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Alcachofas Salteadas is a Spanish of sauteed artichokes or artichokes hearts. It is made by with artichokes sauteed in onions, white wine and bacon and flavored with thyme, laurel, garlic and salt to taste.
Deutsch: Alkohol / Español: Alcohol / Português: Alcool / Français: Alcool / Italiano: Alcoli
In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom. In particular, this carbon center should be saturated, having single bonds to three other atoms.
An important class of alcohols are the simple acyclic alcohols, the general formula for which is CnH2n+1OH. Of these ethanol (C2H5OH) is the alcohol found in alcoholic beverages; in common speech the word alcohol refers to ethanol.
Alexanders (Lat. Smyrnium Olusatrum) also called in French as Persil de Macedoine or Maceron refers to a plant now almost forgotten, which was formerly much used in England as pot-herb and in salads. It belongs to the cow parsley family and its flavor is somehow a cross between parsley and celery, but with a bitter after-taste. The stems can be used blanched, and are in season in April.
Alexandres was used during the medieval times as substitute for bitter sorts of celery, however in the
18th century, Alexanders was supplemented by the improved kinds of celery and since then Alexanders is almost forgotten as a food item though it still grows wild in much of Europe, including Britain. It is growing around the sites of medieval monastery gardens where it has been cultivated as Alexandrian Parsley ( Petroselinum Alexandrinum)
Alexanders is also known as Allisanders
Alfonsino (Beryx splendens) refers to a kind of fish of temprate waters, particularly the North Atlantic between Madeira and Portuguese coast; Western Atlantic (Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico), Eastern Atlantic (off southwestern Europe and the Canary Islands) , also parts of the Indo-Pacific, around East Africa, Australia, Japan, Hawaii and New Zealand.
Alfonsino has a maximum length of 70 centimeters or about centimeters or 35 inches while the common length is only 40 centimeters. It is rose red and orange in color below, but all fins and inside of the mouth is bright red. Alfonsino's flesh is said to have a pleasnat taste and flavor to be eaten and in Japan it is thought to be at its best during the winter season.
Alfonsino is also called Splendid Alfoniso particulary in Namibia and the United Kingdom.
Its common names by country are:
Alfonsino Besugo and Besugo Americano (Spain), Berice Rosso (Italy), Beryx (France), Besugo (Philippines), Kindemai (Japan), Slender Alfonsino (Australia, South Africa and UK), Roodbaars (Netherlands), Slank Beryx (Namibia and South Africa), Imperador de Costa Estreita in Portugal, Mindre Beryx (Sweden), Pragt-Beryx (Denmark) and Südlicher Kaiserbarsch (Germany), among many other common names by country.