baste
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In this recipe at Food & Wine, David Chang "pulverizes the kombu to a powder and blends it with softened butter to baste striped bass fillets."
From Salon ● May 14, 2024
Pour the remaining 2 tablespoons lime juice into the pan and baste the fillets once or twice more.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023
Be sure to baste the fish with this liquid during cooking and just before serving.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
To add to the flavour, Taylor’s preferred liquid to baste the turkey with is coffee, butter and maple syrup.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
"Oi swear be all the saints the baste did spake!"
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish
His wife had already basted the family turkey the night before and now she was cracking 180 eggs with a smile and wearing plastic gloves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025
The programme title is a play on Lord Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera, basted on the novel by Gaston Leroux.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
As a child, Yamamoto said he sometimes snacked on soy-sauce basted grasshoppers.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023
He started a ghost kitchen in Queens called Pecking House based on five-spice-seasoned fried chicken generously basted with Tianjin chile oil — ingredients in his family’s Chinese restaurant pantry.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
A short time after she pursued—“I seed you go out with the master, but I didn’t know you were gone to church to be wed;” and she basted away.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
In August 2023, the state blamed another botched satellite launch on an error in the emergency basting system, but said it was "not a big issue".
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
Follow up: If there's barely any liquid at the bottom of my roasting pan, what should I be basting with?
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
But before you start basting the turkey and preparing the stuffing, it’s good to get your kitchen in as good a shape as possible.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
We layer on the flavors - first as a quick marinade for the chicken, then as a basting sauce, and finally as a finishing sauce.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
The next few hours are spent doing tasks no one else wants to do—snipping stitches, basting, sweeping up, collecting pins and putting them in pincushions.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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