One bore meat smothered in a white sauce, and another meat smothered in a brown sauce.

The chicken was smothered in a sauce that left the tongue scalded and numb.

A tuna special was tasty but so smothered in a tomato-based sauce that the fish was nearly lost.

On the platters passed around the table were thick slices of mutton, smothered in a brown sauce.

The goose was smothered in a sauce of cinnamon and sharp cheese, a combination piquant enough to bring tears to his eyes.

Thin, fork-tender veal scallopine Marsala ($19), smothered in a rich mushroom-flecked sauce, was exceptional.

The children would never learn to appreciate fine natural food, he reasoned, if they kept smothering it in a sauce that masquerades as a vegetable.

The first contained a pile of pork chops smothered in a sauce that included, among many ingredients, onions and peppers.

And angel-hair pasta was smothered by large overly hard chunks of eggplant in a crushed-tomato sauce.

Both are used in etouffees (rich stews, with the tails smothered in a brown sauce), Cajun popcorn and other prepared dishes.