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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
- Heat your oven to about 180C (about 350-360 degrees F).
- Cut the aluminum foil into 2 big squares.
- Cut the monkfish into 2 pieces and put one on each sheet.
- Open the half vanilla bean and scrape the seeds onto the fish.
- Then grate the zest of the lime onto the fish (doesn’t it smell nice?).
- Sprinkle with a bit of salt.
- Then pour a big spoon of cream on each portion of fish.
- Fold the aluminum around the fish until you get 2 airtight bundles (what’s the English for Papillotte?).
- Put them into the oven and bake for probably about 10 minutes (I’m being totally random there, but it should be all right).
- Serve with white rice, and maybe a couple of slices of mango
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
- In a stock pot, cook the chicken quickly over high heat until seared. Pour in the stock and water.
- Add the rice, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes or until the rice is cooked.
- In a bowl, beat together the eggs and milk until very well blended.
- When the rice is cooked, pour the egg mixture into the boiling soup in a thin drizzle, stiring to form egg threads.
- 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.
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This update was partially delayed due to some problems with our domain name. And depending on what the old bank balance looks like after paying my bills; I’ll be seeing about moving musings to it’s new host/domain name/style (maybe).
Most days of the week, I end up staying up far later into the night than is good for me; so I sleep late on the weekends to help catch up on my sleep. This last weekend, I actually managed to drag my sleepy but out of bed and make it to the bank so I could store some stuff in my safety deposit box. Whew!
After I got back from the bank; Ariesna and I headed over to the Coralville Public Library Booksale. We picked up a few interesting looking books, including one that I later started hoping wasn’t somebody else’s purchase.
See, CPL has a freebie section and a purchase section. We always go into the purchase section first and buy whatever strikes our fancy before going through the freebies. We’d done that and while looking through the freebies; I noticed a small book, titled Understanding the Scots, in a box near the door into the purchase section. Being part Scottish, I picked it up and started flipping through it. While I did this I turned around to see what Ariesna might be up to and then turned back to see if any other books in that box were of interest. Alas, the box was gone. Now, I don’t know if those were supposed to belong to somebody else (e.g. they’d finished in the purchase section and just set the box down) or if they were legitimate freebies and somebody grabbed the box with all the rest of the books. *sigh* I doubt I’ll ever find out.
After the booksale, we headed to downtown Iowa City for their 2004 Art Fesitval. We did a lot of walking around looking at all the cool stuff and I bought Ariesna a silver bracelet with a daisy in the pendent on the bracelet. She loved it and was going to just walk away from it, but I couldn’t have that so I bought it. While I’m not sure that it was a sound financial move; the smile on her face was well worth it.
Oh and I took some photos of the Art Festival with my new camera but I haven’t had a chance to go through them yet. Once I have; I’ll see about posting them here.
Later in the afternoon, we met up with Ariesna’s sister (Dee) and her husband (Ken) to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter 3). To sum it up, I think the overall production values were higher in this film than any of the others but the story was very badly hacked up and if you’ve not read the book; I can’t image how you’d be able to follow what was going on. Still, if you’re a fan of the series; it’s worth seeing on a matinee.