Rote Bete mal anders

Bisher kannte ich Rote Bete nur eingekocht als Salat. Letzte Woche hat meine Nachbarin mir aus ihrem tollen Gemüsegarten zwei Rote Bete geschenkt, mit denen ich mal was Neues ausprobieren wollte. Also habe ich im Internet nach Rezepten gesucht und dieses hier gefunden: Rote-Bete-Lasagne mit Feta und Honig. Den Namen Lasagne finde ich etwas irreführend, aber das Rezept selbst war schon klasse. Allerdings habe ich es deutlich abgewandelt, u.a. inspiriert durch diesen Rote-Bete-Sonennblumenkern-Brotaufstrich. Heir ist meine Version:

Überbackene Rote Bete mit Feta

Zutaten:
2 Rote Bete
200g Feta (Schafskäse)
2 Esslöffel Olivenöl
4 Esslöffel Honig
frische Kräuter (z. B. Thymian, Rosmarin, …)
2 Esslöffel Sonnenblumenkerne

Die Rote Bete schälen und in 0,5cm dicke Scheiben schneiden. Den Feta würfeln. Die Kräuter waschen und klein schneiden.

Eine Auflaufform mit Olivenöl auspinseln und eine Schicht Rote Bete-Scheiben hineinlegen. Mit Fetawürfeln bestreuen, dann die Kräuter und zwei Esslöffel Honig darübergeben. Darüber eine weitere Schicht Rote Bete legen und wieder mit Fetawürfeln bestreuen. Die Sonnenblumenkerne darüber geben und mit dem restlichen Honig und einem Esslöffel Olivenöl beträufeln.

Das ganze im vorgeheizten Backofen bei 180°C Umluft eine gute halbe Stunde backen, bis die Rote Bete gar, aber noch bissfest sind. Die überbackenen Rote Bete passen gut als Beilage zu Lamm oder Rind, schmecken aber auch pur als leichtes Hauptgericht.

Guten Appetit!

The greatness of America is that […] we have always met Lincoln’s challenge to embrace the “better angels of our nature.“

The Atlantic: ‘We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation’. By John Biden. “The former vice president calls on Americans to do what President Trump has not.”

“Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate.

We have an American president who has emboldened white supremacists with messages of comfort and support.

This is a moment for this nation to declare what the president can’t with any clarity, consistency, or conviction: There is no place for these hate groups in America. Hatred of blacks, Jews, immigrants—all who are seen as “the other“ —won’t be accepted or tolerated or given safe harbor anywhere in this nation.
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You, me, and the citizens of this country carry a special burden in 2017. We have to do what our president has not. We have to uphold America’s values. We have to do what he will not. We have to defend our Constitution. We have to remember our kids are watching. We have to show the world America is still a beacon of light.

Joined together, we are more than 300 million strong. Joined together, we will win this battle for our soul. Because if there’s one thing I know about the American people, it’s this: When it has mattered most, they have never let this nation down.”

Traveling to the USA alone at age 13, in 1908

Forward: My Hero Grandmother Who Escaped An Arranged Marriage. By Laurie Gwen Shapiro.

“When I was nine, I joined my mother Jeanette Meiselman Shapiro to conduct an oral history of my grandmother’s dramatic escape from an arranged marriage — a thesis project for Mom’s 1970s feminism class at Pace University, where she had returned to school to finish her degree.

Not long ago, while reading a current story about girls forced to marry young for religious reasons, I felt renewed rage and pride at how daring my grandmother had been at the turn of the last century. My mother died nine years ago and only recently, when I was cleaning out a closet, did I dig up her yellowed notes on her mother’s escape and early life in America. Not everything was familiar, as I had been asked to leave the room for the more sensitive conversations. With the aid of the Internet and more oral interviews from remaining family, I’ve kept going where my mother left off.”

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BFFs

NPR: Having A Best Friend In Your Teenage Years Could Benefit You For Life.

“”[They were asked] how much trust there is, how good communication is and how alienated they feel in the relationship,” says Rachel Narr, the lead author on the study and a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Virginia. Each year, the original participants were also given questionnaires to assess levels of anxiety, depression and self-worth.
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Those strong relationships are paying dividends in adulthood, the study found. When the researchers evaluated the participants at the conclusion of the study, the ones who had close, emotional links showed improvement in their levels of anxiety, depression and self-worth. In other words, they reported less depression and anxiety and more self-worth at 25 than they had at 15 and 16.”

I’m still friends with my best friend from kindergarten, 37 years later, and also a group of friends from highschool, most of which I’ve known for 30 years now. We live all over the country now, but try to get together at least once a year, and it’s always great to see them and catch up.

Who said Donald Trump doesn’t get anything done? <\Sarcasm>

The Washington Post: What Trump has undone.

“President Trump has repeatedly argued that he’s done more than any other recent president. That’s not true, as measured by the amount of legislation he’s been able to sign. It is true, though, that Trump has undone a lot of things that were put into place by his predecessors, including President Barack Obama.

Since Jan. 20, Trump’s administration has enthusiastically and systematically undone or uprooted rules, policies and tools that predated his time in office. Below, a list of those changes, roughly organized by subject area.”