Where a task is small, and the payment is reasonable, it may not always be necessary to invite tenders for a piece of work.
It is as natural a recipe as any I know: you cook any mixture of vegetables and herbs in olive oil until they are tender, then rest a piece of fish on the stew and steam it.
But think of it as a quail's egg, a small Kilner jar wrapped in a napkin and containing a few morsels of lobster, a tender little piece of pike, a delicate mushroom amuse-bouche in a tiny ramekin, a sliver of tart with a mango coulis, a pungent whiff of Langres cheese, and a chocolate truffle - served over more than three hours, and it seems far less intimidating.
Imagine yourself cutting into a tender piece of steak in a dimly-lit restaurant wearing a cherry red dress or showing off your bowling skills to your buddies down at the local alley.
Fried chicken is a beautiful thing — there are few things better than a tender piece of poultry, delicately seasoned and lightly dredged with a dusting of flour, and then baptized in a pool of sizzling fat to crisp, golden perfection.
My table was enthusing about the Madeira-glazed black cod appetizer we had all loved — a tender, juicy piece of fish prepared with a delicious celery root mousseline and a hint of porcini mushrooms — and the server was reminding us of the new restaurant's co-owner, the actor Richard Gere.
These accompaniments took down with them an otherwise decent slab of salmon and a tender piece of pork.
There's nothing nicer than a tender piece of roasted chicken on the bone dipped in a green garlic aioli.
Thornton picked some and, a few hours later, served it with the final savory course: a tender piece of lamb half-buried under snippets of cat grass, periwinkle-blue borage blossoms, yellow-foot mushrooms, and "cocoa soil".
These items include an example of the first Demand Notes (1861) known as greenbacks; a $50 legal tender note of 1862; a piece of postal currency; and some fractional paper currency.
