Tibsie derho combined bits of chicken, red bell peppers, garlic and onions in a lively sauce of hot pepper butter.

The hanger steak, lately on menus everywhere, had great flavor and a lively pepper-Cognac sauce, but the medley of vegetables alongside it was forgettable.

You can't go wrong with the tuna steak in a clean and lively Mediterranean sauce or with grilled swordfish with a black-olive butter.

Moules Biarritz (plump mussels in a lively herb-garlic sauce) was also well prepared.

Almost everything tastes better with a liberal dose of guasacaca, a lively sauce of avocado, lemon juice and olive oil.

The plump, tender oysters and lively sauce bring smiles.

Chewy, slippery cellophane noodles get similar treatment in a lively sauce powered by capsicum, or hot red pepper.

The same lively sauce transforms the Chinese greens around them into a delicious vegetable stew.

Its lively sauce creates eruptions on the tongue that are agreeably moderated by an abundant mix of ingredients that includes fusilli, shrimp and scallops .

This gilt-edged combination comes with a fairly traditional condiment, roasted quince, and a lively sweet-hot sauce made of honey and sansho peppercorns.