ravigote

The accompanying sauce ravigote, sharp with cornichons, is a classic, and cuts the fatty richness perfectly.

Sauce ravigote is a classic, lightly acidic sauce in French cuisine, which may be prepared either warm or cold.

Poached very briefly so it is slightly underdone inside, the salmon is served with a ravigote sauce and boiled potatoes.

Do you know the difference between rémoulade and ravigote, borage and lovage or longan and loquat?

The seared skate, a bistro classic, comes with a crunchy polenta crust and an ingenious ravigote of capers and sweetbreads.

Beef brains have a mushy texture and very little inherent flavor and are typically flavored with sauces such as chile sauce and Sauce ravigote.

Leek tart was flavorful and fresh but the crust was undercooked, while carrot soup was pale and mussels ravigote lacked the aromatic herb flavor they should have.

Sauce ravigote: The addition of a little lemon or white wine vinegar creates a lightly acidic velouté that is traditionally flavored with onions and shallots, and more recently with mustard.

Chez la Vieille-Adrienne Plump veal kidneys, calf's liver sauteed in butter, calf's head served in a rich sauce ravigote, a thick mayonnaise studded with capers, onions and herbs.

Next came a fresh and savory appetizer of a single fat, room-temperature langoustine posed on a drum made of leek whites with a piquant ravigote of mussels, clams and pine nuts in the drum's hollow.

Many other preparations pass under the term ravigote, but in general ravigote sauces are highly seasoned with chopped, sautéed shallots or onion, capers and herbs: ravigoté connotes "reinvigorated", "freshened up".

A saucisson in brioche came in a Perigourdine sauce that was so sweet it canceled out the minced truffles, and the head cheese in a creamy ravigote sauce could have used some zip in the seasonings department (both $5.50).

Off the special lunch menu, diners are served a procession of tiny appetizers, ranging from an unadorned tartare of tuna with leeks and mushrooms to a creamy pickle-rich sauce ravigote cloaking gentle, gelatinous cubes of calf's foot.

They have their own sandwiches, like muffulettas and po'-boys, and their own sauces, like remoulade and ravigote, derived from but not really very similar to the French originals, and idiosyncratic dishes like etouffes, which are seafood stews.

Georges listened and looked at these ladies, feeling dizzy and excited by the coarse recital thus crudely whispered in his ear, while behind his chair the waiters kept repeating in respectful tones: "Pullets a la marechale; fillets of sole with ravigote sauce."

The lunch was going smoothly - we swooned over the sweet-corn croquettes, we were tickled by the ravigote sauce on the scallop carpaccio with Stimpson surf clam and we all cheered the roast saddle of rabbit with prunes and candied Meyer-lemon peel.