Thursday, August 17, 2017

James Baldwin Creamy Pork Stew

This slow cooker meal is easy, inexpensive and very healthy. Oh yes and has a great taste. Just the thing for taking care of Master's property. The lean pork has a nice amount of protein, the white beans have protein & fiber with little or no fat. This proves that healthy food can be comforting!


Our one pot meal is dedicated to a noted author and civil rights activist who paved the way for so many others. Read the short article after the recipe.
 


Ingredients:
3-4 boneless pork chops
2 cans Great Northern white beans, drained
½ red onion chopped into big hunks
3 cups low salt chicken broth
Salt and Pepper
1 bag frozen stew vegetables, thawed



Directions:
Always start by wiping out the slow cooker and spraying it with cooking spray. Slave then sets it on low as the preparations are done on the ingredients.


Cut the red onion into large hunks (they will break down during the long cooking.) Lay them into the pot.


Cut the chops into large sized chunks and cut off any band of fat.


Distribute the meat across the onion.


Open and drain the cans of beans and add them. (I don’t salt my beans until they are done). Pour the low salt chicken broth on top and cover.


This will cook for seven hours. However at the six hour mark, add the thawed stewed vegetables.



Heat the oven to 400. Mix the corn into the dry muffin mix until all coated.


Stir in the egg and milk according to directions. Fill the sprayed muffing pan only half way. Let sit for five minutes before putting it in oven.


Bake according to directions (about 20 minutes).

A simple, inexpensive, healthy meal that is a true please to serve my Master!




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To nourish, support and maintain.
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James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) was an American writer and activist in LGBT rights and Civil rights in general.

Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize questions and dilemmas of pressures preventing integration not only of African Americans, but also of gay and bisexual men They showed internalized obstacles to the quests for acceptance. This was prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956, at the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement.

His unusual intelligence combined with the persecution by his stepfather had caused Baldwin to spend much of his time alone in libraries. By the time Baldwin had reached age fourteen, he had developed a passion for writing.

The quest to answer or explain family and social rejection—and attain a sense of selfhood, both coherent and benevolent—became a consistent theme in his writing.

He befriended the actor Marlon Brando in 1944 and the two were roommates for a time. They remained friends for more than twenty years.

During his teenage years Baldwin had started to realize that he was gay. Disillusioned by American prejudice against blacks, he left the United States at the age of 24 and settled in Paris, France. He hoped to come to terms with his sexual ambivalence.


Baldwin's novel, Giovanni's Room, caused great controversy when it was first published in 1956 due to its explicit homoerotic content. Giovanni's Room is predominantly about white characters. Baldwin's next two novels, Another Country and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, are sprawling, experimental works dealing with black and white characters and with heterosexual, gay, and bisexual characters.

Around the time of publication of The Fire Next Time, Baldwin became a known spokesperson for civil rights. Baldwin's essays articulated the anger and frustration felt by black Americans and lgbt's with more clarity and style than any other writer of his generation.

Several of his essays and interviews of the 1980s discuss homosexuality and homophobia with fervor and forthrightness. As he had been the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, he became an inspirational figure for the emerging gay rights movement.

The civil rights movement was hostile to homosexuals. The only known gay men in the movement were James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin. Rustin and King were very close, as Rustin received credit for the success of the March on Washington.

At the time, Baldwin was neither in the closet nor open to the public about his sexual orientation. Baldwin was conspicuously uninvited to speak at the end of the March on Washington.

Martin Luther King spoke on the topic of sexual orientation in a school editorial column during his college years, and in reply to a letter during the 1950s, where he treated it as a mental illness which an individual could overcome. The pressure later resulted in King distancing himself from both men.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included James Baldwin on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.


In 2005, the USPS created a first-class postage stamp dedicated to Baldwin, which featured him on the front, with a short biography on the back of the peeling paper.

In 2012 James Baldwin was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people.

In 2017, Scott Timberg wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times in which he noted existing cultural references to Baldwin, thirty years after his death, and concluded: "So Baldwin is not just a writer for the ages, but a scribe whose work — as squarely as George Orwell’s — speaks directly to ours."



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