| If you feel that the red varieties are a bit common or garden, choose Peach Melba, which has bright yellow flowers blotched with red. |
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| This Rubenesque singer's love of food and her continual struggle to lose weight eventually led to the creation of Melba toast. |
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| In the first, a female paradise whydah mates with a male indigobird, then lays an egg in a nest of her usual host, Melba Finch. |
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| We could have chosen peach or pineapple Melba, fruit cocktail or lychees in syrup. |
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| In the next generation, her daughter is genetically an indigobird but imprints on her Melba Finch foster parents and learns their songs. |
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| There's a gourmet blueberry cobbler served in a little white ramekin, and a light version of peach Melba, flecked with almonds. |
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| She would barely eat for months at a time, subsisting on Melba toast, carrots and black coffee. |
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| The most famous peach dessert, peach Melba, was created by Escoffier in 1893 to honour Dame Nellie Melba. |
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| And don't even consider making Melba toast unless you have something better to work with than industrial pan loaf. |
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| In both our replies England sagged like so much peach Melba left out in the midday Melbourne sun. |
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| Her daughter, genetically an indigobird, imprinted on her Melba Finch foster parents and then mated with a male paradise whydah mimicking Melba Finch song. |
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| Perhaps some of these words and expressions will do a Melba one day. |
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| The desserts were a mix of old and new, like peach Melba and the chocolate plate, containing a quite tasty amalgam of all the latest fashions in chocolate. |
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| Hoummos is another favourite, which I like to eat with Melba toast. |
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| Carol was the daughter of Ernest and Melba Smithling and lived 40 years in West Boylston. |
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| Smooth-footed, deft-handed waiters ministered to the table. Toast Melba, butter, an ice pail, all the adjuncts to a meal of quality. |
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| It was sponsored by the Daily Mail's Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba. |
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| The Melba broadcast caught the people's imagination and marked a turning point in the British public's attitude to radio. |
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| At the beginning of the 20th century, Nellie Melba was one of the world's leading opera singers. |
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| Peach Melba Tartlets serve up as a symphony of fruity peach yogurt and light cream on a short crust pastry base decorated with peach slices. |
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| The Ice Cream section features two classic sundaes, the Peach Melba and the Banana Split. |
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| Jumbo shrimp cocktail, filet of beef Wellington and peach Melba must be Hollywood comfort food. |
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| You can make your own Melba toast by slicing regular toast horizontally through the crust and then blasting it in an oven for five minutes until it curls up. |
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| Little Melba and Her Big Trombone receives fun drawings by Frank Morrison as it tells of a seven-year-old girl who falls in love with a trombone and teaches herself to play. |
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| At the caf on the other side of the road, I anti-bacterialised my hands and was tempted by the last peach Melba of the cafe's day on the confectionery counter. |
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| Rachel had considerable success with Le Dieu d'Or, Fraise Melba and others, but she was an animal lover, which caused severe friction between her trainers and herself. |
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| Now she's produced a list of other money-saving ideas, including saving the crusts you cut off your Melba toast and serving them as soldiers with your boiled eggs. |
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| I started with carpaccio of Orkney Gold beef with parmesan and wild rocket, while Susie went for the parfait of chicken livers with melba toast. |
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| Use a sharp serrated bread knife, which will give you elegant crunchy fingers of melba toast once dried out and crisped to golden brown in the oven. |
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| Before our starters arrived, we were presented with a few amuse-bouches of melba toast with goats' cheese and red pepper, and salmon tartare tartlets. |
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| The dessert peach melba was invented in London to honour which Australian soprano? |
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| The mystery box contained quail, quail eggs, whitebait, melba toast, honey, finger lime, mini leek and mini beetroot. |
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| Burgundy suede platforms, Office peach melba Hollywood A-lister Sharon Stone, 55, looks pretty as a peach in this melba hue dress worn with a pair of clashing colourful shoes. |
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| The terrine was terrific and came with melba toast and sweet red onion chutney. |
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| My daughter was more daring with her choice of Welsh Dragon Pate with venison liver and hot chilli, served with melba toast. |
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| Apricot and pine kernel tart topped with crispy almond crumble, served with vanilla crAme fraiche and a melba sauce. |
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| The dessert itself has much in common with the peach melba, but where they may be different ingredient wise, both classical desserts were made in honour of famous women. |
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| Starters included home-made leek and tomoato soup, three cheese croquettes with tomato chutney, and chicken liver pate with melba toast and red onion jam. |
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