Sentence examples for off the platter from inspiring English sources

But for a Moroccan cook whose couscous should be barely moist, each particle separate and nearly light enough to drift off the platter in the slightest breeze, this stage of preparation is only the beginning.

One caveat: There's a charge if anyone else eats off the platter.

To finish off the platter, there is a scattering of green and black olives and several chunks of aged Parmesan.

Before I could get over to her or tell her to get down, she had grabbed a whole sausage off the platter.

But it didn't work out quite that way, because it was so ridiculously delicious (super-crisp on the outside, moist and tender and perfectly cooked on the inside) that people just stood there and took the strips off the platter as fast as they came out of the oil.

"One year the turkey took a long time to cook and I went to carve it after about 13 beers," said Maurice Landry, who lives near Lake Charles, La. "The way I remember it, I bore down to take off the leg and the whole thing went shooting off the platter and knocked over the centerpiece".

It happens that when this same couple comes to our house, the husband stands over the leftovers in my kitchen and starts finishing off the platters so that "nothing is wasted". "You know, Rose," he says, standing over his 12th helping of my dinner, "you prepare much too much food.

"I took apart a dead hard drive that I had dumpster dived last year initially for the magnets, but I could not take my eyes off of the platters.

Grandmas can nibble on as little as they choose while their teenage grandchildren polish off the platters.

This Is Value on the Platter.

Rest your head on the platter.