Slow Oven Chicken Bake

Here is a nice recipe that lets the oven do all the work. Slow roasted chicken on a bed of creamy potatoes and onions. Guaranteed to bring back that childhood memory of aromas filling the kitchen and making everybody hungry! 

 

However nostalgic you might be, remember that the Fifties were not that wonderful. For a quick view of the culture at that time, be sure to read the article that follows.

Ingredients

• 3 medium red potatoes, thinly sliced
• 1 large onion, thinly sliced
• 2-3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 tub of cream cheese spread – chives & onion
• 1 cup low fat creamer
• 4 chicken thighs, skin on with bones
• 2 thick cut bacon slices
• 1 cup chicken stock (always use low sodium)
• salt and pepper

Directions:

• Heat the oven to 300F. Spray a 9 x 14 baking dish. Set aside.
• Start by giving your potatoes a good scrub.
• Mince the garlic.
  
  
  
  
  
  Slice the onion and put in large bowl. Mix in the garlic.
  
  

• Using a mandolin, thinly slice the potatoes.
• In a large bowl pour the cup of chicken broth and add the potato slices as you make them. Stir them to completely coat. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Scoop out the cream cheese spread, mix in the thyme and stir in 1 cup creamer. Stir until incorporated.

• Arrange layers of the potatoes alternating with onions in the sprayed pan. Pour any chicken broth left in bowl. Pour the cream mixture over everything.

• Place the chicken on top of the potatoes and finish with pieces of bacon.

• Cover tightly with aluminum foil and place in the heated oven. Bake for 2 hours without opening the oven.
• After two hours, open the oven and remove the aluminum foil.
• Turn the broiler on and cook for few more minutes until everything get a touch of brown. This makes sure bacon is crisp.
  
  

What a meal – only needs a green vegetable side. 
 

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Not So Nifty Fifties

The Cold War era seemed to encourage witch hunts, even comic books were blamed for the alarming increase in juvenile delinquency and other social ills.

In the early 1950s were the congressional hearings of Senator Joseph McCarthy; then came the Hollywood blacklist a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover. Launched witch hunts. “The Lavender Scare” became widespread and affected all levels of society.

Investigating private citizens reached an unheard of height. Using innuendo and intense interrogation methods, the "witch-hunts" produced many who were persecuted. Once prominent citizens were prohibited from further employment.

All over the country lives were ruined and the suicide rate skyrocketed.

Just one example:

The City of New Orleans wasn't the Big Easy for everyone.

As in many cities throughout the country during the 1950s, members of the homosexual community there were often victims of violence and often arrested because of their sexuality. All over the country anti-gay campaigns heated up and always just ahead of local elections.

In 1958, the city council heard complaints that the police were sitting on their hands while the French Quarter was being invaded by roving bands of homosexuals, allegedly from other cities.
One councilman complained of “men with blondined hair and awful looking people all day and all night in the French Quarter,” and wondered why police had only made 86 arrests in two years on charges of lewd behavior or wearing women’s clothing.
Police Supt. Provosty A. Dayries responded, “You can’t just point to someone and say he or she is a deviate — that is one of the frustrating things about the problem.”
Even with complaints about lax police enforcement, the courts insisted that those arrested should be charged with something specific. Mayor Morrison appointed his half-brother, Jacob Morrison to look into the problem.
With pressure increasing, Supt. Dayries launched a raid against known “deviate bars,” arresting eighteen people (mostly bar employees) on charges of vagrancy, disturbing the peace, and “no visible means of support.” Thirty others were warned to stay away. While most of the charges were dropped the next day the city’s major newspaper, the Times Picayune, would publish (their) names and address…under the heading, “Crimes Against Nature”. Life became hell for them.


It was the South, tolerance for gay people that didn’t quite match the actual rights. Everybody knew someone that was gay, but was there equality?
Fat Tuesday had long played a role in southern gay life, as a day when anyone could mask as whoever they wanted to be. However the mask of being “straight” remained on the whole year. 
 

On a September night in 1958: three Tulane undergrads wanted to partake of “time honored tradition, for fraternities” called “rolling a queer”. Fernando Rios a Mexico City-based tour guide was their chosen victim. He was beaten and robbed in an alleyway, left unconscious on the sidewalk, and died later that day.
During the January 1959 trial the defense successfully argued that the victim had a freakishly fragile “eggshell skull”.

In a major example of the "homosexual panic" defense, the three defendants argued that they had no choice but to beat Rios because he had made an improper advance. The jury acquitted the assailants

…... and the courtroom cheered.

The not so nifty fifties were a time and place in American history where such a crime was inevitable.