Plant of the mustard family

Usage examples of broccoli.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Never mind, I had an established asparagus bed so I would be able to cut asparagus for our meals, also I could harvest early lettuce, broccoli and radishes, leeks and spring cabbages, winter cauliflower and winter spinach.

Since all but me were vegetarians I had made a dinner of cream of spinach soup with steamed turnip tops, broccoli quiche, asparagus risotto, cauliflower cheese and a mixed salad.

In her right hand she was carrying a paper bowl of dahl baht, garnished with two sprigs of broccoli.

At the dinner table, Pellam looked out over the spread of osso bucco, mashed sweet potatoes, green bean salad, broccoli.

Pellam looked out over the spread of osso bucco, mashed sweet potatoes, green bean salad, broccoli.

Qwilleran merely sampled the corn chowder, ate half of his portion of roast beef and broccoli parmigiana, declined a Parker House roll, and ignored a glob of mush flecked with green.

New York restaurant of bygone days called Divan Parisien, where poached chicken was laid on a bed of broccoli and covered with hollandaise sauce.

That night, she and Nana made penne with gorgonzola cheese, broccoli rabe, and sock-it-to-me cake.

Just past 8:30 he went into the kitchen and ate dinner: chicken marsala, fresh asparagus and broccoli rabe, risotto with morels, a sliver of apple crisp and cheddar cheese.

Later, as evening over-took late afternoon, Andi sat by herself under the eves of the balcony while Lena poached some sole from the freezer in lemon juice and capers and steamed broccoli and rice to go with it.

Katrina tossed a salad and warmed dinner rolls, Caleb prepared a Risotto of arborio rice, broccoli raab, toasted pecans, and shredded Parmesan cheese.

Hamburgers, medium-rare, from the charcoal grill, french-fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with thousand-island dressing, icecream with melted butterscotch and as good a Liebfraumilch as you can get in America.

Indian chutney, cottage cheese, gooseberry jam, gingerbread, a cheese slipover consisting of a deep-dish apple pie with a Welsh rabbit melted over it, lobster stuffed and baked, broccoli Parmesan, crisp endive with Roquefort dressing, baked Alaska, coffee with grated orange peel and a clove, a Bacardi swizzle and a bottle of Fiora del Alpina, with a cashew nut to nibble and any other expensive or out of season comestibles obtainable or not.

In addition to cabbages, they attack any vegetable in the cabbage group including broccoli and cauliflowers, as well as turnips and parsley.