vegetable
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When she arrives at their imposing Vermont mansion to go through Verity’s notes, Lowen discovers that Verity’s a vegetable: completely physically and mentally indisposed after a car accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
For a lot of vegetable, bean and chowder-style soups, I blend about half of what’s in the pot.That gives you body without turning the whole thing into purée.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
The cost of crops and vegetable oils is already climbing because of more expensive inputs like diesel and fertilizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There are also around 16 fruit trees on the property—including orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, and lime trees—as well as a brick-enclosed vegetable garden.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
I tell him about the vegetable gardens, the orchards, the greenhouse, pigs, chickens, sheep, and goats.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
With the activities and plentiful food such as fresh fish, tempeh and lightly blanched vegetables, the experience felt more like a vacation than my time in Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Frozen meals have come a long way from the blanched vegetables and rubbery, puck-shaped meat approximations found in TV dinners of the 1970s and 80s.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The user is shown devoting her free time to chopping vegetables for said party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
She has also suggested growing fruit and vegetables at hospital sites as one possible way of providing fresher food.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Professional educator that she was, Penelope was proud to have devised a way to combine the study of poetry and the eating of vegetables into a single enjoyable lesson.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
