How to Use offal in a Sentence
offal
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Herbs in the crisp fritter balance the funk of the offal.
— Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023 -
This new menu was heavy on fish, birds, and offal—but no steak.
— Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2021 -
The butchers were allowed to keep the offal for their troubles.
— Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023 -
But what’s a little blood sausage and offal in a town that eats menudo for breakfast?
— Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017 -
The man was pestilence, a virus, a stinking glob of human offal.
— Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020 -
Here, most of the dishes have been borrowed from famous French chefs, and the food is old-school — the sort that’s not afraid of cream or offal.
— Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018 -
The head, tail, and all the off-cuts (offal), making up a fifth quarter, were left to butchers and poor people.
— oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023 -
The food truck serves pig offal, which has been proven to contain high levels of nandrolone.
— Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 June 2021 -
The only beef comes in the form of offal: a silky mousse of veal brains with black truffles and a sauce crème, and sweetbreads in a Madeira demi-glace.
— Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2021 -
Diners in U.S. cities were beginning to nibble around the edge of offal.
— Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 23 Aug. 2017 -
All the tacos are great, but the crispy tripa ($2.40), or crunchy bits of offal showered with onion and cilantro wrapped in a supple corn tortilla, will change your life.
— Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 19 Oct. 2017 -
So, what about Dallas' classic snout-to-tail and offal-based dishes?
— Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2020 -
The wolves scattered the bones, starting that first spring, their faces perpetually crimson with the offal of the corpses.
— Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019 -
Certainly in France, the offal is used in elegant ways, the liver, the kidney.
— Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 23 Oct. 2022 -
The centerpiece of the meal is the haggis: a peppery of offal and oatmeal, cooked in a sheep’s stomach and served with neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes).
— Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017 -
The organ meats, often called offal, are much less common in the Western diet.
— Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020 -
But some researchers think this could be the opportunity for offal to make a comeback of sorts.
— Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020 -
The dish at Attari amazed her because the offal, while quite common in the Middle East, is too rarely served in America in restaurants of any kind.
— Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019 -
But beans and offal hold zero appeal atop a gallon of Rioja and 16 gin-tónics.
— Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2018 -
China, the largest buyer of U.S. pork offal, placed tariffs on American pork this year.
— Benjamin Parkin, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018 -
The choices, which cover all manner of meat, offal, seafood, vegetable, noodles, and bean curd, can be dizzying.
— Craig Laban, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018 -
In the chicken heart and gizzard salad ($14), the offals are well mixed (or disguised) with whole new potatoes, peas, pickles cut into thin coins, chopped olives and aioli.
— Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2018 -
Footage from the Legislative Yuan showed offal lying on the parliament's red floor, and on some lawmakers' clothes.
— Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 28 Nov. 2020 -
Yun cheung, on the other hand, is mostly made with offal from poultry, giving it a stronger and gamier flavor.
— Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022 -
Salmon with lardons-studded lentils gets a surf-and-turf accent from a chicken liver sauce that’s a sauce chasseur with chicken and duck offal.
— Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018 -
In classic Walter White style, Michael stumbles onto an excuse, claiming the meat is offal that their butcher had set aside as a treat for their dog.
— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2021 -
Haggis-type foods were designed to cook and preserve quick-spoiling offal from a butchered animal.
— Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023 -
Help find out with Offal Wildlife Watching Project, which placed cameras near offal piles to see which species rely on them for nutrients.
— Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023 -
Frog legs, offal and escargot at fine dining establishments are prepared by some of the world’s top chefs.
— Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 20 Feb. 2020 -
The shop also sells wine, salads, seasonings, side dishes and offal.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
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