Fillings may be made of meat, seafood, or vegetables. The fillings can be seasoned in many ways. Those from around Spain are flavored with peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Crusts may be made from bread dough or flaky dough like pate brisee and puff pastry. A tortilla, stuffed with meats or cheese, rolled and served with a highly seasoned sauce.
Curly endive has prickly dark green leaves and a pleasantly bitter flavor.
To use, just trim off the spongy base and separate the strands. Resupplied with vitamins and minerals lost or diminished during processing of food. It is boneless and has a very thin layer of fat. Though steaks cut from the loin ends of the rib are a finer quality steak, the whole rib may be used for entrecete. The term is sometimes used referring to a strip steak.