The entrees, like the appetizers, also include plain and fancy dishes.
How could I know the fancy dishes in the dining-room breakfront were only for looking at, never for using?
So restaurants try to outdo one another, making fancy dishes too complicated for home cooks.
This room represents the home of a moderately well-to-do family, but their fancy dishes would be reserved for special occasions.
A steakhouse needs only limited supplies; more important, it does not need a professional chef to create fancy dishes with intricate sauces.
(Perhaps they were made, like the fancy dish with handles, for the tourist trade.)
The first to come to mind is mayonnaise in fancy stir-fried dishes and dumplings.
These recipes are for fancy dishes, perhaps even intended for a deity in statue form.
The quartermasters have enough trouble conjuring up the rations themselves, without branching into fancy dishes.
It was not something that you boasted about and served up on a fancy dish for company.