During the autumn months, sweet potatoes are sold ready-cooked in Mexico's markets. From Wordnik.com. [Cinnamon: Mexican cooks use the real thing] Reference
No doubt every single tenant had smuggled in his own alcohol stove, on which to heat up the ready-cooked food that he regularly bought from the nearest delicatessen. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100]
Could I produce my own ready-cooked meals, soups, confectionery, as well as keeping a supply of cigarettes, go on to the street here with a little table and chair and start selling?. From Wordnik.com. [[2012] cashless economy, here we come] Reference
He dragged himself therefore with his starved-out stomach into the town, and as it was just striking twelve, all was ready-cooked for him in the inn, and he was able to sit down at once to dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
Have not so much as a bear skin to lie on, only my blanket to wrap me in, for our removals from place to place are so quick & sudden that we can have no opportunity nor means to convey beds &c, but go only with the cloaths on our backs & our blankets and a little ready-cooked victuals. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
At this same time, there was a charitable lady in or near Bantry, who had discovered that another of the priests was not unfrequently dinnerless; so she insisted on being permitted to send him that important meal, ready-cooked, at a certain hour every day, begging of him to be at home, if possible, at the hour fixed. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
As rations from home ran out, we bought ready-cooked chickens and takeaway pizza. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
A ready-cooked pheasant would be sent for his dinner, and anything else that he could fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Luttrell's First Patient] Reference
The meal, because everything had been brought ready-cooked and only needed warming, was excellent. From Wordnik.com. [Little Fuzzy] Reference
For visitors renting an appartment, this can be a great address for buying ready-cooked meals (10-20\% cheaper for take away). From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
We have laundries, ready-made clothing, and bakeries, and now it is proposed in Boston to furnish a complete supply of ready-cooked food. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10] Reference
During the week previous to Sarchuck, both families are busily engaged in sending round to their several friends trays of ready-cooked dinners. From Wordnik.com. [Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society] Reference
Even so, Tesco has also increased the range of non-GM organic foods offering customers a wide selection from fresh produce to ready-cooked meals. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
In outposts such as Mirwais, the troops eat mainly ready-cooked rations - meals-ready-to-eat or MREs - with regular fare limited to a range of stews. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Clothes ready-made, and meat ready-cooked, are to be bought in these parts; and the lively whirl of carriages is exchanged for the deep rumble of carts and waggons. From Wordnik.com. [American Notes] Reference
Get a soft tortilla and mix mayonnaise with plum sauce, then add in some cooked chicken from the Sunday roast or some ready-cooked meat, cucumber strips and a sprinkle of toasted sesame seeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I have got our old friend Snowball, the cook, busy here in the same way, boiling as much salt beef and pork as he can cram into his coppers, so that it may be ready-cooked when wanted and save time. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land] Reference
Beside herself with fright for Frank, she sped back to her cabin, took what food was ready-cooked and could be bundled up to carry on the journey, put on her heaviest shoes and started for the door. From Wordnik.com. [In Old Kentucky] Reference
Wilson Avenue food, as displayed in the ready-cooked shops, resembles in a startling degree the Wilson Avenue ladies themselves: highly coloured, artificial, chemically treated, tempting to the eye, but unnutritious. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
Roasting the beetroot gives a sweetness that works perfectly with the tart Bramleys, but if you're in a hurry, you can quarter the time by peeling and grating them raw, then sweating them with the onion base (or cheat and buy ready-cooked). From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
If the idea does appeal to you then you'll find a simple, step-by-step guide to getting all that lovely meat out that will also be useful if you've bought a ready-cooked crab and are pawing uselessly at the exterior, wondering where the latch is. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Here were ready-cooked foods for immediate use -- sold hot to passers by, and eaten as they stood -- with stalls of pastry of many kinds, bread, cakes, and confectionery; chocolate, flavored with vanilla and other spices, and pulque, prepared with many varying flavors, tempted the passers by. From Wordnik.com. [By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico] Reference
The next thing that happened to them was in a narrow part of the sea, which was so entirely full of fishes that the boat could go on no farther: so they remained there about six weeks, till they had eaten nearly all the fishes, which were soles, and all ready-cooked, and covered with shrimp-sauce, so that there was no trouble whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Nonsense Books] Reference
I got the faggots and pease pudding in the basin Mrs. Cockerton had supplied, but I had to wait a long time, as there was always a run on ready-cooked foods on a Saturday morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Rising of the Moon]
'clothes are bought ready-made, food is bought either ready-cooked, like bread and jam and fish, or only requiring the simplest kind of cooking': in fact just because physical exertion has been lightened by books and machinery, that 'there results a mass of inarticulate unhappiness whose existence has hardly been indicated by our present method of sociological enquiry'. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
She is foreseeing and businesslike: she is not obliged to get inferior articles because she is driven at the last moment and cannot send to the best shop; she is never unable to match her dress because she has not thought about new gloves till the very afternoon that she wants them; she does not forget till half-past six that dinner has not been ordered, and then, in despair, order in ready-cooked things from a shop. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference
Thus Edna D. Day, at the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics in 1908, was more or less sorry that "domestic science has come to be so largely sewing and cooking in our schools," was quite willing to look at the white of the eye of the fact that "more and more we are buying ready-made clothes and ready-cooked foods," and marked out the policy of her "Survey Course in Home Economics" at the University of Missouri in the statement that "sewing and cooking are decreasingly home problems, while the problems of wise buying, of adjusting standards of living to income, and of developing right feelings in regard to family responsibilities are increasingly difficult.". From Wordnik.com. [The Women of Tomorrow] Reference
Quicker, tastier to buy ready-cooked. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhist priests favourite grilled beef] Reference
450g/1lb ready-cooked polenta , cut into 2cm/3/4in dice. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
They piled into carriage or car or trolley and went elsewhere, and when they arrived at the city park, the ocean, the lake, the river, Stonehenge, Gettysburg, the cliffs, the ruins, or -- according to many humorous accounts -- the field concealing a raging, unsuspected bull, no franchise there sold ready-cooked food. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
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