The national dish is judd mat gaardebounen - slabs of smoked pork served in a thick cream-based sauce with chunks of potato and broad beans.

They cut through cream-based sauces and cheeses and complement salty, smoky and spicy foods.

In cooking mushroom sauce is sauce with mushrooms as the primary ingredient, often cream-based.

It may also come in a variety of sour cream-based sauces, including a curry sauce which is very popular.

Avoid heavy, cream-based sauces - the richness of mackerel is enough of a stomach filler as it is.

In the United Kingdom, a korma usually refers not to a particular cooking technique but to a curry with a thick, cream-based sauce or gravy.

The weekend cook might have tried a classic French cream-based sauce, but that is as far as it went.

The tomato-based sauces tend to have fewer calories and much less fat than cream-based sauces.

Because the salmon is smoked, it has less of that "fishy" taste and will blend well with the sour cream-based sauce.

Along the same line, braised (korma) lamb, chicken, vegetables or shrimps came in a cream-based sauce enriched with buttery cashews.