Au Gratin

In French au gratin is a cheese-topped dish. If you cook something au gratin, you cover it with sauce, top it with cheese (or sometimes breadcrumbs) and brown it under the grill or in the oven. A huge variety of savoury dishes can be cooked au gratin; the most common are vegetable dishes.

Au Gratin
-Boil or steam vegetables (broccoli is a good choice) until just tender and put in a gratin dish (a low-sided oven-proof dish).
-Make a sauce by blending 1oz (25g) flour with 1oz butter over a low heat, slowly adding half a pint (300 ml) of milk and stirring continuously (increase the heat to thicken) till the sauce is thick and creamy. Add grated cheese, French mustard or whatever flavouring you want, and melt in.
-Pour the sauce over the vegetables, grate over enough strong cheese to cover (Cheddar or Lancashire, for instance) and cook under a grill for 5-10 minutes until golden, or 20 mins in the oven at 200 degrees.

by Pirate911 October 21, 2008

Cooter Grater

noun <koo-tur gray-tur> A person, typically a woman of extra large pizza stature, who likes to have photos taken of herself cocking a leg up the side of a tree thus creating the illusion that she is grating her disgusting crotch on the bark of said tree.

That big old girl is one nasty Cooter Grater...she's going to kill that tree with her coot scrapings.

by MagicConch333 July 24, 2009

instant gratification monkey

An imaginary term used to describe how a procrastinator avoid doing important tasks.

Often it is though of as whenever the rational decision maker wants to make a good choice like doing homework the monkey takes the wheel and makes the person procrastinate

Joe:hey don't you have a really important project due?
Henry:yea well my instant gratification monkey wants me to look through India through google earth!
Joe:well don't blame me I you end up flipping burgers for a living!

by mr mr jellyman January 4, 2018

The Grateful Dead

A band in the "hippie years" who wrote such songs as Friend of the Devil and Truckin'. Had fanatic followers called Dead Heads.

The Grateful Dead is a great band.

by Annarocks July 24, 2006

Grateful Dead

And so what if it isn't a real definition? You can't define them.

If my agnostic\athiestic ass worshipped something, it would most definitely be the Grateful Dead. For all you hippie-haters, I say, DAMN YOU. So what if they were stoners and whatnot? They produced some damn good music, and you'd probably agree if you'd actually listen to it.

Thank you, Jerry, for a real good time.

by Leiko October 3, 2004

gratification

Gratification is the positive emotional response (happiness) to a fulfillment of desire.

If gratification ceases, so does the devotion.

by Kevin Shokrollahi December 31, 2007

Grateful Dead

A band that actually worked for a living. They usually toured at least seven months out of a given year. They only released records to make enough money to cover their excessent touring. They are from a bygone era when music was fun and represented freedom, and even though became multi-millionaires, they were never into it for the money or they would have released more polished, accessible albums.

Let's get a twelver and sit on the hill and listen to the Grateful Dead.....dude!

by Joe Kritchell May 9, 2008