Bacon Bourbon Meatballs

49 years ago, I read a news story from the Associated Press on my radio program. Homosexuals were rioting in the Greenwich Village section of New York City! Tonight allow me to dedicate this meal to that event and all the brave LGBT's that came together and fought that night. Read a short article after the recipe.

Here is a rich luscious recipe for an easy way to mix the flavors of bacon & bourbon in your meatballs. Served over rice with a side of broccoli makes a meal to remember. 

 

Ingredients

• 6 bacon strips
• ½ medium yellow onion
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 lb ground beef
• ½ cup breadcrumbs
• 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Instructions

Pre heat oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with parchment.

Cut the bacon into 3 inch pieces. Chop the onion into large hunks and peel the garlic cloves.

Place the uncooked bacon into a food processor and process for about

1 minute or until bacon is finely ground up. Add in the onion and garlic, process until it is finely chopped and mixed in.

Spoon mixture into large bowl. Add ground beef, breadcrumbs, parsley, egg, chili powder, and salt. Stir to combine.

Let sit for 10 minutes

Scoop out the meat mixture and roll into balls using your palms, should make about 40 1 inch meatballs.

Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 28-32 minutes, or just until the center of each meatball is cooked. Transfer meatballs to a covered dish to keep warm. 
 

Sauce:

Ingredients

• 1 cup BBQ sauce
• ½ cup bourbon, to taste
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp mustard
• 2 tsp onion powder
• 2 tsp garlic powder 
   

Instructions

1. All all ingredients to a sauce pan set over medium heat and stir so that everything is evenly combined. Let mixture cook until it reaches a boil, stirring occasionally.
2. Once boiling, reduce heat to low or low-medium and simmer for 35 to 40 minutes as the sauce reduces.
   
3. Pour over meatballs and let heat.
   

Serve this over some white rice with a side of broccoli from the microwave.

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Stonewall Revolution

There has been much written about this night and I'm sure much more will be forthcoming.

It was THE pivotal event of the modern LGBT rights movement.

Accounts of that night and the week following had been suppressed and a news black-out enforced at the time.

Now after what will have been 50 years next June, authors who seek to “put it in modern perspective” are diluting the attack. Well inattentioned people try to justify the police actions. To do so ignores the facts in the case, and belittles the righteous anger that exploded that night.

I have evened read that the whole thing was caused by grief over Judy Garlands death!

Come on people. Learn the facts! We can not afford to sit smugly in judgment from a position of temporary citizenship. Our rights can still be ripped away!

Remember in the 1960's you could be beaten to death for looking the wrong way in the men's room! You could lose your job, your home, your life on the accusation of being homosexual.

As the last minority without legal protections, we were hunted down like animals. Beaten and brutalized by the “authorities”. You could be sent to institutions where electro-shock, chemical water boarding, even frontal lobotomies were used to “torture the gay away”.

From the mid sixties on, several skirmishes had broken out across the country. The tinder was dry, the spark was Stonewall!

 

It was a bar run by the mob that welcomed gays of all kinds! Even in New York City, it was the only place that allowed you to dance together. To hold someone and sway to the music with your eyes closed.

The booze was watered down and twice as expensive as any “straight” bar would charge. There was no running water behind the bar. City health codes were ignored with the same reasoning as the State Liquor Authority used to forbid licensing to any bar that served gays. No license, therefore no rules. Weekly pay-offs and bribes meant that “raids” would occur on “off nights” in the middle of the week. That way the bar could replenish and make more money over the weekend to give to the corrupt police.

You were not allowed to sit at the bar facing one another! You had to see them through the mirror behind the bar. Looking at each other directly was considered “lewd and lascivious ” conduct and you could be arrested.

This was a key factor when Marsha P Johnson refused to be arrested that night and threw a shot glass against that mirror. “The shot glass heard round the world”!

Simply put we had had enough! It was so much more than just the actions the police took at that raid. It was a culmination of years of harassment, entrapment, and beatings!

No amount of attempted whitewashing today should diminish in any way what we did that night. LGBT's became a “people”. We found ourselves and our power! We must never let homophobia regain the law of the land.