Two small, tender soft-shell crabs ($9.95) were smothered with sauteed garlic, tomatoes and onions and came with the same accompaniments as the fish.

That spaghetti tossed with sauteed garlic and olive oil is more consoling than milk toast and a mother's kisses.

Merluza santurce is a dish for garlic lovers, consisting of the thick neck area of a hake that is browned, covered with sauteed garlic and served with roasted potatoes.

The scent of sauteed garlic and onion, like a sumptuous perfume, floated in the air.

Equally lacking in taste was angel-hair pasta encircled with jumbo shrimp and sprinkled with sauteed garlic.

One evening the vegetable star was green beans mated with sauteed garlic; on another night it was tasty spinach that stole the show.

Extra virgin olive oil and an avalanche of sauteed golden garlic marry for a No. 1 pick.

A little sauteed garlic can be added at the end, along with some fresh leaves of tarragon or basil.

Spaghetti poveri, a simple dish of pasta topped with sauteed garlic, olive oil, cheese and toasted bread crumbs, was delicious one evening, but dust dry on another.

They are then combined with some sauteed garlic, more onion and carrots.