Badger Flats Chicken

This simple meal could be fixed as easily in the oven or over a campfire. It introduces a new technique that will save you money. We dedicate this dish to the boys of Badger Flats: the Satyrs Motorcycle Club! Read about them after the recipe.

By boning these chicken breasts yourself, you're certainly going to save a bundle. And when you make them like this, they taste restaurant fancy. A crispy oven roasted chicken breast with potatoes and green beans with little clean-up involved. 
 

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 lemons, 1 thinly sliced, 1 juiced
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tsp. salt
• ½ tsp. pepper
• ¾ pound trimmed green beans
• 8 small red potatoes, quartered
• 1 split chicken breast (bones left in, with skin, about 2¼ pounds)

Directions:

Rinse & snap ends off of the green beans, set aside. 

 

Rinse the red potatoes and cut into quarters, set aside.

Mince the garlic.

Zest one lemon and juice it in a small bowl. Then slice both lemons in a thin slice.

 

Lay out a clean cutting board. Rinse the chicken breasts. Pat dry with paper towel. Lay skin side down. With one hand, hold the piece by the ribs and carefully draw your sharp knife down along the ribs cutting away the meat.

Now at the top of the piece you will find the “wishbone”, cut this piece out.

There will be a strip of meat known as the tenderloin, cut this off and trim the white piece of tendon from the one end. This is tough and does not taste good. Place the tenderloin into a zipper bag and refrigerate for use in a day or two, not much longer please.

Repeat on the other breast. Now you will have two nice pieces of white meat with the skin on, but no bones! 

 

Dust the skin with a tsp of cornstarch and set aside while you preheat the oven to 450 degrees.

By the time it is heated most of the cornstarch will have disappeared leaving the skin dry of its moisture. That means a crunchy skin! 

 

Coat a foil lined baking tray with spray. Lay out lemon slices on this.

In a bowl mix oil, lemon juice, zest and garlic.

Now stir the green beans into the bowl of oil mixture until well coated. Using a slotted spoon, remove and arrange them on top of the lemon slices.

Repeat with the quartered potatoes, arranging them on the green beans.

Rub about a tsp of oil onto the chicken skin and place skin side up on the tray.

Pour any of the remaining oil mixture over the chicken.

Roast for 40 minutes. Check temp of chicken is 160 degrees. Remove the chicken and place on platter, cover with foil and let rest.

Place the beans and potatoes back in oven for 10 minutes more or until the potatoes are tender. Spoon the bean-potato mixture in a serving bowl. Serve warm.

What a tempting spread this makes with no additional vegetable needed. 

 

 

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The Satyrs Motorcycle Club of Los Angeles

The military experience of the world wars produced an interesting dynamic.

Society had preached homophobia and many young gay men felt isolation and being alone in the world. The images from preachers just didn't fit you. The only sex education was from bragging guys sneaking cigarettes behind the gas stations. Many of these stories were to reinforce sexual self-doubts. Gay men were beaten for sport. Their deaths legally forgiven.

Then in the service suddenly men found that there were others like themselves. They were not toothless monsters acting like women! A new world was starting to open.

Upon discharge, many of these gay men stayed on the coastal cities where numbers of others could be found. While there were now bars catering to homosexuals, that is where police were a constant threat.

Well trained solders do not easily turn into sheep!

On the west coast many men bought motorcycles because they were cheap transportation in the nice weather. Now these machines put loud rumbling power between your legs. It became a quick and easy escape from the police oppression in the bars. You could grab your partner and drive out to the countryside where no one would bother you!

These machines focused your masculinity and amplified it. Soon there were groups or clubs to be a part of. These stressed that you belonged to something, you were part of a brotherhood! There were others who “had your back”.

In this atmosphere, in 1954 a club was formed called the Satyrs.

This motorcycle club has become the oldest continuing gay organization in the world!

Gay motorcyclists, encouraged by movies like The Wild One with Marlon Brando, created and embraced a masculine gay identity, one that countered the preconceived feminine aesthetic of “fairies.”of that era.

The Satyrs Motorcycle Club of Los Angeles is the oldest running gay men’s motorcycle club.  Formed in the height of the McCarthy era, seven men came together, bonded by the love of the motorcycle to form a club.  It was not an easy time in America for gay men to congregate with fellow gay men. Homosexuals were deemed as deviants and undesirables in society.

The Satyrs helped spawn the growth of hundreds of motorcycle clubs, uniform clubs and many leather organizations over their six decades of existence.
The club members impact over the years on gay history, culture, discrimination, police raids, entrapment and even charity has been widely documented.

Campgrounds in the countrysides became meeting spaces and gave the men the freedom to express themselves sexually. The most important of these was known as Badger Flats.
Weekends, known as “Runs” were planned in secret. Everything had to be brought in, tents, lights, stoves, food, and plenty of beer and lube! Wild parties were enjoyed out in the woods far from hate filled eyes. 
 

Here a tradition came out of nowhere! In this sea of leather clad men, on the last night would appear an often bearded man, wearing a dress and singing Kate Smith's version of “God Bless America”! Who would have thought?


Still this is part of the folklore of the modern LGBT culture. When the AIDS epidemic hit in the '80's, motorcycle clubs jumped into the business of raising funds and building support for the community.


It was a horrible time. The LGBT community pulled through. A large part was because of organizations like The Satyrs and other gay motorcycle clubs. Now going on 65 years old this group of leathermen have earned the title of heroes!
In this era of assimilation, let us not forget our brotherhood and our history. To paraphrase good old Kate, “God Bless the Saytrs America”


Visit their website: http://www.satyrsmc.org/index.html
View a video of their history: https://youtu.be/WjFSdUjcdD0