This delightful stew was pulled together with a left over pork steak and a few cans from the pantry. A wonderful aroma producer that is loaded with potassium and magnesium for a healthy heart. But make it for the taste! Tonight we honor a 13th century Persian poet known as Rumi. It is not often we find LGBT heroes from Central Asian Muslims. Read about this cleric and lover for stimulating dinner conversations.
Ingredients:
1 lb. left-over pork shoulder, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
½ cup chopped onion (1 medium)
2 garlic cloves, minced
½ tsp seasoned salt
2 cans sliced potatoes
1 (19-oz.) can cannellini beans, drained
1 (15-oz.) can pasta sauce with Italian seasonings
1 (14-oz.) can chicken broth
1 (14-oz.) can green beans
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Directions:
Heat oven to 325°F.
Cut up the left over pork, cover and set aside in large bowl. Open and drain the cans. Mince the garlic, and onion, spoon that into a large bowl with the green beans. Sprinkle with 1 tsp sugar, cover and set aside.
Add some oil to Dutch oven. Heat over medium-high heat until hot. Add the potatoes, cannellini beans, sauce and broth. Mix well. Cover.
Bake covered at 325°F. for 1 hour.
Uncover Dutch oven; stir in cut up pork with the green beans and onions.
Cover; bake an additional 45 minutes or until pork and vegetables are tender.
Dish into bowls to serve.
Top with a spoonful of non fat unflavored Greek style yogurt if you wish.
Some may like to bake a bread but it is not necessary.
Tips
Cannellini beans are white Italian kidney beans. Their mind flavor is favored for soups and salads.
- Calories: 525 Calories from Fat: 135 Total Fat 15g Cholesterol: 75mg Total Carbohydrate: 68g
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======================================== Rumi, a Persian Gay Saint
Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, more popularly known as simply Rumi was born in 1207. He was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic.
Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States.
Rumi's works are written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic, and Greek in his verse. His Masnavi (Mathnawi), is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language. His works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world. Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United States, and South Asia. His poetry has influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto languages.
Rumi love for another man inspired some of the world’s best poems and led to the creation of a new religious order, the Whirling Dervishes. He was born Sept. 30, 1207 in Afghanistan.
With sensuous beauty and deep spiritual insight, Rumi writes about the sacred presence in ordinary experiences. His poetry is widely admired around the world and he is one of the most popular poets in America. One of his often-quoted poems begins:
If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.
The homoeroticism of Rumi is hidden in plain sight. It is well known that his poems were inspired by his love for another man, but the queer implications are seldom discussed. There is no proof that Rumi and his beloved Shams of Tabriz had a sexual relationship, but the intensity of their same-sex love is undeniable.
Some of his more homoerotic poems were not published in English until The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication was released in 2006. The volume was forbidden both because of its homoerotic content and because it promotes the “blasphemy” that one must go beyond religion in order to experience God.
Rumi’s life changed when he met a man called Shams
Rumi was born in Afghanistan, which was then part of the Persian Empire. His father, a Muslim scholar and mystic, moved the family to Turkey to escape Mongol invaders when Rumi was a child. Rumi lived most of his life in this region and used it as the basis of his chosen name, which means “Roman.”
His father died when Rumi was 25 and he inherited a position as teacher at an Islamic school. He continued studying Islamic law, eventually issuing his own legal opinions and giving sermons in the local mosques. Rumi also practiced the basics of Sufi mysticism in a community of dervishes, who are Muslim ascetics similar to mendicant friars in Christianity.
In 1244 Rumi met the man who would change his life: a wandering dervish named Shams of Tabriz. He came from Iranian Azerbaijan. It is said that Shams had traveled throughout the Middle East asking Allah to help him find a friend who could “endure” his companionship. A voice in a vision sent him to the place where Rumi lived.
Rumi, a respected scholar in his thirties, was riding a donkey home from work when an elderly stranger in ragged clothes approached. It was Shams. He grasped the reins and started a theological debate. Some say that Rumi was so overwhelmed that he fainted and fell off the donkey.
Rumi and Shams soon became inseparable. They spent months together, lost in a kind of ecstatic mystical communion known as “sobhet” — conversing and gazing at each other until a deeper conversation occurred without words. They forgot about human needs and ignored Rumi’s students, who became jealous. When conflict arose in the community, Shams disappeared as unexpectedly as he had arrived.
Rumi’s loneliness at their separation led him to begin the activities for which he is still remembered. He poured out his soul in poetry and mystical whirling dances of the spirit.
Eventually Rumi found out that Shams had gone to Damascus. He wrote letters begging Shams to return. Legends tell of a dramatic reunion. The two sages fell at each other’s feet. In the past they were like a disciple and teacher, but now they loved each other as equals. One account says, “No one knew who was lover and who the beloved.” Both men were married to women, but they resumed their intense relationship with each other, merged in mystic communion. Jealousies arose again and some men began plotting to get rid of Shams.
One winter night, when he was with Rumi, Shams answered a knock at the back door. He disappeared and was never seen again. Many believe that he was murdered.
Rumi grieved when Shams disappeared
Rumi grieved deeply. He searched in vain for his friend and lost himself in whirling dances of mourning. One of his poems hints at the his emotions:
Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you’re perfectly free.
Rumi danced, mourned and wrote poems until the pressure forged a new consciousness. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you,” he once wrote. His soul fused with his beloved. They became One: Rumi, Shams and God.
He wrote:
Why
should I seek? I am the same as he.
His essence speaks through
me.
I have been looking for myself.
After this breakthrough, waves of profound poetry flowed out of Rumi. He attributed more and more of his writings to Shams. His literary classic is a vast collection of poems called “The Works of Shams of Tabriz.” The Turkish government refused to help with translation of the last volume, which was finally published in 2006 as The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication.
Rumi went on to live and love again, dedicating poems to other beloved men. His second great love was the goldsmith Saladin Zarkub. After the goldsmith’s death, Rumi’s scribe Husan Chelebi became Rumi’s beloved companion for the rest of his life. Rumi died at age 66 after an illness on Dec. 17, 1273. Soon his followers founded the Mevlevi Order, known as the whirling dervishes because of the dances they do in devotion to God.
Rumi’s stature as a Persian queer saint resists homonormative readings of his life and work.
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