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Hi, I’m Mark (aka Man­z­abar1). If you want to know more about me; well, you’ll just have to keep read­ing this blog and see what you can learn as I go along.

I’ve had this domain for a short time now and finally plunked down the moolah to get a proper host for it (thank you Dig­i­tal Sense Host­ing).

I imag­ine if you’ve prob­a­bly got some ques­tions about the who/what/why of CoffeeBear.net, so here are some of the answers. If you have a ques­tion that’s not answered in this post; con­tact me and I’ll reply. Though if your ques­tion is too per­sonal, then the reply might be no more than “I’m not going to answer that.“
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Vanilla Monkfish

I found this tasty recipe in a com­ment over at The Ama­teur Gourmet.

Vanilla Monk­fish

    Ingre­di­ents (Serves 2)

  • 1 monk­fish tail (you can do it with filets of any plain cheaper fish too, but monk­fish is much bet­ter, and if you can afford vanilla, you might as well go for the expen­sive fish too)
  • 1 lime (clean it well to rub all the chem­i­cals away as we want to use the zest)
  • cr�me fraiche
  • alu­minum foil
  • half a vanilla bean
    Direc­tions

  1. Heat your oven to about 180C (about 350–360 degrees F).
  2. Cut the alu­minum foil into 2 big squares.
  3. Cut the monk­fish into 2 pieces and put one on each sheet.
  4. Open the half vanilla bean and scrape the seeds onto the fish.
  5. Then grate the zest of the lime onto the fish (doesn’t it smell nice?).
  6. Sprin­kle with a bit of salt.
  7. Then pour a big spoon of cream on each por­tion of fish.
  8. Fold the alu­minum around the fish until you get 2 air­tight bun­dles (what’s the Eng­lish for Papillotte?).
  9. Put them into the oven and bake for prob­a­bly about 10 min­utes (I’m being totally ran­dom there, but it should be all right).
  10. Serve with white rice, and maybe a cou­ple of slices of mango

Avgolemono

I saw this over at medi­atinker and decided to copy here because I really want to try mak­ing this some time.

Avgole­mono

    Ingre­di­ents (serves 3–4)

  • 4 chicken filets, or 1 skin­less breast diced
  • 2 cans chicken broth
  • 1/2 can water
  • 1/2 c rice
  • 2 lemons, juiced
  • 2 eggs
  • 2–3 Tblspn milk
  • 1/4 cup flat leaf pars­ley, chopped
    Direc­tions

  1. In a stock pot, cook the chicken quickly over high heat until seared. Pour in the stock and water.
  2. Add the rice, cover and sim­mer for about 20 min­utes or until the rice is cooked.
  3. In a bowl, beat together the eggs and milk until very well blended.
  4. When the rice is cooked, pour the egg mix­ture into the boil­ing soup in a thin driz­zle, stir­ing to form egg threads.
  5. Remove from heat, add lemon juice and parsley.

Vari­a­tion 1: use 10 finely sliced shiso leaves instead of pars­ley.
Vari­a­tion 2: add some diced car­rot with the rice. Add 1/2 cup chopped spinach after the rice is done and allow to cook down, then do the egg threads.

Just another bloody bunch of quizzes

How to make a manzabar
Ingre­di­ents:
5 parts suc­cess
1 part crazyi­ness
3 parts beauty
Method:
Com­bine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Serve with a slice of lov­abil­ity and a pinch of salt. Yum!

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You are try­ing a lit­tle to hard. Though you may be barely tol­er­a­ble, and you may wear the ‘in’ cloth­ing, you are still a dorkus on the inside. Keep try­ing! Every­one else loves watch­ing you humil­i­ate your­self! hah! *points and laughs*
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