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  • Je l'ai eteint en dormant et ne me suis reveillé qu'à 19h00 a cause d'une affreuse odeur de cassoulet a la graisse d'oie que mon pere etait en train de préparer.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009

  • Next up was the foie d'oie, lightly cooked and served with a mango chutney and a glass of Pinot Gris Vendages tardives.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Etienne 2007

  • Next up was the foie d'oie, lightly cooked and served with a mango chutney and a glass of Pinot Gris Vendages tardives.

    Au Crocodile Etienne 2007

  • Though I was tempted by their beignet samples and their upright granola-looking millefeuille, once again I caved for their rillettes d'oie.

    La Grande Epicerie Etienne 2006

  • For appetizers I got the rillettes d'oie, which is mashed up meat usually pork, goose, or duck - I got goose.

    Au Pied de Fouet Etienne 2006

  • Though I was tempted by their beignet samples and their upright granola-looking millefeuille, once again I caved for their rillettes d'oie.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Etienne 2006

  • For appetizers I got the rillettes d'oie, which is mashed up meat usually pork, goose, or duck - I got goose.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Etienne 2006

  • The normally pithy Elizabeth David spends three pages on this dish; in the first volume of their Mastering the Art of French Cooking [1961], Julia Child et al. take six pages, or rather eight if you include their preliminary advice on how to roast pork in a casserole; and even this barrage of advice omits a recipe for confit d'oie, which only makes its appearance on two pages of their second volume [1970].

    Gastro-Porn Cockburn, Alexander 1977

  • He wore a suit, beautifully tailored, of a color to which he referred as "merde d'oie."

    The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943

  • In the reign of William and Mary, when the Dutch style of gardening was fashionable, nothing was more common than long vistas of the kind called patte d'oie, all springing in rays from one point, and each terminating in some ornamental object, such as a temple, an obelisk, or a statue.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

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