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watercress(encyclopedia)
watercress(dictionary)
Cucumber and watercress soup(recipes)
Watercress, apple and chicory salad(recipes)
Watercress soup with a poached egg and prosciutto(recipes)
Grilled pear, watercress and walnut salad(recipes)
Herb crusted salmon with asparagus and watercress(recipes)
Tomato, potato and watercress salad with gorgonzola dressing(recipes)
Salmon en Croute (with a Dill Butter and Pea Watercress purée)(recipes)

Asiago (iou) and watercress (sh)


Asiago (iou)



Asiago noun. M20.
[A plateau and town in northern Italy, where the cheese was first made.]
A strong-flavoured cow's milk cheese, originally and chiefly made in northern Italy.

watercress (sh)




Perennial plant (Nasturtium officinale) of the mustard family, native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout North America.

It grows submerged, floating on the water, or spread over mud surfaces in cool, flowing streams. White flowers are followed by small, beanlike seedpods. Watercress is often cultivated in tanks for its young shoots, which are used in salads. The delicate, light green, peppery-flavoured leaves are rich in vitamin C. Since watercress grown near cattle and sheep feedlots can become contaminated by feces containing cysts of the liver fluke, agent of the illness fascioliasis (liver rot), regulations specify that commercial watercress beds be protected from such pollution.