But, I had some really tasty, grilled oysters from Tomales Bay that were cooked with a light tomato and garlic butter sauce.

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Continuing the theme of found food, a soft-shell crab is presented as an edible beach treasure, surrounded by amaranth grains for sand and brown-butter sauce for seawater.

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In this recipe, her third Slow Food Fast contribution, the chef calls for roasting salmon fillets to flaky perfection and serving them with two bright, indulgent accompaniments: a sorrel cream sauce and butter-braised radishes.

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The onions are used in a recipe for roasted sweet summer corn, whose master stroke is a sauce made from butter and white miso paste.

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My cassava version carried abundantly flavourful chicken, stewed in a garlicky creamy white sauce made with lashings of butter and white wine and speckled with herbs.

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It comes back into the Reinsch house in Snickers bars, Ragout spaghetti sauce, Peter Pan peanut butter, Girl Scout cookies, Certs breath mints, and almost any kind of crispy snack food.

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You could have two dishes of pasta, and one is incredibly spicy red sauce, and the other is just butter and Parmesan cheese, and any person could prefer either one.

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Dressed in a sauce that marries port and Armagnac in a river of butter.

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If you want to take some samples home to taste, canned snails are sold marinated in hot sauce or in Provencal style, with garlic, white wine and butter.

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