Good with just salt and pepper, this omelette is often flavored with tomato and finely chopped herbs (often fines herbes or tarragon, chervil, parsley and chives) or chopped onions.
A "potage julienne" is composed of carrots, beets, leeks, celery, lettuce, sorrel, and chervil cut in strips a half- "ligne" in thickness and about eight or ten "lignes" in length.
Depending on the recipe, the "bouquet garni" may also include parsley, basil, burnet, chervil, rosemary, peppercorns, savory and tarragon.
Cucumbers and radishes seem to thrive when grown in close association with each other, and radishes also grow well with chervil, lettuce, peas and nasturtiums.
Frequently, crushed coriander seed is added, and variations may include the addition of other herbs such as chervil, chives, parsley, etc.
It is similar in appearance to chervil, the common cooking herb from the same genus.
The sea chervil, abundant in the area, frequently came up with the fishing nets and had to be thrown back into the water.
The sauce is finished with chopped pickled cucumbers, capers, parsley, chervil and tarragon.
