(n.) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
(n.) A seller of fish.
(v. t.) To make a chowder of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paramyosin samples obtained from the chowder clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, by different extraction techniques were studied using transient electric birefringence techniques.
(2) With acclaimed dishes of seafood chowder and honey-roast Silverhill duckling coming out of the kitchen, it's a good spot to try the crisp, slightly lemony Emerald Pale Ale.
(3) It’s dinnertime anyway, and Chris texts them the soup menu from a nearby restaurant: Manhattan clam chowder, barley vegetable or chicken orzo?
(4) As well as those daily-changing one pots, such as chilli, Thai curry, a chicken chowder and parsnip soup, all served with rice or breads, Grub also serves reputedly good deli sandwiches and salads.
(5) There are nine homely bedrooms, though some are a little small; the restaurant serves local mussels and scampi, and a signature seafood chowder, available as a main.
(6) Seafood chowder is ubiquitous in Belfast, but MSB chef Andy Rae's version (£5) is light and luxuriously creamy, a sensational seafood lucky dip mined with a little potato and generously seasoned with leek and garlic.
(7) Our plan had been to reach the harbour village of Carnlough, the halfway point, by lunchtime so that we could have chowder and wheaten bread at the Londonderry Arms to fortify us for the final leg back to Belfast.
(8) Their creative cuisine has seduced local Parisians and the place is packed out every lunchtime for dishes such as smoked haddock and cabbage chowder, pork brawn and prune pâté, and lamb chops with broad beans and crunchy puntarella (chicory).
(9) There are recognisable foodstuffs, but mingled in compositions that flout credibility – can there be such a thing as "cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill", or "kiwi mustard"?
(10) Sweetcorn chowder This is a cosy comforting dish for the winter – you can use ordinary potatoes, or add white fish poached in milk, or prawns or bacon.
(11) You eat her burgers and her scotch eggs, her sweetbreads and her chowders, and all you can think is that you will never taste their like again anywhere else.
(12) Taste, and if you like a sweeter chowder, add a spoonful of honey.
Gumbo
Definition:
(n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
(n.) The okra plant or its pods.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Texas gumbo doesn’t taste quite the same.” He misses the organic way that “New Orleans culture bubbles from the bottom up, from the streets, the neighbourhoods, the working class people especially”, but said he is happy in Houston.
(2) Debbie Jones was at a supermarket collecting the ingredients for a warm winter meal in advance of Friday "I'm going to make a gumbo, then try and lay it in for tomorrow," Jones said.
(3) So many different people from so many different places adding their ideas to this beautiful American gumbo,” he said.
(4) Rugare Gumbo, who has known Mugabe for 50 years, was this week expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party amid bitter factional infighting.
(5) In Louisiana's big cities, the celebrations have long revolved around a mess of floats, majorettes, and college-boy hi-jinks; here, as proved by a day I spend in and around Mamou, the focus of the day is a compelling ritual known as Le Courir (The Run) De Mardi Gras - when an all-male crowd, many of them on horseback, dress in absurdly overblown costume and slowly circuit the surrounding fields, calling at local farms to collect the ingredients for a communal gumbo.
(6) Spokesman Rugare Gumbo said: "There's no alternative but to accept the reality on the ground.
(7) To talk about a coup is unbelievable.” Gumbo first met Mugabe in prison in 1964 during the liberation struggle against white minority rule in what was then Rhodesia.
(8) For some of us, that’s unacceptable.” The president intended to build a dynasty, Gumbo added, starting with the first lady.
(9) To me, it doesn’t make sense.” Gumbo claimed that he, vice-president Joice Mujuru and other senior figures are being purged because they objected to Mugabe’s plan to name himself president for life and Grace – dubbed “DisGrace” and “First Shopper” by critics – as his deputy instead of holding internal elections.
(10) He was young and vibrant; now he’s a tired old man.” Neither Gumbo nor Mujuru was present at the Zanu-PF congress, held in a cavernous tent on a field hastily named “Robert Mugabe Square” with a service road called “Dr Grace Mugabe Way”.
(11) Rugare Gumbo, a party spokesman, said: "Our view is that PAC is just there to destabilise the situation in southern Africa.
(12) I learned how to make gumbo from people I met from Louisiana.
(13) What helped win the locals over was PBS's Dioko, the first ever hip-hop track in Wolof, a fascinating gumbo of ancient Arabic and European languages with a charm not unlike Caribbean creole.
(14) All photographs: Richard Bienvenu The city that gave the world jazz, gumbo and Mardi Gras, New Orleans is one of the few places on the planet that can boast its own music, cuisine and unique cultural heritage.
(15) Gumbo, 74, responded: “The rubbish they’re talking about, trying to assassinate him … They used the word ’assassinate’ to frighten people.
(16) I feel betrayed,” Gumbo said in his first interview since his expulsion.
(17) She invited Hillary over to a lunch of gumbo on her very first day in Fayetteville, and the chemistry worked.
(18) But Gumbo rejected the charge and accused the 90-year-old of authoritarianism as he seeks to appoint his controversial wife, Grace Mugabe , as his deputy and heir apparent.
(19) And the dishes we make involve the whole fish – gumbo, escabeche , potted crayfish, Swedish-style crayfish in shell... A growing interest in American cuisine has helped.
(20) Rugare Gumbo, spokesman for Zanu-PF, said: "What we know is he died in a fire accident at his home this morning.