marinade

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I heard from somewhere that Zappo believes that a marinade is a sea shanty, and when he was a kid, a stupid kid, he ran home from school in tears to his mom one day telling her that a boy at school keeps calling him bighead.

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  1. noun A liquid mixture, usually of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and herbs, in which meat, fowl, fish, or vegetables are soaked before cooking.
  2. transitive verb To soak (food) in such a mixture; marinate.

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  • As the base for a marinade, it does wonders for a piece of chicken, fish or meat.
  • This marinade is a good start but it needs something more to give it a more complex flavor.
  • My go-to summer marinade is a low-cal teriyaki …. big splash of soy, smaller spash of dry white wine, ground ginger, dried minced garlic and a few tablespoons of Splenda. —  PW FULL RSS FEED
  • Furthermore, the levels of 4,8-DiMeIQx, a compound with reported mutagenic properties, was reduced significantly when the beer marinade was used. —  MeatProcess RSS
  • Considering the price point of this marinade, we utilized the vacuum sealer to get full contact without wasting excessive amounts of the ingredients. —  chadzilla
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  1. French, probably from Italian marinare, to marinate, from Latin (aqua) marīna, sea(water), brine, pickle, feminine of marīnus, of the sea; see marine.

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  1. from French marinade, pickle, from marin, of the sea: see marine and -ade.
  2. from marinade, n.
  3. Cf. marinade.
 

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