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• O'Brien - With diced pimiento and green pepper
• Oeuf - (French) Egg.
• Offal - The internal parts of an animal including brain, heart, kidney, liver, tongue and tripe.
• Okra - A vegetable pod used mainly in gumbos, but also other soups, and served as a vegetable.
• Okra - A vegetable also called ‘ladies’ fingers’ a long green pod, full of seeds.
• Okra - Brought to the Americas from Africa, these green pods are mainly used in Southern U.S. dishes.
• Olive - the small fruit of a tree native to the Mediterranean region; has a single pit, high oil content, green color before ripening and green or black color after ripening and an inedibly bitter flavor when raw
• Olive - The small oval fruit of the olive tree, early olives are green, mature olives are black.
• Olive Oil - an oil obtained by pressing tree-ripened olives; has a distinctive fruity, olive flavor and is graded according to its degree of acidity; used as a cooking medium, flavoring and ingredient.
• Oloroso - Darker, full body, higher alcohol content sherry (the other being fino).
• Omelet - Seasoned eggs that are beaten and fried. The eggs will puff up at which time, they are rolled or folded over.
• Oporto - Portugal's sweet dessert wines (ports). Named after Oporto, Portugal's second largest city
• Orange - any of a variety of citrus (Citrus sinensis) with juicy, orange-colored segmented flesh, a thin to moderately thick orange-colored rind and a flavor ranging from bitter to tart to sweet;
• Orange Water / Orange Flower Water - a liquid essence of distilled orange blossoms, once used for flavoring.
• Oregano - An greenish herb that originated in the Mediterranean, oregano is used in a variety of Italian and Mexican dishes.
• Organic - Food produced without artificial or chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
• Orzo - Italian for barley and used to describe rice-like pasta.
• Ossobucco - literally, “hollow bone,” this Italian specialty is made of veal marrow bones, usually shin bones, braised in wine with vegetables and seasonings.
• Ouzo - Greek spirit flavoured with aniseed.
• Oven Bag - a heat-resistant nylon bag for cooking meals without basting or tending.
• Oxidized - Wine that has been in contact with air too long, causing it to darken and small stale.
• Oyster - A saltwater shellfish, can be cooked or eaten raw.
• Oyster Mushroom - A grey or greyish-brown fungus that grows in clumps or clusters.
• Oyster Sauce - A bottled all-purpose Chinese seasoning made from oysters, water, salt,cornstarch, and caramel coloring.
• Oyster, Blue Point - the name for an oyster found in the waters off Long Island Sound, New York.
• Oysters Rockefeller - oysters which are topped with chopped spinach, bacon and seasoned bread crumbs and baked.

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