terrine

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Trim the leeks of their roots and most of the green tops, leaving some for flavour and colour - they should be the same length as the terrine or tin.

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  1. noun An earthenware container for cooking and serving food.
  2. noun Any of various dishes prepared or cooked in a terrine.

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  • A more classically trained chef than I might make a terrine or galantine using similar ingredients. —  Benito's Wine Reviews
  • Daily offerings such as the rabbit terrine, lamb stew or rabbit with mustard make for great and reasonable priced lunches or dinners. —  The New Wine Consumer: Wine Brands
  • Which means that when Mr. Thuet's catering business received a recent order from Air Canada for 1,500 kilograms of venison and pork terrine - and he desperately needed to add three more hogs to his standing weekly order - he had no way to get in touch with Mr. Martin. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Unfortunately, my French let me down a bit, and the waiter didn't stop me from ordering cold foie (terrine) for my starter and hot paté (foie) for my dinner ... —  LinuxChix aggregator
  • And Freedman still has a penchant for great side dishes: Entrees came with things like potato or root vegetable terrine, smoked gouda mac and cheese and grilled figs. My own entre - duck breast, cooked medium, under a bing cherry-zinfandel sauce - is a fine take on a fairly common ingredient. —  Yes Weekly
 

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  1. French; see tureen.

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  1. Also terrene, terreen, and corruptly tureen; = German terrine, from French terrine, an earthen pan or jar, from Middle Latin terrineus, made of earth, from Latin terra, earth: see terra.
 

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