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  • The poached eggs with pisto—a dish of tomatoes, green, red and yellow peppers, onion and olive oil—with fried bread is a perfect summery dish.

    A Fresh Taste of Summer 2011

  • There was a satisfying robustness of flavors in the dishes, including grilled sea bass with pisto, a version of ratatouille.

    The Small Plates of Seville Bruce Palling 2011

  • I think of pisto manchego as a Spanish version of ratatouille—a mix of eggplant, peppers, squash, onions, and tomatoes, with the occasional caramelized potatoes tossed in.

    Daisy’s Holiday Cooking Daisy Martinez 2010

  • I love pisto manchego just about any way—on its own, as a base for poached eggs for brunch, or even tucked into a creamy-custardy quiche.

    Daisy’s Holiday Cooking Daisy Martinez 2010

  • Who cares about recounting Mayan legends or celebrating the beauty of the tasseled cornstalks when cash, pisto, rules the day?

    Our American Stranglehold Gordon, Ian 2007

  • When you and the rest of the locos are in East Los, hit me up so that you can come on over for some pisto.

    Hasta la vista Saddam! 2006

  • O Mrs Dwenn now what possessed her to write from Canada after so many years to know the recipe I had for pisto madrileno Floey Dillon since she wrote to say she was married to a very rich architect if Im to believe all I hear with a villa and eight rooms her father was an awfully nice man he was near seventy always goodhumoured well now Miss

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • "That sounds like one of the puzzles of pronunciation like 'in un piatto poco cupo poco pepe pisto cape,'" laughed Maria Consuelo.

    Don Orsino 1881

  • Tychicus shalt make all known to you; o agapeto ` s adelpho ` s kai ` pisto ` s dia'konos en kuri'oj3; this admits of

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • By the time I got to the end of the challenge, I was pisto.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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