There are also slight earthy and smoky notes that hang in the background.
The slight blackening introduced a smoky note that worked nicely with both aubergines and the figs.
GRILLED breads have enormous appeal: they represent an easy way to make homemade bread, and they take on a lovely smoky flavor and slight charring.
Both cultures initially appeared as whitish, azonate and felty colonies with diffuse margins, and later became smoky gray with slight olivaceous tones (Fig. 1a).
They were unlike anything I had tasted: purplish-gray in color, they had a buttery, nutty, almost smoky flavor, with a slight caramel bitterness.
By smoking onions briefly over cedar branches — a step that's surprisingly easy to accomplish — then adding them along with more cedar and citrus rinds to a buttermilk bath, King is able to infuse the meat with a subtle smoky flavor and a slight tang.
(The master chefs' version is wincingly sugary and rich – I'm a complete custard fiend, and I have trouble eating it). Much of the joy of this dish is the difference between the creamily bland custard, with its slight hint of vanilla, and the sweet, almost smoky flavour of the sauce.
They are smoky concepts liable to disappear at the slightest disturbance.
A slight, blue-jean clad figure, Ms. Williams padded barefoot past the smoky green onyx panel and the Venetian plastered walls in the front hall, where old-fashioned filament bulbs hung like giant fireflies from the ceiling.
