Sentence examples for was fillet of from inspiring English sources

Mine was fillet of turbot with scallop, fresh leaves and tomato butter; two kinds of duck with aligot, potato galette, creamed savoy cabbage and red-wine sauce; and this dessert.

Recent offerings were fillet of sole française and fried flounder ($9.50).

At twice the price there are fillets of plaice, so white and virginal the Vatican would probably write them a glowing letter of recommendation.

"But," he added, "I've tasted and listened and learned, and you get this risotto and they lift off the lid and on top of it are fillets of red snapper, wisps of fried parsnip, quenelles of spinach and blobs of sauce around the plate".

Second, if this teeming, discursive book of a mere three hundred pages were filleted to its slender core of aphoristic brilliance, it would be a chapbook of cinematic wisdom to rival Robert Bresson's "Notes on the Cinematographer," but with a decidedly historical perspective.

"If we're filleting 100kg of cod, nearly 50kg of heads, guts and bones ends up going to landfill," he says.

Some are filleted, and some of the fillets are cut into nugget-sized pieces.

The cod's flesh was beautifully cooked, as was a fillet of roasted halibut, which rested on a cushion of mashed potatoes.

Some fish were filleted into long tubes of creamy white flesh; some were whole and skinless.

I've tried sports massage (brisker and charmlessly macho) and extreme deep-tissue work (one step short of being filleted).

Then it should be filleted -- preferably with several of its friends -- dipped in egg, dredged in Italian bread crumbs and fried in peanut oil until it turns golden brown and crunchy.