Andros Poulet Vinaigre au Lyon

This dish consists of sauteed chicken cooked in a sauce made with balsamic vinegar, white wine and chicken stock. When the sauce is done the acidity level is adjusted by a generous addition of evaporated milk. The result? A one of a kind tangy, creamy chicken recipe. Named for the LGBT hero Phil Andros. Read about him after the recipe.

Based on classic French cuisine, this easy chicken dish will provide a real star to your list of dishes. Chicken in a creamy and tangy sauce, served on wide noodles with mushrooms and a side of home-style green beans will cement your reputation as a genius of the kitchen.

Ingredients:

4 pieces of chicken thighs

1 medium sized red onion roughly chopped

2 cloves of garlic

1 roma tomato cut up in small pieces

1½ cups (12oz) evaporated milk

2 cups chicken stock

1½ cups white wine (Used Riesling)

¾ cup balsamic vinegar

½ tsp ground sage

½ tsp ground thyme

Salt and pepper to season the meat

1 Tbs of butter and oil to cook the meat

Directions:

Do your cutting: chop the garlic, tomato, and onion.

Freeze the half you don't use.

 Mix oil with butter in dutch oven and lightly brown the chicken thighs, really only more of a slight blond color than brown. Remove from pan and cover.

Add the onion, tomato, and garlic to pan. Just to “sweat” again not to brown. Less than a full minute.

Stir in the balsamic vinegar. This will de-glaze the pan. Let reduce until a syrup like consistency. (it will stick to spoon).

Pour in the white wine. Bring to a boil for a couple of minutes. Now add the chicken stock.

Sprinkle with sage & thyme.

When back to a boil, gently reintroduce the chicken thighs to the pot. Lower the heat and let simmer between 15 – 25 minutes with a lid on. Again remove the chicken and cover (you can make it before hand if necessary)

Raise heat and let liquid boil for 10 mins to reduce and concentrate the flavors.

Add the caned milk and let that reduce for another 15 mins. It should now coat the back of the spoon.

Place the chicken back into the creamy sauce to warm up, about 10 mins or so.

This serves nicely over a nest of wide egg noodles, (with saute mushroom pieces) and “granny style” green beans. Recipe follows:

Granny Style Green beans

2 14.5 OZ CANS OF GREEN BEANS (one drained, one not)

1/8 CUP COOKING OIL (used EV olive oil)

1 TBSP. GRANULATED SUGAR 

 

Add beans with juices to a medium saucepan. Add oil and sugar. Bring to a boil and boil until there is No Water in the bottom of the pot. 

 

When the water is almost gone the beans will begin to sizzle and you need to stay in kitchen during last stage. The oil and sugar will then begin to caramelize in the bottom of the stock pot and form brown edges.

Once this begins, take them off element before they burn, but make sure and leave them on as long as you can.

Note: No salt, pepper or water needed. These take about 30 minutes cook.

 

“The key to the right flavor is not how long you cook them, it is the oil and sugar and cooking down with no water to caramelize.”

If it is easier for you, cook these first then plan to “bump” them in the microwave to reheat for serving.

At first bite of chicken, you taste the nice creaminess and the rich chicken flavor then the acidity presents as a background note.

I served this over a bed of wide noodles with a small can of bit & pieces mushrooms sauted into them.

What a wonderful, surprising meal for my Master.

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Phil Andros

Samuel Steward (1909 – 1993), also known as Phil Andros, (and many other pseudonyms), was a poet, novelist, and university professor who became a tattoo artist and pornographer.

He led one of the most extraordinary (and unknown) gay lives of the twentieth century. Andros maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.  He was also was an intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder.

He was born in Woodsfield, Ohio and began attending Ohio State University in Columbus in 1927. He taught English from 1932 until 1934 as a university fellow.

Andros gained an introduction to Gertrude Stein in 1932 through his academic advisor and began a long correspondence with her which resulted in a warm friendship. He paid visits to her rented country home in France during the summers of 1937 and 1939.

His first year-long post was as an instructor of English in 1934 at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. In 1936 he was dismissed as the result of his sympathetic portrayal of a prostitute in his well-reviewed comic novel Angels on the Bough.

He subsequently moved to Chicago, where he taught at Loyola University until 1946. After leaving Loyola to help re-write the World Book Encyclopedia, he subsequently taught at DePaul University.

Andros met famed sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in late 1949 and subsequently became an unofficial collaborator with Kinsey's Institute for Sex Research. During his years of work with the Institute, Andros collected and donated sexually themed materials to the Kinsey archive, gave Kinsey access to his lifelong sexual records, introduced him to large numbers of sexually active men in the Chicago area, and provided him with large numbers of early sex Polaroid photographs which he took during the frequent all-male sex parties he held in his Chicago apartment. He also allowed Kinsey to take detailed photographs of that sexually-themed apartment. He ultimately donated large numbers of drawings, paintings and decorative objects that he himself had created to the Institute.

After Gertrude Stein, Kinsey was Andros' most important mentor; he later described Kinsey not only "as approachable as a park bench" but also as a god-like bringer of enlightenment to humankind, thus giving him the nickname, "Doctor Prometheus."

While making the transition from professor to tattoo artist during the 1950s, Andros befriended a number of gay artists and writers including Paul Cadmus, George Platt Lynes, Julien Green, Fritz Peters, and Glenway Wescott. At Kinsey's specific request he also kept highly detailed journals and diaries of his daily sexual activities, and chronicled them in a secret card catalog he referred to as his "Stud File." Starting in 1957, he began contributing short stories based on his many sexual encounters to the Zurich-based homophile magazine Der Kreis ("The Circle"), to which he also contributed essays, reviews, and homophile journalism.

Some of his early works described his fascination with rough trade and sadomasochistic sex; others focused on the power dynamics of interracial sexual encounters between men. In 1966, thanks to changes in American publishing laws, he was able to publish his story collection $TUD with Guild Press in the United States, under the pseudonym Phil Andros. By the late 1960s, he started writing a series of pulp pornographic novels featuring the hustler Phil Andros as narrator.

Unlike modern gay porn, his characters were exceptionally well written to the point where some spouted Shakespeare while they screwed handsome young men. His descriptions of sex are among the most graphic in the language.

The frustration  from living in that closeted era combined with his sexual obsession drove Andros to alcoholism which he eventually overcame.  He suffered through long periods of dark depression and self-destructive behavior. Dangerously violent characters fascinated Andros, and his overtures and adventures frequently landed him in the hospital.

In his later years Andros abilities as a writer were compromised by COPD and a barbiturate addiction.

As a leading tattoo artist of the 1950s and '60s, Andros was mentored by Milwaukee-based master tattooist Amund Dietzel. After retiring from tattooing in 1970, Andros wrote a social history of American tattooing during the 1950s and '60s, which was ultimately published as Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos.

Samuel Steward AKA Phil Andros died at the age of 83 in California  and left behind over 80 boxes full of drawings, letters, photographs, sexual paraphernalia, manuscripts and other items, including an autograph and reliquary with pubic hair from Rudolph Valentino, a thousand-page confessional journal created at the request of the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and a green metal card catalog labeled “Stud File,” which contained a meticulously documented record on index cards of every sexual experience and partner.

The attic full of items contained a secret history of a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century. As new biographies of artists and writers like E.M. Forster detail the effects of sexual repression on their work, Andros’s history shows what a life of openness, when embraced, entailed day to day.

As Joshua Spring wrote in “Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade”:  “He paid the price for being himself, but at least he got to be himself.”