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Edible greenish substance in boiled lobster
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tomalley
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Tomalley (from the Carib word , meaning a sauce of lobster liver), crab fat , or lobster paste is the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters , that fulfills the functions of both the liver and the pancreas . Tomalley corresponds to the ...
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n. (context cooking English) The hepatopancreas of a crustacean.
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n. edible greenish substance in boiled lobster
Usage examples of tomalley.
He held up a boat hammer, covered with lobster juice, tomalley, and bits of pink shell.
One table held platters of seaweed on which rested hundreds of fist-sized lobsters that had been boiled, then split and carefully cleaned, leaving behind lobster meat that shone bright with a fine butter glaze and a lemony spinach compote where the unappetizing roe and tomalley had been.
Next, you unhinge the back shell, the carapace, from the body, and eat the green digestive gland called the Tomalley.