Ricotta And Beet Green Tart

Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.

Phillips Brooks

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Import, New, Text	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	c	Raw beet greens, or other
		dark greens like chard or
		coll
2	lb	Ricotta, preferably sheep's
		milk
4		Eggs
1	c	Freshly grated parmesan
		cheese
1/4	t	Freshly grated nutmeg
1	T	Sweet butter

INSTRUCTIONS

(Spring form pan is essential to this recipe)  Preheat oven to 350
degrees F. In boiling, salted water, cook beet  greens until tender
(about 7 to 8 minutes). Refresh in ice water bath  and drain liquid.
Roughly chop beet greens and toss into mixing bowl.  Add ricotta and
eggs and mix well. Add parmesan cheese and fresh  nutmeg and just stir
through. Butter spring form pan with 1  tablespoon butter and pour
batter into pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1  hour and 10 minutes, or
until a knife inserted near edge exists  cleanly. Cool 10 minutes,
remove from spring mold and serve warm.  Yield: 8 servings Recipe By  
:MOLTO MARIO SHOW#MB5661  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #292  Date:
Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:55:09 -0500  From: Meg Antczak
<meginny@frontiernet.net>

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1545 Calories From Fat: 883 Total Fat: 100.1g Cholesterol: 984.8mg Sodium: 4765.8mg Potassium: 1833.9mg Carbohydrates: 26.7g Fiber: 6.4g Sugar: 4.9g Protein: 133.3g