noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a corn/wheat/rice etc field
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In summer the rice fields were lush and green.
a field of corn/wheat/rice etc
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The road was surrounded by fields of corn.
brown rice
cook rice/pasta/sausages etc
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Cook the pasta for about 8 minutes.
Rice, Condoleezza
rice paddy
rice paper
rice pudding
rice/sugar etc imports
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There is pressure on the country to reduce its rice imports.
the wheat/cereal/rice etc crop
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In January farmers prepare the ground for the potato crop.
white/wholemeal/rice/wheat etc flour
wild rice
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
boiled
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Use in oriental-style dishes and sprinkle it over meat before grilling it or use to liven up leftover boiled rice .
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Stir until thickened. 4 Drain chicken and serve with sauce and boiled rice .
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Keep away from the fried batter and won-ton pastry dishes and ask for steamed or boiled rice .
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Serve with boiled rice and bowls of the dipping sauce.
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And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option.
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Serve hot with boiled rice and a dollop of soured cream on top, if you wish.
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Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with boiled rice and warm pitta bread.
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Serve on a bed of boiled rice , preferably brown rice.
brown
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Serve with brown rice and a chicory and orange salad.
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Wild rice , more than corn, brown rice, or oats, evokes a mood and a feeling.
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Add the cooked brown rice , honey, and buttermilk and mix.
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Good sources include brown rice , wholewheat, bran, barley, pulses, carrots and apples.
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I opted for stir-fried veggies and brown rice with a glass of white wine of some indeterminate jug sort.
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Notice the gluten network holding the golden polenta nuggets and pieces of brown rice and flecks of bran.
dry
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There they had spent fourteen days in solitary confinement, chained in heavy leg irons and fed only on dry rice .
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The valley was scrubby here: elephant grass, occasional tall trees, and dry rice paddies.
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Those dry rice paddies that we walked through, we could swim through; they all filled up with water.
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No trees or foothills this time; it was all cleared land, dry rice paddies, and sandy, weed-patched fields.
golden
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The group displayed material from Syngenta, the multinational which holds the golden rice patents.
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A lack of this vitamin causes blindness throughout rice-eating areas, and this golden-grained rice could solve a pressing problem.
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Monsanto's patents are by no means the only barrier to producing golden rice , but they are a major one.
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Potrykus's goal is to distribute golden rice free to peasant farmers in all poor countries where rice is grown.
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They would cross it with varieties adapted to local conditions, and golden rice could be planted in paddies by 2004.
hot
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Grill the kebabs and place on the hot rice to serve.
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Serve hot with boiled rice and a dollop of soured cream on top, if you wish.
sticky
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A beautiful dish, it is more or less what it sounds like, sticky rice wrapped in green striated lotus leaves.
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My father sliced open a square of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.
white
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The refined carbohydrates - white flour, rice and pasta - should be replaced by wholemeal versions.
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As a side dish, serve plain white rice .
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Season and cool. 3 Mix the fresh herbs into the white rice and mound up on an attractive serving plate.
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Rex scooped up a bucket of water and carefully poured some of it into a small white rice bowl.
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Just as white bread was once eaten in preference to brown, so white rice was always the standard choice.
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Or choose white rice with Cajun or teriyaki sauce.
wild
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I can eat no more of the wild rice which tastes nutty and clings to the roof of my mouth.
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He serves the venison with a wild rice compote that contains sun-dried pears, a hard-to-find ingredient.
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Below: wild rice and grits are staple elements in Cajun cooking.
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We buy our wild rice in broken pieces, which cuts the expense in half.
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Oh, that's the wild rice !
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Broken pieces of wild rice are much less expensive.
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Yes, indeed. Wild rice .
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If you are making your own blend, use half wild rice and half brown.
■ NOUN
cake
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From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice , Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake .
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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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Basmati rice cake Serves 6-8 1 Boil the rice for 3 minutes in water, then drain.
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Deep-fried glutinous rice cakes Glutinous rice is sweet and its sticky texture makes it easy to mould.
crop
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The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years' worth of rice crop.
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It originally meant the pledging of the coming rice crop to local loan sharks.
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Within a short while it became clear that this policy was damaging the rice crop .
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Recent projections suggest a 36 percent decline in this year's rice crop and a 22 percent fall in cotton yield.
field
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Isn't it true that the men steal from the rice fields ?
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In winter, rice fields were bare and brown, but there was the anticipation of spring planting just around the corner.
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The main area, still submerged, was contoured under water-all for rice fields that were no longer needed.
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You could die dawn there with my cousin Trung, in some bloody Delta rice field .
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Women gathered at streams to wash clothes and gossip, and they weeded rice fields by hand.
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Most rice fields were owned in unequal shares, and the produce was distributed accordingly when the crop was harvested.
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Several species are regarded as troublesome weeds in rice fields and irrigation ditches.
flour
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Results All subjects consumed the lactulose drink within five minutes and the rice flour pancake within 15 minutes.
grain
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Long grain rice is the name generally applied to rice of varying quality and sold as an all-purpose grain.
harvest
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An excellent rice harvest caused prices to plummet by 40 %.
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You should go at rice harvest , she said.
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The busiest time of the year is the rice harvest , if the crop is good that is.
paddy
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Methane is also given off by rice paddies and ruminant animals, including cattle.
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Chambers panicked and buried himself and the machine gun in the stupid rice paddy .
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There is what looks to be a white coastline, brilliant greens, the rice paddies etched on the land.
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The en-tire company moved across a rice paddy in echelon formation.
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Instead of picking up a gun that morning, Charlie went out into the rice paddies and worked.
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No trees or foothills this time; it was all cleared land, dry rice paddies , and sandy, weed-patched fields.
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In nature Marsilea is found in ponds, ditches, swamps, rice paddies , and other areas with standing water.
paper
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They come wrapped in paper , and not even rice paper which one might eat.
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Her skin, stretched over tendons and bones, had the delicacy of rice paper .
pudding
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We nearly always had milk pudding , rice pudding, semolina or some other stodge.
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Mrs Abigail took a soup-plate from a cupboard and emptied the rice pudding on to it.
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And a rice pudding to follow.
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Products cover all basic lines including tea and coffee, biscuits, rice pudding and custard.
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Voice over Today they had spam or sausage casserole and mash followed by rice pudding and jam.
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A simple one-hour massage with oil costs about a tenner but I couldn't resist the wonderfully-named rice pudding massage.
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At the end, any dribbles of rice pudding are wiped away with towels.
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Those who were fortunate enough to be in the sick wards were given sago, or rice pudding instead.
wine
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Add ginger, shallots, the snow pea leaves, rice wine and salt.
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Add 1 tablespoon of broth from the chicken pot, the remaining 1 tablespoon of rice wine and the sesame oil.
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Kyoto serves its best rice wines chilled in a traditional wine glass.
■ VERB
add
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In another pan, warm the sunflower oil. Add the Risotto rice and, stirring continuously, cook for 2-3 minutes.
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Stir well. Add rice and then shrimp and stir.
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Bring a pan of water to the boil and add the rice , saffron, salt and 2 of the bay leaves.
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Gradually stir in the scalding hot milk. Add rice and raisins.
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Tabasco can be added to casseroles and rice dishes.
boil
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I see Batti, he is coming back from boiling pots of rice for the kids.
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We boil the rice and eat it cold with milk for supper.
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In the meantime, boil the rice according to the instructions.
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Basmati rice cake Serves 6-8 1 Boil the rice for 3 minutes in water, then drain.
cook
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While the Quorn mixture is cooking , cook the rice according to the instructions.
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Our kitchenware consisted of two pots, one for cooking rice and the other for soup or stew.
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Place cooked rice sticks in a paper bag and store at room temperature until ready to use.
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Pour the Quorn mixture over the cooked rice and serve immediately.
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Add the cooked brown rice , honey, and buttermilk and mix.
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Leave overnight in the refrigerator for the flavours to develop. Cook the rice according to the instructions.
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Our attempts to save fresh water by mixing in seawater when cooking rice or noodles had not had much success.
eat
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The chicks pecked the conspicuous rice grains, which proves that they were eager to eat rice.
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We ate red beans and rice on Mondays.
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Don't eat rice or pasta today.
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He ate rice and a fried egg three times a day, keeping track of the days by counting the meals.
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At midday they normally ate rice with a meat-flavoured sauce that might or might not have meat in it.
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Only on special occasions, such as holidays, did most people get a chance to eat unadulterated rice .
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Since the rains began the village's 5,000 people have been homeless, eating one meal of rice a day.
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How I wished I could eat as much rice as I wanted!
fry
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Lay 1 cut-up frying chicken on the rice mixture, and spread remaining soup over chicken.
grow
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This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents.
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The residents grew their own rice , set up a small poultry farm, wove baskets and cultivated the orchard.
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Tests have shown that desert soil treated with the gel can grow rice and wheat.
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When my parents were still alive and I was still a child, everyone in our family worked to grow the rice .
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We grew maize, rice , beans and sesame.
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Sri Lanka did not grow enough rice to feed its people.
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In communities which were economically and socially based on growing rice , Goyigama dominance was clear throughout the nineteenth century and beyond.
produce
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Monsanto's patents are by no means the only barrier to producing golden rice , but they are a major one.
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The school has its own experimental farm, and has produced special strains of rice for the commune.
serve
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Season to taste, serve with rice or noodles.
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Remove bay leaf and serve over rice .
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Garnish the chicken with toasted almonds. Serve with brown rice .
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Garnish with chopped green olives. Serve with brown rice and a tomato and onion salad.
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As a side dish, serve plain white rice .
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Wild rice is far too expensive to serve , like traditional rice, as an accompaniment to other dishes.
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Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve over hot rice .
steam
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Shirley FongTorres says this stew is delicious over steamed rice and is even better the next day.
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For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast, steamed asparagus, wild rice , and, for dessert, apple pie.
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Serve this dish with simple accompaniments such as steamed new potatoes, rice or buttered fresh pasta.
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That was why a landlord like Uncle Khan made offerings of roast ducks and steamed rice to one of his poorest tenants.
stir
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Cut the remaining butter into slivers and stir into the rice with the grated Parmesan cheese.
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Gently stir rice into chicken mixture.
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Drain off excess fat. Stir in rice , tomatoes with their liquid, tomato paste, water, cumin and chiles.
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Add oregano and rice , stirring to coat rice with oil.
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Cook over medium heat, stirring , until rice achieves desired consistency.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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long-grain rice
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Add rice to the pan and also fish sauce, lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.
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Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque.
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Analysis Ask the students to consider the following questions: What did the rice do?
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In some homes, women were even exchanging their wedding jewelry for rice .
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Stir the rice into the tomato mixture, adding the chilli sauce.
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The rice cooker puffs away many nights, with jasmine rice scenting the air.
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When lightly set all over, spoon the rice into a serving dish and garnish with the pepper, cabbage and kale.
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Wild rice , more than corn, brown rice, or oats, evokes a mood and a feeling.