It's the sweetest, most tender — well, let's not raise expectations any further, except to say that despite being cooked in liquid, this turkey still gives you a fair amount of crunchy skin.
Although there's scant denying the emotional blight on view, when Mick and Dawn do their own intoxicated slow dance to "Love Me Tender," well, let's just say that is not the only time "Ecstasy" delivers on its name.
Tender, well-spiced stewed meat topped with cheese-encrusted mashed potatoes... need I say more?
Duck breast is medium rare, with tender, well-caramelized root vegetables.
Instead, we sampled the chirashi ("scattered") deluxe, the generosity of fish strewn with studied carelessness over a bed of tender, well-seasoned rice with vinegar.
Roasted free-range chicken, another high point, wore crisp, well-burnished skin over moist, tender, well-seasoned thigh and breast meat.
Tender, well-cooked salmon sat atop curried risotto with capers, an energetic mix of flavors that would have benefited from a teaspoon less salt.
BARBECUED BRISKET Five pounds of prime beef, tender, well-seasoned and fully cooked, from Lobel's is $139.95; lobels.com, (877) 783-4512 (Dec. 14).
The tender, well-seasoned shredded pork Peking style reached beyond the ordinary with house-made duck sauce, though it would have been nice to have more than four pancakes, given the amount of filling served.
Using a scale is more accurate and consistent than measuring by volume, particularly when it comes to flour, where small variations can give you dense, flat cookies instead of tender, well-risen ones.
One of the greatest pleasures was Saturday's dream scene, whose genuinely dreamlike tone was set by Ms. Kent's luminous classicism and by Anne Milewski's tender, well-danced Amour and Gillian Murphy's coolly regal Dryad Queen.
