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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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Noix de Veau en Surprise à la Macédoine

Chef Juliette

Noix de Veau en Surprise à la Macédoine

A braised veal cushion becomes its own serving case, layered with buttered macédoine and neat slices from the hollowed centre, then warmed whole and served with its glossy liquor.

Noix de Veau en Surprise à la Pithiviers

Chef Juliette

Noix de Veau en Surprise à la Pithiviers

Noix de veau becomes its own serving case, holding whole stuffed quail, minced mushroom, truffle, and glossy demi-glace, then revealing the tender veal sliced around it at the table.

Noix de Veau en Surprise à la Toulousaine

Chef Juliette

Noix de Veau en Surprise à la Toulousaine

A braised veal cushion becomes its own serving case, holding pale chicken quenelles, tender sweetbreads, cocks’ combs, mushrooms, and truffle in glossy sauce Allemande, a grand construction disciplined by simplicity.

Noix de Veau Froide à la Caucasienne

Chef Juliette

Noix de Veau Froide à la Caucasienne

Cool, rosy veal layered with anchovy-chive butter, arranged around a firm tomato purée dome and bright dice of clear aspic: the grand cold platter made practical for four.

Noix de Veau Froide à la Suédoise

Chef Juliette

Noix de Veau Froide à la Suédoise

A grand cold buffet translated for one table: tender veal, salted tongue, and horseradish butter circling a jewel-like vegetable salad, all held with aspic and served with a sharp, silken mayonnaise.

Longes, Carrés et Noix de Veau Froids

Chef Juliette

Longes, Carrés et Noix de Veau Froids

Cold veal, cooked just rosy, glazed with crystal-clear aspic, and set among jewel-like macédoine, mayonnaise-bound artichokes, and jelly cubes: the French buffet translated for four.

Fricandeau (Relevé)

Chef Juliette

Fricandeau (Relevé)

A finely larded cushion of veal, braised until a spoon passes through it, then basted beneath fierce heat until its own reduced liquor becomes a deep, savory lacquer.

Fricandeau Froid

Chef Juliette

Fricandeau Froid

Fricandeau froid turns one careful braise into a cold luncheon centerpiece: larded veal sliced tender, its clarified liquor set around it as jelly, then half-melted and brushed over the top.

Poitrine de Veau Farcie

Chef Juliette

Poitrine de Veau Farcie

A family braise with real discipline: veal breast wrapped around pork forcemeat and duxelles, cooked gently under short moistening, then glazed until bronze and glossy in its own reduced juices.

Tête de Veau (Relevé and Entrée)

Chef Juliette

Tête de Veau (Relevé and Entrée)

Tête de veau kept pale in a flour blanc, sliced tender with its tongue and delicate brain collops beside it: the classical luncheon platter made manageable for four without surrendering its method.

Tête de Veau à l’Anglaise

Chef Juliette

Tête de Veau à l’Anglaise

A pale, tender half calf’s head, poached bone-in through a lemon flour blanc, then brought to lunch with boiled bacon, vivid green parsley, and a generous sauceboat at its side.

Tête de Veau à la Financière

Chef Juliette

Tête de Veau à la Financière

Tête de veau à la financière turns humble offal into a generous centerpiece: tender calf's head, tongue, and brain beneath glossy Madeira sauce crowded with quenelles, cockscombs, mushrooms, sweetbreads, and truffle.

Tête de Veauà la Poulette

Chef Juliette

Tête de Veauà la Poulette

Tête de Veau à la Poulette makes thrift magnificent: tender, pearly slices of calf’s head folded through Poulette Sauce (No. 101), glossy with butter, sharpened by lemon, and finished with parsley.

Tête de Veau en Tortue

Chef Juliette

Tête de Veau en Tortue

Tête de veau becomes a lesson in grand garnish made manageable: tender skin, herb-dark Sauce Tortue, buttered quenelles, offal, crayfish, olives, truffle, fried eggs, and crisp Croûtons brought together by one cook.

Tête de Veau à la Vinaigrette ou à l’Huile

Chef Juliette

Tête de Veau à la Vinaigrette ou à l’Huile

Tête de Veau à la Vinaigrette ou à l’Huile asks for one discipline: poach the head gently, then serve it warm with tongue, brain, green parsley, and the book’s exact one-two-one sauce.

Escalopes de Veau

Chef Juliette

Escalopes de Veau

Escalopes de Veau teach the speed of the sauté pan: veal beaten thin, sealed in a crisp à l’anglaise coat, and cooked in clarified butter before tenderness has time to turn firm.

Grenadins

Chef Juliette

Grenadins

Thick veal collops threaded with fine bacon, braised under a watchful spoon, and glazed until lacquered: grenadins teach that basting is not fussing, but the technique that keeps lean meat generous.

Grenadins Froids en Bellevue

Chef Juliette

Grenadins Froids en Bellevue

Grenadins en bellevue teach the discipline of aspic: cold veal, exact vegetable trim, and clear jelly layered patiently so the finished crown unmoulds cleanly and holds every bright detail in place.

Ris de Veau (Sweetbreads)

Chef Juliette

Ris de Veau (Sweetbreads)

Veal heart sweetbreads, soaked white, blanched gently, trimmed and pressed, then handed to the canonical braise, poach, or grill: the preparation that turns delicate offal into a poised main dish.

Attereaux de Ris de Veau à la Villeroy

Chef Juliette

Attereaux de Ris de Veau à la Villeroy

Sweetbread, mushroom and truffle threaded in little ranks, cloaked in firm Villeroy sauce, crumbed and fried until bronze: a lesson in cold coating, hot fat, and composed abundance.

Chartreuse de Ris de Veau

Chef Juliette

Chartreuse de Ris de Veau

A vegetable mosaic around tender sweetbreads, cream forcemeat, mushroom, and truffle, gently set in a bain-marie and rested before unmoulding, with mushroom velouté served apart.

Ris de Veau Bonne Maman

Chef Juliette

Ris de Veau Bonne Maman

Ris de Veau Bonne Maman teaches white-meat braising: tender sweetbreads, a coarse vegetable julienne, gelatinous veal stock reduced in stages, and a final glaze, all brought proudly to the table in one cocotte.

Crépinette de Ris de Veau

Chef Juliette

Crépinette de Ris de Veau

Crépinette de ris de veau teaches the discipline of forcemeat: equal parts sweetbread and calf’s udder, rich with truffle, held in caul, crumbed, grilled gently, and carried by Périgueux sauce.

Ris de Veau à la Cévenole

Chef Juliette

Ris de Veau à la Cévenole

Veal sweetbreads, patiently pressed and braised, take a last-minute glaze before meeting pearl onions, savory Cévennes chestnut purée, and a shining jus lié: a dinner-party platter built on tenderness, earthiness, and nerve.

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