poké salad

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly.

   “The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.”

2. isim Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish.

   “If some of ya'll never been down south too much / I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this / So that you'll understand what I'm talking about / Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods, and the fields / And it looks something like a turnip green / Everybody calls it polk salad”

3. isim A Hawaiian food made from diced raw fish, seasoning, diced fruit and vegetables, and sometimes rice.

   “[…] a wide range of creative seafood dishes (the Hawaiian-style poke salad with ahi tuna is a local favorite).”

4. isim Alternative form of poke salad (“food made from diced raw fish”).