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Artichokes with watercress
Prepare soft-boiled eggs first (1 egg per guest), to do this, immerse all the eggs in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes (just) with this time the white is quite hard and the yolk remains liquid. Remove quickly and cool in cold water. Remove the shells as with hard-boiled eggs. Place each egg on an artichoke bottom cooked in cold salted water, topped with a thin slice of ham.
Mask with a spicy mayonnaise sauce. Garnish the dish as desired with chervil, jelly and small boiled carrots, truffles, etc ..
Poached eggs au gratin
Poach 8 eggs in 1 liter of acidulated boiling water with lemon juice or a glass of vinegar. After 2 minutes, remove them and put them in cold water.
Make the following sauce:
Heat the butter, mix in the flour, the flour is a matter of 2 or 3 minutes, pour in the boiling milk while stirring, then the salt , spices and 3/4 of the cheese.
Butter a dish, sprinkle it with grated cheese, put a light layer of sauce on it, then the eggs side by side without squeezing them too much, pour over the rest of the sauce, then the rest of the cheese and brown with more heat below than above (preferably under the gas or in the oven, placing the dish on a cold brick.
Hubert wishes you happy holidays
