Veloute

Even through the spectacles, or lifted a little above them, they were always bright and expressive; but without those adjuncts, the blaze was softer and more tempered: they had that look which the French call veloute, or velvety; and he appeared altogether ten years younger. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Canlis takes a bow with a parsnip veloute; Tilth offered up abroccoli-cheese soup madewithaged Grafton cheddar; Ethan Stowell chips in his Mediterraneanmussels and chickpeas; Le Pichet shares its famous onion soup; Tamara Murphy cooks up sweet pepper soup, highlighting “the glamor girls of the garden.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you think your sauce is a bit flat, a veloute sauce can be kicked up by adding many things. ❋ Homesick Texan (2009)

Starters include a tasty veloute of corn soup with slow-cooked tomato and a ricotta gnocchi with asparagus that is flavored with tomato confit and portabello-Parmesan butter. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Several of his innovations include veloute of soup with cuttlefish ink and hazelnut foam; orzo with crayfish; sampagion , or savory sabayon sauce with roe fish from the western Greek town of Mesolongi; and red snapper with black truffle and aubergine mousse and white grouper with wild greens fri ç asse. ❋ Christine Pirovolakis (2011)

The bone-in steak, one of the very best in the city, comes with sea peas, grilled Benton's bacon artisanal, from Kentucky, delicious, wilted romaine and Nantes carrots, while the fish -- which had been oil-poached -- had artichokes, veloute, and pistachio-basil aillade. ❋ Jay Weston (2011)

For the oyster veloute, a Boozy Beginning made with Patron Silver and anejo tequilas, Ultimat Vodka and house-made dry vermouth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Our potiron (again explained to me that a potiron is a flatter, different species, best suited for cooking) was divided - part of it became veloute de carotte et potiron (yummy!), and the rest became pulp to be made into a pumpkin pie this afternoon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So Blue Smoke was smoked chicken soup with wild rice and a restaurant like 11 Madison Park, which is more refined, was chicken veloute with black truffles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kevin won the Quickfire with his fricasseed escargots garnished with bacon jam - and apparently that bacon jam was awesome - but Mattin's overly bacony veloute very nearly got him kicked off. ❋ Kit Pollard (2009)

He probably felt like he needed to personalize the veloute, and like bacon is always a winner. ❋ Kit Pollard (2009)

Kelley depicts her as Marie Antoinette, vain and self-absorbed, fretting for an entire day over the amount of nutmeg in a veloute sauce and accepting more than a million dollars 'worth of free designer clothing during her time in the White House. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are thickened with a thin veloute 'Bechamel or white sauce. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our potiron (again explained to me that a potiron is a flatter, different species, best suited for cooking) was divided - part of it became veloute de carotte et potiron (yummy!) ❋ Unknown (2008)

And from this Smitten Kitchen recipe, I passed on the goopy veloute sauce, but took the brown butter: after all, it's one of the most delicious flavors in the world. ❋ Tannaz (2008)