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fricassee

[frik-uh-see] / ˌfrɪk əˈsi /


VERB
fry
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I was all set to tell you about a fricassee of shrimp, mussels and sea bass splayed over saffron rice and ringed with zesty sauce américaine.

From Washington Post Jan. 20, 2023

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

A kingdom of charlatans, and tinsel and clap-trap, of fricassees and onions, and greasy mendicants.

From Madcap by Gibbs, George

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 Coster, Charles de

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

The dish: fricasseed muskrat, received gingerly at first by the guests.

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

The meat may be left raw or it may be prepared by any desirable cooking process, such as frying, fricasseeing, braizing, etc.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

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

Stewing or fricasseeing is really cooking slowly in a sauce after the meat has first been browned in a little hot fat.

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

In fricasseeing, the meat to be cooked is cut into pieces and sautéd either before or after stewing; then it is served with a white or a brown sauce.

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

Prepare the chicken for fricasseeing, cook until tender and then lift it.

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




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