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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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Pièce de Bœuf Braisée (Relevé)

Chef Juliette

Pièce de Bœuf Braisée (Relevé)

Cut the rump long, brown it deeply, and braise it at a bare tremble with its vegetables. The reward is even tenderness, clean slices, and a sauce glossy enough to pool.

Pièce de Bœuf à la Bourguignonne

Chef Juliette

Pièce de Bœuf à la Bourguignonne

A whole piece of beef, larded and browned hard, then braised in red wine with mushrooms, bacon, and glazed onions until the meat yields and the sauce shines dark garnet.

Pièce de Bœuf à la Cuiller

Chef Juliette

Pièce de Bœuf à la Cuiller

Beef braised until a spoon can part it, cooled and hollowed into an edible case, then crusted with Parmesan crumbs and refilled with tongue, sweetbread, mushrooms, and glossy sauce.

Pièce de Bœuf à la Flamande

Chef Juliette

Pièce de Bœuf à la Flamande

Pièce de Bœuf à la Flamande gathers a tender larded braise with cabbage, glazed roots, bacon, garlic sausage, and potatoes, all bound by a clear, glossy gravy and the discipline of gentle heat.

Pièce de Bœuf à la Mode Chaude

Chef Juliette

Pièce de Bœuf à la Mode Chaude

A proper bœuf à la mode makes collagen do the work: larded beef, red wine, brandy, calf's feet, carrots, and onions braised slowly until the meat yields and the sauce coats a spoon.

Pièce de Bœuf à la Mode Froide

Chef Juliette

Pièce de Bœuf à la Mode Froide

Pièce de Bœuf à la Mode Froide turns yesterday’s braise into a composed cold centerpiece, with tender beef, carrots, onions, and calf’s-foot-rich sauce held in a clear, delicate jelly.

Pièce de Bœuf à la Noailles

Chef Juliette

Pièce de Bœuf à la Noailles

Pièce de Bœuf à la Noailles turns a patient wine braise into a burnished centerpiece, with larded beef, fond-darkened Soubise between every slice, and a rapid buttered gratin over the whole generous piece.

The Rump

Chef Juliette

The Rump

Rumsteck grillé teaches the discipline of a great steak: thick cutting, fierce heat, a proper rest, and a clean slice across the grain, served plainly because good beef needs no disguise.

Langue de Bœuf

Chef Juliette

Langue de Bœuf

Langue de Bœuf teaches patience without fuss: brine the tongue, poach it at a bare tremble, peel it while warm, then serve generous slices with sharp, glossy sauce piquante.

Langue de Bœuf Choucroûte

Chef Juliette

Langue de Bœuf Choucroûte

Langue de Bœuf Choucroûte teaches the braise from foundation to finish: tender tongue under a lacquered glaze, sharp cabbage softened slowly, cloudlike potato purée, and Madeira sauce drawn from the same rich liquor.

Langue de Bœuf Bourgeoise

Chef Juliette

Langue de Bœuf Bourgeoise

Langue de Bœuf Bourgeoise turns a humble tongue into a generous braise, tender slices glossed with their own cooking liquor and ringed by olive-cut carrots and onions browned honestly in butter.

Langue de Bœuf aux Fèves

Chef Juliette

Langue de Bœuf aux Fèves

Salted ox tongue poached at the gentlest tremble, peeled warm and glazed to a bronze sheen, with tender broad beans bound in butter and savory, and Madeira sauce passed separately.

Langue de Bœuf Flamande

Chef Juliette

Langue de Bœuf Flamande

Langue de Bœuf Flamande teaches the generous logic of garnish: tender glazed tongue at the centre, braised cabbage, roots, potatoes, bacon, and sausage gathered around it.

Langues de Bœuf Froides

Chef Juliette

Langues de Bœuf Froides

A week in brine and three hours at the gentlest simmer turn ox tongue tender; a scarlet gelatine glaze, clear aspic dice, and parsley make it a splendid cold centerpiece.

Queue de Bœuf à l’Auvergnate

Chef Juliette

Queue de Bœuf à l’Auvergnate

Queue de Bœuf à l’Auvergnate turns humble oxtail into a silken white-wine braise, then sets glazed chestnuts, buttered pearl onions, and bacon around it. Brown the joints hard, because the fond becomes the sauce.

Queue de Bœuf à la Cavour

Chef Juliette

Queue de Bœuf à la Cavour

Brown stock, white wine, and patience turn oxtail into a silken braise, with small mushrooms in the glossy liquor and chestnut purée alongside. The reduction is the dish, so give it its time.

Queue de Bœuf Farcie

Chef Juliette

Queue de Bœuf Farcie

Queue de Bœuf Farcie turns patient boning, truffled forcemeat, and gentle poaching into a burnished centerpiece. The final basting is the dish: each spoonful builds the lacquer that makes the tail magnificent.

Queue de Bœuf Grillée

Chef Juliette

Queue de Bœuf Grillée

Tender oxtail is simmered with aromatics, dried until the surface will hold crumbs, then buttered and grilled to a deep bronze crust, with thick Soubise underneath to catch every rich, crisp-edged bite.

Stewed Steaks and Onions

Chef Juliette

Stewed Steaks and Onions

Biftecks braisés aux oignons teaches the honest braise: brown thick steaks in butter, settle them beneath abundant gilded onions, then give gentle heat three hours to make its own rich gravy.

Salt Beef

Chef Juliette

Salt Beef

Bœuf salé teaches the quiet discipline of the simmer: cured brisket, carrots, turnips, and one cloth-bound suet dumpling, all brought to tenderness in the same savory liquor.

Steak and Kidney Pudding

Chef Juliette

Steak and Kidney Pudding

Beef and kidney cook inside a firm suet crust for five patient hours, making their own dark gravy. The dampened seam decides everything: close it well, then let the pouding work.

Steak Pudding

Chef Juliette

Steak Pudding

Pouding de bœuf teaches enclosed cookery: a firm suet crust, well-seasoned chuck, and only water, held gently for four hours until the meat and pastry make their own glossy gravy.

Steak and Oyster Pudding

Chef Juliette

Steak and Oyster Pudding

A sealed suet crust turns beef, oysters, and their liquor into its own gravy: an English pudding kept in the French canon, scaled for four and cooked in one home pot.

Daube à la Provençale Froide

Chef Juliette

Daube à la Provençale Froide

A Provençal lesson in leftovers: tender beef, vegetables, bacon rind, and gelatin-rich gravy packed into a terrine, chilled firm, turned out, and ringed with chopped aspic for a generous cold lunch.

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