The preparations began well before dark, with steaks and chicken being marinated, while garlic, onions and potatoes were peeled and chopped.
Smooth and silky (like velvet soups, creamy custards, and rich risotto) or richly decadent (lobster, steak, dark chocolate or scallops) can help set the mood.
An exception is the dark, richly gamy hanger steak, swimming in a red wine sauce and onion marmalade and accompanied by crescent-shaped dumplings stuffed with puréed potato and Gruyère cheese.
In its cool dark depths are the steaks in a covered dish of honey-ginger marinade, the potato salad and coleslaw she put up after breakfast, and the Rose's lime juice and vodka for the gimlets.
Choose a light, bright red color, not dark red, and pick steaks that are 1 inch (25.4 mm) to 1 1/2 inches (38.1 mm) thick.
I like buckwheat, the occasional steak and really dark chocolate.
About the inherent risks of such ensembles, Ms. Neuwirth, given to cooking things like flank steak marinated in dark beer, "crazy salad" and chimichurri sauce for 50 people at a time, was as nonchalant as a Jacqueline Susann heroine.
Both floor menus will feature dishes like pork belly & raw oyster, smoking goat milk cheese, dry aged hanger steak, and a dark chocolate & cayenne candy Car for dessert.
Underneath this crusty, dark, fossil-looking piece of skirt steak was ill, tender, dark pink pieces of sweet, savory, aromatic skirt steak".
The steak is a darker red color and has a much more distinctive, gamey flavor, like nothing else I have ever tried before.
