How To Use Fritter In A Sentence
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The little dark-brown, doughnut-shaped fritters tasted a whole lot like Indian pakoras, and indeed came with a dish of raita for dipping.
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We spent them and traded them and frittered them away on drink and food and pleasurable company.
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And mashed banana with sugar and milk, and banana custard, banana milk shake and banana fritters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cash was frittered in duff property deals, paying off debts and treating her family.
The Sun
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It's not my or any working man's fault that the tax collected has been frittered away on other things.
The Sun
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As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
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Fritter should turn golden brown but not burn.
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Much of it is frittered away here and there, and you may not even really realize how much is spent that way.
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However, when I lived in Texas, I did enjoy frittered okra as long as it was cut in small pieces and very crispy.
Spicy pickled okra | Homesick Texan
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I think she just frittered the money away.
The Sun
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There was a tasty house amuse-bouche of white lentil potato fritter.
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She and her colleagues stood and watched as many of our futures were frittered away.
The Sun
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Book Five is all about what he calls pasta—which still meant pastry and dough, so pies, tarts, and fritters are the main topics of interest rather than maccheroni, vermicelli, and ravioli.
Delizia!
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And to make matters worse, he frittered away the money while she was asleep in bed recovering.
The Sun
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First, it is hard to get your credibility back once it is frittered away.
In other words, Obama's China policy failed
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It's not my or any working man's fault that the tax collected has been frittered away on other things.
The Sun
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I also love sweet seasonal puddings, such as warm doughnuts or fritters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dish was surprisingly good, consisting of two crispy, crunchy fritters and an authentic-tasting peanut dipping sauce.
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He didn't want to allow what might be his only chance to be with her fritter away like paper blown by the wind.
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At a fish-and-chip shop called the Balancing Eel, a stone's throw from the quayside, cod, haddock, plaice and sole are the fish of choice with scampi and prawn fritters close behind.
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Neither should life be frittered away because of endless procrastination and continuous introspection.
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Four draws and three defeats from winning positions adds up to 17 points frittered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cook the fritters in two to three batches, turning them so they cook evenly.
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This is truly, beyond any doubt, the best crab fritter you will ever have in your life.
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At left, he showed dinner guests his waxworm potato fritters.
Bugs for Dinner
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You can do a lot of the preparation in advance - make and freeze the bacalao fritters and ham croquettes, for example, and marinate the chorizo and lightly roast the baby peppers.
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Maybe you work in a council and are disgusted at how you see cash being frittered away.
The Sun
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Many frittered away their riches or became entangled in wealth-sapping legal disputes.
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I have to admit I kind of frittered away this two-week holiday.
July « 2007 « knitnut.net
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Whether it is his seared scallops with carrot fritters, marinated coriander chicken, coconut and lime and macadamia cake, ricotta hot cakes with honeycomb butter, or sensationally garlicky prawns, Bill's food is happy food.
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Frittering away what money I had left in Rome, Bononia, Mutina?
Antony and Cleopatra
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I think she just frittered the money away.
The Sun
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The traditional national dish is turtle; conch is also popular, either served raw with lime juice and onions, or cooked as a stew, chowder, or fritters.
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Fritter should turn golden brown but not burn.
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You can do a lot of the preparation in advance - make and freeze the bacalao fritters and ham croquettes, for example, and marinate the chorizo and lightly roast the baby peppers.
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And he blamed the Conservatives for what he characterized as frittering away the $12-billion surplus they inherited from Martin's administration in 2006.
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Four draws and three defeats from winning positions adds up to 17 points frittered.
Times, Sunday Times
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From this pungently unpromising substance we have made a variety of savoury stews and fritters, and saltfish is one of the Caribbean's unexpectedly characteristic flavours.
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After all, what is the point of making money if you fritter it away on underperforming ventures?
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It is because of this slipshod attitude of the concerned agencies that the antiquities and the relics of distant past are easily accessible to not only all pervasive primates but to anyone who is interested to fritter or wipe out them.
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I opened my dinner with an assiette créole: crab-back stuffed with saltfish and spices, accras (seafood and vegetable fritters) and a couple of local crayfish called ouassous.
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Hot hors d’œuvres could be miniature savoury pastries or tiny fritters or other similar titbits; but these do not belong to the mainstream hors d’œuvres tradition.
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We liked the "fritter" idea -- the crusty crab puffs had a soft, crab-laced interior -- but found the chive sauce a bit too much about onion for our taste.
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My favourite accompaniment to anything fritter is a hot tomato sauce.
Latkes aka onion potato bhajjis -for a cold grey day
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Fortunately, after I bought my venti coffee and apple fritter aka the Doom of Mankind, I rounded the corner to my office, and what did my wondering eyes behold?
Crankiness is an Asset
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And these recipes look delicious: spicy Indian fried fish, breaded pork steaks, fried onion rings, and sweet potato fritters.
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It is left to India and China, who have in the past, frittered away their most creative energies in wars and conflicts to rise above their tangles and claim the economic leadership that he is fast abandoning.
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He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure.
Chapter 20
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So even as Boomers fret about their parents frittering away their inheritances, there's no assurance that they will behave any differently themselves.
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Hearty home-style meals begin with specialties like mofongo (balls of mashed plantains mixed with garlic and bits of crushed pork crackling), alcapurrias (fritters made from a puree of plantains and yautia, a starchy white root related to taro, and stuffed with ground beef), and pionono (sweet plantain fritters stuffed with ground beef).
Chicago Reader
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It's easy to fritter away a fortune if you're not careful.
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IT is bad enough when taxpayers' money is frittered away on idiotic aid projects.
The Sun
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He works on George's dreams of a better life than the one he ekes-out helping the community, building his resentment for being "trapped into frittering away his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic-eaters," for choosing to value community over his own self-interest.
Matt Jordan: Don't Crawl to Potter This Christmas
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Just how much cash was frittered away, and just how scandalously, is only now emerging.
Times, Sunday Times
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In my experience it tends to get frittered away on TV channel-hopping, window shopping, aimless net surfing or general navel-gazing.
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Zucchini and carrot fritters are a nice vegetarian alternative.
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And instead of the food she loves she'll be served with spam fritters, suet pudding and stewed prunes.
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There have been too many negative headlines, plus the nagging argument that money is frittered away on incidentals while hospitals and schools crumble to dust.
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I had fillet of cod topped with an oyster fritter and served with smoked haddock brandade and cherry tomatoes poached in olive oil for €44.
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I think she just frittered the money away.
The Sun
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Sometimes they frittered away their energies on the temporary and the spectacular.
Christianity Today
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Hundreds of millions of pounds were frittered away paying architects.
Times, Sunday Times
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In modern French, the term frit is generally reserved for fried potatoes (pommes frites), while fritters are known as beignets.
Post-gazette.com - News
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Parsnips also make a wonderful soup and terrific fritters, and their long, blond roots are irresistible if roasted until the skinny tails scorch to a crisp.
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Within a few years, Carbonneau, ‘a debauchee and libertine’ had frittered away her money on dubious enterprises.
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Then we sat down to converse and I hung my head earthwards in bashfulness, but she delayed not long ere she set before me a tray of the most exquisite viands, marinated meats, fritters soaked in bee’s536 honeys and chickens stuffed with sugar and pistachio nuts, whereof we ate till we were satisfied.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The worry is that ministers will give the money to councils and it will be frittered away on councillors' pet projects.
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As is so often the case, I frittered away the morning in a haze of social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fritter away one's inheritance
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One of these, a starter listed as snails and crubeens, which should be little fritters of gooey braised pig's trotter, was a salty, sticky, unpleasant mess of chewy snails and flavourless deep-fried cubes.
Jay Rayner's restaurant review
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This is an updated version of the recipe for Passover fritters passed down in her family.
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British summertime, but the flowers on their own make fabulous fritters, dipped in the lightest of batters and fried until crisp.
Times, Sunday Times
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Woman may do, and does do, a great deal of unpleasant, tiresome work; she fritters away her time upon occupations which require "frittering;" but beyond that she does not do the "paying" work.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
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Fish and prawn kababs in mint and garlic chutney and squid fritters in hot garlic sauce whet the palate for the sumptuous spread.
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Take a broad frying posnet, or deep frying pan, and three pints of clarified butter or sweet suet, heat it as hot as you do for fritters; then take a stick and stir it till it run round like to a whirle-pit; then break an egg into the middle of the whirle, and turn it round with your stick till it be as hard as a soft poached egg, and the whirling round of the butter or suet will make round as
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
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She frittered away her time in going to the cinema instead of studying.
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When he asked if he could have some dumplings or apple fritters, I hit him in the face with my shoe.
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In south India, where they are a major source of protein, many methods are used to prepare lentils for breads, fritters, salads, pancakes and vegetable dishes.
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I would have told Evie on our first day together that I was taken with her banana fritters, but she left the table before I could even try.
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You indulge in the bread, butter and omelet or the delicious smelling vegetable cutlets or vegetable fritters.
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Taxpayers should make sure that their money isn't frittered away on projects designed to pay back political supporters.
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She had a kind of doleful elegance, tried to be confidential, lowered her voice and looked as if she wished to establish a secret understanding, in order to ask her visitor if she would venture on an apple-fritter.
The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
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The tiny purple berries are used to make sparkling jams and the blossoms are deep-fried into fritters.
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The nutty, vaguely familiar taste of mustard seed and the earthy smell of curry leaves waft from the fritter, but vada pav approaches perfection because it mingles potent flavors with so many comforting textures: squooshy bread, creamy and slightly lumpy mashed potato and a hint of crunch from the batter.
Pow, Right in the Fritter
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Start with the salt-cod fritters ($7), tender inside and crispy out, thanks to the panko in which they're rolled and lightly fried.
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British taxpayers have grown accustomed to their money being frittered away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other flowers can be dipped in light batter and fried, to make delicate sweet fritters: elderflowers, apple blossom, acacia flowers, and lilacs can be used in this manner.
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Maybe you work in a council and are disgusted at how you see cash being frittered away.
The Sun
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How can the Government justify cutbacks in Britain when it fritters away money?
The Sun
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As is so often the case, I frittered away the morning in a haze of social media.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cheapest dishes, at one soldo, consisted of a slice of pizza, or four or five fritters made from bits of cabbage stalk and fragments of anchovy, or nine boiled chestnuts swimming in a reddish juice.
Delizia!
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This point is really a vexation of the mind and a frittering way of precious energy.
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My dessert was three apple fritters.
Times, Sunday Times
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I make no apologies for being a lazy, unfocused bum who fritters away opportunities.
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A steaming bowl of mohinga adorned with vegetable fritters, slices of fish cake and hard-boiled eggs and enhanced with the flavor of chopped coriander leaves, morsels of crispy fried garlic, fish sauce, a squeezing of lime and chilies is a wonderful way of stoking up for the day ahead.
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Big breakthroughs are dangerous - you find yourself in a position where everyone is at sea and gains can be frittered away just as easily.
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But the imaginative manner in which our wealth is frittered away in daft schemes displays a special dedication for which British officialdom is renowned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Money should be spent on good programmes, not frittered away on expenses.
The Sun
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It was pretty much all corn: corn fritters, corn bread, corn porridge, popcorn, cornflakes and mom's special corn surprise.
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The money was not for drugs, they just frittered it away on nothing.
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British taxpayers have grown accustomed to their money being frittered away.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the Government has frittered away a huge fortune by recruiting a vast army of non-productive civil servants.
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Given my propensity for frittering it away, it's better that I have a legal obligation to pay it to her.
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Minutes are precious and Mason is loathe to fritter them away on technical difficulties.
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As theatre, it begins with real promise and fritters itself away.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if we carry on as we are, it will be frittered away on grandiose schemes and unrealistic projects.
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Meanwhile, the labels fritter away their time and energy filing 26,000 lawsuits against their customers, and have financially ruined Jammie Thomas, an American-Indian single mother of two who the labels (the RIAA) sued and won a judgment of $220,000 for copyright infringement, which is effectively 10 times her annual after-tax salary.
Ron Galloway: A Tale of Two Moms & the Music Industry
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Consumer price deflation continues; there is investment in cars and new homes but not much cash is frittered away on laptops and lipstick.
Times, Sunday Times
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She says fritters cooked simply is the best way to make it so it retains its unique flavour.
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MCCARTHY: I was such a hedonist in college, always on the golf course and never really studied very much and kind of frittered it all away.
All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence
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The game has always been controlled by wealthy people, often successful local businessmen who fritter away their fortunes on the vain hope of glory for their team.
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Turn fritters constantly and cook for approximately 5 minutes.
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If I've got money in my pocket, I tend to fritter it away.
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Friends say he didn't accumulate his hard-won winnings just to fritter them away.
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The grimace on a friend's face as he bit into the fritter was the first sign all was not well.
Tom Sietsema on Agora: A restaurateur turns to Turkey for revamp
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The rest was frittered away on bingo and the Lottery.
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To start, there were "ento-teasers": waxworm potato fritters; kalamata hummus with crickets and a dung beetle garnish; bamboo worm guacamole, and "pokies" — a sliced cucumber with pickled ginger, topped with a Jing Leed cricket from Thailand boiled in Chinese Lapsang Souchong tea, with a dollop of agave nectar.
Would You Like Flies With That? Bug Eaters Try to Get Some Buzz
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Fruit fritters - fruit dipped in batter - particularly apple fritters, were also a popular food on this day, and the name fritter can also be applied to the pancake.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Festival, Hitchin 2008
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And the Government has frittered away a huge fortune by recruiting a vast army of non-productive civil servants.
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Hundreds of millions of pounds were frittered away paying architects.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who took government compensations frittered them away.
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The first one fritters away time in oversubtle line-drawing.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Cotton candy, gluten-free acai berry cupcakes and quinoa fritters with probiotic goat yoghurt.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Heat over a fairly high heat and drop a dessertspoonful of the fritter mixture into the pan.
The Sun
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Takoyaki are octopus fritters, small bits of meat encased in dashi seasoned batter and pan fried into a golf ball size.
You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Honda Ya - Tustin
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There's a fried dough ball - a "fritter" - with a hollow core oozing with cream sauce studded with diced conch meat (
The ulterior epicure
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frittered" away the lot while continuing to claim income support, Newcastle Crown Court yesterday heard.
Undefined
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So his contribution was an escalloped potato and caramelized onion fritter, baked with lots of rosemary in muffin tins.
DesignerBlog
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Yet all this and millions of pounds have been frittered away by barely competent management and supervisors at all levels, by a Home Office that is “not fit for purpose” and all topped off by 1970s style student union politicians and other assorted hangers on.
The Single Measure Of Public Confidence « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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And to make matters worse, he frittered away the money while she was asleep in bed recovering.
The Sun
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England fans in Otley tucked into a traditional Nigerian breakfast of spicy black-eyed pea fritters (akara) and friend bananas at Korks Wine Bar and Brasserie.
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Moris Moreno for The Wall Street Journal The Florida Keys, an archipelago of 4,500 islands that begins 15 miles south of Miami and ends southwestwardly in Key West, has its share of signature dishes, from conch fritters to grilled pink shrimp.
Real-Deal Key Lime Pie
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Fritters are generally eaten immediately after cooking, as, like all deep-fried foods, they taste best hot and fresh.
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Consumer price deflation continues; there is investment in cars and new homes but not much cash is frittered away on laptops and lipstick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite hours frittered away watching the tube, playing video games and surfing the Internet, the majority of kids are still finding time to head out to the local park or schoolyard.
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My dessert was three apple fritters.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are meant to stick to spare ribs, lemon chicken and banana fritters.
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Cooked, this innocent combination forms the superstructure for such savory staples we know as: mush, cornmeal fritters, hush puppies, pone and pudding, dodgers, relish, bread, sticks and stuffing.
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How can the Government justify cutbacks in Britain when it fritters away money?
The Sun
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In 1942, he already had a reputation as a spendthrift and a playboy, misbehaving in Brazil and frittering away the budget for another unfinished film.
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Anything with the word "fritter" in it is okay with me.
Hay Hay it’s Donna Day… With A Little Help from Jamie Oliver-ay
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Four draws and three defeats from winning positions adds up to 17 points frittered.
Times, Sunday Times
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ENERGY ministers have frittered away enough cash to heat 3,000 family homes for a year, it was claimed yesterday.
The Sun
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Curried Vidalia-onion fritters, lightly battered and skillfully fried, come with a sweet-sour tamarind dipping sauce.
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It just means more of our hard-earned cash being frittered away.
The Sun
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Consumer price deflation continues; there is investment in cars and new homes but not much cash is frittered away on laptops and lipstick.
Times, Sunday Times
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The entire festival is run on less money than is routinely frittered away on a single party at Cannes.
Times, Sunday Times
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These fritters are especially delicious with stewed prunes with orange juice as an accompaniment, if desired.
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I remember the last time I had zucchini flowers they were fritters - it is a simple but nice way to enjoy their pretty appearance and mild flavor of squash.
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I'd wander down the high street, frittering away on whatever took my fancy.
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The riches he found at the top of the beanstalk are all frittered away and, faced with the prospect of becoming just another agricultural statistic, the terrified animals are forced to flee into the forest.
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The latter came as small, flat, easily managed fritters.
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The canapé of seafood fritters slipped down nicely with a splash of chilli and coconut cream dip as did the pink smoked duck croutons with their lively mango salsa.
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The zucchini will expel quite a lot of liquid and this stops the fritters becoming too watery.
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Haunted by having caused the death of a baby brother and believing himself forever unforgiven by his beloved and loving mother, he frittered himself away as a minor actor in his father's company, boozing and wenching.
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As theatre, it begins with real promise and fritters itself away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately, the story fuels the perception of out-of-touch athletes living for the moment, out of touch with reality and frittering away money they will need later on in life.
Andrew Brandt: Dinner on Dez: Cowboys feast on rookie
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On Grand Bahama Island, you can find them all over Freeport near major roads selling conch meat which will end up in stews, chowder, fried (cracked) conch platters, conch salad and conch fritters.
Happy Chanuconch
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How would you have done chips and spam fritters without a deep fat fryer?
The Sun
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His father frittered away millions on a decadent lifestyle.
Times, Sunday Times
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At work, I am confronted with students engaged in every form of self-destruction, from frittering away their time on footling hedonism, to literal self-laceration and suicide attempts.
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She and her colleagues stood and watched as many of our futures were frittered away.
The Sun
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Dear Deidre I'VE lost trust in my husband as he fritters money away and tells so many lies.
The Sun
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I seem to fritter my time away at coffee mornings.
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These fritters are especially delicious with stewed prunes with orange juice as an accompaniment, if desired.
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I go to the kitchen to prepare coffee and tea for the two of us and some banana fritters for Sophia.
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The cash was frittered in duff property deals, paying off debts and treating her family.
The Sun
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Cotton candy, gluten-free acai berry cupcakes and quinoa fritters with probiotic goat yoghurt.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We also serve it with oyster fritters, because oysters used to be incredibly cheap and were often used in the hotpot.
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They are quite tasty and morish and would also be suitable as finger food just make smaller fritters.
Archive 2006-03-01
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This overspend will anger taxpayers who do not want their money frittered away on politicians' vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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IT is bad enough when taxpayers' money is frittered away on idiotic aid projects.
The Sun
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The entire festival is run on less money than is routinely frittered away on a single party at Cannes.
Times, Sunday Times
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She fritters so much money away on expensive make-up.
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It's not my or any working man's fault that the tax collected has been frittered away on other things.
The Sun
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Money should be spent on good programmes, not frittered away on expenses.
The Sun
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The Braves lead over St. Louis was 10 1/2 games in late August, and now its all been frittered away.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
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And mashed banana with sugar and milk, and banana custard, banana milk shake and banana fritters.
Times, Sunday Times
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It just means more of our hard-earned cash being frittered away.
The Sun
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Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify, simplify! Henry David Thoreau
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These fritters are especially delicious with stewed prunes with orange juice as an accompaniment, if desired.
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One can only hope that the opportunity will not be frittered away as in the past.
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Other delights: Mary Sue Milliken's fritters of crab-and-quinoa, City Tavern's spicy meatballs, Craft's carnaroli rice pudding with apricots and pistachios, Fig's Ray Garcia serving torta de lengua, GO Burger's lamb burger with minted goat cheese; Hatfield's served Spanish octopus salad and Tres Leche cake.
Jay Weston: Share Our Strength Fights Childhood Hunger at Taste of Nation
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And mashed banana with sugar and milk, and banana custard, banana milk shake and banana fritters.
Times, Sunday Times
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This overspend will anger taxpayers who do not want their money frittered away on politicians' vanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And to make matters worse, he frittered away the money while she was asleep in bed recovering.
The Sun
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Ere served with hash and fritters hot, that delicatest cate.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Yes , sir , trapped into frittering his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic? eaters.
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He frittered away the millions his father had left him.
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Philosophy there is, and very good philosophy too, from the flutterer and fritter, and such love-making as every virtuous woman (at heart a minx) allows.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11
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Using a fish slice, transfer the cooked fritters to paper towels to drain.
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The cash was frittered in duff property deals, paying off debts and treating her family.
The Sun
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It also gets placed in a ringfenced pot with penalties that mean the money is less likely to be frittered away.
Times, Sunday Times
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A light batter containing whisked egg whites is used to encase the prepared fruit, and the fritters are coated with caramel and sprinkled with sesame seeds after cooking.
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I am puzzled by the blue-crab fritters, small puffs that never let you forget they are fried; and by their dipping sauces (green papaya remoulade, tamarind ketchup, soy-chile mignonette) that sound more interesting than they taste.
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The Charlton boss was critical of his attacking players who he said frittered away a string of chances to clinch all three points.
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Drain the spinach, toss in a little extra virgin olive oil and serve with the white bean fritters and lemon wedges.
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Now Blake Morrison turns his attention to Charlotte, Anne and Emily in a new adaptation, produced by Northern Broadsides, which offers more than a nod to Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which is believed to have been inspired by the Brontës and their brother Branwell, who frittered away his early promise.
This week's new theatre and dance
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Just how much cash was frittered away, and just how scandalously, is only now emerging.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also love sweet seasonal puddings, such as warm doughnuts or fritters.
Times, Sunday Times