Among the better entrees sampled are sauteed brill, nestled on a bed of blanched spinach, in a Bordeaux wine and butter sauce, and rare seared steak with a Cotes-du-Rhone sauce and potatoes Maxim's.

Seared Frozen Steak: Nathan Myhrvold, co-author of "Modernist Cuisine," shows Melissa Clark his method for preparing seared steak.

At a barbecue, a seared steak served with corn on the cob speaks plainly for itself and requires no fluffing up.

It's in the details: a perfectly seared steak, a smooth pistachio ice cream, the waiter whose happy bearing and good manners make you feel like royalty.

The rose washed down a succulent cut of seared medium-rare steak and a pile of hash brown potatoes, not merely holding its own but - this was culinary news to me - enhancing the meat.

Tuna returns for a fourth variation, this time as a seared steak with a mildly piquant paprika sauce and butterfly-shape farfalle pasta.

She would dine on seared steak and twice-baked potatoes covered in melted cheese.

The pick of the house is grilled and seared steak, with herb-fried potatoes, at $16.

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Some of them were like seared steak, crusted black on the outside, but cracked and oozing inside.