Here
is a little something to acknowledge our German heritage. It is a
combination of an old depression meal, updated and mixed with a
German potato salad! We honor LGBT Director Roland Emmerich today.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs red-skinned potatoes, rinsed & cut into 1-inch pieces
- 8 oz. fresh green beans, trimmed and cut into 1½ -inch pieces
- 8 oz fresh mushrooms, rinsed & quartered
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ Lbs thick-cut bacon
- 1 chopped onion
- 1 cup reduced-sodium chicken stock
- ¾ cups apple cider vinegar
- 2 Tbs honey mustard
- 2 Tbs sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp crushed red pepper
- 1 tsp smoked paprika, plus more for serving
Directions
Rinse the potatoes and cut into 1 inch pieces.
Rinse the green beans, snap them into 1½ inch pieces.
Rinse the mushrooms, let drain and quarter them.
Cut the sausage at the curves, then cut sides. End up with serving sized pieces. (eight pieces for four people)
In
a large pot bring water and potatoes to a boil. Cook potatoes for 5
minutes.
While
that starts: Fry up the bacon… remove it to a paper towel lined
plate and leave the grease in the skillet.
Add
green beans to the potato pot. Cook, about 5
minutes
more or until potatoes are tender; drain.
Add
your chopped onion and mushrooms to that skillet and cook it over
medium heat, stirring often, until onion bits are all translucent and
golden.
On
one bowl mix the dry ingredients: the flour, sugar, salt, crushed
pepper, and paprika. In a second bowl mix the chicken broth, vinegar
and the mustard.
Stir
the flour mixture into the skillet until everything's well coated.
Now add broth mixture. Bring just to a boil while stirring
constantly.
Once
it comes to a boil, boil for one minute, while still stirring until
this thickens.
Pour
this into the drained potato – green bean mixture and crumble the
bacon on top. Pouring the thick hot dressing over the warm potatoes
is the key! It makes a world of difference in the flavor of your
salad.
Pour
this into your serving dish.
Now
this can be served hot or cold as you prefer. Here we serve it with
a roasted smoked sausage.
Roasting a smoked
sausage
Cut
the curves, then cut sides. End up with serving sized pieces.
Rub each with oil and arrange on pan.
Roast the sausages for about 25 minutes. They will be slightly darker and their skin somewhat puckered or wrinkled when ready.
For
our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdo-ZiHqbls
So
happy to be serving my Master
socialslave
To
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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Roland
Emmerich (German: born November 10, 1955) is a German film
director, screenwriter, and producer. His films, most of which are
English-language Hollywood productions, have made more than $3
billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the
United States, making him the country's 11th-highest-grossing
director of all time. He is a collector of art and an active
campaigner for the LGBT community, and is openly gay.
In
1977, he began attending University of Television and Film
Munich studying to become a production designer. After watching Star
Wars, he instead decided to enroll in the school's film director
program. Required to create a short film as his final thesis in 1981,
he wrote and directed the full-length feature The Noah's Ark
Principle, which was screened as the opening film of the 34th
Berlin International Film Festival in 1984.
In
1985, he directed his major film debut, a fantasy feature named Joey.
His next films Hollywood-Monster and Moon 44 were only
released in Germany. Emmerich filmed them in English in an attempt to
appeal to a larger market. This subsequently resulted in Moon 44
being released direct-to-video in the U.S. in early 1991. Joey
and Hollywood-Monster eventually also saw home video releases
in the U.S. (as Making Contact and Ghost Chase,
respectively). Emmerich started to achieve prominence in America.
Producer
Mario Kassar invited Emmerich to come to the United States to direct
a futuristic action film entitled Isobar. The project was
eventually scrapped. Instead, Emmerich was hired to direct the action
movie Universal Soldier. The film was released in 1992, and
has since been followed by two direct-to-video sequels, a theatrical
sequel, and another sequel released in 2010.
Emmerich
next directed 1994 science-fiction film Stargate. At
the time, it set a record for the highest-grossing opening weekend
for a film released in the month of October. It became more
commercially successful than most film industry insiders had
anticipated, and spawned a highly popular media franchise.
Emmerich
then was put in charge of Independence Day, an alien invasion
feature, released in 1996, that became the first film to gross
$100 million in less than a week and went on to become one of the
most financially successful films of all time, at one point having
been the second-highest-grossing film in terms of worldwide box
office.
In
2006, he pledged $150,000 to the Legacy Project, a campaign
dedicated to gay and lesbian film preservation. Emmerich made the
donation on behalf of Outfest, making it the largest gift in the
festival's history
Emmerich
has faced criticism from the LGBT community. His film Stonewall
was criticized for being whitewashed and diminishing the
contributions of transgender women of color to the Stonewall Riots.
The film was critically panned.
Similarly,
his 2016 film Independence Day: Resurgence was touted as
having a gay couple, but when the film came out, it was accused of
engaging in homophobia as LGBT characters are killed off for the
benefit of the straight protagonists and audience.
Through
out his career, Roland Emmerich
has proven that he could turn out some of the most enjoyable
"popcorn" entertainment to movie-going audiences. Stating
that he is "a filmmaker, not a scientist", he creates his
fiction based on actual science or history to make the messages he
sends "more exciting".
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