olio
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In Italy, gelato con olio e sale — which translates to ice cream with olive oil and sea salt — is a popular dessert.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2024
Use them to top a classic Italian-style pasta such as aglio e olio for a big punch of sweet, caramelized flavor and crunch.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2022
While my parents made sure that I hadn’t poisoned my grandmother, I went back to the kitchen and whipped up a simple spaghetti aglio e olio, which I secretly preferred to chanterelles.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Technically, uovo fritto con spaghetti aglio olio peperoncino, but I mean … spaghetti for breakfast is a win no matter what language.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
A pudding-sauce well-known of yore, When folks were frugal, though not poor; An olio mixt of sweet and sour.
From An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects by Nathaniel Bloomfield
One of my favorite aglio e olios had more coarsely ground, but just as crisp, breadcrumbs.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022
Gargilius, sleek, voluptuous lord, A hundred dainties smoke upon his board; Earth, air, and ocean ransack’d for the feast, In masquerade of foreign olios dress’d.
From A Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss
Not dainty now, the squire in haste Fell to, and praised their savory taste; Nay, said his meal had such a gout He ne'er in tarts and olios knew.
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park
The festivities were duly preceded with the religious ceremonies of the great holyday of St. Patrick's feast, and closed by a grand entertainment at night, which included theatricals, recitations and olios of song and sentiment.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various
Words ending in io or yo add s; as, folios, nuncios, olios, ratios, embryos.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel
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