Corniche was a well-known model of Rolls Royce Automobiles. This chicken dish tastes rich enough to evoke memories of this fine car. Our meal is named after LGBT Pakistani poet Ifti Nasim who became a Chicago legend.
This is a decadent version of chicken thighs in a thick creamy sauce with mushrooms and onion.
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup generic pancake mix (the kind you only add water)
- ½ tsp salt + ½ tsp pepper + ½ tsp paprika
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs(1 to 1-1/2 pounds total)
- ¼ cup (1/2 stick) butter
¾ cup chicken broth
- small can sliced mushrooms
½ cup dried cranberries
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Directions:
In a shallow dish, combine pancake mix, salt, pepper, and paprika; coat chicken evenly on both sides. Retain 2 Tbs of coating mixture.
Chop the onion.
In a large skillet over medium-high heat, melt butter and add the onion.
Stir for 3 – 4 minutes then place chicken on top; saute 6 minutes per side, or until browned. Remove to a platter and set aside.
Add the mushrooms to skillet and cook 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Mix the coating mixture with the chicken broth. Stir well and add to mushrooms.
This will thicken nicely.
When the right texture add the chicken back and the cranberries. Cover and let simmer for about 5 – 6 minutes.
Sprinkle with parsley and serve.
Serve over bed of tri colored pasta with a side of green beans
Serve over bed of tri colored pasta with a side of green beans
What a rich meal for my Master!
socialslave
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To nourish, support and maintain.
To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I cook!
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Ifti Nasim
Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani poet who moved to the United States to avoid persecution for his sexuality. His collection of poems,Narman, is thought to be the first gay-themed book of poetry written and published in Urdu. He also founded SANGAT/Chicago, an organization which supported the South Asian LGBTQ community.
Nasim was born in Pakistan after WWII, a middle child in a large family. For Nasim, it was a difficult childhood and life as a teenager was no easier. In a predominantly Muslim country that didn’t allow people to live as openly gay, his coming out process was a painful one. “When it dawned on me that I am gay I was totally devastated,” he told “The Friday Times.” “I found no reason to live. I was very suicidal.”
At 21 years old, Nasim’s parents pushed for an arranged marriage, but Nasim said he didn’t want to sneak around on a wife. “I did not want to live a double life,” he told the “Chicago Tribune.” “I did not want to leave a wife at home and go out and pick up guys. I thought that was a dishonest way of living.”
After earning a law degree from Punjab University, Nasim asked his father to pay for a trip so that he could further his studies in the United States. He was inspired in part by an article in Life magazine that he recalls describing the US as "the place for gays to be in". He became a US citizen.
He settled first in Detroit, and, in 1974, moved to Chicago. Nasim’s house in the United States became a sanctuary for members of the LGBTQ community seeking asylum.
Nasim developed a well-known diva personality as a luxury-car salesman in Chicago and was noted for driving around in his gold Mercedes. He would wear fur coats, leather pants, a “pimp” hat, ostentatious jewelry, and at times dressed up in drag.
Stories of His salesman days are legendary. Once, he sold a Mercedes to Oprah Winfrey. She asked how big the engine was. He replied, "Are you going to sleep with it?"
Another story he liked to tell: TV personality Mary Ann Childers was buying a car. She asked him to open the trunk.
"Honey," he said, "do it yourself. I just got my nails done."
Despite his flamboyant style, friends say Nasim was a private person, and very humble when it came to fighting for social justice.
In 1986, Nasim helped start Sangat Chicago, a South Asian LGBTQ organization named for the Sanskrit word for “togetherness.” He publicly railed against war, social injustice, and homophobia in his native Pakistan and other Muslim nations. In addition, he was a contributor to a Pakistani American newspaper, and regularly hosted a weekly radio show called “Radio Sargam.”
In addition to working on behalf of immigrant communities and those living with HIV/AIDS, Nasim perfected and performed his first love—poetry. He wrote in Urdu, Punjabi, and English; during his lifetime, three collections of poetry were published. “Narman” (1994), is believed to be the first open expression of homosexual themes in the Urdu language. Narman was met with controversy in Pakistan, where it had to be distributed underground. “Narman” was followed by “Myrmecophile” (2000), and “Abdoz” in 2005.
"He had this blustery personality, flamboyant," said a close friend, "and yet it all rested on a bedrock of profound human gravity.”
Nasim traveled the world reading his poems. And yet, apparently, he rarely discussed gay matters with his family. Nor did he write about gay issues in his regular column in the Weekly Pakistan News.
"He was controversial," business associate Rana Javed. "A lot of people have problems with him. But we accept him because he was a very open man. He helped the community, unbelievable, unbelievable."
He raised money for disaster relief, helped stage a peace rally after 9/11 and sent money to relatives in Pakistan.
He drove himself to the hospital in 2003 with a heart attack. As he told the story, when he arrived in his gold Mercedes, wearing a plush mink, a nurse came on to him. "Not now, please," he said.
After that heart attack, he changed. He started writing even more relentlessly and broadened his themes. His 2005 poetry collection, "Abdoz," contains these lines:
I feel my life was spent in a submarine
The journey has ended; I saw nothing.
He took to dressing less ostentatiously, preferring a tux or jeans; in a desire to play with his image. He still liked the occasional turban.
Nasim died on July 22, 2011, after suffering a second heart attack at the age of 64. He was survived by his partner of nearly 30 years. He wished to keep his private life secret.
“No one made me gay. I was born this way,” Nasim once said. “The only thing is I did not lie about it. Many homosexuals hide behind the curtain of so-called marriage. We should accept the truth, no matter how bitter it is.”
Nasim was mourned by friends and fans from around the world. 1,000 or so crowded into the Muslim Community Center on Elston Avenue to pray over his body.
"According to every convention, my friend Ifti was all wrong," blogged Azra Raza, a prominent oncologist. "He was born in the wrong country. He should have been born in Hollywood. ... He was born in the wrong body. He should have been Marilyn Monroe."
Hindus, Muslims, and Christians came, gay people and straight, taxi drivers and the brother of a former Pakistani president.
Just to mark the rare life of a man who searched for harmony.
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