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spinach
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The spinach ( Eulithis mellinata ) is a moth of the family Geometridae . It is found throughout much of the Palearctic region and the Near East though its distribution is rather local due to its specialized larval food plant. In the British Isles it is ...
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n. southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves [syn: spinach plant , prickly-seeded spinach , Spinacia oleracea ] dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
Usage examples of spinach.
Prairie grabbed a kettle of institutional tomato soup, carried it on in, and for the next couple of hours she also schlepped racks of newly washed cups and dishes in and bused dirty dishes out, cleaned off tabletops, poured coffee, going from one set of chores to another as they arose, sensing partial vacuums and flowing there to fill them, unable to help noticing that people were taking seconds on the Spinach Casserole, and the baloney too.
For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.
Tandoor in Cleveland, in the torpid afterglow of Jhinga Biryani, lightly spiced rice and shrimp, Baigan Bharta, rich and pungent roasted eggplant, Palak Raita, a spinach and yogurt condiment that cools the palate, and the wondrous Indian bread naan.
I have already mentioned, a package of sliced bacon, a box of soap chips, and a paper sack of spinach, among the green leaves of which glowed, when I emptied them out on the showcase, the hard crystal facets of unset diamonds.
We served an appetizer of jalapeno mango-lime ice, vinegar steamed crab legs and spinach salad with asiago garlic dressing.
French dressing and boeuf Stroganov with spinach, and late-crop strawberries and cream, and a mushroom and bacon and prune savory.
Without expecting game, some useful plant might be met with, and the young naturalist was delighted with discovering a sort of wild spinach, belonging to the order of chenopodiaceae, and numerous specimens of cruciferae, belonging to the cabbage tribe, which it would certainly be possible to cultivate by transplanting.
Giving evidence, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes said that cowbane had been introduced into a spinach quiche by accident.
Economides, had stated to the police that the cowbane must have become mixed with the spinach by accident.
There was walnut bread and a slab of sweet French butter, and spinach fettuccini with a fresh tomato sauce topped with tiny vegetables.
I like it, roasted potatoes with hollandaise sauce, and a spinach salad with hot bacon dressing.
Omega-8 fatty acids help lubricate joints, and the spinach contains bone-boosting calcium.
Hatred is a soft word for what I felt toward him, but while I was sitting at that table, eating prawns and then lamb, the spinach and potatoes, drinking the Merlot, which was excellent by the way, smooth and dark, while I was sitting at that table, my emotions softened.
My son Francis placed a thin slice of spinach leaf, moistened with saliva, on a leaf of Drosera, and other slices on damp cottonwool, all exposed to the same temperature.
Angela between them conjured up homemade soup, trout with almonds, lamb cutlets with spinach from the garden and a rhubarb crumble with cream.