Blanch in a sentence as a verb

Buy a bunch of brocoli, blanch it and put it in the fridge.

I can only blanch at the job that people who manage Google Image Search have to deal with.

Here's what you do: blanch it in boiling water, just like 20-30 sec, shock it in ice water, and then dry it off.

I'm guessing they can do just fine without a pile of customers who blanch at paying $20/month for managed hosting.

So when average people see how much real professionals cost, they blanch, because they're often comparing pros to GWCs.

This wasn't carte blanch monitoring, this was targeted data collection.

Luckily I work in a situation where swearing is completely acceptable.>Almost everyone in Britain will blanch at "****".Really?

I kind of wish "life hacks" as we know them today could be replaced with a simple set of tricks, such as "melt a pen cap to remove weird screws" or "blanch onions to make peeling them easier".

I am not an adherent to Objectivism, but I don't believe that even the most fervent Objectivist could blanch at my proposal to work to achieve the stars.

And even if they did, all they need to do to avoid this ridiculous farce is swap out a word: psst 'engage in revelry' = 'destroy'There is no trade off between security and freedom taking place here, there is just a parody acting out that not only fails to make anybody any safer, it causes all reasonable people to blanch in shame.

Blanch definitions

verb

turn pale, as if in fear

See also: pale blench

verb

cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them"

See also: parboil