noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tomato/potato/bean etc plant
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Bean plants are easy to grow.
couch potato
fruit/potato salad
hot potato
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The issue has become a political hot potato .
jacket potato
new potato
political hot potato
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The issue has become a political hot potato .
potato chips
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a bag of potato chips
potato crisp
potato peeler
sweet potato
the grain/potato/corn etc harvest
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This year's grain harvest is expected to be well over 85 million tons.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
baked
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Fiona had made dinner; nothing special, some baked fish and potatoes , but it was good.
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A baked potato is very permissible, of course.
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In one. Baked potatoes , green beans and a nicely basted pork roast.
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You may have forsaken chips in favour of baked potatoes but what about that weakness for crisps?
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Oats, salads and baked potatoes form the basis of three daily meals.
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Or how the mayonnaise melted into a piping hot baked potato ?
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Tea: Poached fish in cheese sauce, peas, baked potato , piece of fresh fruit.
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Steak pies, with baked potatoes and stewed applies.
boiled
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If you want potatoes with your meal, cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips.
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Dinner Chicken casserole, boiled potatoes in their skins, lemon sorbet.
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Light beer and vodka were followed by a simple but nourishing meal of stewed meat and boiled potatoes , preceded by borscht.
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Dinner Grilled kipper, tomatoes, peas and boiled potatoes , banana to finish.
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Chops, he thinks, with boiled potatoes .
early
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Plant garlic, shallots and Jerusalem artichokes as soon as possible, early potatoes about mid-month.
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My college nutrition textbook devoted an entire chapter to the positive impact of starches on early development, potatoes main among them.
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Plant the peas, zigzag fashion, 2in apart. Early potatoes should be sprouted indoors now to go out in spring.
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Farmers near Girvan and Dunbar use these advantages to provide early potatoes for the large markets of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting.
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This was for the specialised early potato market.
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One of their advantages is that they are an early potato which comes to maturity in autumn.
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The early potatoes were well up and looking very healthy, I was happy to see.
fried
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The loss of vitamin C in fried potatoes has been investigated but the results show considerable variation according to conditions.
hot
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And Ireland was the sort of hot potato a Bagshaw feared most.
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The BritTrak stuff is quite a hot enough potato for one conference.
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Add more hot water if potatoes seem too dry.
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The idea of taxing perks was simply too hot a political potato to be left to the bureaucrats.
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Or how the mayonnaise melted into a piping hot baked potato ?
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In Gloucestershire for instance, it's the hottest of hot potatoes .
large
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When darkness came he ventured out, selecting a large potato - which tasted awful although he ate it all.
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Dry Roast Potatoes Choose medium to large potatoes of even size.
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Cook potatoes of a similar size together to ensure they cook evenly. Large potatoes may be cut.
mashed
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It was macaroni cheese and mashed potatoes .
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Shape some of the mashed potato mixture around each sausage.
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Nothing to eat but instant mashed potato , pickles and maybe corned beef if you are lucky.
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Top with instant mashed potato and brown under the grill.
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I was about to prepare a dessert of mashed potato , flavoured with an Oxo cube.
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Cover the fish completely with the mashed potatoes and smooth over with a fork.
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We like simple things such as lamb and mashed potatoes .
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Moving progressively towards a thick mashed potato consistency is well on the way to a normal diet.
new
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Chop ¼ red pepper, 2 spring onions, 1 celery stalk, 2 cooked new potatoes , cucumber and 2 mushrooms.
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Puny had left baked chicken, and green beans cooked with new potatoes , one of his favorite meals.
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Oh, too bad, she decided to cook some new potatoes and they could take them or leave them.
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Serve this dish with simple accompaniments such as steamed new potatoes , rice or buttered fresh pasta.
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In small, nicely made wooden drums there were new potatoes no larger than damsons.
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Serve with new potatoes , broccoli and cauliflower.
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Serve with new potatoes and a green salad.
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The waiter lifted the salver to reveal a rack of lamb surrounded by courgettes and tiny new potatoes .
political
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It had become a political hot potato , and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run.
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Not so much political hot potatoes , as political sweeteners.
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The idea of taxing perks was simply too hot a political potato to be left to the bureaucrats.
roast
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Savoury Deep-fat-fried chips, roast potatoes .
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She kept feeding Hansel huge portions of roast beef and potatoes to make him fat and juicy.
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There had been a dinner cooked, turkey or chicken with sausages, roast potatoes and stuffing.
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A roast chicken followed, with pale stuffing, a hot gravy and masses of floury roast potatoes .
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He loves belly pork with spring cabbage and roast potatoes , and a good, hot curry.
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Lunch was pea soup, roast beef, roast potatoes , sprouts and peas, with apple snow for dessert.
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Sunday was best of all with cold roast beef and potatoes or bread.
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I still love my chips and pies and lots of roast potatoes and I drink pints and pints of milk.
small
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Novell is so rich that the Unix acquisition is relatively small potatoes .
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Both the Foster papers and the travel office flap are small potatoes .
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Don't ask me how a big thing like a spaceship can go into a thing as small as a potato .
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Paradoxically, the accusations stirring the most indignation have, in money terms, been comparatively small potatoes .
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A young girl skips down the steep path with a small sack of potatoes .
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Left to our own devices, we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes .
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Like organic farming: it was small potatoes .
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Of course, in that environment, being a congenital liar was small potatoes .
sweet
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Substitute sweet potatoes for russets the next time you serve baked potatoes with pork or chicken.
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Chemical control of sweet potato pests has had varying degrees of success, with many chemicals being too expensive.
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This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.
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I wonder if Stuart likes sweet potatoes ?
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Carrots, spinach, kale, broccoli and sweet potatoes are among foods rich in beta carotene.
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We're farmers and export sweet potatoes .
■ NOUN
cake
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Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
chip
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It was a strange supper - tomatoes, potato chips , dried fruit and cake.
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They're as addicting as potato chips .
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A till was hurled out into the cheering crowd, followed by burgers, potato chips and furniture.
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I miss things like potato chips and junk food.
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The man returned to exchange the fudge for potato chips .
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You can buy cigarettes, potato chips , Ravens pennants, Styrofoam ice chests and snow shovels.
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Could one call Caesars the potato chip of the salad world?
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See, e-mail is a baked potato chip as opposed to a greasy, fried one.
couch
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The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato .
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In many cases, Olympian designs serve as the basis for apparel that the average couch potato will be able to buy.
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And nomatterhow fit you are, you're just as susceptible to the same long-term damage as the average couch potato .
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Tired of watching the Grammy Awards as a couch potato ?
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Skol's sales were up by 4%, thanks largely to demand from couch potatoes .
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Nope, we jaded couch potatoes are demanding more.
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No more nonstop basketball for couch potato Congressional staff members.
crisp
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For example, you might do a survey on potato crisps .
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Canapes were suitably Daliesque - smoked salmon, potato crisp and olive creations shaped as lobsters.
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Similarly, with potato crisps , have you ever known anyone not finish a packet they started?
crop
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An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting.
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Once more the potato crop had failed.
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It is applied on 35 percent of Britain's potato crop .
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The Colorado beetle spreads over a potato crop and a human population starves.
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Slugs turn to the potato crop in late summer, when other food sources are disappearing.
famine
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The potato famine , so many millions of people were affected by it and all the deaths that have occurred.
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Their families had come to the United States during the nineteenth-century potato famine .
field
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Straight from the potato fields and into marriage with himself, she went.
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Already over the potato fields of northeastern Maine the harvest moon is rising.
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The aircraft had come to rest inverted in a ploughed potato field with the sail and engine on top of the pilot.
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In fact it was a potato field with two foot deep furrows and tall healthy plants on the tops.
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Josef Jakobs landed in a potato field in North Stifford, Essex, falling heavily and breaking his ankle.
jacket
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Dobson said that 96 % of consumers used low fat cream with salad and 45 % with jacket potatoes .
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If you want potatoes with your meal, cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips.
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Serve with a jacket potato and a green salad.
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Cold, cooked jacket potato plus a tub of salad, sandwich filling, or dip.
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Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top.
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Two jacket potatoes later - back to it.
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The oven door was open, and there were four jacket potatoes on the second shelf.
salad
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There were bowls of coleslaw and potato salad laced with green peas, buttered garlic rolls and hard-boiled eggs.
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She finally decided on the ham, potato salad and deviled eggs.
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But as he attacked his potato salad Herr Nordern felt exultation.
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Note: Leftovers make a great potato salad .
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Others made sandwiches for the workers -- and resident Ann Collar cooked 40 pounds of potato salad for the cause.
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And heaping side orders, including coleslaw and potato salad , cost 70 cents.
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However, it improves lentil or potato salads .
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She made potato salad and deviled eggs and tea and I brought green beans and a pound cake.
seed
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The research is focused on developing a suitable model of an export marketing system for Northern Ireland's seed potatoes .
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The clause was unreasonable in the context of a contract for the sale of seed potatoes .
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Buy seed potatoes from garden centres or by mail order.
■ VERB
add
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Beat the eggs in a bowl and then add potatoes , onion, flour, salt and pepper.
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He added a side of potatoes that included some fat.
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Cover and allow to cook without colouring until soft. 4. Add the potatoes and watercress.
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Cook and stir until onion is soft, about 10 minutes. Add potatoes and oil.
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Remove the garlic; pour in the stock and bring to the boil. Add the potatoes .
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Simmer for 40 minutes. Add potatoes and enough water to barely cover everything.
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By adding these potatoes , a bulky food of reasonably high-fibre content, they actually lost some weight over a three-month period!
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Cool, then add to potato mixture.
bake
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And why bother baking a potato when a packet of crisps is to hand?
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The salad bar has over 50 items, including hot pasta and baked potatoes .
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It's great for using or, salads and baked potatoes and in sandwiches and dips.
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Substitute sweet potatoes for russets the next time you serve baked potatoes with pork or chicken.
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I ate an energy-giving meal - bakes beans and jacket potato - a combination the midwife would later curse me for.
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As a change from mashed or baked potatoes , prepare scalloped potatoes.
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Listed below are a few reasons to bake a potato .
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See, e-mail is a baked potato chip as opposed to a greasy, fried one.
boil
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Season well. Boil the potatoes until well done and mash with a little water to achieve a soft consistency.
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Doctor, here is a big boiled potato ....
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Then we built our fire in the outdoor fireplace to boil potatoes and heat up red beans for supper.
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He boils cabbage and potatoes all day.
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Something boiled , meat and potatoes , home-baked bread.
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For example, boiled potatoes satisfied hunger seven times better than croissants.
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The satiety index decreased progressively from boiled potatoes to french fries to potato chips.
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Cover pan, bring to a boil and boil gently until the potatoes are tender, about eight minutes.
buy
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You can buy cigarettes, potato chips, Ravens pennants, Styrofoam ice chests and snow shovels.
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A few tips: Buy firm, unblemished potatoes .
chop
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To transform the spuds, scientists chopped potato leaves into small pieces and scattered them across a laboratory culture dish.
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Java Joe and his friend Bic chopped up potatoes and began frying them with onions and garlic in a communal kitchen.
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Place chopped and whole potatoes plus all ingredients except peas, parsley, salt and pepper in cooker.
cook
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Oh, too bad, she decided to cook some new potatoes and they could take them or leave them.
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In the meantime, cook the potatoes in boiling salted water.
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Puny had left baked chicken, and green beans cooked with new potatoes , one of his favorite meals.
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We used to cook potatoes and sausages in hot ashes after the fire had burnt down.
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Slice the cooked potatoes and arrange in layers in an ovenproof dish.
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Others made sandwiches for the workers -- and resident Ann Collar cooked 40 pounds of potato salad for the cause.
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Meanwhile, cook the new potatoes in boiling water until tender: drain thoroughly.
cut
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To reduce weight quickly it is a good idea to cut out bread, potatoes and pasta.
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Cool slightly. Cut potatoes in half.
eat
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I noticed her hanging around the bar, staring through its window, while I ate my fish and potatoes .
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An elderly couple is silently eating chicken and mashed potatoes at a table by the window.
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At dawn they ate the potatoes that they'd laid around the fire to cook.
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They ate no potatoes that day, sweet or white.
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Nothing to eat but instant mashed potato , pickles and maybe corned beef if you are lucky.
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Some go through weeks of eating great quantities of potato chips or ice-cream sandwiches before the forbidden foods lose their allure.
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While the meat was simmering, they ate puris and spiced potatoes .
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I hesitated to eat the mashed potatoes , lest the little gravy lake spill.
fry
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Were people peacefully frying up potatoes , or were they hitting one another on the head with their frying pans?
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Dinner was usually fried meat and pasty potatoes thrown on a chipped plate.
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This would prevent the crunchy, deep fried chunks of potato from going soft in the accompanying lemon garlic sauce.
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They had mutton chops, fried potatoes , and coffee with brandy in it.
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I began to smell the odor of steak and fried potatoes and coffee cutting through the smell of hay and manure.
grow
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It was interesting to note that in Wester Ross 62% of the farmers grew potatoes .
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Thompson Brothers Farms grows certified seed potatoes , wheat, barley and pinto beans.
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There is no doubt that this encouragement to grow potatoes had a disastrous sequel some fifty years later.
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Y., which conceived the idea and grew the potatoes .
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His garden was a credit to him, too, and he grew flowers and potatoes .
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They also grow potatoes for the city markets.
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On these terraces farmers grow tea, potatoes , apricot and almond trees as well as wheat, maize and rice.
include
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The following recipes all include potatoes .
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The food spread will include buffalo wings, potato skins and popcorn.
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Starters included Corn chowder, potato skins with dips, Nachos and other familiar Stateside items.
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Avoid mayonnaise-based selections, including cole slaw and potato and pasta salads.
mash
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Top with the mashed potato and bake in a preheated oven at 190C, 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 30 minutes.
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On another visit, not-so-crisp chicken was paired with unseasoned mashed potatoes and too-lemony chard.
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This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.
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Steam or bake winter squash of your choice, then mash with butter and serve as a colorful alternative to mashed potatoes .
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Omar sighed, his round smooth cheeks swelling with the meat, mashed potatoes , and peas-he had stuffed in his mouth.
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The wife of a prominent banker, his own banker as a matter of fact, said the banker liked mashed potatoes .
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Saut ed green and yellow squash spears and an intriguing pear-shaped centerpiece of crusted mashed potatoes rounded out the platter.
peel
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Just a pair of hands peeling potatoes and a reflection in the mirror.
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Barely cover the peeled potatoes with cold water, cover the pot, then turn the heat to high.
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With sinking heart Sly realized that he was in a burger joint that was too trendy to peel its potatoes .
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A white preacher who prayed for their souls while Sethe peeled potatoes and Grandma Baby sucked air.
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Betty was sitting in the porch of the cottage peeling potatoes .
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We are peeling potatoes , forming tiny meatballs, browning chicken, shelling peas.
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They don't peel potatoes , chip them and then deep-fry them; they buy frozen oven chips instead.
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It was with some trepidation that I slid a 5-pound chicken with peeled , quartered potatoes into the 500-degree oven.
serve
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Brown under the grill. Serve with new potatoes and a tomato and onion salad.
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Substitute sweet potatoes for russets the next time you serve baked potatoes with pork or chicken.
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Grill the kebabs, turning frequently. Serve with a jacket potato and a green salad.
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Garnish with wedges of lemon. Serve with new potatoes and a green salad.
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Bake at 400°F, 200°C, Gas 6 for 20 mins. Serve with sauté potatoes , mange-tout and tomatoes.
slice
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Peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes .
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Drain and leave to cool. Slice the cooked potatoes and arrange in layers in an ovenproof dish.
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Note: Chef Gilles Syglowski blanches the sliced potatoes for 1 minute in boiling water before using.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
early potatoes/lettuces etc
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Farmers near Girvan and Dunbar use these advantages to provide early potatoes for the large markets of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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Plant garlic, shallots and Jerusalem artichokes as soon as possible, early potatoes about mid-month.
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The early potatoes were well up and looking very healthy, I was happy to see.
fish/rice/potato etc cake
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Deep fry fish cakes and warm for 5 mins before serving with tomato sauce and lightly-boiled leeks and celery.
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From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake .
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I bet he had the fish cakes .
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In celebration of a new weight control year, the Quaker Oats Co. has developed yet another rice cake flavor.
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Lunch Rice cakes , low-fat cheese, tomatoes and onion, apple.
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My husband and the minister wives who come to the party do not care for the rice cake .
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She'd claim it was quite ordinary - fish cake s, only they went wrong - that sort of thing.
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Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
sth is small potatoes
the meat and potatoes
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But the meat and potatoes of the newscast is the gathering, preparing, and presentation of the news.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a baked potato
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mashed potatoes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carefully remove the potatoes from the pan with a slotted spoon and reserve any remaining stock to make the gravy if desired.
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Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes.
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He later became director of the potato program and was named state seed commissioner in 1988.
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It goes together easily with butternut squash, onion, potato , carrots and broth.
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Long tables with stainless-steel trays held mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, fried oysters and oyster stew.
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The Colorado beetle spreads over a potato crop and a human population starves.
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The salad was in the ice box, and the roast and potatoes in the oven.
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Try these deliciously crunchy potato skins with garlic mayonnaise as an alternative to the chive and garlic dressing.