Some were generous, like the heap of sautéed spinach or the mountain of mashed potatoes crowned with crisp garlic slices.

Eight cold plates were set around it: crisp slices of pig's ear in hot oil crunched pleasantly when you ate them.

The banana tempura - crisp, deep-fried slices stacked in a doily-covered cage - is a must.

On the side is a potato "napoleon," layers of pureed potatoes between crisp butter-fried slices.

Sweet potato aioli is an easy and beautiful dip to serve with crisp slices of fennel or strips of red pepper.

Perhaps a few crisp slices of Irish bacon, to give the meal the poignant contrast of sweetness and salinity.

Soft polenta is strewn with more cepes and crisp slices of prosciutto.

As a result, crab meat is piled high atop crisp slices of sautéed Gulf fish at restaurants like Galatoire's.

She sat down to eggs, crisp slices of bacon.

The creamy mélange became a bed for sautéed bass topped with crisp slices of diver's scallops.