A fleuron of puff pastry came in handy to sop up the silky, succulent sauce.

In lapin a la bourguignonne, a succulent sauce of rosemary, garlic and Burgundy compensated for too-chewy rabbit.

Unfortunately, even the succulent sauce could not rescue the dried-out fish, which had been cooked to a cardboard consistency.

Next was a modicum of Zinfandel-braised beef short ribs (rich flavor in the meat and succulent sauce).

The yolk broke as you cut into the pasta and made a succulent sauce as it mixed with the sage butter on top.

Mussels Provencal - steamed in a succulent sauce of white wine, garlic and tomatoes - missed the mark through faulty cleaning.

The fish was moist, barely cooked (as we like it) and deeply flavorful, served in a succulent (though skimpy) fennel-orange-Pernod sauce.

Gulai is a type of food containing rich, spicy and succulent curry-like sauce.

The braising liquid serves as a succulent sauce.

Mardigras was a memorable entree combining jumbo shrimp and scallops in a succulent sauce of tomato, wine and garlic.