The dinner was ready, the table was ready," she said.
Her secretary, friend and all-round prop, Joyce McLennan, has tea and biscuits ready on the table.
His plan is to sell half‐steers —"cut and wrapped, ready for the table"—directly to con sumers.
Finally, a year after planting, the garlic is ready for the table (you can use it before then, but the flavor will not be as intense).
My reckoning is that the preparation of the dish required most of the morning, and the better part of an afternoon, before it was ready for the table.
Ingredients are fantastic just as they are, and it's the cook's job to get them ready for the table without getting in the way of their natural flavour.
She does notice a pronounced difference in flavor, though, when the food comes from not too far down the road when it's ripe and ready for the table.
Her prose often has the ring of earnest adolescent essays, with a surfeit of descriptions like "the long-ago firelight flicker on my bedroom ceiling" and "the clip-clop of horses' hooves," and too many metaphors along the lines of "like an earthy stew simmering for years, by midlife I was ready for the table".
Mr. Hearl showed a new wrinkle in frozen-food cookery, by means of which one can make veal scaloppine with white wine, and a number of other dishes, ready for the table simply by dipping plastic bags, each containing one of the entrees into a pot of boiling water for from 5 to 8 minutes.
Expecting him to come back for it and unwilling to let the expensive hat sink into the oblivion of daily neglect like "the inexplicable key on the bathroom window sill, the dog-eared packet of wallflower seed behind the parlour clock," the woman keeps it spruced and ready on the table near her front door.
My mother, to this day, has dinner ready on the table every night at 6 30 p.m.
