Meat, generally a somewhat tough cut of beef or pork, is spiced with chiles and stewed, slowly, with a few choice ingredients.
The French and English mustard in the marinade are not quite as strange a choice of ingredient as they might at first seem: mustard seed is one of the mainstays of Indian cooking.
You don't need a distillery, just a cheap bottle of vodka, some choice ingredients, a mason jar and a couple of days.
Of course, lentils are much nicer if you combine them with a few other choice ingredients.
The paella had a generous supply of choice ingredients: squid, clams, mussels, chicken, chorizo, peas and roasted red peppers.
For a band such as Pet Shop Boys, who apply a certain conceptual rigour to their albums, the B-side has always been a way of using choice ingredients that wouldn't flatter the main dish.
In a survey of myth and literature we begin with a life-size diorama of those three Shakespearean witches, many of whose choice ingredients are toxic plants: "Tooth of wolf" is wolfsbane; "tongue of dog" is houndstongue.
Glass cases on the wall display choice ingredients originally used.
The multicourse dinners, traditionally served family-style, usually include choice ingredients like lobster, shrimp, filet mignon, shark's fin and duck.
This year's stew includes choice ingredients such as Derek Jacobi in Shaw's Heartbreak House and Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens in Private Lives.
Never short of a sparkling anecdote or spectacular profanity, Case became an evergreen feature of West Hollywood poker games, dog parks and farmers' markets, where he found choice ingredients for his superb cooking.
