Chicken Cambacérès

Chicken Cambacérès (COM-bas-R-ess)

This chicken delicacy is named for the famous LGBT hero of France: Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duc de Parme. That's a mouthful and so is this chicken! Learn about this great man in a short essay after the recipe.

Slave understands that the instructions look difficult but if you read them first, the task is really easy. Most of it is to make sure the breading stays on the meat! This is a variation of Chicken Kiev. It is so juicy and full of flavor. Plus once you learn how to bread the meat you can use it for all kinds of other dishes. Fried chicken, Fish, Pork, even vegetables! 

 

 

Ingredients:

3 chicken breasts (boneless-skinless)

3 Tbs real butter

3 Tbs grated Gruyere cheese

1 Tbs fresh parsley, chopped

½ tsp garlic powder.

Directions: 

 

 To grate the cheese always spray the grater first.

 

 Chop the parsley:

In a medium bowl or mixer, Mix together butter, parsley, garlic, and grated cheese, and season generously with salt and pepper.

                          

Roll butter into a ½ inch thick log, then wrap tightly in plastic wrap and place in freezer for an hour.

Take the chicken pieces out of the package and pat dry with paper towels.

Roll in cornstarch. 

 

 

With a knife, poke a hole down into the meat, not all the way through but wide enough for the butter stick.

Place in refrigerator uncovered to dry for 15 to 20 minutes. (a dry surface will help the coating adhere evenly to the chicken.)

NOTE: this is a good time to fix the vegetables.

 

 Cut a piece of the frozen butter/cheese log and place inside the pocket of each piece and shove it in completely, the frozen butter should hold it.

Sprinkle lightly with more corn starch, Let sit while you prepare batter.

Batter:

½ cup sparkling water, cold

1 egg (yolk and white separated)

1 cup flour

½ cup cornstarch

Directions:

To make the batter: Mix ½ cup cold sparkling water. An egg yolk, 1 cup flour and a half cup of cornstarch. Blend. Beat the egg white and when thick, fold into the mixture. Never add salt to the batter.

Dip the chicken in this and place on a plate to sit. It should seal up the slit. Again, chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. This will help the batter to solidify, and adhere better when the chicken is cooked.

 

 

Heat the oil or fat until hot before adding the chicken. Gently lay the breaded meat in your pan. Be sure not to overcrowd.

Use your probe thermometer to keep track of the temperatures of the meat and oil. Don’t try to turn the chicken! When the bottom is the shade of golden you want, gently loosen the pieces with a wide spatula and transfer them to a plate. Heat more oil or fat in the pan until hot and return the chicken pieces, uncooked side down; cook over medium heat without turning until brown on the other side and fully cooked inside. Internal temps should reach 150 F for at least 3 minutes.

Drain them on a wire rack turned upside down on paper towels.

Bring it to the table as soon as it is done. Battered fried food must be done in real time: the closer you get to eating it, the better. This is because the cover given by the batter and the humidity of the food quickly remove the crunchiness. In short, it is never good to preserve the delicacies fried in batter: better to make a sacrifice and eat them immediately!

So you want to make sure your vegetables are done before frying! They will stay warm, the chicken wont keep!

What an elegant meal to serve my Master!

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Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès

Cambacérès was a famous French lawyer and statesman during the time of the French Revolution. He is best known as one of the authors of the Napoleonic Code, which still forms the basis of French civil law and that of much of the Western world.

Cambacérès has been credited with the decriminalization of homosexuality in France. Many historians argue that point. Consider: Cambacérès was open about his attraction to men. He remained unmarried and is noted as having been surrounded by unmarried young men. To have been able to hold important positions in government at the time was in itself a “revolutionary” act and an important contribution to society.

Cambacérès was born in 1753 in Montpellier, France. In 1774, he graduated in law from the college d’Aix and succeeded his father as Councillor in the court of accounts and finances in Toulouse.

He was a major supporter of the French Revolution of 1789.

In 1792, he represented the department of Hérault at the National Convention which proclaimed the First French Republic in September of that year.

In revolutionary terms, Cambacérès was a moderate. His legal expertise made him useful to all parties.

As a member of the Committee of General Defence from 1793, Cambacérès worked on much of the legislation of the revolutionary period.

During 1795, he was employed as a diplomat and negotiated peace with Spain, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Batavian Republic.

Cambacérès had been appointed as Minister of Justice by 1799.

He supported the coup that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul, forming a new regime designed to establish a stable constitutional republic.

In 1802 he rendered substantial help in establishing the life consulate for Bonaparte. He was made archchancellor of the empire in 1804 and was created Duke of Parma in 1808. Presiding over the Senate and, as a rule, over the Council of State, he exercised extended powers during Napoleon’s absences.

Cambacérès was appointed Second Consul. He was effectively second-in-command of France during the Napoleonic era.

Cambacérès was charged with the drawing up of a new Civil Law Code – later called the Napoleonic Code, recognized as France’s first modern legal code. It came into effect in 1804.

Napolean’s conquests of Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, western Germany, and Spain meant that the legal code created by Cambacérès shaped the legal framework of much of Europe and Latin America.

As to decriminalization of homosexuality: Prior to the Revolution, sodomy had been a capital crime under royal legislation. The penalty was burning at the stake. Executions rarely happened, men caught having sex with other men were usually cautioned or imprisoned.

The National Assembly of 1791 removed a range of criminal offenses that were religion-based, such as blasphemy. While sodomy wasn’t specifically mentioned in this context, it fell under the umbrella of religious crimes and so was effectively removed by the National Assembly at that time.

The Penal Code of France was updated in 1810. This would have been an opportunity to reinstate the decriminalization of sodomy and homosexuality if that was an issue. There is no evidence that any consideration was given to this.

Public decency offenses were used to police public sexual encounters between men.

The fact that Cambacérès was homosexual was a well known one and it appears he did not at all attempt to conceal his sexual orientation. Indeed, Napoleon is recorded as frequently joking on the matter with him and it had no bearing on the high offices he held. Homosexuality had been decriminalized under the Revolution and Napoleon elected to keep it that way and so compared to other countries Revolutionary and Napoleonic France was a  period of relative freedom for gay people.

Excluded from public life at the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, Cambacérès reluctantly returned to it in the Hundred Days, at Napoleon’s bidding, when he directed the Ministry of Justice and presided over the Chamber of Peers.

Exiled at the Second Restoration, he lived in Belgium until 1818, when he was allowed to return to France, with his restored. He lived quietly until his death in 1824. He was buried with full honors in Pere Lachaise cemetery.

 

The Boys of Pompeii Pork Chops

Here is another slow cooking meal that insures your chops will be juicy and tender. It cooks on low for four hours! We dedicate it to the long lost gay community of ancient Pompeii. Read about them after the recipe.

Nice bone in chops, slow cooked in a soup based sauce, easy and juicy!

Ingredients:

4 pork chops, bone in (about 2 pounds)

1 onion, sliced

4 cloves garlic, minced

¼ cup flour

1 can evaporated milk

1 can cream of onion soup

2 tsp. paprika

2 tsp. garlic powder

1 tsp. poultry seasoning

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

½ teaspoon each salt + pepper

Directions:

First, always wipe out your slow cooker and spray it.

Do your cutting: carefully slice the onion on a mandolin slicer. Mince the garlic.

Brown the pork chops on both sides in a large frying pan over high heat.

Add the sliced onion and the minced garlic in the bottom of the slow cooker. Place the pork chops on top. Set on LOW.

In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the evaporated milk together with the cream of onion soup and ¼ cup flour until blended. Stir in the mustard and the spices before pouring over the pork chops.

Cook on low for 4 hours.

Once ready, remove the pork chops from the slow cooker and serve with the cooking gravy.

Goes well with potatoes, rice or pasta and a green vegetable.

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So honored to serve this to my Master on the occasion of his birthday!

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The Boys of Pompeii

Back in 79 AD, Mt Vesuvius erupted burying Pompeii yet preserving the city.

The ash preserved homoerotic frescoes that Christianity would no doubt have destroyed had they not been covered.

The city was not completely buried, and tops of buildings were still above the ash making it obvious where to dig or salvage building material. But it was mostly forgotten.

Further eruptions particularly in 471–473 and 512 covered the remains more deeply.

Around 1700 the city of Pompeii and a sister city Herculaneum were “re-discovered” and work began on excavations.

When the artwork was first discovered, people found it so scandalous that much of it was locked away in the National Museum of Naples, where it remained hidden from view for over 100 years. In 2000, the art was finally made view-able to the public, but minors must be accompanied by an adult.

The art work was not just sexual, much of it was HOMOSEXUAL!

Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offered a unique look at Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried. Historians got an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants, although much of the evidence was lost in the early excavations.

Organic remains, including wooden objects and human bodies, were entombed in the ash and decayed leaving voids which archaeologists found could be used as molds to make plaster casts of unique and often gruesome figures in their final moments of life. This technique is still in use today, with a clear resin now used instead of plaster because it is more durable, and does not destroy the bones, allowing further analysis.

Two such bodies were found wrapped in a poignant embrace as they were covered beneath molten rock and layers of ash. The heterocentric culture of the scientists assumed them to be two women. However that was not the case.

The bodies were originally dubbed “The Two Maidens” but in a startling discovery scientists found the two bodies were actually male – raising speculation that they may have been gay lovers.

“We always imagined that it was an embrace between women. But a CAT scan and DNA have revealed that they are men. “You can’t say for sure that the two were lovers. But considering their position, you can make that hypothesis. It is difficult to say with certainty.” said Massimo Osanna, director-general of the world-famous archaeological site.

One of the two bodies is lying at a right angle to the other and seen with his head resting on the other’s chest in search of comfort and perhaps protection.

Extensive anthropological tests of the duo’s bones and teeth have revealed that one of the them was a young man aged about 18 years of age while the second was probably an adult male aged about 2 years older. Buried for centuries, the tenderness and love still evokes feelings today.

Gay history was usually erased, but glimpses are preserved on the walls of Pompeii. One of the fascinating things preserved in Pompeii is the graffiti on the city walls where the thoughts of the people remain, uncensored by subsequent history.

One scratching on a wall reads, ” Phoebus the perfume sellers sucks real good.”

Others walls around Pompeii read like a truck stop bathroom, including some colorful gay comments:

On the bar-brothel of Innulus and Papilio:

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

On the house of the Citharist below a drawing of a man with a large nose:

Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.

On the basilica:

Phileros is a eunuch!

On the Eumachia Building:

Secundus likes to screw boys.

On the house of Orpheus:

I have buggered men.

 

There is a frieze on the walls of the Suburban Baths showing sixteen sex scenes, including male-male and female-female couples and same-sex pairings within group sex scenes. Both men and women went to the bathe there, sharing a singular changing room.

The scenes may have served as a way to remember where you put your clothing! Like parking lots that use animals or colors.

Human history is filled with the love shared by LGBT's, a history too often hidden from us. So let us rejoice and share these long forgotten important parts of life.

 

3 way Macaroni Salad

Here is a basic macaroni salad that can be served three ways, depending on what you feel like. A great deli-style Mac salad, a shrimp salad, or a ham & egg salad. Once you get the basics down you can play with just about anything you wish to add.

First make the dressing, then cook the pasta, let it cool! Blend together. Refrigerate overnight and freshen in the morning with the yogurt.

Ingredients;

1 pound (4 cups) uncooked elbow macaroni, cooked in well-salted water

For the dressing:

1 cup mayonnaise, plus an extra spoon as needed

¼ cup white vinegar

1 or 2 tbsp white sugar

2 tablespoons mustard

2 tsp kosher salt, plus more to taste

½ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 Tbs sweet and sour sauce is optional

½ cup green onions, white and light parts

1 cup finely diced celery

½ cup diced green pepper

½ cup grated carrot

5 oz tub of plain non fat Greek style yogurt

Directions:

Make the dressing first. Mix the vinegar and mustard into the mayonnaise. Add the sugar and taste before mixing in salt & pepper. If using, add the sweet & sour sauce now.

 

 Do your cutting: you want the dices to be even and about ¼ inch across. About the size of a green pea.

Mix the vegetables into the dressing. Cover and place in refrigerator four about 2 hours. This lets the flavors blend and partially pickle in the vinegar.

Now cook the macaroni. Cook it all the way not just to al dente'. When finished, drain into a colander but DO NOT RINSE. Let it drain for a few minutes shaking occasionally to completely drain.

Now cool the pasta by placing in a large bowl and tossing with a spatula. You want it down to room temperature. This is an important step. As the pasta cools a thin layer of starch forms that will attract the dressing.

When it is cool to the touch you will find it tends to stick to your hand. This is what you want.

Gently fold in dressing & vegetables into the pasta. Do not taste yet! Cover and refrigerate for a few hours or best overnight.

You will find that nearly all of the dressing will have disappeared into the pasta. Taste test for any salt & pepper at this time. I like to freshen it up with a bit of non fat plain flavored Greek style yogurt. This gives it a nice texture without making a mayonnaise soup out of it.

Now if you wish to make all three versions, dish out about a third of the mix. Thaw out a lbs of 31 – 40 sized shrimp. I cut each one so they are not so large. Mix this into the pasta mix and garnish with a dash of old bay seasonings. Cover and refrigerate.

Now take a half of what is left and dish it into a large bowl. Cut up 6 hard cooked eggs and about ½ cup of tiny cubes of ham. Mix these into the pasta. Again cover.

Now you have three fantastic home made salads for any outside eating you might plan. Just don't let the mayo egg mixture sit in the sun for long, it will make people sick. Even in the refrigerator, don't plan on keeping for more than a week.

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What a hot weather treat to serve my Master Indy.

socialslave

To satisfy and restore.

To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I cook!

Please buy slave's cookbook:

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