The pasta in both dishes was firm but yielding.
The bread, firm but yielding, comes from Nino's Bakery in West Long Branch.
They baked up juicy with a firm yet yielding bite that was not at all mushy.
Coconut flan, accompanied by delicious shortbread cookies, had the perfect texture — firm but yielding — and a rich satisfying taste.
Firm but yielding and delicately flavored, perhaps with a bit of dill, it was a revelation, speaking of craftsmanship and nuance instead of assembly lines and aspic.
I can still feel in my hand the bite of the screw thread, firm but yielding to the turn, the machined metal responding with steady rather than slavish obedience.
And then there was Vineyard X Garnacha 2003 (in Threshers before Christmas): brash, modern, unpretentiously plummy and savoury, alive and kicking, and offering a deep mouthful of rustic, yet polished, fruit with firm, gently yielding tannins.
Ripe Hass avocados (the most common variety on the west coast) have dark green-to-black skin and a firm, yet yielding texture.
The firm is currently yielding about 3.6%, which is part of why it has a solid yield-adjusted P/E/G of 0.94.
Our final sample consists of an unbalanced panel of 9430 firms and 555,963 individuals, yielding 23,712 firm-year observations during the 12-year period (1999 2010).
It's surfaced with dark brown compressed cork which looks like mud from a distance and is firm but slightly yielding underfoot.
