The
other day a friend was describing a meal she had in Florence, Italy.
As she described the flavors this recipe came together in slave's
mind. Boy is it good!
This
dish is named in honor to an LBGT writer and hero: Edmund White. Be
sure to read the short article on him after the recipe.
Ingredients:
1
package of Sweet Italian Bratwurst
1
lbs package fresh spinach
5
garlic cloves, chopped
½
Red Onion Chopped
2
tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1
19oz.can Cannellini beans, (white kidney Beans) rinsed & drained
1⁄2
cup heavy cream
8oz
low fat cream cheese
Salt
& pepper to taste
Do all your prep work first:
Chop the garlic and Onion. Make a cut down the side of each brat and pull off the skin.
Open the cream cheese to get to room temperature, open & drain the beans.
Heat
a large skillet. Add oil. Saute the sausages & onions (about 6
minutes)
Add
the spinach by handfuls letting them wilt down each time.
Trust
me it will wilt down to almost nothing. Do this slowly, lifting the
hot sausages beneath and sliding them on top. If you rush this you
will have spinach all over the kitchen!
Mix
in the low fat cream cheese and stir. Add garlic and the cream.
Lower
heat to med and cover.
Let
simmer at low heat for 15 minutes while preheating the oven to 350.
Spray a 9x14 baking dish.
Add
beans to skillet and heat through.
Spoon
into the baking dish and roast for 20 minutes to blend all flavors.
Serve this as a one dish meal with perhaps some hot bread.
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Edmund White
Edmund
Valentine White, A prolific LGBT writer and hero was born in
1940.
He
studied Chinese at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1962.
He
has received many awards and distinctions. Among these he is a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Officier de
l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He received the inaugural Bill
Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in
1989.
In
2014, Edmund White was presented the Bonham Centre Award from
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of
Toronto, for his contributions to the advancement and education of
issues around sexual identification.
White
is GAY. He never tried to hide this and throughout his many books he
offers a goal to young LGBT who have no other connections.
His
own youth was not a happy one. White has stated: "Writing has
always been my recourse when I've tried to make sense of my
experience or when it's been very painful. When I was 15 years old, I
wrote my first (unpublished) novel about being gay, at a time when
there were no other gay novels. So I guess I was really inventing a
genre, and it was a way of administering a therapy to myself, I
suppose."
White's
debut novel, Forgetting Elena (1973), set on an island, can be
read as commenting on gay culture in a coded manner. Next, written
with psychotherapist Charles Silverstein, The Joy of Gay Sex
(1977) made him known to a wider readership. His1978 novel, Nocturnes
for the King of Naples was explicitly gay-themed and drew on his
own life.
White's
autobiographic works are frank and unapologetic about his promiscuity
and his HIV-positive status. In 1980, he brought out States
of Desire, a survey of some aspects of gay life in America. In
1982, he helped found the group Gay Men's Health Crisis in
New York City
.
In
the same year appeared White's best-known work, A Boy's Own Story
— the first volume of an autobiographic-fiction series,
continuing with The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The
Farewell Symphony (1997), describing stages in the life of a gay
man from boyhood to middle age.
In
1984 in Paris he was involved in the foundation of the French
HIV/AIDS organization, AIDES. After returning to America White
published Genet: a biography (1993), Our Paris: sketches
from memory (1995), Marcel Proust (1998), The Flaneur:
a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris (2000) and Rimbaud
(2008).
The
novel The Married Man
(2000) is gay-themed
and draws on White's life. Fanny:
A Fiction (2003) is a
historical novel about novelist Frances Trollope and social reformer
Frances Wright in early 19th-century America.
In
2005 White published his autobiography, My Lives — organized
by theme rather than chronology — and in 2009 his memoir of New
York life in the 1960s and 1970s, City Boy.
He
is currently a professor of creative writing in Princeton
University's Lewis Center for the Arts. In June 2012, White
was reported by his husband, Michael Carroll, to be making
'remarkable' recovery after suffering two strokes in previous months.
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