And Italian sausage risotto, another appetizer, which combined diced sausage, fresh tomatoes, bits of roasted fennel, onion and plenty of Parmesan, was sublime.
Few linen-draped restaurants can boast of lamb as succulently braised as what's served here with bits of roasted lemon on one of the specialty pies (half-pies are $5 to $6; small pizzas are $9 to $14; large are $14 to $19).
Five long years of plugging and finally when a sandwich is created in our image, it hasn't even a bit of roast beef in it.
"Five long years of hard plugging, and when finally a sandwich is created in our image, it hasn't so much as a bit of roast beef inside of it.
To make rouille, incorporate garlic, cayenne to taste and a bit of roasted pepper into homemade mayonnaise, or just stir very finely minced garlic and roasted pepper, along with some cayenne, into your Hellmann's.
Most of the "main" dishes delicate pieces of fried red mullet, lamb cooked and served in a plastic bag next to a bit of roasted-pepper ketchup feel about the same size as the small plates.
At a B&B, if you ask for cream for your coffee, your host will appear stunned, as if you'd requested a bit of roasted badger with your eggs.
I have had decent risotto in Los Angeles, but she's right: Angelo Auriana's rice dishes are marvelous things: In his soaring converted warehouse near the once and future 6th Street Bridge, risotto Milanese, as creamy and subtle as it might be at a trattoria in the Navigli, becomes almost magical when you spoon in a bit of roasted bone marrow.
Add bits of leftover roast chicken or pork if you have it, and pass soy sauce at the table.
Mr. Brock's luscious shrimp and grits were studded with smoky Benton's sausage and bits of caramelized roasted tomato, some braised fennel and a triumphant topping of pig's ear, braised into submission, sliced into a kind of porcine chiffonade and fried.
