| Veal blanquette is a dialogue between the velvety, almost fonduelike white-wine sauce and the fibrous textures of the underdone root vegetables — turnip squares, a beet the palest pink imaginable. |
| The cloth-covered table belongs in a French kitchen, with Grand-mere setting up for her blanquette de veau, and not in an Indian rasoi. |
| Not to be outdone is France with its veal blanquette, which is long-roasted to produce a pale stewed veal with the consistency of melted butter. |
| I'll have the blanquette de veau, and she'll have the poulet au champagne. |
| At the third: pork loin with a mandarin-orange sauce, and a pot of veal blanquette. |
| The duck breast was unaccountably submerged in red wine, and the veal blanquette was flat. |
