How To Use potage In A Sentence
- Anglo-Saxons swore by watercress potage to purify their blood every spring, and there are 17 th-century recipes for watercress ‘sallets’, which mix the leaves with oranges, lemons, raisins and pears.
- Heeding this advice, Europeans have long excelled at creating grand kitchen gardens (or potagers, as the French call them) that combine vegetables and ornamental plants in stunning designs.
- A petit flan of onion formed an island in a lake of light, frothy green-pea potage, topped with fresh broad beans, mangetouts and more peas.
- Many vegetables and herbs are highly ornamental, and potagers have become an art form in themselves, with patterns of exotically coloured salad plants and brassicas being displayed within neatly clipped box hedges.
- Charentais = "a type of true cantaloupe from Europe (what Americans call cantaloupes are actually muskmelons.); poh-tow-zhay = pronunciation for" potager "or (kitchen garden) French Word-A-Day:
- The dinner, from the removal of the _potage_ to the salad, bristled with truffles, and the banker's stomach, aged forty-seven years, experienced the burning and biting of pyrosis. The Lost Child 1894
- Aunt Marie-Françoise is bringing her gâteau de marron and soup bowls for her daughter's potage ... Reveillon - French Word-A-Day
- The French call this potager gardening, while our American cousins know it as edible landscaping.
- My secret weapon is hearty vegetable potage; I ate it as a kid in France and have always loved it. Karine Bakhoum: Souper Tasty Resolutions for 2012
- All the careful grafting of the apple trees, the meticulous cultivation of the potager, everything, in effect, that produces the aesthetic effect we admire today, was done in the dictates of earning a living.
