au chèvre (recette)

[ender21]

"feuilles de brick au chèvre" goat fritters? goat pastries?

 

[Martyn94]

"feuilles de brick au chèvre" goat fritters? goat pastries?

I assume that this is filled with goat cheese rather than goat meat. You need to spell that out in English. Neither pastries nor fritters are right: you will need to coin something - "goat cheese parcels"?

 

[ender21]

The phrase was used in a statement made by a French television presenter of programs relating to food and cooking. The full text is:

Retrouvez quelques unes de mes recettes sur Let's Cook ! Ce soir, feuilles de brick au chèvre, pour un apéritif léger !

 

[bazalpin]

chèvre is most likely goat cheese here - for a light starter, goat meat isn't normally on the menu).

Absolutely. Furthermore it cannot be refering to meat because of au => it means chèvre is masculine in this sentence thus one is talking about the cheese indeed. If it was refering to the meat it would be à la chèvre.

 

[lucas-sp]

The masculine/feminine thing is an obvious tipoff. But I honestly didn't even notice it, since the meaning of "cheese" just makes more sense semantically!

 

[ender21]

The dictionary page translates 'chèvre' as goat (nf). The expression 'fromage de chèvre' is used to refer to goat cheese. This seems to be a case of a dictionary needing catch up with modern idiom. The instructions support the translation of 'chèvre' (nm) as 'goat cheese'.

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[bazalpin]

Le CNRL indique pourtant

Chèvre
I...
C...
3. Subst. masc. Fromage de chèvre.

http://www.cnrtl.fr/lexicographie/chèvre
Note: it is a metonymy.