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fricassee

[frik-uh-see] / ˌfrɪk əˈsi /


VERB
fry
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I watched him pile the to-go boxes high with big slabs of pork and chicken fricassee.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2020

Jeff recalled the creamy chicken fricassee his grandma made when he was growing up in Nebraska.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2019

“Baked chicken is good, but come on, a little boudin or gumbo, fricassee, jambalaya - that helps a little bit to the soul,” Coco Orgeron said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2018

It is hard to interpret the flash of a knife as the portent of a really well-made brunoise onscreen; the combination of rabbit and stockpot does not equal fricassee.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2018

Of most entrees, whether spaghetti and meatballs or chili or chicken fricassee, they were allowed larger portions than most people could eat.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Julia Grossman, Mr. Moore’s partner in this venture, is the baker turning out croissants, brioches and such for breakfast and beyond, paired with Mr. Moore’s homey pâtés, terrines, mushroom fricassees and Parisian sandwich fillings.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2018

At a subsequent meeting of lawyers on the Sandpiper case, Chuck fricassees Jimmy when he asks how, exactly, he signed up so many people, so quickly, from one assisted living facility in Texas.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

Legend has it that in the cook-shops the cat is often used in the making of rabbit fricassees.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011

And now for ten days, a hundred days, a thousand years maybe, according as one pays, no more roast meat, no more olie-koekjes, no more fricassees for you!

From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Charles de Coster

At least do not let it be said we can pass a Christmas without it, merely to make way for turkeys, fricassees, and ragouts!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 by Various

Instead, he’s fricasseed nearly every time he ventures outside.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 31, 2016

Maybe it’s not as appalling as corporate behavior that is regularly fricasseed in this space.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010

Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout the week, the McClellan Committee fricasseed Frank Brewster in the gravy of the Western Teamsters' finances.

From Time Magazine Archive

The look she gave me would have fricasseed a rhino.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Singe and draw the chicken and then cut as for fricasseeing.

From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Mary A. Wilson

To produce a tender, tasty dish, fricasseeing should be a long, slow process.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

From these general rules we pass to the specific methods of cooking meat, which are nine in number—broiling, roasting, baking, frying, sauteing, steaming, boiling, stewing, or fricasseeing.

From The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) by Anonymous

There are numerous ways of cooking food, but the principal processes are boiling, stewing, steaming, dry steaming, braizing, fricasseeing, roasting, baking, broiling, pan broiling, frying, and sautéing.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

The old woman was fricasseeing a chicken for dinner in a large fireplace, in which hung the stew-pot, black with smoke.

From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant




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