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  • I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
  • Butterflies enjoy the daisy family too, and there are a few that they especially love. Times, Sunday Times
  • Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
  • Oh - and I want a food mixer of some sort, because creaming butter and sugar by hand is not a lot of fun.
  • (Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
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  • After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
  • She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.
  • Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hand can't hit, what the eye can't see. Muhammad Ali 
  • The golden butternut squash velouté with escargot needed to be thicker to live up to its name, and more complex to live up to its price tag.
  • Six biogeographical zones, ranging from subtropical forest to highland scrub, host an impressive 151 species of bird, 34 species of mammal, 228 species of butterfly and countless plants. Taiwan's Greatest Ascent
  • A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side. Alone
  • Italian flag pasta – tossed with pesto and fried mangold on top, tossed with butter and parmesan on top, and tossed with tomato sauce and more of the same sauce on top. Bento #287 « Were rabbits
  • After feeding, caterpillars pupate in a chrysalis, then transform into beautiful butterflies.
  • A rare comma butterfly was spotted in the garden in Grassington of lepidopterist James Birdsall.
  • There were toast crumbs in the butter, so I’ve already come up with a dozen ways to kill you; the marmite is just another mitigating circumstance when it comes to trial. …things that niggle. « Sven’s guide to…
  • Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
  • Just one tablespoon of butter, sour cream or gravy can double the calories in a potato.
  • First, melt two ounces of butter.
  • The tea was excellent, with a light mint flavor; and the scones tasted wonderful as well, peppered with raisins and full of butter, a perfect repast for the relaxing traveller.
  • Margarine can be substituted for butter in this recipe.
  • Rub in the butter with the hands, then add the low-fat cheese spread and work in with the hands.
  • FEMA food kits may contain tainted peanut butter [CNN] FEMA Food May Contain Salmonella Peanut Butter - The Consumerist
  • The so-called psyche or butterfly is generated from caterpillars which grow on green leaves, chiefly leaves of the raphanus, which some call crambe or cabbage. The History of Animals
  • Use the rest of the butter to grease a large baking dish (the sort of thing you would make lasagne in). Times, Sunday Times
  • I gave my ideas on "playwriting" again at Philadelphia, and was told just before I began that there were several dramatists in the room, including the author of Madame Butterfly. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
  • Place a buttercup squash tart on a plate with a serving of salad next to the tart.
  • The main course is best accompanied by baba ghanoush tahini and an onion-and-tomato salad dressed with peanut butter and olive oil.
  • Sweetened only by honey, the soft texture is created by the addition of fresh buttermilk.
  • They bogled and butterflied to pumping dancehall rhythms until the wee hours of the morning. Larger Than Lyfe
  • This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach.
  • We minimize the use of saturated fats found in foods such as butter, ghee, suet, lard, coconut oil and dairy products.
  • Could butterflies resolve to destroy the Russian Army?
  • People eat candy bars and put butter on their popcorn.
  • You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
  • Health and education are the sort of bread-and-butter issues that people vote on.
  • Closely related to each other, this kind of photography will show such things as the development of a flower, or the butterfly emerging from the chrysalis.
  • The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines. The War in the Air
  • Warm a large pot over a gentle heat and melt the butter. Times, Sunday Times
  • And despite the copious amounts of butter used to bake it, it doesn't feel overly greasy. The Sun
  • Edusha brewed some tea and found half a loaf of bread, some butter and cheese.
  • In many countries, cream is sold in several grades depending on the total butterfat content.
  • In the past floods have joined together Buttermere and Crummock lakes into one huge mere, and unified Thirlmere periodically long before Manchester Corporation turned it into one big reservoir. A seasonal lament
  • Heat half the butter in a 30 cm frying pan with a heatproof handle.
  • The separate dish of butter was hard and consequently difficult to spread - a minor difficulty.
  • Shea (karite) oil or butter is also used for renders. Chapter 6
  • The symphonious pairing of syrupy goodness and buttery richness. Chez Pazienza: Rich Lowry: The William F. Buckley of F**k Talk
  • You don't add the peanut butter until after you've stirred in the honey.
  • An increasing amount of forests along ridgetops in the front ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains is reducing the ability of some alpine butterflies to disperse among patches of suitable habitat.
  • A delicious dinner of ham, fried potatoes, hot corn bread, fresh butter, wild bee honey, and huckleberry cobbler is served.
  • Throwing my heart monitor out the window I plumped (no pun intended) for the dessert of fresh profiteroles served with butterscotch sauce.
  • Furthermore, these gene duplications evolved after the split between the common ancestor of nymphalid and papilionid butterflies.
  • It was a perfect Swedish June, with the sun striking buttery lights off still clear water.
  • Layer two sheets of filo, brushing each with melted butter.
  • The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.
  • My own mother said romantically that I was to expect you to feel like "catching a butterfly in my hand."
  • The Buttery in Glasgow will be especially missed - all warm glows and scrumptious food.
  • We arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies through the streets.
  • It was a butterfly, its wings made from fine strands of gold twisted together until they formed this delicate creature, so fine it seemed almost transparent.
  • The DPJ has campaigned almost exclusively on bread-and-butter economic issues, appealing to voters who feel the LDP has lost touch with average families.
  • I have a skate wing in a pond of hot, acidulated brown butter with capers, and the flesh also pulls away from the cartilage with no effort whatsoever. Restaurant review: Butley Orford Oysterage
  • Heat the butter then gently fry the onions for two to three minutes.
  • It is true that this explanation of the bright, conspicuous colours is only a hypothesis, but its foundations -- unpalatableness, and the liability of other butterflies to be eaten, -- are certain, and its consequences -- the existence of mimetic palatable forms -- conform it in the most convincing manner. Evolution in Modern Thought
  • To do so, many of us have reduced the amount of beef we eat, and have substituted margarine for butter. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
  • Its nourishing shea butter formula also gives conditioning shine to lackluster locks.
  • An exam, or even an exciting social event may produce butterflies in the stomach.
  • Meanwhile, cream the yeast in a bowl with the water and milk, then stir in the butter and keep stirring until it has melted into the mixture.
  • This paper describes a case study of adaptation, constraint, and evolutionary innovation in pierid butterflies.
  • An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting.
  • The large blue butterfly has been brought back. Times, Sunday Times
  • love is like a butterfly. it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.
  • Melt the butter with the oil in a spacious sauté pan and stir in the onions. Times, Sunday Times
  • I ordered scallops with ragout of haricot beans and wild mushrooms with butternut squash sauce.
  • Finish with the butter and season with the salt and cayenne pepper. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was not remotely greasy and any tendency towards blandness was countered by the saltiness of the feta, while the orange butter sauce saved the whole dish from becoming too dry.
  • Choose a type of spread that's lower in saturates than butter.
  • This book is also about hog-killing and smokehouses, about making lye hominy and gathering wild greens, about ramps and cushaws and leather-britches, about cracklin’ bread and corn-cob jelly, whistle pig and poke sallet, apple butter and stack cakes.’
  • It's called a butterwort, and it always grows in boggy places; I wouldn't advise you to go after one again without asking father first. Milly and Olly
  • Mix together the egg, 125g muscovado sugar, treacle, buttermilk and remaining butter until smooth.
  • Less threatening contents named by Mr Milburn included sucrose, cocoa, butter, liquorice root and citric acid.
  • Orange rum butter Orange rum butter is a cousin of brandy butter.
  • There is butter for the waffles, and powdered sugar, and strawberry jam.
  • Simply fry off a diced onion in butter until soft, add some chopped red cabbage, some vegetable stock and a glug of brandy.
  • Then pound the liver to a paste, add a tablespoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of white pepper; add three quarters of a pound of clarified butter; pound well together and pass through a wire sieve; put into pots; smooth over the top with a knife, then pour over hot clarified butter or lard and keep in a cool place. My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec
  • Birds fluttered by, and I think there were even some butterflies.
  • The butter churn have two paddle to whip the cream.
  • They found him out back, banging on a butter churn, watched by unimpressed cows.
  • Only butterflies, grasshoppers, mosquitoes and flies are netted there.
  • Gently work the butter into the flour until there are no lumps left.
  • Sprinkle with ground cardamom, sugar and dot with butter. Times, Sunday Times
  • In four days of diving last summer, I often spotted colorful stoplight parrotfish, doctorfish, sergeant majors, trumpetfish, four-eye butterfly fish, squirrelfish and school masters. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • I'm no pastry chef, but I tweaked and tasted, from all-purpose to cake flour, buttermilk to sour cream, baking powder to soda, recipe to recipe.
  • Spoon the mixture into six small buttered heatproof pots, until three-quarters full. Times, Sunday Times
  • Add the butter, cream and goat's curd or cheese and mash until smooth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heat the butter and oil together in a non-stick pan and cook the fish skin-side down until the skin is crisp and the fish is 80 per cent cooked.
  • Butter the escalop dishes, and put in a layer of crumbs and then one of oysters. Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
  • #47/December 2, 2009/4: 18 min. Jay Goldman, also known as his butterscotch alter-ego, the daring Mr. Mobile, dares you to gaze upon these Butterscotch.com: Newest Episodes
  • There's also a table with three skinny legs and a lidded jar with a thick, straight, vertical handle that rises up like the rod of a butter churn.
  • The range of dairy products from the company ranges from butter and ghee to cold coffee and sweet lassi.
  • We couldn't resist the home-made bread and butter pudding and the rhubarb and ginger crumble.
  • Ronald still sings with the buttery croon of an angel.
  • Sampling my companion's chicken korma dish - a mild curry with almond sauce and coconut butter, I was very impressed.
  • With an effort, he kept himself from using the term butterfly catchers, “... gentlemen.” Starfleet Year One
  • In the rock pools I used a net and caught butterfish.
  • They begin with a citrus sandwich cake filled with orange butter cream. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mince up the meat and mix in some chopped parsley, pepper and salt; put the butter into a stewpan, and when it is dissolved mince up the pieces of onion very finely and fry that for two minutes, then stir in the flour. The Art of Living in Australia
  • This cake can also be iced: melt together 150g dark chocolate with 150 ml double cream and 25g butter.
  • Place the flour, Parmesan, butter and a pinch of salt in a food processor and blend briefly.
  • He settled for a pack of cheese crackers with peanut butter inside.
  • It was jelly-like and it stunk horribly, like butter gone off or old chip pan oil.
  • She spread her toast with a thick layer of butter./She spread a thick layer of butter on her toast.
  • Tatars and Russians also subscribe to the same school of hospitality, centring around the samovar and large arrays of buttery pastries.
  • His breaded pork escalopes come tender but crunchy with unctuous buttery anchovies and fried egg, an interesting spin on the Weiner Schnitzel theme.
  • Crocker, a 20-year-old University of Texas swimmer, was America's best 100 butterflyer until Phelps came along. USATODAY.com - Crocker sets world record in 100-meter butterfly
  • In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioner's sugar.
  • I remember lunch at the Berkeley hotel with the actor when he asked me what bread and butter pudding was made of - doh!
  • We've got to buy some cheese, bread, butter, salad oil, and so on.
  • The young of the emperor butterfly fish that live on coral reefs seem to use this system too.
  • I counted half a dozen chrysalises outside this morning, and those caterpillars may take months to complete the metamorphosis because of the cold weather, but because of the warm, cozy conditions this one's found, I expect it to emerge as a beautiful Gulf fritillary butterfly sometime within the next two weeks. Archive 2009-12-01
  • It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.
  • I was about to bake them with just a little sugar, when I saw a little box of salted butter caramels on the counter, a souvenir from Brittany, and thought I would use a few to sweeten the fruit instead.
  • A perfectly braised shank on buttery mash surrounded by vegetables set the tastebuds going before the plate was even put down on the table.
  • When you make this recipe, don't stint on the butter.
  • Slowly the edge parted and flattened out, broadwise, displaying the marbled brilliance of the butterfly's inner wings, illumining the pale chastity of the sleeping figure as if with a quivering and evanescent jewel. Success A Novel
  • The resulting light, crunchy morsels are often enhanced by coating with toffee or butterscotch; or eaten with salt.
  • Ingrid frowned again as she buttered her roll and scraped a portion of blackcurrant jam on it. COVER STORY
  • During the long and miserable forty days of Lent, desirable edibles such as eggs and butter were not permitted to be eaten.
  • For a main course I ordered a kedgeree of salmon and haddock with curry butter.
  • Cutting out the obvious milk, butter, cream, yoghurt, and cheese is not enough.
  • Tip out the clarified butter and slip in half of the regular butter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Saute a selection of mushrooms with butter and chopped shallots and garlic.
  • Cereal prices would be cut by 35 percent, beef and butter by 15 percent and milk by 10 percent.
  • Each dinner sounded more delectable than the one before: roasted local grass-fed goat loin chops with farro-spinach salad and sweet onion soubise, kombu cured fluke with yuzu, brown butter, wakame and preserved nori, a dinner ... Not Eating Out in New York » 2009 » April
  • Manufacturers are already wincing in pain over increases in wheat, butter and cheese. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other nuts, when crushed, made most delicious "butters," as easily digestible as cream, since they did not require roasting. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
  • Disk and oval-shaped fishes: butterflyfishes, angelfishes, and surgeonfishes 2. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • It was pure luck to get the verbena butterfly shot, I was trying to take pictures of the eremurus nearby and just turned around, the camera was already on. I Thoughteth They Were Flowers « Fairegarden
  • To form them use two very small coffeespoons or eggspoons, as the quenelles should not be larger than _small_ olives; butter the spoons slightly, and when formed drop each for one or two minutes into boiling pale-colored stock. Choice Cookery
  • But as well as the bread and butter issues, there is a significant symbolic loss for republicans.
  • He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route.
  • I also had a side of mangetout and fresh peas, served with butter and salt and pepper.
  • Some butterflies they attract are spicebush swallowtails, monarchs, fritillaries, whites, skippers, and a host of others.
  • Mother Dairy has already launched a dairy whitener in the north-eastern market, while its butter business was kicked off last year.
  • Beat the butter and sugar; then blend in the egg.
  • The castle looks cool, though ... and I am curious what butterbeer tastes like. We Could Do a Lot With Two Hundred and Sixty-Five Million Dollars
  • It takes a lot of calculating to sing a role as challenging as Butterfly, but in Naglestad's case the calculation was sometimes visible enough to dull the dramatic edge: a pause before a high note, a slightly too-deliberate leap into fortissimo in "Un bel di. Anne Midgette reviews Washington National Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'
  • Despite my best efforts I have failed to consume 20 kg of pasta, 30 jars of peanut butter and 50 tins of beans in the last month.
  • Cream white and brown sugars, salt, butter and crunchy peanut butter thoroughly in large mixing bowl. Beat egg and vanilla into creamed mixture until light and fluffy.
  • Others are swamp blue aster, a pink turtlehead, speckled joe-pye weed, great lobelia, Pennsylvania buttercup, and several kinds of sedges.
  • Put a little butter in a large frying pan set over medium heat. The Sun
  • My speciality is a banana and pear crumble, with lots and lots of butter.
  • Spotted sipping on the wild ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, is our first image of a monarch butterfly this season. Whoa Nellie!* « Fairegarden
  • Napped with melted butter, and scented with rosemary and mint, that kebob had a tantalizing flavor.
  • It looked like a pat of butter caught in the midst of an ocean, with puffy marshmallows snuggling up.
  • The fasciated honey-eater has loudly called “with a voice that seemed the very sound of happiness”; the leaden flycatcher, often silent but seldom still, has twittered and whispered plaintively; the sun-birds are playing gymnastics among the lemon blossoms, and the centre of activity for butterflies is the red-flowered shrub bordering the wavering path. Tropic Days
  • For the coconut and sesame seed crisps: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle, combine butter and sugar and beat until fluffy.
  • You always need secrets to barter with, the more important the secrets the safer you are, because you never know when you or an underling or overling will make the mistake that leaves you as naked and as helpless as a spiked butterfly. Noble House
  • And I'd be goddamned if I was going to scrape it all up with a butter knife.
  • Melt the butter in a saucepan and stir in the sugar.
  • Beautiful butterflies hovered above the wild flowers.
  • Remove and check that the butternut squash is soft to the touch. Times, Sunday Times
  • My favorite imitator, the Hinckley columbine, is like a butter-yellow, otherworldly bird.
  • Summer is when the sun shines and the butterflies dance with the flowers.
  • Add a sliver of cold butter. Times, Sunday Times
  • We've replaced the buttery mascarpone with fresh, tangy cheese made from nonfat yogurt.
  • You can substitute oil for butter in this recipe.
  • You can sit with the fishermen at the bar, or nibble on good bread and fresh pats of unsalted butter while you peruse the menu and affordable wine list.
  • Set aside until you have 12 blinis, then divide between 4 plates and serve with lashings of sour cream or butter, and the smoked salmon or caviar of your choice.
  • Ten minutes later, while attempting to spread peanut butter on crispbread, the packet leaped off the shelf and a thousand wholemeal arrows hailed down on me.
  • Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield, says they make that sound by vibrating an organ on the side of their thorax called a tymbal. Cicadas Swarm Wide Portions of US
  • Promises are often like the butterfly, which disappear after beautiful hover.
  • At this point, something goes a bit wrong, and some of the melted butter resists my attempts at emulsification, leaving me with a recognisable hollandaise, and a fair amount of grease. How to make perfect hollandaise sauce
  • Two kicks give roughly the same distance as a full butterfly stroke.
  • Drain off the buttermilk and add the salt and dried seaweed to the fat. Times, Sunday Times
  • I frosted her birthday cake with a plain buttercream that I added coconut extract to, then covered the whole thing in unsweetened shredded coconut. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Even the vanilla buttercream piped onto an otherwise agreeable vanilla cupcake had a grainy, crystallized texture on one of my visits, as if the ratio of butter to sugar had gone astray.
  • There is no shortage of choice, a good variety of butterflyfish, an unusual striped damselfish, puffers and a shoal of small barracuda.
  • Evvy big plantation raised its own cows for plenty of milk and butter, as well as lots of beef cattle, hogs, goats, and sheep. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
  • Place the filling ingredients on the slices with peanut butter(Sentence dictionary), season with pepper and top with slices spread with mayonnaise.
  • A range of events featuring freestyle, butterfly, sidestroke, backstroke and medley races saw the kids battle for supremacy as to who would be the king and queen of the pool in their age groups and for their swimming club.
  • For example, there are about 30 species of satyrid butterflies in the genus Calisto that are endemic to Hispaniola. WN.com - Articles related to Japan, Pacific nations deny report of trading cash for whaling votes
  • Holly Varah says: My girls did the same thing [that these kids did] with a jar of peanut butter. Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives
  • You don't add the peanut butter until after you've stirred in the honey.
  • Melt the garlic in a mixture of olive oil and butter with salt and pepper.
  • On the grorss below where the buttercups blow, along of the innercent sheep! Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
  • The bread and butter of defense attorneys is to see how many people they can put on trial.
  • There are many other types of sarees that you can wear, including jamdani silk saris, ethnic kanchipuram saris, samu silk saree, and butter silk saris and so on. Fashion World of SL
  • As I've already said, I'm not exactly a social butterfly.
  • And when they are piled into a buttery pastry case with creamy egg custard and Parmesan topping, the aromas are almost unbearably delectable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Margarine is fortified with added vitamins A and D to bring their levels up to those naturally present in butter.
  • And right on the next page you have ‘The Butterfly’, an exquisite lyric that reminds you of Cummings at his inspired best.
  • The butterfly stroke had not accepted as a formal event until 1958.
  • Served in buttered cob rolls with extra chutney and sliced cucumber. Times, Sunday Times
  • The children had smeared peanut butter all over the sofa.
  • The edge of the plastic cut through my top lip like a knife through butter. Kevin Keegan - Black and White
  • Gradually add the buttermilk and mix to a soft dough. The Sun
  • Not at all; paprika and buttermilk are the two gorgeous colours used to give the Clubhouse at Oldgrange a makeover recently!
  • Layer up three sheets of filo pastry, brushing with butter between each sheet.
  • I wanted the top of the cupcakes to look like a jube so I went a little big crazy with the coloured sugar crystals - they would of looked better if I didn't rush spreading on the swiss meringue buttercream. The Red Deer
  • Put water, butter and lard into a saucepan and bring slowly to the boil.
  • Hamachi (yellowtail) was soft and buttery, scallops in the temaki (handroll) were crisp fresh in a creamy sauce, aji (Spanish mackerel) was as strong as it should be, and the kanpachi (amberjack on the menu, but when I went to Mori, the elf said it was baby halibut) was interestingly prepared as juliennes in a tart sauce. Archive 2005-10-01

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