1.   Drizzle over the carved chicken, which goes well with braised endive and browned potatoes.

2.   For less determined cooks, there are some simpler dishes like chicken grilled with mustard, mussels in a curry sauce, braised endive and pineapple in ginger.

3.   In the meantime we feast on scallops with braised endive in an intriguing sweet-and-bitter orange sauce.

4.   We were well into the sweetbreads and braised endive when our waiter began setting the stage for our main course.

5.   When is the last time you saw braised endive on a menu?