How to Use fingerling in a Sentence
fingerling
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The wings, baked on a bed of fingerling potatoes, emerged well bronzed and fragrant.
—David Tanis, New York Times, 25 May 2018
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The goal is to have all bass used to produce fry and fingerlings for stocking across the state be progeny of ShareLunker fish.
—Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
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Eggs are hatched in sheds, netted into fingerling tanks and then moved to outdoor ponds.
—John Bordsen, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
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Damman developed a protocol to stock the fish in spring as fingerlings (about 1.5 to 2 inches in length).
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2017
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The chicken entree, a Frenched chicken breast arrayed with fingerlings and arugula, could have been roasted more to crisp the skin up.
—Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 10 July 2019
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Instead, the plate consists of halved, roasted fingerlings, topped with a pile of onion dip and sprinkled with bacon and sweet peppers.
—Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
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Magic Molly is a purple fingerling but can grow quite large to over 6 inches in length.
—Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2019
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Rehabilitation of the bay's walleyes began in 1973 with the stocking of fry and fingerlings in the Sturgeon Bay area.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2017
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On a large rimmed baking sheet, toss the fingerling potatoes with 1 tablespoon oil and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
—The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 10 Mar. 2016
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For eating on their own, pick small and waxy potatoes like fingerlings or baby Yukon Golds, which are creamy and smooth as opposed to starchy and floury like russets.
—Ali Slagle, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
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These were not just fingerlings, but catchable Arctic char — some more than 20 inches.
—Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2020
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The fish are released as fingerlings to the sea and are offspring of brood stocks originally derived from wild salmon stocks near each hatchery.
—Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2018
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This method works well with nearly all small potatoes — from little red potatoes to fingerlings.
—Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
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This method works well with nearly all small potatoes – from little red potatoes to fingerlings.
—Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2018
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That thought led them to their current design, which is about the size and shape of a fingerling potato with an indentation that hooks onto the package.
—Alex Davies, WIRED, 11 July 2018
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One such dish: the Lancaster chicken, served with fingerling potatoes, salsa verde and a garnish of greens.
—Maureen Fitzgerald, Philly.com, 2 Aug. 2017
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From French fingerling to red bliss to Yukon golds, to the smallest varietal, creamer potatoes, there are endless healthy ways to enjoy them.
—NBC News, 26 Nov. 2019
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Crab cake with brussels sprouts, corn, tomatoes, fingerlings and mustard cream.
—Gwen Ashley Walters, azcentral, 15 June 2018
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The piri piri chicken ($24) had a lighter bronze char and a moister flesh; it was served with fingerling potatoes and mango chile sauce that was actually too mild and watery.
—Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
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The eggs were sent to hatcheries around the Mediterranean, where biologists will commence raising them from egg to larva to fingerling.
—Brandon Keim, WIRED, 22 July 2009
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DeGraff said according to statistics about five percent of the fingerlings released may return to the stream at Rosewood Beach to spawn.
—Denys Bucksten, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2017
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Nothing much matches the drama of the recent drought years, when hatcheries had to truck Chinook salmon fingerlings down to the bay and ocean for release because there wasn’t enough water in the Sacramento River.
—National Geographic, 13 June 2017
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Slice the potatoes while still warm, cutting them crosswise into ½-inch sections (if using small fingerling potatoes leave them whole).
—ExpressNews.com, 7 June 2019
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If baby red potatoes or small fingerling potatoes are your favorites, give them the smash treatment and get the same creamy on the inside, crisp on the outside effect without slicing or dicing.
—Casey Barber, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
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The Wisconsin Walleye Initiative, which stocks large fingerlings, is now in its fifth year and reviews of its effectiveness will soon be made.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
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The vegan Impossible Burger won't leave you bloated, and the fingerling potatoes — steamed then fried — are habit-forming.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2018
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Here, a generous serving with broccolini and fingerlings hit the spot.
—Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
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Pair entrée choices, filet of beef with black truffle potato gratin, rack of lamb with eggplant caponata, or pan seared halibut with roasted fingerling potatoes.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2017
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Keep an eye out for seasonal dishes by chef de cuisine John Raymond, such as halibut with caramelized fennel, asparagus, fingerlings and basil.
—Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2017
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Other dishes — gnocchi bound with farm cheese, flat iron steak with fingerling potatoes — fall in the merely pleasant category.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
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