fillet
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Make sure to buy two fish so everyone gets a fillet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The dish - usually prepared with a long strip of fillet steak, wrapped in pastry and mushrooms - was something Ms Patterson's mother made when she was a child, to mark special occasions, she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
These oily fish contain essential nutrients including calcium, B12 and omega-3 but some are lost from our diets when we just eat the salmon fillet.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Both wild-caught and farmed salmon can be sustainable, but determining the environmental impact of a fillet isn't simple.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2024
Zafoona rolled back the tinfoil and eyed the fillet of fish lying on a small pile of yellow rice.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
There is no meaningful guidance about the thickness of the fillets, the temperature they should reach or how to tell when they are done.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
First devised in 1828 by English grocer John Osborn, Gentleman’s Relish is a punchy blend of mashed anchovy fillets, butter and a secret blend of spices and herbs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
By gently pulling apart the fillets with forceps and using a dissecting microscope, the team was able to count them accurately.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
The contents of each box varies, but they will have fruit and vegetables along with other items such as salmon fillets, garlic bread, sour cream, chicken and vegetable soup.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
He turned then and placed the two flying fish inside the two fillets of fish and putting his knife back in its sheath, he worked his way slowly back to the bow.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
A few days later, Naiser headed home to Louisville, Ky., after a stop in Michigan, where he dropped off the fish—49 pounds, 63.5 inches—to be filleted and mounted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
The former president filleted him with cool disdain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024
I cannot overemphasize how dumb it is that Scott finally filleted his reputation in full over this, a trolly Rasmussen poll.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2023
Nita filleted another eel and dropped its carcass into the bucket between them.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
He wasn’t there long, however, Conklin told the Statesman, because Kohberger didn’t show himself to be very personable with customers and also wasn’t improving at filleting the fish.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
But those were mostly the function of an offense unable to hit shots, not a filleting of one of the NBA’s top defenses, as Adebayo had done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
The River Cottage Experience includes a tour of the organic farm and foraging and cooking lessons, from making bread to curing pork belly and filleting and steaming fish.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2019
Mr. Mouland put the birds in the oven, and the men turned to filleting the day’s catch of cod.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2016
By the time four bells struck, Sefia was exhausted, but she could wield her Vision with the precision of a filleting knife.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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