"Worth a queen"

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.
I am not sure a native speaker will understand these sentences but the idea and joke is that this dish is good enough to be offered to a queen. How do I make it sound more natural?
1. "Their favourite food is eggplant in sour cream. If you can make it with tomatoes it will be a dish for a queen."

2. "Their favourite food is eggplant in sour cream. If you can make it with tomatoes it will be good enough to be served for a queen." Or "worth a queen"?

3. "Their favourite food is eggplant in sour cream. If you can make it with tomatoes it will be worth a queen."

 

[Rover_KE]

Only #1 is worth considering.

The usual expression is 'This dish is fit for a king', but I don't see why you can't change 'king' to queen' in these days of equal opportunity.

 

[Rover_KE]

Only #1 is worth considering. Forget the others.

The usual expression is 'This dish is fit for a king', but I don't see why you can't change 'king' to queen' in these days of equal opportunity.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Only #1 is worth considering.

The usual expression is 'This dish is fit for a king', but I don't see why you can't change 'king' to queen' in these days of equal opportunity.

Thank you. Regarding the word choice. It isn't wrong to use "dish" in my sentence, is it? Instead of "make" I can use "cook". Am I right? The choice of verbs confuse me when we I am talking about cooking.
For example, "cook" or "make" a dish or food, dinner, lunch, meal. Do all of the sound natural in BrE?

 

[Rover_KE]

Thank you. Regarding the word choice. It isn't wrong to use "dish" in my sentence, is it? No.

Instead of "make" I can use "cook". Am I right? Yes. The choice of verbs confuses me when we I am talking about cooking.

For example, "cook" or "make" a dish or food, dinner, lunch, meal. Do all of them sound natural in BrE?

Yes.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Yes.

"Do" is never used, is it? As in, "I will do dinner." Or "meal", "lunch", "dish", or "food."

 

[Rover_KE]

It's possible. You may hear 'It's my turn to do dinner tonight'.

HINT #1: You have a habit of making a negative statement followed by 'is it'? Like this: "Do" is never used, is it?

It would be more natural to ask a simple question: Is "do" ever used?

HINT #2: You don't need to put your thread titles in quotation marks, unless they're part of a quotation – such as Can I say "worth a queen"?

 

[SoothingDave]

You also might hear something like "come over for dinner on Saturday. We're doing wings on the grill."

 

[Rachel Adams]

It's possible. You may hear 'It's my turn to do dinner tonight'.

HINT #1: You have a habit of making a negative statement followed by 'is it'? Like this: "Do" is never used, is it?

It would be more natural to ask a simple question: Is "do" ever used?

HINT #2: You don't need to put your thread titles in quotation marks, unless they're part of a quotation – such as Can I say "worth a queen"?

I remember there was a sentence with "never" in a tag question. Since it was in a book I thought it was correct. It was a similar sentence. "She never speaks French, doesn't she?" I wrote "doesn't" instead of "do."

I think one of the teachers advised me against not using quotes in thread titles.

 

[Rachel Adams]

It should have been does.

Yes, "does" of course. I typed "do" accidentally.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

And remember to use fit: a dish fit for a king, a dish fit for a queen.

 

[GoesStation]

Yes. "Worth a queen" means "of the same value as a queen". Unless you're talking about chess, it suggests that you've attached a cash value to a member of the royalty.