ready-cooked

Although she decries such conveniences in her 2003 book, Lebanese Cuisine "I do not like the taste or texture of tinned food", by 2007's Modern Mezze, her attitude has relented: "I used to make hommus the old-fashioned slow way … However, you can now buy jars of excellent ready-cooked chickpeas, preserved in water and salt, without added artificial preservatives".

How to make perfect hummus 2011

Could I produce my own ready-cooked meals, soups, confectionery, as well as keeping a supply of cigarettes, go on to the street here with a little table and chair and start selling?

[2012] cashless economy, here we come 2009

Goethe discovered that ready-cooked maccheroni could be “bought everywhere, and in all the shops for very little money.”

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Clothes ready-made, and meat ready-cooked, are to be bought in these parts; and the lively whirl of carriages is exchanged for the deep rumble of carts and waggons.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

During the autumn months, sweet potatoes are sold ready-cooked in Mexico's markets.

Cinnamon: Mexican cooks use the real thing 2004

During the autumn months, sweet potatoes are sold ready-cooked in Mexico's markets.

Cinnamon: Mexican cooks use the real thing 2004

He dragged himself therefore with his starved-out stomach into the town, and as it was just striking twelve, all was ready-cooked for him in the inn, and he was able to sit down at once to dinner.

Household Tales 2003

Moving to the right in the bottom tier delegators, the change-averse bachelor who is more willing to accept help could order a ready-cooked dinner for delivery—possibly the same dinner every night.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

Moving to the right in the bottom tier delegators, the change-averse bachelor who is more willing to accept help could order a ready-cooked dinner for delivery—possibly the same dinner every night.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

No doubt every single tenant had smuggled in his own alcohol stove, on which to heat up the ready-cooked food that he regularly bought from the nearest delicatessen.

Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100 Simenon, Georges 1970