The movies are where many of us first learn to shudder at creaking floorboards, slow-turning doorknobs and all the other delicious, familiar frights that repeatedly bring us back for another genre helping.
"That is what we are creating with Nancy's Fancy -- delicious, familiar tastes created with the finest all-natural ingredients and, perhaps, a distinctive twist or two".
A lot of it is simple, delicious and familiar to what you're used to eating.
Operating out of a century-old Victorian house on the Sharon Green, the product of a radio lifer named Marshall Miles and an art dealer/astrologer named Jill Goodman, WHDD is at once a delicious variation on familiar NPR themes and their opposite: NPR's familiar Starbucks- and cabernet-cultural wavelength with more of a local, populist twist.
The delicious, not quite familiar combination is like the first pluck of a sitar's strings, an announcement of the delicately complex mixture of flavors, aromas, and textures that are available at this sleek, sophisticated newcomer to the Flatiron district.
Once past the bar snacks, some of the best things on the menu are fried, like the delicious watercress salad — familiar to legion SriPraPhai fans, and prepared here with cashews, plenty of chili oil, and abundant disregard for any vestigial health benefits the leafiest of greens might possess.
Desserts, a mix of housemade and commercial, all made the grade: creamy New York cheesecake with a smooth, fresh-tasting strawberry sauce; an especially toothsome tiramisù; the familiar but still delicious molten-center chocolate cake; and a quadruple chocolate mousse pie.
Long after the tan has faded and the stress returned, a whiff of something familiar and delicious can transport you back to a table warmed by the sun, and the food shared around it.
Just as important, it's also a soothing, comforting menu of familiar, rich and delicious foods.
If you've ever been to Greece, you're probably familiar with the delicious yellow split pea puree called fava.
What's more, you will have delicious fare presented by a familiar person -- Rebecca herself, a graceful Cuban-born beauty, graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson's hotel school in Rutherford, who greets 90percentt of her clients by name.
