To successfully lower the quantity of meat in a veal or chicken dish, you could cut the veal or chicken quantity in half and add meaty wild mushrooms or succulent fresh vegetables or dried fruit.

In the summers he roamed utterly free, hunting bear and lion to win a reputation for daring among his ignorant subjects, knowing that the bounty of the Pontic forests would yield him food-cherries and hazelnuts, apricots and succulent vegetables, deer and rabbits.

Small, tender, violet-colored artichokes, the long, slender stalks of wild asparagus, crisp puntarelle, a chicory-like green much favored for first-course salads, tiny, sweet peas called piselli romaneschi, the succulent, spinach-like vegetable called agretti.

The aroma of roasted meats and succulent vegetables drifted to him on the night air, reminding him that hunger depresses any man's spirits.

They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

Evans has not attempted anything else, and probably the more succulent vegetables would require irrigation.

Of the few farms that remain, the 80-acre Ewen farm, family owned since 1820, grows succulent vegetables, fruit and old-fashioned flowers like amaranthus, cleome and celosia, sold at the roadside farm stand run by Jim Zeoli.

Yet I dream of platters of succulent vegetables passed with the modest comment, "I grew these," while guests gaze at floral arrangements I "just cut for the table."

The big dish of fried fish, garnished with some strange greenery, and surrounded by most succulent vegetables, was hailed with enormous enthusiasm, and Tala grinned in pleasure as he saw the smiling faces that greeted him.