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vegetable marrow
noun
The marrow squash
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Was "vegetable marrow farcie" really on the first-class menu?
Like cathedral spires, they are symbols, or like a vegetable marrow at a harvest festival – a gesture, but you don't expect it to help end world hunger.
(For the record, other Most Despised Foods include brains, offal, boiled English vegetable marrow and raw bivalves. Slime seems to be key. The most Most Despised Food on the Planet is liver, particularly if it was forced on you as a girl in school).
Some entries are cross-references, for example "'Zucchetti à la Milanaise' and 'à la Piedmontaise.' See Vegetable Marrow".
And then he throws a rotten vegetable marrow out the window, hitting the youngest of the eavesdropping bunnies who has been stting on the window-sill.
pepo (Pumpkin, Vegetable Marrow, Cocozelle, and Zucchini) and ssp.
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At the end of summer came the harvest festival, that strange Anglican anachronism now centred on the ritual donation of tinned goods and unwanted vegetable marrows.
1 small marrow 2tbsp vegetable or corn oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper A couple of good knobs of butter 1 medium onion, peeled, halved and finely chopped 120g cooking chorizo 120g fresh white breadcrumbs Top and tail the marrow if necessary, then cut into four lengthways and scoop out the seeds.
Menu highlights include the Blue Ivy, smoked blue potatoes, chiriboga blue, trout roe, watercress; the Surf Board, deviled bone marrow, root vegetables, bone broth bathtub; the Jay Ziti, "carter" cloth-bound cheddar, speck, sweet potato, sage pistu; and the Breastiny's Child, veal breast braciole, pickled fig, sopresatta and goat yogurt.
His tools are mostly vegetable-based: splattered marrows stand in for a body being chucked from a window; ripped radishes suggest a witch having her hair pulled out.
I am not averse to finding the occasional marrow in the vegetable rack.
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