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  • Kayb's sweet and tangy marinade is just what raw cauliflower needs to transform it from a humdrum crudité to a zippy accompaniment for barbecue, or even a simple hors d'oeuvre all of its own.

    Food52's Best Cauliflower Recipes Colin Sterling 2010

  • Little Miss Cupcake and Synie's Cupcakes were providing the scrumptious hors d'oeuvre sustenance that would allow us guests to enjoy our champagne without its zooming to our heads.

    Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Celebs Are Out, The Fringe Is In Beth Arnold 2010

  • Kathleen, you used to refer to Dianne's rye bread and spinach dip hors d'oeuvre as . . .

    Fact-Checking Your Fiction Con Chapman 2011

  • Kayb's sweet and tangy marinade is just what raw cauliflower needs to transform it from a humdrum crudité to a zippy accompaniment for barbecue, or even a simple hors d'oeuvre all of its own.

    Food52's Best Cauliflower Recipes Colin Sterling 2010

  • "Treat The Overlook like a tasty hors d'oeuvre: down it in one quick gulp, and look forward to the next Bosch entree."

    The Overlook by Michael Connelly: Book summary 2010

  • First, the hors d'oeuvre, which this evening at Miyuki is a basket carved from a ripe yellow persimmon, filled with shredded radish and golden mushroom, and set on a black-lacquered, gold- rimmed plate.

    Sara Waxman: Eating Beauty: An Adventure in Japanese Cuisine Sara Waxman 2011

  • First, the hors d'oeuvre, which this evening at Miyuki is a basket carved from a ripe yellow persimmon, filled with shredded radish and golden mushroom, and set on a black-lacquered, gold- rimmed plate.

    Sara Waxman: Eating Beauty: An Adventure in Japanese Cuisine Sara Waxman 2011

  • Heeding the latter part of that mission, the vegan meal served featured the kind of item put in quotations to only "suggest" meat: field roast "franks" in a blanket with Dijon mustard as an hors d'oeuvre, and, as an entrée, a field roast Porcini Dijon crusted cutlet.

    Saving Pigs, Not Eating Them Marshall Heyman 2011

  • First, the hors d'oeuvre, which this evening at Miyuki is a basket carved from a ripe yellow persimmon, filled with shredded radish and golden mushroom, and set on a black-lacquered, gold- rimmed plate.

    Sara Waxman: Eating Beauty: An Adventure in Japanese Cuisine Sara Waxman 2011

  • "That was a mere hors d'oeuvre to what you are going to see," he said.

    In the Light of a Cathedral to the Arts Marshall Heyman 2011

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