How to Use roe in a Sentence

roe

noun
  • Spread a bit of egg on the toast, drizzle a bit of crema, and spoon over your roe of choice.
    Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Only female crabs with the roe on the inside may be used.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The bears eat the most fatty, calorie-dense parts of the fish—like the brain, skin, and roe—and leave the leaner fillets behind.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But this is perhaps a reference to the fact that the caviar and roe are served with potato chips (sorry, Kennebec gaufrettes).
    Emma Balter, Chron, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Between the saltiness of the roe and the delicate oniony chives, each spoonful was ethereal.
    The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The meat and roe from green crabs — in this case, easily caught near Ipswich Bay — were fried into crunchy, creamy croqueta balls.
    Peggy Hernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • Evan and some friends stopped by a Russian supermarket down the street, bought a can of salmon roe in the Russian New Year’s tradition, and brought it to my apartment.
    Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Place a generous dollop (about 2 tablespoons) salmon roe on top of or next to crème fraîche-yuzu dollop.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Brown and black bears focus on the oily brains and nutritious roe of salmon when the fish are abundant and deign to chow down on whole fish only in years when salmon aren’t plentiful.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
  • My finger slid down the list of recipes designed for two: sautéed shad roe, intimate duckling dinner, veal kidneys in wine sauce.
    Adrienne Brodeur, Bon Appétit, 11 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, with John sleeping in the bow, Viola peeled tiny Baltic shrimp for a snack piled on Swedish crispbread with mayonnaise and dollops of salty roe.
    Ingrid K. Williams, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • And at the omakase restaurant the Araki in London, the chef Marty Lau slices white cuttlefish and squid into fine ribbons and tops them with a spoonful of golden roe.
    New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The dish features a jammy egg doused with hollandaise (egg number two) and garnished with both trout roe (number three) and tobiko (number four).
    Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 24 Mar. 2023
  • As a waiter served me a glass of the crisp local Puro Rofe wine, the first plate appeared: a cold leche de tigre with psychedelic dollops of prawn roe and green drops of spicy cilantro mojo oil.
    Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
  • Dishes include potato bread with dashi jelly and fresh roe, king prawns, and oysters served several ways.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
  • It can be prepared a number of ways — baked, charcoaled or planked — but shad roe, which is probably the most desirable way to dine on the fish, is poached or broiled — or there’s the novel way Jeff and Janet Ayres make it.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Presentation is half the battle, and creative garnishing — like a little roe, caviar or truffle shavings — can go a long way.
    Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2022
  • For the past few years, scientists, chefs, and fishermen have been working to develop a culinary market for the crabs, which also have delicious roe.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In recent years, ecological efforts to preserve the supply of crabs banned the harvesting of roe from egg-bearing female crabs who carry the roe outside their shells.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Bow serves up dinners like scallops with a cauliflower puree, quick pickled cucumbers, radish, microgreens and tobiko (a type of fish roe).
    Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 18 June 2023
  • Water Grill will offer Kumamoto and Pacific oysters, along with the honeymoon oyster prepared with urchin lobe, salmon roe and two types of tobiko (flying fish roe), quail egg yolk and green onion.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Order that blasphemous crudo along with the punchy salad of sweet seasonal cucumbers, trout roe, and delicate flakes of whey granita, dressed in a bracingly green-tasting tarragon oil.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • The two match each other ounce for ounce in sheer exuberance, while the flavors and textures meld beautifully, the Champagne’s brioche-like depth and playful effervescence framing the subtle complexities of the roe.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The basic tasting features mostly domestic roes ($175).
    Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Guests can also arrange salmon roe and wine pairings, wildlife-watching excursions (think humpback and orca whales, seals, eagles, and sea lions), cruises via zodiac, and bear-watching expeditions.
    Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
  • According to the International Union Conservation of Nature, extinction threatens 85 percent of sturgeons, a group of large freshwater fish that are harvested for their roe.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Spread a bit of egg on the toast, drizzle a bit of crema, and spoon over your roe of choice.
    Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Only female crabs with the roe on the inside may be used.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The bears eat the most fatty, calorie-dense parts of the fish—like the brain, skin, and roe—and leave the leaner fillets behind.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But this is perhaps a reference to the fact that the caviar and roe are served with potato chips (sorry, Kennebec gaufrettes).
    Emma Balter, Chron, 23 Mar. 2023

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