Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Duo de barracuda et Poulpes poêlés
English translation:
duet of barracuda and sautéed octopus
French term
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Expert Interprète-Traducteur Assermenté
Native in: French 
Works in: French to English, English to French, Arabic to French, and 3 more.
Duo de barracuda et Poulpes poêlés
| 3 +4 | duet of barracuda and sautéed octapus |
Wendy Streitparth
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| 3 +2 | Fried duo of barracuda and octopus Stir-fry of barracuda and octopus |
Susan Monnereau
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Aug 18, 2016 23:03: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "gastronomie" to "restaurant menu"
Aug 19, 2016 15:41: Carol Gullidge changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Sep 1, 2016 05:15: Wendy Streitparth Created KOG entry
Non-PRO (3): Yvonne Gallagher, B D Finch, Carol Gullidge
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Proposed translations
Germany
45 years experience
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 2 more.
duet of barracuda and sautéed octapus
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writeaway
: All terms are easily found in most Fr-En dictionaries. Just a matter of putting it all together
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Thanks, writeaway. Perhaps not so easy if you're not a native speaker...
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Yvonne Gallagher
: (sp "octopus"). "pan-fried" very common these days
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Oh goodness, yes. Thanks, Gallagy. Yes, pan-fried slipped my memory.
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B D Finch
: I believe that both are shallow-fried, not just the octopus. See my Discussion comment.
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Could be, no way of being sure. / There are just 3 ghits for barracuda poêlé, so seems unlikely.
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Yolanda Broad
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Many thanks, Yolanda
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Rachel Fell
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Many thanks, Rachel
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France
Native UK English - 40 yrs in France
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English
Fried duo of barracuda and octopus Stir-fry of barracuda and octopus
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writeaway
: All terms are easily found in most Fr-En dictionaries. Just a matter of putting it all together. Perhaps leave out the fried though. (see Gallagy's comment)
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Chakib Roula
: Agree with "fried".
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Yvonne Gallagher
: not "fried duo" but duo of..."Also fried/stir-fried/sautéed not the same. I think the last is the most "elegant" or use "pan-fried"
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Discussion
But - although not impossible - somehow it seems odd to make this anything other the rather obvious pan-fried barracuda and octopus (not octopus!); nor is stir-fry the same as pan-fried, as I think you already mention somewhere, so I would avoid that (stir-fried) as well…
So all in all, neither of the 2 propositions so far quite fits the bill, as far as I'm concerned
We are supposed to check the dictionaries before posting questions, so I presume you must have some other problem with this term. In which case, you need to mention your ideas so far and why you have rejected them; this saves us from duplicating your efforts so far...