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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

Green herbs, if freshly and properly gathered, are richest in flavoring substances and when added to sauces, fricassees, stews, etc., reveal their freshness by their particles as well as by their decidedly finer flavor.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

So they brought him forthwith nigh upon a hundred dishes of fowls, besides other birds and brewises and fricassees and marinades.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne

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

Paul Johnson has been barbecued and fricasseed in sometimes as many as six News editorials a day for the last nine years.

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 methods of cookery that may be applied to meat include broiling, pan broiling, roasting, stewing or simmering, braizing, frying, sautéing, and fricasseeing.

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

Indeed, since it is a long method of cookery, a rather old, comparatively tough fowl lends itself best to fricasseeing.

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

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

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

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


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