Appetit auf Kuchen ???

Backen muss ab und an mal sein im Hause Netty.

Zum Februarende und zum Sockenmärchen fiel mir dieser leckere Marmorkuchen ein.

Zutaten:
200 g weiche Butter
160 g Zucker
1 P. Vanillezucker (Bourbon)
1 Msp. Zitronenschale
2 EL Rum
6 Eigelb
6 Eiweiß
1 Msp. Salz
120 g Zucker
280 g Mehl
1/2 P. Backpulver
100 ml Milch (lauwarm)
20 g Kakao
Puderzucker oder Fettglasur

Zubereitung:
Die wirklich weiche Butter mit 160 g Zucker, Vanillezucker, Rum und Zitronenschale cremig rühren.
Die Eidottern nacheinander in die Buttermasse rühren. Die 6 Eiweiß mit dem Salz halbfest schlagen und mit dem restl. 120 g Zucker zu steifem Schnee schlagen. Mehl mit Backpulver mischen. Nach und nach immer abwechselnd Mehl-Backpulvermischung, lauwarme Milch und Eischnee mit einem Holzlöffel unter die Buttermasse unterheben und sorgfältig vermischen.
Eine Kuchenform mit Butter ausstreichen und mit etwas Mehl bestäuben. Gut die Hälfte der Teigmasse in die Form füllen. Den restlichen Teig mit Kakao dunkel färben, auf dem hellen Teig verteilen und mit einer Gabel spiralförmig unterziehen.

Im vorgeheizten Backofen bei 160°C ca. 60 Min. backen.

Danach mit Puderzucker bestäuben oder Fettglasur darauf verteilen.

Mal sehen, welches Märchen im März dran ist und was mir dazu für ein Küchlein einfällt .

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Und im Januar, passend zum Märchen vom Grimm´s Sockenkalender, gab es bei uns diesen lecker schmeckenden Schneewittchenkuchen.

Teig:
180 g Margarine
180 g Zucker
3 Eier
5 EL Milch
375 g Mehl
1/2 P. Backpulver
1 EL Kakao

Belag:
750 g entsteinte Sauerkirschen

Creme:
500 ml Sauerkirschsaft
1 1/2 P. Puddingpulver Kirschgeschmack
6 EL Zucker
150 g Butter
50 g Hartfett

Schokoladenguss:
175 g Kuvertüre
50 g Kokosfett
1 EL Öl

Zubereitung:
Margarine mit Zucker kräftig schlagen, mit Eiern und Milch gut verrühren. Mehl und Backpulver sieben und dazugeben. Alles zu einem Teig verrühren. Den Teig teilen. 1/3 des Teiges 1-2 EL Milch zugeben und mit dem Kakao dunkel färben. Ein Kuchenblech gut fetten und den hellen Teig zuerst glatt aufstreichen, danach löffelweise den dunklen Teig darüber verteilen und die Sauerkirschen auflegen und dann ab in den Backofen. ca. 25-30 Min bei 180°C

Vom Sauerkirschsaft und Puddingpulver einen Pudding kochen und erkalten lassen. Die Butter schaumig rühren, nach und nach den erkalteten Pudding zugeben und verrühren. Die Creme auf dem Kuchen verteilen. Mit Schokoladenguß überziehen.

Mit diesen Leckereien verabschiede ich mich ins Wochenende. Am Montag gibbet es dann endlich wieder Bilder von dem Gestricke.

Ich war nicht ganz untätig .

Liebe Grüße, Eure

Solar Cooking in Somalia

Solar cookers, devices that use the sun prepare food, are drawing increased attention because of the fuel they employ, and because they add a lot of flavor to meals.
And this is how it looks like in Somalia:

Geschafft

habe ich in den letzten Tagen nicht so viel. Wegen meiner lang andauernden Erkältung ist mir nur das hier von den Nadeln gehüpft. Zum Einen ist da ein ganz normales Stinosockenpaar

Sockendaten

Größe: 35/36
Ndl.stärke: 2,5

Wollverbrauch: 51 g
Wolle: Twister Sockenwolle

Bund: 1M re, 1M li
Muster: glatt rechts
Für: Luca

und zum Anderen wollte ich unbedingt mal so einen Korkenzieherschal probieren. Dabei herausgekommen ist der hier. Etwas kurz, etwas schmal, aber für den Anfang eigentlich ganz ok.

Gestrickt ist er mit Nadelstärke 5 und aus 50g 100% Merino Wool, Farbe Neptune. Die Wolle habe ich von Elisa aus dem Sommerferienswap. Neue Schals dieser Art sind schon bestellt worden.

Auch an meine Decke sind wieder ein paar Patches hinzugekommen. Sie wächst - wenn auch langsam - Stück für Stück.

Und jetzt möchte ich mich für all Eure lieben Mails mit Sorgen und Wünschen bedanken. Ich habe mich sehr gefreut. Es geht mir wieder besser und das Stricken macht auch wieder Spaß.

Aber nun geht´s ab in den Stricksessel um die Nadeln glühen zu lassen :-)

Liebe Grüße, Eure

Booby traps of the Vietnam War

Das hier

habe ich gestern per (Blitz)-Hermespaket von Anja bekommen. Ein schönes, selbstgestricktes, blaues Tuch.
Dazu hat Anja noch Gummigetier´s, eine kleine Espressotasse und eine Kerze beigelegt.

(¨`•.•´¨)-lichen Dank, liebe Anja. Du hast mir damit eine sehr große Freude bereitet.

Really Unbelievable Medical Mistakes

More people die every year of medical mistakes, than from AIDS, car accidents, breast cancer and airplane crashes-combined! Here the some of the worst cases we've found.

The Fertility Clinic that used the wrong sperm



When Nancy Andrews, of Commack, N.Y., became pregnant after an in vitro fertilization procedure at a New York fertility clinic, she and her husband expected a beautiful new addition to their family. What they did not expect was a child whose skin was significantly darker than that of either parent. Subsequent DNA tests suggested that doctors at New York Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine accidentally used another man's sperm to inseminate Nancy Andrews' eggs.

The couple has since raised Baby Jessica, who was born Oct. 19, 2004, as their own, according to wire reports. But the couple still filed a malpractice suit against the owner of the clinic, as well as the embryologist who allegedly mixed up the samples.

Received the wrong heart and lungs, then died



17-year-old Jésica Santillán died 2 weeks after receiving the heart and lungs of a patient whose blood type did not match hers. Doctors at the Duke University Medical Center failed to check the compatibility before surgery began. . After a rare second transplant operation to attempt to rectify the error, she suffered brain damage and complications that subsequently hastened her death.

Santillán, a Mexican immigrant, had come to the United States three years before to seek medical treatment for a life-threatening heart condition. The heart-lung transplant that surgeons at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., hoped would improve this condition instead put her in greater danger; Santillán, who had type-O blood, had received the organs from a type-A donor.

The error sent the patient into a comalike state, and she died shortly after an attempt to switch the organs back out for compatible ones failed. The hospital blamed human error for the death, along with a lack of safeguards to ensure a compatible transplant. According to reports, Duke reached an agreement on an undisclosed settlement with the family. Neither the hospital nor the family is allowed to comment on the case.

A $200,000 testicle



In yet another case of a wrong-sided operation, surgeons mistakenly removed the healthy right testicle of 47-year-old Air Force veteran Benjamin Houghton. The patient had been complaining of pain and shrinkage of his left testicle so doctors decided to schedule surgery to remove it due to cancer fears. However, the veteran's medical records suggest a series of missteps -- from an error on the consent form to a failure on the part of medical personnel to mark the proper surgical site before the procedure. The error, which took place at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, spurred a $200,000 lawsuit from Houghton and his wife.

A 13-Inch souvenir



Donald Church, 49, had a tumor in his abdomen when he arrived at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle in June 2000. When he left, the tumor was gone -- but a metal retractor had taken its place. Doctors admitted to leaving the 13-inch-long retractor in Church's abdomen by mistake. It was not the first such incident at the medical center; four other such occurrences had been documented at the hospital between 1997 and 2000. Fortunately, surgeons were able to remove the retractor shortly after it was discovered, and Church experienced no long-term health consequences from the mistake. The hospital agreed to pay Church $97,000.

An open heart invasive procedure... on the wrong patient



Joan Morris (a pseudonym) is a 67-year-old woman admitted to a teaching hospital for cerebral angiography. The day after that procedure, she mistakenly underwent an invasive cardiac electrophysiology study. After angiography, the patient was transferred to another floor rather than returning to her original bed. Discharge was planned for the following day. The next morning, however, the patient was taken for a open heart procedure. The patient had been on the operating table for an hour. Doctors had made an incision in her groin, punctured an artery, threaded in a tube and snaked it up into her heart (a procedure with risks of bleeding, infection, heart attack and stroke). That was when the phone rang and a doctor from another department asked “what are you doing with my patient?” There was nothing wrong with her heart. The cardiologist working on the woman checked her chart, and saw that he was making an awful mistake. The study was aborted, and she was returned to her room in stable condition.

Hospital makes a wrong-sided brain surgery... for the third time in a year



For the third time on the same year, doctors at Rhode Island Hospital have operated on the wrong side of a patient's head. The most recent incident occurred Nov. 23 2007. An 82-year-old woman required an operation to stop bleeding between her brain and her skull. A neurosurgeon at the hospital began a surgery by drilling the right side of the patient's head, even though a CT scan showed bleeding on the left side, according to local reports. The resident reportedly caught his mistake early, after which he closed the initial hole and proceeded on the left side of the patient's head. The patient was listed in fair condition on Sunday.

The case echoes of a similar mistake last February, in which a different doctor operated on the wrong side of a patient's head. And last August, an 86-year-old man died three weeks after a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital accidentally operated on the wrong side of his head.

The Surgeon who removed the wrong leg



In what was, perhaps, the most publicized case of a surgical mistake in its time, a Tampa (Florida) surgeon mistakenly removed the wrong leg of his patient, 52-year-old Willie King, during an amputation procedure in February 1995.

It was later revealed that a chain of errors before the surgery culminated in the wrong leg being prepped for the procedure. While the surgeon's team realized in the middle of the procedure that they were operating on the wrong leg, it was already too late, and the leg was removed. As a result of the error, the surgeon's medical license was suspended for six months and he was fined $10,000. University Community Hospital in Tampa, the medical center where the surgery took place, paid $900,000 to King and the surgeon involved in the case paid an additional $250,000 to King.

The healthy kidney removed by mistake



In St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a patient was submitted at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital to have one of his kidneys removed because it had a tumor believed to be cancerous. Instead, doctors removed the healthy one.

"The discovery that this was the wrong kidney was made the next day when the pathologist examined the material and found no evidence of any malignancy," said Samuel Carlson, M.D. and Park Nicollet Chief Medical Officer. The potentially cancerous kidney remained intact and functioning. For privacy and family's request, no details about the patient were released.

Wide-Awake Surgery led to his suicide



A West Virginia man's family claims inadequate anesthetic during surgery allowed him to feel every slice of the surgeon's scalpel - a trauma they believe led him to take his own life two weeks later. Sherman Sizemore was admitted to Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, W.Va., Jan. 19, 2006 for exploratory surgery to determine the cause of his abdominal pain. But during the operation, he reportedly experienced a phenomenon known as anesthetic awareness -- a state in which a surgical patient is able to feel pain, pressure or discomfort during an operation, but is unable to move or communicate with doctors.

According to the complaint, anesthesiologists administered the drugs to numb the patient, but they failed to give him the general anesthetic that would render him unconscious until 16 minutes after surgeons first cut into his abdomen. Family members say the 73-year-old Baptist minister was driven to kill himself by the traumatic experience of being awake during surgery but unable to move or cry out in pain.

Not so funny: wrong artery bypassed



Two months after a double bypass heart operation that was supposed to save his life, comedian and former Saturday Night Live cast member Dana Carvey got some disheartening news: the cardiac surgeon had bypassed the wrong artery. It took another emergency operation to clear the blockage that was threatening to kill the 45-year-old funnyman and father of two young kids. Responding to a $7.5 million lawsuit Carvey brought against him, the surgeon said he'd made an honest mistake because Carvey's artery was unusually situated in his heart. But Carvey didn't see it that way: "It's like removing the wrong kidney. It's that big a mistake," the entertainer told People magazine.

The Most Bizarre Soft Drinks

Gau Jal: made of cow urine



India's Hindu nationalist movement recently said it is in the final stages of developing a new soft drink made from cow urine. Department head Om Prakash said the drink - called "gau jal" or "cow water" - was undergoing lab tests and would be launched "very soon, maybe by the end of this year". "Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and will be tasty too," he said. "Its USP will be that it's going to be very healthy. It won't be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins." He insisted, however, that it would be able to compete with the likes of Coca Cola and Pepsi.


Placenta Drink



Placenta 10000 is a jelly drink. With placenta. Pig placenta. 10,000 mg worth! Placenta is said to have regenerative properties, especially concerning beauty, and can help with dieting as well. At about $8 per drink, it's expensive, but Japanese aren't exactly known for sacrificing their health and looks for a couple of bucks either. If 10,000 mg/serving just doesn't cut it for your placenta-loving pallet, they have a Placenta 400,000 concentrate as well.

Pepsi Ice Cucumber



Yes, you read the headline correctly: on 2007, Pepsi released this special Ice Cucumber-flavored drink in Japan. While the bottle clearly describes it as "combination" of cucumber and cola, there just isn’t much cola flavor to it. The drink takes on a somewhat sweet and fruity flavor, but the artificial cucumber flavor is noticeable.

Beer + Milk = Bilk



A brewery in Hokkaido, Japan, recently released a low-malt beer using milk. The idea came from the son of a liquor store who is in the dairy farm industry. After having a problem of discarding milk, he proposed the local brewery to produce the milk beer. As one-third of beer is milk, it is the good way to help local farmers. The taste of beer is like a taste of fruits and it goes well with sweets. Because of its fruity flavor, Bilk hopes to be popular among women.

NEEDS: made of cheese



Care for a glass of cheese? This new cheese drink comes in 3 different flavors; plain, blueberry, and yuzu citrus. They use a special process to cut down on the sweet taste of the flavored drinks. It is said to have a taste similar to yogurt, but with a cheesy aftertaste.

Salad Flavoured Water



Released way back in 2004 by Coca-Cola, the Salad Water comes in 6 different flavors. It tastes like a lite fruit punch; as PeeWee would say "It's Salady"!

Mother's Milk



And now, for something close to the heart... meet Mother's Milk, the breast-tasting drink ever. Is there anything in the world more wholesome, more natural, more life-giving than mother's milk? Is there anything in the world that would make you drink it from a store bought carton? NO on both counts!

Pokka Melon Milk



What's Melon Milk? Well, the ingredient listing on the can says that it's made from melon juice and milk. OK, that plus water, sugar, and some very long chemical names. But yeah, it's basically Japanese melon-flavored milk.

Diet Water



Isn't that an oxymoron? Meet the Diet Water: all the flavor of regular water, only half the calories.

Kidsbeer



Now here's a marketing hit: a nonalcoholic "beer" for kids that's selling like crazy. The beverage, whose main ingredient is the Latin American plant Guarana, sells for around 380 yen per 330-milliliter bottle. The bottles themselves are colored brown to make the drink look even more like its more potent counterpart. The drink started out as Guarana, a cola beverage that used to be sold at the Shitamachi-ya restaurant in Fukuoka, run by 39-year-old Yuichi Asaba. Asaba renamed the sweet carbonated drink Kidsbeer, a move that made it an instant hit.

Amazing Celebrity Yearbook Photos

Our sister site Veto Corleone give us a list of Amazing Politician Yearbook Photos which has inspired us to show our favorite Celebrity Yearbook Photos. Enjoy the geeky goodness.

Brad Pitt


Renée Zellweger


Zach Braff


Cameron Diaz


Paula Abdul


Kelly Clarkson


Jennifer Lopez


Mariah Carey


Tom Cruise


Angelina Jolie


George Clooney


Gwyneth Paltrow