There's a dish featuring crab, tête de veau, a savoury profiterole and "cucumber and green apple water" that manages to taste of none of these things.
The Gujarati vegetarian thali – a dish featuring a selection of curries, curds, dhal, pickles and rice – is lighter and less spicy than most, and is usually served with buttermilk.
She's serving a dish featuring the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion chile.
Let each family make a dish featuring kale.
Mr. Mattia created a commemorative dish featuring a digitally swirled image of the Marilyn Monroe rose for the organization.
Mr. D'Silva's sambal buah keluak, his take on a Straits Chinese dish featuring pork, paired with a pungent filling of a black Southeast Asian nut, makes a return, having drawn crowds to the little hawker stall he ran before opening Immigrants.
The catering offered an eclectic mix of a rice dish featuring corn, salad, seafood pasta, fruit salad, salmon hors d'oeuvres, a bowl of parmesan as well as mozzarella and cherry tomatoes on kebabs.
If he got a notion to come up a new dish featuring pine nuts, for example, he could go back through years of notebooks to find everything he had ever done to them – cooked them in a creamy broth to make a pine nut risotto; infused them in pinecones filled with boiling water for a pine nut tea – and build from there.
Even tastier is the mi quang, a heady dish featuring noodles, pork belly, shrimp and quail eggs in a turmeric-laden gravy, finished off with crushed peanuts, deep-fried onions and crisp shrimp crackers.
It might be nice to give them something they wouldn't ordinarily have at home – though it's also the case that most of us would rather be handed a plate of really delicious roast chicken than a badly made dish featuring a split sauce and some 24 carefully "sourced" ingredients, none of which quite go together.
The menu will include his famous fish-sauce wings, along with "hectic" small plates of spicy-sour cured pork riblets, stir-fried manila clams under aromatic chilies, krachai and galangal, a white fungus salad dressed in lime juice and palm sugar, and even an experimental dish featuring live, young eels.
