roast beef

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cut of beef suitable for roasting

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beef roast

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"There is no roast beef cooking on our ship." "No," said Dab-Dab.

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Great was the clatter of knives and pewter plates and tin cans when Adam entered the house, but there was no hum of voices to this accompaniment: the eating of excellent roast beef, provided free of expense, was too serious a business to those good farm- labourers to be performed with a divided attention, even if they had had anything to say to each other--which they had not.

It was a goodly sight--that table, with Martin Poyser's round good-humoured face and large person at the head of it helping his servants to the fragrant roast beef and pleased when the empty plates came again.

As it was, Ben ate his roast beef to-night with a serene sense of having stolen nothing more than a few peas and beans as seed for his garden since the last harvest supper, and felt warranted in thinking that Alick's suspicious eye, for ever upon him, was an injury to his innocence.

But NOW the roast beef was finished and the cloth was drawn, leaving a fair large deal table for the bright drinking-cans, and the foaming brown jugs, and the bright brass candlesticks, pleasant to behold.

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Roast beef and rice pudding for fifty Sundays in the year.

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Real turtle, we understand, and salmon, tautog, canvas-backs, pig, English mutton, good roast beef, or dainties of that serious kind, fit for substantial country gentlemen, as these honorable persons mostly are.

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Their idea of a square meal is a pound and a half of roast beef with five or six good-sized potatoes (soapy ones preferred as being more substantial), plenty of greens, and four thick slices of Yorkshire pudding, followed by a couple of currant dumplings, a few green apples, a pen'orth of nuts, half a dozen jumbles, and a bottle of ginger-beer.

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Sapsea then proposes a hit at backgammon, which, seasoned with his own improving conversation, and terminating in a supper of cold roast beef and salad, beguiles the golden evening until pretty late.

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What makes this roast beef stand above others is that I'm going to marinade it first in red wine with a few other things thrown in such as garlic herbs and onion.

Beef up Sunday roast

Her assistant makes a mean shepherd's pie, she adds, and she "loves" Yorkshire pudding, roast beef and pasties.

Pasties, scones, shepherd's pie, roast []; THE DIARY

The dinner buffet will also offer the Angus Roast Beef and desserts, with other dishes as Garlic Butter Mushroom Pork, Cheese, Bacon, and Chicken Rolls, Fish Piccata, and Seafood Saffron Cream Sauce, Linguine.

Scene City: 'Say Eat with Love' this Valentine's Day in Seda Abreeza

The all-you-can-eat menu includes sauerbraten or roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, red cabbage, green beans, bread and butter, and a variety of homemade desserts.

Annual Zion Lutheran School Sauerbraten Dinner Nov. 4

"So, they can sit around eating cake and roast beef, but we have to walk home in the dark?" fumed North Yorkshire resident James Wainwright.

Hard cheese for some as councillors feast

On the side of my plate were creamed spinach, an unhealthy but deliciously crisp and chewy Yorkshire pudding (the bread was made with roast beef drippings) and a baked potato with everything-sour cream, chives, bacon and salted butter.

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