It may also be used as a solvent or solute in cooking, such as in vodka sauce.

Even better were the ravioli in vodka sauce, the cheapest entree on the menu ($12.95).

Another pasta pick starred hot-smoked salmon and spinach in a spicy vodka sauce.

We had cheese tortellini with vodka sauce and jalapeno smoked turkey for dinner, a fine backup.

And penne suffered under tomato and overly thickened, sticky vodka sauce.

No more could I run up the street for pad thai or rigatoni with vodka sauce.

Rigatoni in a pink grappa sauce (similar to a vodka sauce) is another memory that will linger.

The pink, creamy vodka sauce, flecked with pancetta and onions, was even better.

Everything seemed quite reasonable: penne with vodka sauce and shrimp or chicken, at $7.75, was the most expensive dish.

Even the less eventful dishes - farfalle in vodka sauce, for example - come with noteworthy extras.