Best bets from the tropics are the conch in creole sauce and the chunks of lobster, given a similar treatment.

Compared with Cajun sauces, creole sauces are lighter, more complex and at the same time subtle.

To serve, divide the creole sauce among 4 serving plates.

Orange roughy, a New Zealand newcomer, was moist in its tingly hot creole sauce.

I had a terrific blackened loin of pork from the skillet with creole sauce.

Here the shredded flank steak is fork-tender and compelling in its mildly spicy creole sauce with fried green bananas.

Baked monkfish embellished with squid and rock shrimp arrived in a tomato-rich creole sauce.

I didn't have the same luck another evening with shrimp in a mild creole sauce because the shrimp had an off iodine taste.

Fish is the obvious specialty here - fresh catches such as swordfish and snapper done in creole sauces.

Mofongo relleno, meaning topped with creole sauce rather than served with chicken broth.