A dish that I once made consisted of a chicken breast that I'd roasted with a good tomato sauce and covered in melted mozzarella cheese, with a side of green beans with garlic.
A second starter, vitello tonnato, consisted of thin slices of fine roast veal, but the tuna sauce, so critical to this classic dish, consisted of a few skimpy ribbons, looped around the plate, not nearly enough to do justice to the dish.
Pennette with asparagus and wild mushrooms, our third entree, consisted of a pile of boringly naked pasta topped with generous pieces of fresh asparagus, excellent and varied wild mushrooms, a wisp of basil and roasted garlic cloves.
Its set consisted of an open plaza.
The book is framed by tales of his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor whose culinary repertoire consists of a single dish: roast chicken with carrots.
Our maiden voyage consisted of carrot soup, roast pork with white beans and rosemary, creamed spinach and plum upside-down cake.
For example, Rufus Estes's turn-of-the-century deliberations on lunch: "Yesterday's dinner perhaps consisted of roast turkey, beef or lamb, and there is some meat left over; then pick out one of my receipts calling for minced or creamed meats; baked or stuffed potatoes are always nice, or there may be cold potatoes left over that can be mashed, made into cakes and fried".
In the nonhummus category, they consisted of silky, roasted eggplant; ground beef-and-lamb kebabs fragrant with coriander; and, most surprising of all, an eight-ounce hamburger that, like the best backyard burgers, tasted as if it had been cooked over charcoal instead of just gas.
The traditional method consisted of roasting whole beans on an earthenware comal heated with wood charcoal, de-shelling the beans, then grinding the beans to a paste using a stone metate and mano.
The modern method consisted of roasting cocoa beans with pilot-scale equipment that simulates large-scale chocolate manufacturing using whole bean drum roasters, deshelling the beans followed by mechanical grinding using a ball mill producing a chocolate paste.
