Sea scorpion. An ugly fish from North Atlantic waters. It has spines on its head which may be poisonous. Sea scorpions are occasionally used in fish soups.
A littleneck is a size of hard shell clam common on the Atlantic coast.
A short order chef is responsible for the dishes that need to be produced quickly. They are also called grill or line cooks in the US and are inclined to work in family restaurants, where they produce a wide range of simple dishes at speed, rather than in 'fine-dining' establishments.
A few years ago, if you mentioned short or round-grain rice in the UK people immediately thought of rice pudding. Now, with the opening up to the world’s cuisines, the first thought would be the glutinous or sticky rice of South East Asia, Japan and China and people would think of spices and coconut. Still can’t beat a good rice pudding though!
A shot is somewhere between 1.5 fl oz (~44 ml) and 50 ml, depending on where you are. It may also be a small cup.
The whole shoulder is a beef cut taken from the equivalent of our own shoulder, that is the foreleg shoulder. It is a cut good for braising and slow cooking.
A primal pork cut from just above the primal pork shoulder. It includes a portion of the bladebone and is meaty and tender. Good for roasts and steaks.
May refer to either the Balmain bug or the Moreton Bay bug, a type of sand lobster found around the coasts of Australia mainly off the eastern seaboard of Queensland. Sand lobsters are any of a variety of small crustaceans bearing a resemblance to lobsters and which bury themselves in sand or mud during the day. There are many of them, including bay bug, bay lobster, shovel-nosed lobster and rudder-nosed lobster which is similar to a slipper lobster. Moreton Bay bugs and Balmain bugs are available commercially. Moreton Bay bugs are slightly more triangular than the Balmain bug, which also have their eyes placed very centrally, while those of the Moreton Bay bug are placed right out on the margin of the carapace. They are available at around 25 cm (10") in length. Balmain bugs are said to be sligthly inferior in flavour to Moreton Bay bugs, which are also a little larger in size.
