Rabbit pappardelle was a pleasant surprise, a superior plate of firm pasta with a sweetly meaty sauce.

It's a mix of veal, beef and pork, and the combination of sleek, satiny noodles and sensuously meaty sauce can make me almost (but not quite) forget those greens.

Flat, broad and crimped at the edges, it has the integrity to carry rich meaty sauces.

Dried pasta has a firmer, denser texture when cooked and is suited to chunky, meaty or oily sauces.

And pork osso buco was as good as this dish gets, tender and of distinct pork character (not faux veal, as at so many restaurants), with a gloriously dense and meaty brown sauce and a rich root-vegetable risotto.

We've augmented a little lean ground beef with mushrooms to get a rich, meaty sauce that has a minimum of saturated fat.

Most modern cooks tend to make big meaty sauces.

Which will it be - the perfectly cooked tagliatelle with a meaty and slightly spicy wild-mushroom sauce, or the wild-mushroom risotto whose flavor is enhanced by the addition of a small amount of mushroom sauce?

A Michigan hot dog, or "michigan", is a steamed hot dog on a steamed bun topped with a meaty sauce, generally referred to as "Michigan sauce".

Yellow tomatoes, low in acid, make a good meaty sauce to go with green fettuccine, mixed with black olives and small purple basil leaves.