Instead, I welcomed in a very quietly spoken, specky four-eyed skinny wee dude who looked like he wouldn't say boo to a gooseberry. |
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Despite my love of beasties generally, the larvae of the gooseberry sawfly are top of my hit list at the moment. |
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Haddock wrapped in Parma ham and spinach, rib-eye steak with garlic butter, summer pudding or gooseberry crumble are typical. |
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At the moment he has cabbages, mielies, onions, Chinese cabbage, baby marrow, Cape gooseberry, spanspek and cherry tomatoes. |
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On the nose, it has strong, fragrant aromas of gooseberry and lime, supported by searingly fresh acidity on the palate. |
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Blindfolded, I don't believe I could have told, but from inspection I think it contained apple, gooseberry and blackcurrant. |
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For the record I scoffed a tiny tub of blackcurrant so purple it sent my teeth mauve, and another of gooseberry and elderflower. |
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Before very recently, I had never eaten a gooseberry, or even seen one, as far as I know. |
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I have a friend that makes the most wonderful gooseberry ice-cream, using fresh berries and Greek yoghurt. |
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As for specimen plants, how about a blackcurrant bush, a standard gooseberry or a miniature Coronet apple tree? |
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The gooseberry sawfly also targets white and redcurrants, so it's worth keeping a close eye on them too. |
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The kiwi fruit, originally known as the Chinese gooseberry, was renamed to reflect its connection with New Zealand. |
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Kiwifruit, also known as Chinese gooseberry, can be grown just about anywhere in North America. |
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Berries start off green, closely resembling a small gooseberry, and hang firmly in clusters of three to five. |
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I stayed for the next two days, but seeing Beth and Steve together made me feel a bit of a gooseberry. |
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The foliage of the Cape gooseberry is velvety, heart-shaped, and may reach 6 in long. |
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The upfront gooseberry aromas and flavours combine perfectly in this soft drinkable wine. |
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Celebrate your first spotting with a crumble, then progress to the obligatory and unsurpassable gooseberry fool. |
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The acidity in this wine is mean, and there are unripe gooseberry flavours ready to give your taste buds a good kicking. |
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Indian gooseberry, known as amla in the vernacular, is considered useful in preventing abortion. |
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Classic Sancerre ingredients all coming together skillfully with sharpish gooseberry fruit rolling along a mineral path leading to a flinty finale. 5 Stars. |
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If you like seafood, go for the Baked pomfret with gooseberry sauce, or the Cornish buttered lobster, a simple recipe that brings out the full flavour of the lobster. |
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The earliest record is said to be a fruiterer's bill from the court of the English King Edward I, dated 1276, for gooseberry bushes imported from France. |
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Every time my gooseberry bush starts to bear fruit, it develops a fungus. |
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I was playing gooseberry at Sunday lunch in Dunbrody House, Wexford. |
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Late May and early June signal the first of the gooseberries to be cooked gently, then pureed and swirled through cream to make a wonderful gooseberry fool. |
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Ginger may be added, in small doses, to apple jelly, gooseberry and rhubarb comfit and orange marmalade. |
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Alec imagined it having the size and vascular translucence of a gooseberry. |
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St John's wort, yarrow, wallflowers, box hedge, malus, birch, gooseberry bush? |
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If the Vergelegen is all about texture, this delicious Kiwi Sauvignon from Highfield Estate is about intense gooseberry fruit flavours and undertones of guava and grapefruit. |
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Currant, black currant and gooseberry bushes will reach their optimum height faster if irrigated. |
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August is the month of Heritage Teas with melt-in-your-mouth milk tart, Hertzoggies, spicy koeksisters, mosbolletjies and Cape gooseberry cheesecake. |
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So why do we neglect common Colonial food plants like burnet, smallage, skirrets, scorzonera, gooseberry and purslane? |
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Describes some of the Elizabethan dishes they serve, such as sillabub, salamagundi, gooseberry tansy, etc. |
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In this case, Qatar's sovereign-wealth fund has played the role of the gooseberry. |
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This puzzling phrase recognises a sad truth: where public and government meet, corruption plays gooseberry. |
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Soak a few Indian gooseberry in a little milk for a couple of hours and then grind them to a smooth paste along with a handful of henna leaves. |
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Raspberry, blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes had died, the privet hedge would soon be gone and vegetables wouldn't grow in the garden, only one of two affected. |
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Wine with rich cherry, gooseberry and plum aromas infused with gentle notes of oak. |
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Merlot's aromas are essentially fruity, in particular red fruits such as strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry and red cherry. |
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Many birds love berries of barberry, beautyberry, cotoneaster, currant, elderberry, gooseberry, holly, mahonia, mountain ash, nandina, pyracantha, and strawberry tree. |
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He has been growing his own grapes for over ten years, with vines trailing through a sunny shed in a garden full of blackberry and gooseberry trees. |
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Linger over platters of tzimmes with prunes and raisins, braised brisket with potatoes and, for dessert, gooseberry clafouti with homemade ice cream. |
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Produced with technocrat perfection, it presents the palate with a pleasing gooseberry and apple-like nose and a palate that vibrates with clean fruit flavours. |
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But as the only single male, Parapa felt a dreadful gooseberry. |
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Spray blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes with derris to protect from mites, aphids and sawfly. |
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A sample sandwich of the pub's own home-cooked ham with elderflower and gooseberry chutney and salad sounds a little toppy, at £4.70, but every element of it was very good. |
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The hints of quince, gooseberry, bitter cherry and apple, with traces of cloves, nutmeg and allspice, in this refreshing and authentic Abbey beer bring out the full flavours of a taste-bud tempting bar snack. |
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The fruit, native to China, was first grown commercially in New Zealand and named the Chinese gooseberry. |
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The kiwifruit actually originated in China and was known initially as the Chinese gooseberry when seeds were first transported to New Zealand. |
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The aromatic sweet-sourly taste reminds of a gooseberry. |
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It has the lovely classic grassiness of a fresh sauvignon blanc with flavours of citrus and gooseberry. |
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Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry. |
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Aged only twenty, she caught the gooseberry eye of Lord Randolph Churchill. He proposed to her almost at once. |
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Most are microscopic, but some, such as the various species of jellyfish and sea gooseberry, can be much bigger. |
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Hints of green, strong bouquet with notes of blackcurrant and gooseberry,slighty woody with pronounced freshness. Harmonious, vigorous and a good final. |
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Comics could be tucking into BBQ rib-ticklers, cheese and tickle sandwiches, pulled leg of lamb followed by deadpan-cakes and gooseberry fool. |
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With that in mind he conjures up a delicious sea vegetable salad, followed by a tangy elderflower and gooseberry fool for dessert. |
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Gardeners, chefs and foodies may be versed in the virtues of the characterful gooseberry, but is it time the rest of us re-embraced the hairy habit too? |
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The Inca berry, or cape gooseberry, now imported from Colombia to supply supermarkets, was grown in this country in Victorian times, says Wong. |
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Serve with crème fraîche and a simple plum or gooseberry relish: just simmer the fruit with some sugar and vanilla until it's reduced to a consistency slightly runnier than jam. |
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Here is one of the historic pegs of the sport – ball, bat, stumps, umpire – reduced to the status of gooseberry, a branded hanger-on, a mobile hatstand. |
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Gardeners today routinely raise a dozen varieties of tomato, a plant utterly foreign to early Americans, while neglecting common colonial food plants like smallage, skirrets and gooseberry, writes Michael Tortorello. |
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He also revealed how the stocky singer tried another alpaca steak and a Cape gooseberry cheesecake. |
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Some small trees and shrubs that will offer a bountiful feast include mulberry, hawthorn, crab-apple, common juniper, highbush blueberry, staghorn sumac, winterberry, elderberry, chokecherry, gooseberry, and mountain ash. |
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They arrived with Amanda's cast mate from Mama Mia, actress Rachel McDowall, who played gooseberry as the couple kissed and canoodled all night. |
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Atherton makes a gooseberry and elderflower jam which he serves with duck, for instance, and Weiss marries a sharp gooseberry relish with salt marsh lamb. |
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Good candidates for this are roses, cornus, jasmine, deutzia, buddleia, forsythia and honeysuckle, plus fruit such as fig, blackberry and gooseberry. |
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Saxifragaceous plants include the hydrangea and the gooseberry. |
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It sorts out carrot fly, cabbage root fly, leatherjackets, cutworms, onion fly, ants, caterpillars, sciarid fly, gooseberry sawfly, thrips and codling moth. |
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The water-soluble extract, rich in phytonutrients, is prepared from the ancient Andean physalis fruit, also known as Inca berry, cape gooseberry or golden berry. |
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I assume it's a jostaberry, a cross between a blackcurrant and gooseberry. |
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