chef Juliette

Homard à la Mornay, otherwise au Gratin

Hot lobster, mushroom and truffle salpicon, and cheese-rich Mornay return to the shell, then meet fierce heat just long enough to bronze. The broiler glazes the dish, it does not cook it twice.

Homard à la New-burg (with raw lobster)

Chef Juliette

Homard à la New-burg (with raw lobster)

Raw lobster meets hot butter, Cognac flame, and Marsala cream, then its own coral finishes the sauce: a lesson in fierce beginnings, gentle endings, and knowing when heat has done enough.

Homard à la New-burg (with the lobster cooked)

Chef Juliette

Homard à la New-burg (with the lobster cooked)

Homard à la New-burg turns cooked lobster into a lesson in liaison: redden each slice in butter, reduce Madeira nearly dry, then thicken cream and yolk without a single boil.

Homard à la Palestine

Chef Juliette

Homard à la Palestine

Homard à la Palestine rests on one extravagant economy: the lobster shells become a concentrated sauce, mounted with curry butter and spooned over the meat inside a generous border of pilaff rice.

Mousselines de Homard

Chef Juliette

Mousselines de Homard

Mousselines de Homard turn raw lobster, egg white, and cream into warm, tender little moulds, poached under cover so their delicate structure sets without tightening or losing its sweetness.

Soufflés de Homard

Chef Juliette

Soufflés de Homard

Soufflés de Homard rise by cold mousseline, gentle poaching, and a buttered paper collar, lobster-rich and tender in their own shells with glossy Sauce au Vin Blanc passed at the table.

Cold Lobster with Various Sauces

Chef Juliette

Cold Lobster with Various Sauces

Homard poached in aromatic court-bouillon, cooled in that same liquor, then split over linen with claw meat and crisp lettuce, while a vivid mayonnaise derivative waits separately.

Aspic de Homard

Chef Juliette

Aspic de Homard

Lobster and black truffle suspended in limpid fish jelly, assembled layer by patient layer until the mould turns out with a tender tremble: the garde-manger's grand lesson in clarity, timing, and restraint.

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