Sentence examples for respectable meal from inspiring English sources

Each night our table received a platter of baked potatoes the size of footballs; since one of them would have made a respectable meal by itself, we hardly touched them.

While I was busy pushing foie gras around my plate at fancy French restaurants, a culinary movement was gathering force, a coalition of food journalists, cookbook writers and television chefs in pursuit of a single goal: putting a respectable meal on the table in 30 minutes or less.

They filled a need for respectable, inexpensive meals served fast.

Dinners were almost as good, and we ate our way through multicourse meals of respectable American-Continental cuisine, to the music of a violinist and a pianist who welcomed our requests.

That means a respectable two- or three-course meal, with dessert every night.

The food world is obsessed with 30-minute cookery, but a respectable two- or three-course meal can be a bit more consuming.

Order a bottle of the very respectable house wine ($12) to accompany your meal, finish it off with an imported desert for $4.50 and leave content.

Either reason is respectable, but if an author's family's next meal is entirely dependent upon their book sales, they're under enormous pressure.

Ay Kitchen is a respectable place to bring a date, or your mother, for a good Turkish meal.

I managed to whip up virtually the entire meal (ok, it wasn't five courses, but it was nevertheless most respectable!) undisturbed.

WINE LIST -- 60 wines dominated by Italian and West Coast selections; eight very respectable selections priced from $18 to $20. PRICE RANGE -- Lunch, entrees $7.50 to $16, three-course prix fixe meal $19. Dinner, appetizers $4 to $11.50; pastas $13 to $27.50; entrees $15.50 to $30 (lobsters higher).