sweet food

Sweet food

a dessert / a pudding (informal) / afters (informal) a sweet dish usually eaten at the end of a meal OK. Who's for pudding What's for afters custard thick sweet yellow sauce (made from eggs, milk and sugar) used to pour over ice-cream or other sweet dishes I love apple pie and custard trifle a sweet cold dish made of fruit, sponge cake, custard and cream We always have trifle for pudding on Christmas day

Idioms about sweet food

have a sweet tooth like sweets, chocolates and other sugary food When I was young I had a really sweet tooth but now I like savoury food much more be a piece of cake be very easy I thought the exam was going to be very difficult but it turned out to be a piece of cake. I got 98% the icing on the cake the best thing about a very positive experience We had a fantastic holiday in New York. We went to Central Park and saw the Statue of Liberty too but the icing on the cake was sitting in a cafe right next to Al Pacino. It was amazing to be so close to such a famous actor takes the biscuitmost annoying or shocking example of something I've heard your excuses for being late a million times but this one really does take the biscuit have your cake and eat it have or do two good things that it is usually impossible to have or do at the same time You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't go out having fun every night of the week and then get good marks in your exams. If you really want to go to university, you're going to have to do a lot more studying

Words and expressions with 'food

food miles the distance food travels from where it is produced to where it is eaten or sold These pineapples come from Brazil. I know you love them but do you ever think they've travelled more than 1500 food miles to get to your kitchen (a foodie (informal a person who likes food, enjoys cooking and talking about and tasting new types of food He's a real foodie. He's always trying out new recipes and talking about which new restaurants he's been to food for thought something that makes you think seriously or a lot about a particular topic The politicians gave us a lot of food for thought about how each of us can help the economy

Vocabulary

home cooking food that’s made at home _rather than in a restaurant resist stop yourself from doing something that you want to do dumplings small parcels of meat and vegetables covered with dough _flour and water mixed together treacle sponge   sweet dish made of eggs, flour,  sugar and a sweet dark thick liquid undoing the cause of someone's failure, or of their lack of will power scales short for weighing scales, a piece of equipment you can use to find out how much you weigh wants a word  wants to have a short conversation