In summary, 154 component foods were direct matches based on the food names; 122 component foods were close but differed in either unspecified details (e.g., "summer squash" and "squash") or preparation (e.g., "raw onion" and "cooked onion"); 26 component foods were matched using the TDS mapping file (e.g., "lentils" and "white beans").
Rigorously seasoned and thick with herbs, it had the depth of flavour that suggested someone had patiently sweated down a mountain of onions and celery in its preparation.
A typical preparation might include red onion, fresh and dried corn, and cooked sweet potato.
A worker burns the land as preparation for the next onion harvest, near the city of Quetzaltenango.
To simplify the preparation, I stew the onions, peppers and zucchini together.
The recipe here is Middle Eastern, and its preparation goes like this: sauté onions in butter or oil, sauté rice in the soft onions, then add stock.
That ability is most evident in the preparation of straightforward standbys like onion soup, sweetbreads, terrines, short ribs, lamb shank, steak frites, skate and bouillabaisse.
Nor can one go wrong choosing them do piaz (with two preparations of onions), saag (with spinach puree) or curried.
A version of lamb do piaza was nothing like the thick, complex classic, which calls for two preparations of onions.
The alternative was a lobster treated Souvaroff-style, a 19th-century overload preparation here involving morels, chanterelles, spring onions and, surprise!
It is the same preparation, sprinkled with tender, lightly sweated onions before Mr. Iyengar folds it into a neat, long bundle.
