Az Archívumból: Sajtos korong

Édesapám talált egy sajtos tallér receptet a Faceook-on. Mivel nagy sajtos tallér rajongó, és évek óta vágyik a nagy, kerek tallérokra, ami régen a majális és a szülinapi zsúrok elengedhetetlen tartozéka volt, átküldte nekem a linket. Miután elolvastam a receptet, rájöttem, hogy majdnem minden van hozzá itthon. 

Majdnem. Úgyhogy kis változtatásokkal készült el életem első sajtos korongja. 

Hozzávalók: 

250 g finomliszt
100 g puha, de nem olvasztott vaj vagy margarin
170 g reszelt sajt
1 közepes tojás
100 ml tejföl
1 teáskanál só
1/2 teáskanál szódabikarbóna
igény szerint köménymag, szezámmag, vagy további reszelt sajt

A lisztet, sót és szódabikarbónát összekeverjük, a felkockázott vajat hozzáadjuk, és robotgéppel összedolgozzuk a liszttel. Hozzáadjuk a tojást, a sajtot és a tejfölt. 10 percre a hűtőbe tesszük, közben a sütőt 200°C-ra előmelegítjük. 

A masszából kis golyókat formázunk, és sütőpapírral borított tepsikbe tesszükés izlés szerint megszórjuk köménnyel, reszelt sajttal, vagy szezámmaggal. Klopfolóval vagy kézzel kilapítjuk, és kb. 10 percig sütjük. 

Attól függően, hogy milyen sajtot használunk, a só mennyisége változhat. Különböző sajtkeverékekkel is próbálkozhatunk, én általában 10 dkg trappista sajtot keverek valami mással, ami a hűtőben van. Ha ropogósabbra szeretnénk, akkor egész laposra lapítsuk ki, akár kézzel, akár a klopfolóval. 

Do You Skip The Intros?

So I had a very Star Trek day today, watching first an episode of Picard season 3, and then bingeing on Strange New Worlds. When I binge watch a show I always skip the summary of the previous episodes and the intro–except when I am watching Star Trek. Who wouldn’t want to listen to the mesmerizing voice of a starship captain talk about space, the final frontier every 52 minutes? It is probably the most relaxing thing on an anxiety filled Saturday evening, and watching Ethan SPeck as Spock makes me happy. In all of the incarnations of the original crew, Spock was always my favorite, like Data, Odo, The Doctor and Seven were my favorites in other shows. I could relate to them, as they all had a problem understanding and experiencing human emotions like the people around them. Kind of like me at certain periods of my life.

And then there is the beautiful predictability and reliability of Star Trek, where adventures keep me engaged, but they follow a great pattern where my obsessive little mind can find the comfort of routine. It helps to know what to expect next, and I never have to get attached to any red shirts.

I was introduced to Star Trek in the form of the films featuring the TOS crew around the same time as I was introduced to Star Wars in the form of the original trilogy. While Star Trek just seemed to get better with TNG and DS9, two shows that have greatly contributed to my English vocabulary and colloquialisms (the third one was 21 Jump Street), the digitally “improved” versions and then the prequel trilogy kind of turned me off Star Wars. I mean kid falls into the volcano and survives, but his wife gets the sads and just…. dies? Really? Anyway, Enterprise started out as a disappointment, and then the gap of a several years before Discovery and Picard were needed so I could appreciate the reboot movies. I mean they had the best Chris, and one of them had that guy with the cheekbones. Then Star Wars 7 was awesome! Of course it was Star Wars 4 and 6 all over again with girl Luke, so yeah, I enjoyed the film, and Rogue One was brilliant… but everything else is just… Disney. I do like Leia being a Disney princess, because there is at least one that I like.

In addition to the abundance of Star Trek, I spend my time rewatching Stargate: Atlantis rather than watching the billion and one new Star Wars shows. Any guesses who. my absolute favorite character is in the entire Stargate franchise is? Yes, of course it’s Rodney! If you guessed Daniel Jackson, you were close.

Now that you know my dirty secret that I don’t really like Star Wars any more, and I fully identify as a Trekkie (pronouns: ő, őt), I am curious: which one is your of the three franchises?

Throw Back Thursday: My Socialist Childhood 1, aka. Valahogy túléltük

🇭🇺Amikor megszülettem, gumitégláról még csak nem is hallottunk. Amikor felújították a játszóteret, az új biztonsági feature a gyöngykavics volt a tömény beton helyett. Gyakran felnőtt felügyelet nélkül töltöttük a napjainkat a téren, és néha, ha belegondolok abba, hogy mi mindent csináltunk, azért izgalmas, hogy ennyien maradandó sérülések nélkül felnőttünk. Néha beugrik nálam is a “régen minden jobb volt”, de igazából… nem. Nem volt minden jobb, csak sokminden más volt, és mi abban nőttünk fel, és az volt a gyerekkorunk – persze, hogy nosztalgikusan tekintünk ezekre az időkre.

🇺🇸 I remember a dinner appointment when I was a missionary. It was at the home of a returned missionary who had taught me, and whose father had had a special interest in Hungary ever since he served his mission in neighboring Austria, that could have been in another Universe at that time. During dinner he asked me about my childhood that I spent behind the Iron Curtain, and I will. never forget the surprised horror on his face when I said that I had a brilliant childhood. My Socialist childhood was truly wonderful for me. My only complaint was the lack of year-round availability of bananas. We had awesome (and unsafe) playgrounds, cheap books, no TV on Mondays, affordable theaters, museums, and activities, and where I lived, even commonly accepted religious education offered at the churches. I spent most of my childhood unsupervised at one of the several playgrounds around my neighborhood, hauling the recycling to the nearest grocery store for some extra pocket money, and just somehow surviving the million and one dangers around us that I can now see, but then I was oblivious to.