Carters Broccoli Soup

Here is a from scratch healthy soup that tastes great and is such an honor to serve. Its creaminess comes from potato not cream. This week we lost a great historian, Charles Carter. He was the most respected expert on the Stonewall Uprising. It is fitting to dedicate this to him. Read a quick story after the recipe.

Fresh broccoli, caned diced potato, some red onion and garlic and you have a soup much better than the salt loaded red and white cans. Try it for rave reviews.

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons butter, or vegetable oil

1 red onion, chopped

1 stalk celery, chopped

4 cloves garlic, chopped

3 cups chicken broth

4 heads of fresh broccoli

2 cans diced potatoes drained

1 can evaporated milk

1 tsp old bay seasonings

1 egg yolk

Directions:

Rinse and soak the broccoli in vinegar water for 10 mins. Stems and all.

Chop off the florets divide by half in two bowls

Chop up the stems into ½ inch cubes Place in one of the bowls.

Chop the onion, chop the celery, chop the garlic.

In the pot heat butter and add the onion, carrot, & celery and cook for about 2 minutes. Or until sweated.

Pour in the stock and the potatoes. Heat to simmer. Add the stems and florets from the one bowl. (reserve the other florets). Add the Old Bay seasoning and garlic powder.

Let simmer for 15 – 20 minutes.

Using an immersion blender:

Puree the soup and blend until smooth. Stir in the can of evaporated milk. Taste test for salt, pepper and old bay. 

Once this is nice and thick, add the reserved florets. Let simmer for another 5 - 10 minutes. Taste test and adjust any seasonings.

On way to the table, stir in an egg yolk.

What a masterpiece for the Master!

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David Carter

Charles David Carter was born on Dec. 2, 1952, in Jesup, Ga. His father, William, was a merchant, and his mother, a homemaker.

After graduating from Wayne County High School, he earned a bachelor’s degree in religion at Emory University in Atlanta in 1974. In 1978 he earned a master’s degree in South Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he became active in gay rights issues.

Carter, who was gay, first became involved in the gay rights movement while a graduate student in Madison. Among other things, Carter organized a 1977 dance that raised more than $1,000 to support a Dade County, Fla., gay rights group that was fighting a campaign by anti-gay advocate Anita Bryant to overturn the Florida county’s gay rights law.

A short time later, Carter co-founded an organization in Madison that led a successful effort to prevent anti-gay advocates from overturning Madison’s gay rights law, making Madison one of the few places in the country in the late 1970s and early 1980s to stop an effort to repeal a pro-LGBTQ nondiscrimination law.

Carter later became involved in the successful lobbying effort that made Wisconsin the first state in the nation to pass a law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Mr. Carter, moved to New York in 1985. He said that one of the first positive statements he encountered about being gay was in an article about the poet Allen Ginsberg that said he was both gay and an American treasure. He later met Ginsberg and struck up an acquaintance that resulted, in 2001, in “Allen Ginsberg: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996,” which Mr. Carter edited after Ginsberg’s death in 1997.

Mr. Carter’s best-known book, “Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution,” was published in 2004.

Mr. Carter first became interested in writing about the Stonewall Event, amid publicity about the 25th anniversary of the event.

“It is to the gay movement what the fall of the Bastille is to the unleashing of the French Revolution,” he said.

The younger generation might not have fully appreciated how oppressive life was for gay men and women in the New York of the 1960s. Mr. Carter conjured the times bluntly.
“By 1966 over one hundred men were arrested each week for ‘homosexual solicitation’ as a result of police entrapment,” he wrote. “In the mid-1960s — the very time when a wave of freedom, openness, and demand for change was cresting — New York City increased its enforcement of anti-homosexual laws to such an extent that it amounted to an attempt to impose police-state conditions onto a homosexual ghetto.”

Even before the book came out, the research he was doing became an important part of a quest by Mr. Carter and others to have the two buildings on Christopher Street where the Stonewall Inn was situated, and the surrounding streets, added to the National Register of Historic Places. That status was granted in 1999. The site was designated a National Monument in 2016.

Mr. Carter became a go-to voice on Stonewall and the rights movement it helped advance. In 2002, for instance, opposing changes to a PATH station in the area, he told The Times, “When you have a very important battlefield — Gettysburg, Vicksburg or Custer’s last stand — you don’t want to alter any part of it.”

Interviewing numerous participants and reconstructing a timeline of those six tumultuous days, Mr. Carter debunked some of the standard myths: He did not, for instance, find any evidence that the funeral of Judy Garland earlier that week had somehow touched off the disturbances, as had sometimes been claimed.

And he sorted through differing versions of who within the L.G.B.T.Q. world had touched off the uprising and furthered it. He gave particular credit to, among others, an unidentified lesbian in male dress (often identified as Stormé DeLarverie) who first resisted the police and several transgender people, as well as gay youths living on the street in the neighborhood.

“All available evidence,” he wrote, “leads us to conclude that the Stonewall Riots were instigated and led by the most despised and marginal elements of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.”

In a 2019 article in Gay City News, Mr. Carter reflected on the divisiveness that had developed around the event as different groups and individuals claimed credit for being linchpins. And he argued for perspective.

“I think it is worth noting that during the Uprising participants were not thinking in the neat categories we employ today,” he wrote.

“My research convinces me that at the time of Stonewall, there was simply a feeling of our community standing up as one together to protect itself,” he added. “Perhaps someday that feeling of oneness will return.”

Carter’s book was the basis for the PBS American Experience film “Stonewall Uprising,” which won a Peabody Award. 

In 1998, six years before the book’s release, Carter received a grant to put together material from his research on Stonewall to support an effort to place the Stonewall riots site on the National Register of Historic Places, where it was placed in 1999. A year later the site was named a National Historic Landmark.

In 2014, Carter served as the historic adviser to the National Park Service in the successful effort to have the Stonewall site become a National Monument.

Shortly after his Stonewall book was published, Carter began work on what he considered his next major project – a definitive biography of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, the co-founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. in the early 1960s.

For more than 10 years, Carter conducted extensive research on Kameny’s role as one of the first known pre-Stonewall activists who declared homosexuals to be a minority group deserving of full civil rights.

It couldn’t immediately be determined whether others might assemble Carter’s findings and documentation on Kameny, including recorded interviews with dozens of people who knew Kameny, into the book Carter was unable to finish.

Eric Danzer, Carter’s longtime friend, said at the time of his passing Carter was working as senior medical editor at Saatchi & Saatchi, a global communications firm.

“In his medical editing and his LGBT history work, he showed a passion for accuracy,” Danzer said. “In his LGBT history work, he was painstakingly methodical in assembling the facts, passionate about following them wherever they led to make sure that our history is recorded accurately.”

Added Danzer, “He had great respect for the subjects of his work and felt a great responsibility to preserve the legacy of subjects whose contributions were generally not well known, but should be, like Frank Kameny.”

Carter died on May 1 of this year at his home in Manhattan. He was 67.

His brother, William, said the cause was a heart attack. He is also survived by longtime friend Eric Danzer.

Storme Piedmont Hills Fried Chicken

This recipe comes from the Piedmont Hills of North Carolina. It has been reworked for modern tastes and cooking. The use of vinegar will produce such a juicy piece of meat you may want to use it over and over. Honoring Stonewall veteran Storme DeLarverie. Read about this LGBT hero after the recipe.

Cooking chicken in vinegar is a staple of the Philippines. Here is a recipe from “up a holler”. The vinegar reacts well with the chicken flesh to produce a wonderful taste. Here we add the taste of a low salt soy sauce and a bit of Worcester to bring out the umami or savory flavor.

INGREDIENTS

4 chicken thighs, bone in - skin on

1⁄4 cup white wine vinegar

1⁄4 cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1⁄8 tsp each:

salt

pepper

garlic powder

onion powder

DIRECTIONS

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Lightly grease a 13 x 9-inch pan. Line a baking pan with foil, place in a rack and spray with cooking spray 

In a bowl combine the vinegar, soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. Place the thighs in skin side down and let sit for about 3 minutes.

Remove and place on rack skin side up.

Season with the salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder.

Bake for 30 minutes.

Remove the chicken from the oven, and baste with the vinegar/soy mixture. Bake 15 minutes longer.

Pour the rest of the sauce over the thighs.

Return to the oven, and continued baking for 15 minutes,

until the skin is golden brown and crispy.

Check with an instant read thermometer to reach 170 degrees, yes this seems high but the thighs are much more juicy when they reach the higher temperature.

Slave served this along with some left-over rice risotto and microwaved broccoli florets.

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So happy to find this recipe just for my Master Indy.

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Stormé DeLarverie

Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was a butch lesbian whose scuffle with police has been identified as the spark that ignited the Stonewall riots, spurring the crowd to action.

She is remembered as a gay civil rights icon and entertainer, who performed and hosted at the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall. She worked for much of her life as a singer, bouncer, bodyguard and volunteer street patrol worker. She became the "guardian of lesbians in the Village."

DeLarverie's father was White; her mother was African American, and worked as a servant for his family. According to DeLarverie, she was not certain of her actual date of birth. She celebrated her birthday on December 24.

As a bi-racial child, DeLarverie faced bullying and harassment. As a teenager Storme rode jumping horses with the Ringling Brothers Circus. She stopped riding horses after being injured in a fall. She realized she was gay near the age of eighteen.

Her partner, a dancer named Diana, lived with her for about 25 years until Diana died in the 1970s. According to friend Lisa Cannistraci, DeLarverie carried a photograph of Diana with her at all times.

The Jewel Box Revue

From 1955 to 1969 DeLarverie toured the black theater circuit as the MC and only drag king of the Jewel Box Revue, North America's first racially integrated drag revue.

The revue regularly played the Apollo Theater in Harlem, as well as to mixed-race audiences, something that was still rare during this time. She sang as a baritone.

During shows audience members would try to guess who the "one girl" was, among the revue performers, and at the end Stormé would reveal herself. She often wore tailored suits and sometimes a mustache that made her "unidentifiable" to audience members.

Storme knew both Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday and drew much inspiration and help from them. At that time there were very few drag kings performing, her unique drag style and subversive performances set a historic precedent. She became celebrated and very influential.

With her theatrical experience in costuming, performance and makeup, biracial DeLarverie could pass as either a man or a woman, Black or white. Offstage, she cut a striking, handsome, androgynous presence, and inspired other lesbians to adopt what had formerly been considered "men's" clothing as street wear. She was often photographed in three piece suits and "men's" hats. She is now considered to have been an influence on gender-nonconforming women's fashion decades before unisex styles became accepted.

Fifty years later, the events of June 27-28, 1969, have been called "the Stonewall riots." However, DeLarverie was very clear that "riot" is a misleading description:

“It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn't no damn riot.”

— Stormé DeLarverie

At the Stonewall rebellion, a scuffle broke out when a woman in handcuffs, who may have been Stormé, was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon. She was brought through the crowd by police several times, as she escaped repeatedly. She fought with at least four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes. They may or may not have thought it was just another man. Described by a witness as "a typical New York City butch", she had been hit on the head by an officer with a baton for, as one witness stated, announcing that her handcuffs were too tight. She was bleeding from a head wound as she fought back. Stormé was the woman, that sparked the crowd to fight when she looked at bystanders and shouted, "Why don't you guys do something?"

After an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon, the crowd became a mob and went "berserk": "It was at that moment that the scene became explosive."

"'Nobody knows who threw the first punch, but it's rumored that she did, and she said she did,' said a friend of DeLarverie and owner of the Village lesbian bar Henrietta Hudson. 'She told me she did.'"

Whether or not DeLarverie was the woman who fought her way out of the police wagon, all accounts agree that she was one of several butch lesbians who fought back against the police during the uprising.

DeLarverie's role in the Gay liberation movement lasted long after the uprisings of 1969.

In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as a bouncer for several lesbian bars in New York City. She was a member of the Stonewall Veterans' Association. She was a regular at the gay pride parade. For decades Delarverie served the community as a volunteer street patrol worker, the "guardian of lesbians in the Village."

From DeLarverie's obituary in The New York Times:

“Tall, androgynous and armed – she held a state gun permit – Ms. DeLarverie roamed lower Seventh and Eighth Avenues into her 80s, patrolling the sidewalks and checking in at lesbian bars. She was on the lookout for what she called "ugliness": any form of intolerance, bullying or abuse of her "baby girls." ... "She literally walked the streets of downtown Manhattan like a gay superhero. ... She was not to be messed with by any stretch of the imagination.”

In addition to her work for the LGBT community, she also organized and performed at benefits for battered women and children. When asked about why she chose to do this work, she replied, "Somebody has to care. People say, 'Why do you still do that?' I said, 'It's very simple. If people didn't care about me when I was growing up, with my mother being black, raised in the south.' I said, 'I wouldn't be here.'"

On June 7, 2012, Brooklyn Pride, Inc. honored Stormé DeLarverie at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture.

On April 24, 2014, DeLarverie was honored alongside Edith Windsor by the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, "for her fearlessness and bravery" and was also presented with a proclamation from New York City Public Advocate, Letitia James.

In June 2019, DeLarvarie was one of the inaugural fifty American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument (SNM) in New York City's Stonewall Inn.

DeLarverie suffered from dementia in her later years. From 2010 to 2014, she lived in a nursing home in Brooklyn. Though she seemingly did not recognize she was in a nursing home, her memories of her childhood and the Stonewall Uprisings remained strong.

She died in her sleep on May 24, 2014, in Brooklyn. No immediate family members were alive at her time of death. The cause of death was a heart attack.

Dutch chops: Utrecht Krbonades

Persecution of gays is nothing new. We prepare to celebrate the Pride and the Stonewall uprising of 51 years ago. Did you know of the first monument to honor those who have been martyred for being gay? Read about it after the recipe we dedicate to those lost individuals.

This dinner was derived from the popular “Outback” Alice Springs Chicken. Here we treat nice thick pork chops with the same honey mustard! Mix up a wonderful mushroom-onion rice and add a side of a green vegetable and you have something to remember that is all your own!

Ingredients:

2 thick pork chops

1 Tbs of sugar substitute (use a sugar twin or equivalent) 

1 Tbs dry mustard

1 Tbs corn starch

½ cup thin onion slices

½ pt fresh mushrooms, sliced

2 slices bacon

1 can cream of onion soup

½ can milk

¾ cup uncooked rice

Directions:

In a small bowl mix the sugar substitute, dry mustard, and corn starch.

Rinse the chops and pat dry with paper towels.

Rub the seasonings into all surfaces of chops.

Let sit on counter while you preheat oven to 210 degrees. Line a baking pan with foil with a rack and spray well.

Slice the onions and mushrooms.

When oven is up to temperature, place the chops on the rack. Let slow roast for one hour. Check the temperature with instant read thermometer. You want it to reach 145 degrees. If not there yet, switch oven over to broil and, watching carefully, broil for 5 minutes per side or until a nice crust forms and the temp is where you want it.

While the chops are cooking in the oven. Cook the bacon in a skillet until almost crisp and remove.

Add the slices of onion and mushroom and cook in the bacon grease for about 8 minutes. Stir in chopped bacon and the can of onion soup, half a can of milk and ¾ cup of rice. Stir until it is well blended and let simmer for at least 20 min to 30 minutes. Serve this along side of your chops.

Slave chose a nice green vegetable for a side.

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What an interesting take on this classic dish.

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To nourish, support and maintain.

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Timely punishment depicted as a warning to godless and damnable sinners. Engraving depicting the Dutch massacre of sodomites. Published in Amsterdam, 1731.

The Utrecht sodomy trials of 1730 were a large-scale persecution of homosexuals in the Dutch Republic, starting in the city of Utrecht. Over the following year, the persecution of "sodomites" spread to the rest of the nation, leading to some 250 to 300 trials, often ending in a death sentence.

The Utrecht Dom church Had been built as a replacement of a previous church, it was constructed step by step as they collected money. The building proceeded over decades, and roman catholicism became less popular. The contributions for the church construction became less generous. The most recent part, the nave, was blown away during a "terrible tempest". Without money to reconstruct the nave, it stayed a ruins. These had become a cruising area for 'sodomites', until the city's authorities decided to put an end to this. In a raid, several Utrecht men were arrested, tortured and later put to death.

A number of men, including a Zacharias Wilsma, were arrested and interrogated. Their confessions indicated the presence of networks and meeting places of homosexuals elsewhere in the Republic. In July of the same year, Holland followed suit and a nationwide wave of prosecutions ensued; several men in high positions were suspected, but fled before they could be arrested.

In Utrecht, some forty men were tried, of whom 18 were convicted and strangled. Death by strangling was the most common punishment for homosexual acts in the Dutch Republic, but other punishments during the 1730–31 purge included hanging and drowning in a barrel of water. The convicts' remains were either burnt, cast into the sea or buried under the gallows. Protestant preachers supported the purge, said that shipworms infesting the Dutch dikes were evidence of God's wrath against homosexuals.

Of the trials outside of Utrecht, those in the village of Zuidhorn acquired particular infamy. Grietman Rudolf de Mepsche used the occasion to persecute his political enemies. He had a total of 22 people sentenced to death and executed. Overall, since most accusations of homosexuality appear to have been true, Rictor Norton commented that "this is properly described as a pogrom rather than a hysterical witch-hunt".

Several waves of prosecution followed during the eighteenth century: in 1764 (Amsterdam), 1776 (several cities), and 1797 (Utrecht and The Hague). Other episodes of persecution and execution, occurred in Dutch colonial possessions like Batavia, capital of the seventeenth century Dutch East Indies

As a result of the trials, the word Utrechtenaar gained a second meaning as a slang term to denote homosexuals (first attested in a dictionary of 1861), esp. among students. In common usage, though, it is still used as a euphemism, while Utrechtenaar is more common on the internet (as of 2004).

The city of Utrecht has recently decided to confront this reputation for persecution. Since 1999, The Dom Square has hosted a stone, the so-called Sodomonument, commemorating the deaths of the persecuted sodomites, and telling that the terminology has changed to homosexuality, and the city wants its women and men to live their lives in freedom. 

The Homomonument: An icon of remembrance

Immediately after World War II there were calls to establish a memorial to commemorate the gay men and women who lost their lives in the war. The call for remembrance finally gained traction in the 1980s, when thorough research was conducted on the persecution of homosexuals in World War II.

The Homomonument makes a strong statement that history must not be repeated: "Never again". The monument goes beyond commemorating just the victims of World War II. It also commemorates all LGBTI people who have been or are still being persecuted by government regimes.
This world-renowned icon takes the shape of a triangle on the bank of the canal. Its three points are symbolic: one corner points towards the National War Memorial on Dam Square; another points across the canal to the site of the Anne Frank House; while the third corner points towards COC Amsterdam. It remains the largest monument in the world dedicated to homosexuality and remembrance.

Beside the Homomonument is Pink Point, Amsterdam's official LGBTI information kiosk. Staffed by friendly and knowledgeable volunteers, it presents a wide range of information and flyers from local organizations.

A commemorative stone tells this horrible story and emphasizes that the city now embraces sexual diversity. In the "pandhof" garden you can enjoy the peacefulness of a (newly created) medieval garden in the center of the city, and enjoy the different motives sculptured in the arches of the passage.

The Homomonument takes the form of three large pink triangles made of granite, set into the ground so as to form a larger triangle, on the bank of the Keizersgracht canal, near the historic Westerkerk church.