pineapple

Preposition: with

cream: Hot pear and watercress vichyssoise, medallions of beef and seared pineapple with coconut ice cream are all on the menu.

Converse of object

• chop: Wash and slice the pears and peel and chop the pineapple and pour into the blender.
• slice: It isn't too much work, just hot water for tea and coffee, a huge pot of porridge and freshly sliced pineapple.
• eat: Good grief, they'll be eating pineapple on pizza next!
• dry: PINEAPPLE WINE 1 lb dried pineapple, 1 lb barley, 8 pints water, 4 lbs sugar.
• grow: In 1989 the owners of an abandoned farm in Ghana sought its help in growing pineapples.
• cut: Halve and remove the core if woody then cut the pineapple into wedges.

Preposition: on

stick: There was a slightly different format this year - gone were the tiny sandwiches, sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on a stick.

Adjective modifier

• canned: Add canned pineapple ( in fruit juice ), canned tomatoes, tomato purée, white wine vinegar and honey.
• tinned: In spite of gunfire and bombing we found native traders on cycles offering us tinned pineapple and cigarettes.
• crushed: Pineapple stem may combat cancer - Two molecules isolated from an extract of crushed pineapple stems have shown promise in fighting cancer growth.
• fresh: Why is fresh pineapple supposed to heal mouth ulcers?
• first: Tesco has beaten other UK supermarkets to the post with the launch of the first whole organic pineapples.
• grilled: Think melting mushrooms, sticky ribs, grilled pineapple with chili syrup...

Modifies a noun

• juice: The pineapple juice I ordered also turned into an orange juice.
• chunk: Reporter beats member of public to death with tin of pineapple chunks.
• raisin: And began my staff cooked their with pineapple raisin.
• salsa: My starter of scallops ( £ 7.95 ) came with a really lively pineapple salsa and crispy pancetta.
• slice: Spray the onion and pineapple slices with olive oil and sprinkle lightly with the remaining rub.
• plantation: Then, as we passed pineapple plantations and small markets on the rutted road from Nairobi, Maathai's mobile phone began to ring.