Tonight's chicken dinner is named in honor of President James Buchanan. While all signs indicate he was gay, history has painted him as just not a good president. Serving right before the Civil War, he tried to sympathize with the North AND the South thus drawing the hatred of both!
Here is a simple way to bake chicken thighs in a creamy mushroom sauce. Be sure to read the little write-up about the man who wanted to be President with his lover as vice-president back in the middle of the 1800's.
Ingredients
- 2 Tbs corn starch
- 4 - 6 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
- 8 ounces cremini mushrooms, sliced
- 5 Yukon Gold potatoes
- green beans
Before
heating the oven: check to see that the pans will fit with no
problems!
- In a small bowl, combine corn starch, paprika, garlic powder and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Season chicken thighs by rubbing this in thoroughly on all sides.
- NOTE: do this before you start your cutting and cleaning. This powder needs to sit on the chicken for at least 5 minutes.
- Scrub the potatoes, rinse the mushrooms.
- Chop ½ onion (save the other half in the freezer.) Mince the garlic.
- Cut up the potatoes. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray. Place the potato pieces in a large bowl and add oil & salt, stir until well combined. Spread out on the foil.
- Heat oil & butter in an oven proof skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken, skin-side down, and sear both sides until golden brown, about 5 minutes per side; Remove chicken pieces and cover with foil.
- Add the mushrooms & onions to the pan and cook, stirring, until browned, 4 to 6 minutes. Add garlic during the last 1 minute.
Return
the chicken to the skillet.
- Slide the tray of potatoes on the bottom rack.
- Remove
chicken and tent with foil. Place skillet on stove top over medium
heat and stir in the heavy cream. Cook, stirring for about 5
minutes as it thickens.
Since
the oven was to be set at 400 degrees, slave took advantage of this a
roasted some Yukon gold potatoes as a side as well as a green
vegetable.
For
our music:
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happy to be a slave of Master Indy
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satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
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President
James Buchanan our 15th
president
And
His beloved William Rufus King
Historian
Jim Loewen, wrote about both President Buchanan and King in his book
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong.
Loewen
flatly states: “There’s no reasonable doubt that King and
Buchanan were both homosexual, and that they were known to be by
political leaders at the time.” Andrew Jackson referred them as
“Aunt Fancy” and “Miss Nancy,” King was often referred to as
Buchanan’s “wife” and “better half” The two men shared a
room in a Washington boarding house for 15 years, while both
men were members of Congress.
In
a letter written by Buchanan after King was appointed as President
Tyler’s Minister to France, and left for Paris:
“I
am now solitary and alone, having no companion in the house with me.
I have gone a-wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded
with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone;
and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid
who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I
am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic
affection.”
Buchanan
had adopted King's mannerisms and romanticized view of southern
culture. Both had strong political ambitions, and in 1844 they
planned to run as president and vice president. However that was
never to happen.
In
1853 William Rufus King was elected Vice president to Franklin Pierce
and died of tuberculosis just 45 days after his inauguration. That
was four years before Buchanan would go on to be elected President.
James
Buchanan had turned down an offer to sit on the Supreme Court.
He
was nicknamed "Ten-Cent Jimmy" by the Republicans in the
presidential campaign of 1856 after Buchanan said 10 cents was fair
daily pay for manual laborers.
Our
15th President, Buchanan was elected in 1856 and served one
term. Upholding
a promise he had made in his inaugural address, James Buchanan did
not seek reelection in 1860.
He
had aspired to be a president who would rank along with George
Washington. However, he could never identify a basis for peace or
handle the sharply divided pro-slavery and antislavery factions with
a unifying principle. Buchanan's view of record was that secession
was illegal, but that going to war to stop it was also illegal. This
has caused him to be ranked as one of the worst presidents in
American history.
The
Confederate States of America were created while he was
President after Abraham Lincoln was elected in November, 1860.
He did not take an aggressive stance at all against the states that
seceded and instead attempted reconciliation without war.
He
is, to date, the only president to remain a lifelong bachelor. No
Secretary of State has become President since Buchanan! He was the
last president born in the 18th century.
The
former president supported the Union and the new President Lincoln's
policies.
In
his retirement, Buchanan devoted much of his time to defending his
handling of events leading to the Civil War. Most of his arguments
were ignored. He wrote: "Whatever the result may be, I shall
carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my
country."
Our
15th
president and perhaps our only gay president died in 1868, at the age
of 78, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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