Here
is a nice one pan meal baked in the oven. All it needs is a nice
bread. Yes, just when you thought it was spring weather, here comes
more cold days. This is just the thing for a weather changing day.
It is named after a “Speak-easy” entertainer who played an
important role it LGBT history. Please read the quick write up
following the recipe.
Here
is a baked pork – vegetable mixture that is sure to please. It can
be made with frozen vegetables but is so much better with fresh, Your
choice.
Ingredients:
4
boneless pork chops (¾ inch thick) about 1 – 1.5 lbs
4
strips of bacon
2
cups cauliflower florets
2
cups green beans
½
cup chopped red onion
¼
cup brown sugar
¼
cup butter, melted
¼
cup low-sodium soy sauce
1
tsp garlic powder
Directions:
Pre
heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Line
a rimed sheet pan with foil and spray.
Chop
the red onion. Trim the fat off the chops. Season with salt and
pepper.
On
a microwave safe plate lay paper towels and the four strips of bacon.
Microwave 2 – 3 minutes or just until edges begin to brown.
(This is to make sure the cooking gets done in the oven).
Carefully
wrap each chop with a piece of partially cooked bacon and lay on pan.
Do this while bacon is still limp and can be bent.
If
using fresh, cut up and wash the cauliflower & beans. Mix with
red onion in a large bowl.
In
a medium bowl mix the melted butter with brown sugar, soy sauce and
garlic powder.
Toss
the vegetables with the sauce and spread on the pan around the chops.
Bake
40 - 45 minutes or until the chops read 145 degrees and
the bacon looks done.
If
you like, garnish with bits of either lemon peel or thin orange
slices.
This
makes an different type of meal that will warm your hearts.
For
music tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw
So
happy to be serving 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:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes
by
Jean Malin
Born
in 1908 as Victor Eugene James Malin. He was one of the first openly
gay performers in Prohibition-era Speakeasy culture. Although the
“pansy” character he created has been widely vilified today, it
was an important part of LGBT history.
The
main part of Malin's act was not to impersonate women, but to appear
as a flamboyant, effeminate, openly gay male wearing a tuxedo. This
was the start of many such over the top characters on stage and
latter on film.
His persona was a comical one (yes- today we find it
hurtful) but it posed no threat! He offered no harm with his lisping
voice and mincing walk.
In
fact, Jean was over 6 foot tall and weighed more than 200 lbs. He
could stop any heckler with his size and his razor sharp wit. He
became a hero to other LGBT stars on stage.
Broadway
Brevities, a theatrical publication, Stated: "the pansies hailed
La Malin as their queen", and Vanity Fair magazine published a
caricature of the celebrated Malin in 1931.
It
may have been one of the first depiction of a gay person seen on
stage. Malin reportedly was the highest-paid nightclub entertainer of
1930.
He moved to the West Coast to headline clubs there, appear in 2
movies and record a couple of songs. Here is one for tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkdI8-88eE
One
year later in 1933, at the age
of 25,
he died in a tragic accident.
He
had just performed a "farewell performance" at the Ship
Café on the waterfront in Los Angeles. He started his sedan
accompanied by his “close friend”: Jimmy Forlenza and comedic
actress Patsy Kelly. According to accounts, Malin “confused” the
gears and the car lurched in reverse sending them off of the pier and
into the water. Pinned under the steering wheel, Malin was killed.
Who
can say how he would have fared under the “Hays Code” in
Hollywood? It was not until after WWII, that most film gay characters
were forced to either die or commit suicide. That was the norm for 30
years.
Wither
you consider him a hero or a villain, Jean Malin proved to be an
important part of our history.
