Vegetabley

Emilia sits enthroned on the divan in the hall, wound up in telephone cords and wires, grasping the receiver in both floury (or fishy, or meaty, or vegetabley) hands, puce in the face with excitement, shrieking condolences and counsel and arranging appointments with one and all of her family at the top of her voice.

Alternatively, start with a vegetabley first course, follow with pasta, and then serve a salad.

Robert Joseph and Oz Clarke are but two who have used fruity and vegetabley, not to say flowery, descriptions of wines.

This is a very vegetabley soup—a real favorite in my family.

“Chocolate Beast,” he said, choosing between the donuts that had fallen off his shirt leaving a ghastly white smear. I filled my private mug from behind the counter with cold tap and left it on the counter for us both to sip. “You wouldn’t like something vegetabley, would you, to balance that out?”

“You ate mostly vegetabley stuff.”

speak out your love of sprouts! be not ashamed! hide not your love for this greenest of green little vegetabley ball of goodness!

Charlie thought hard about what curry looked like. Orangey, lumpy, vegetabley stuff.

Now that we’re grown up, Grandpa’s kind of food, that’s what we want to eat. Today my favorite foods are soupy, stewy, vegetabley dishes. I tell my brother, “I’m turning into Grandpa.”