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panisse

[French] plural panisses

Chickpea flour fritters from the vicinity of Marseilles.

pannequet

[French] plural pannequets

Small thick crêpes

pannequets à la brunoise

[French]

Pancakes stuffed with stewed, finely diced vegetables, rolled up, sliced, rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried.

pantelante

[French]

"Twitching." Part of the process of aging meat, this is the stage immediately after slaughter when the flesh is still warm, before rigor mortis sets in.

pantin

[French]

A small pastry filled with pork.

panure

[French]

Breadcrumbs. Fresh breadcrumbs

paon

[French]

Peacock

papaye

[French]

Papaya. There is great discussion about the difference between papaya and paw paw or papaw. Essentially, they are all the same thing. It just depends where you are. The size of a large avocado, it has soft-textured, fragrant, apricot-coloured flesh with small black seeds which must be stripped out. It is a great breakfast fruit. If you have an unripe papaya which you wish to ripen overnight, pierce it with a sharp knife several times. It should be cut lengthways as this facilitates the removal of the seeds.

papeton

[French]

This is a Provençale dish of fried aubergines (US: eggplants) arranged in a ring mould, perhaps once created for a Pope at Avignon. It also means a corn cob.

papeton

[French]

Sweetcorn (US: corn). Corn cob. Maize. It also means fried aubergines (US: eggplants).