Gilbert Baker Memorial Salisbury Bake

Baking salsbury steak is a great way to make clean-up easy. These are slightly diffenent that boring old burgers. Braising them for an hour ensures a juicy, flavorful meal. We named this for the LGBT hero who created the pride flag. Read about him after the recipe.

Hamburger, onions, potatoes, and gravy! What's not to love? Simply add a green vegie to complete this hearty meal.

Ingredients:

1 lbs lean ground beef

½ cup minced onion

½ cup bread crumbs

¼ cup milk

1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed Golden mushroom soup

1 (1 ounce) packet dry brown gravy mix

3/4 cup water

1Tbs Worcestershire sauce

½ cup sliced mushrooms

½ onion sliced

1-2 lbs red potatoes sliced.

Directions:
Pre heat oven to 350 and spray a 9 x 12 baking pan.

Do your cutting. Slice ½ a yellow onion. Then cut up and mince the other half.

 Wash and slice red potatoes.

In a large bowl, mix together the ground beef, minced onion, Worcestershire sauce, bread crumbs, and milk using your hands. Shape into 4 patties. Let sit for 30 minutes.

Place a layer of sliced potatoes on the bottom of a sprayed pan and sprinkle the sliced onion on top.

Place patties on the onion and potato- onion base. Sprinkle with mushrooms.

In a bowl mix the can of soup with the packet of gravy mix and water. Pour over the patties and cover with foil.
 

Bake for half an hour in the oven. Then remove the foil and bake another hour.
IMPORTANT to check with a thermomter. Hamburger must reach a safe 155 to 160 degrees. 

 
Serve over wide noodles with potatoes and a green vegetable on the side.

Recipe Notes

Calories: 217, Fat: 7g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 103mg, Sodium: 412mg, Potassium: 578mg, Carbohydrates: 9g, Sugar: 3g, Protein: 27g, Vitamin A: 3.9%, Vitamin C: 4.7%, Calcium: 3.7%, Iron: 18.2%



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Proud to serve this to my Master Indy.

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Gilbert Baker

Gilbert Baker was an American artist, gay rights activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (1978), a worldwide symbol of LGBTQ pride. His flag became widely associated with LGBT rights causes, a symbol of gay pride that has become ubiquitous in the decades since its debut.

Baker served in the Army from 1970 to 1972. He was a medic in San Francisco at the beginning of the gay rights movement and lived there as an openly gay man. Baker was taught to sew by his fellow activist Mary Dunn, using this skill to create banners for gay-rights and anti-war protest marches. It was during this time that he met and became friends with Harvey Milk.

Baker first created the Rainbow Flag with a collective in 1978. He refused to trademark it, seeing it as a symbol that was for the LGBT community.

                           The first flag

In 1979, Baker began work at Paramount Flag Company. Baker designed displays for Dianne Feinstein, the Premier of China, the presidents of France, Venezuela, and the Philippines, the King of Spain, and many others. He also designed creations for numerous civic events and San Francisco Gay Pride. In 1984, he designed flags for the Democratic National Convention.

In 1994, Baker moved to New York City, where he lived for the rest of his life. Here, he continued his creative work and activism. That year he created the world's largest flag (at that time) in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots. It was a mile long!

In 2003, to commemorate the Rainbow Flag's 25th anniversary, Baker created a Rainbow Flag that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean in Key West. After the commemoration, he sent sections of this flag to more than 100 cities around the world. Due to his creation of the rainbow flag, Baker often used the drag queen name "Busty Ross", alluding to Betsy Ross.

Flag

The colors on the Rainbow Flag reflect the diversity of the LGBT community. When Baker raised the first rainbow flags at San Francisco Pride (his group raised two flags at the Civic Center) on June 25, 1978, it comprised eight symbolic colors:
Hot pink ~ Sex
Red ~ Life
Orange ~ Healing
Yellow ~ Sunlight
Green ~ Nature
Turquoise ~ Magic/Art
Indigo ~ Serenity
Violet ~ Spirit

The design has undergone several revisions to remove two colors for expediency and later re-add those colors when they became more widely available.
As of 2008, the most common variant consists of six stripes, with the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Baker referred to this version of the flag as the "commercial version" because it came about due to practical considerations of mass production.

In his new, posthumously released memoir Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color, Pride flag designer Gilbert Baker recalled a psychedelic night spent dancing in a San Francisco nightclub, noticing the colors all around him: black leather, pink hair, blue jeans.
“We rode the mirrored ball on glittering LSD and love power,” Baker writes. “Dance fused us, magical and cleansing. We were all in a swirl of color and light. It was like a rainbow.”

That, Baker notes, was “the moment when I knew exactly what kind of flag I would make.”

The rainbow flag was created at a turning point in LGBTQ history. In 1978, Baker sewed the first rainbow flag in large part because legendary gay rights leader Harvey Milk and filmmaker Artie Bressan Jr. wanted a more joyous symbol than the Holocaust-era pink triangle to represent the fight for equality.

In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art had ranked the rainbow flag as an internationally recognized symbol as important as the recycling symbol.

Baker died at home in his sleep on March 31, 2017, at age 65, in New York City. The New York City medical examiner's office determined cause of death was hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Upon Baker's death, California state senator Scott Wiener said Baker "helped define the modern LGBT movement".

In June 2019, Baker was one of the inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes” inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument. The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history, and the wall’s unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Rent Boy Rash

Rest assured slave does not cast aspersions on any sex worker! They are to be respected for the vital function and service they provide. The name just seemed to fit this version of a wildly popular hors d'oeuvre found throughout Europe. For some reason, the mixture of the simple radish with rich butter and salt has tempted the palates from around the world.

Laugh at the name, but be a foxy comedian with this simple and cheap taste sensation. In fact, if you can get them to try a taste before you tell them the secret you will be named a kitchen magician!

Ingredients:

4 tsp. unsalted cultured butter very cold

½ tsp. sea salt

4-5 radishes

Club crackers

Directions:

To make it easy to grate the radishes cut off the tops.

Grate carefully watching to make sure you don't grate your fingers!

Then the ice cold butter. Mix with a fork.

Lightly spread on crackers.

Sprinkle with sea salt.

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What a suprise for Master!

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 Radishes With Sweet Butter and Kosher Salt

As is always the case with such a simple idea, success is in the quality of the ingredients. Discard any overgrown, cottony, spongy radishes, and keep the good ones fresh with ice and clean kitchen towels. Keep your butter at the perfect temperature, and be graceful on the plate, please.

A much-loved French hors d'oeuvre is radishes, butter, and sea salt sometimes served separately; guests smear and sprinkle their own.

You might slather really good coarse-grained bread with the butter, put sliced radishes on top, and sprinkle liberally with salt.

From my Russian-born friends: They say try thinly sliced radishes with either butter or schmaltz (never on the same table) and salt -- on rye bread.

From Poland: Cut a wedge in each radish, slide in a bit of butter and then sprinkled the radish with regular salt!

Maybe try an appetizer of thinly sliced radishes (use a truffle slicer) and salt on a baguette liberally spread with sweet cream butter.

Or try with cream cheese on rye with sliced radishes on top.

One expert suggests fresh radishes, finely chopped sweet onion, and mixed them together lightly with rendered chicken fat and a sprinkle of kosher salt. Eaten on fresh rye bread.

For an over the top presentation:

Pick a tiny pristine bunch of radishes and eat them stems, leaves and all.
They are served this way in Italy in the early spring - presented like a small, perfect bouquet with both olive oil (for the greens) and sweet butter (for the radishes) and coarse salt....
They say it's much like devouring spring....

So get the Idea? Try what ever strikes your tastes.....

Soni Wolf Slow Cooker Apple & Onion Pork

On these hot summer days dust off that slow cooker so you don't heat up the kitchen. This take on a classic is dedicated to Soni Wolf, the driving force behind Dykes on Bikes. Read about her after the recipe.

At the grocery store, look for sliced bone-in pork butt for this recipe; the bone helps to prevent the meat from overcooking and drying out. The best part of this recipe is the pan sauce you make right in the slow cooker. The pork simmers with the caramelized onions, apple cider, soy sauce, and Worcestershire sauce until incredibly juicy and seasoned with amazing flavor.

Ingredients

• about 2lbs sliced pork butt, thick sliced
• Kosher salt + pepper, to taste
• Brown sugar, to taste (optional)
• 2 Tablespoons butter, divided
• 1 large onion, sliced
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 cup chicken broth or stock
• 1 cup applesauce, no added sugar
• 3 Tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
• 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 2 – 3 Tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 2 Tablespoons water

Directions

Season the pork with salt, black pepper, and brown sugar to taste. Either cook immediately, or cover and refrigerate overnight.

 

Wipe out and spray the slow cooker. Set on low heat. Then slice the onion into a bowl.

Heat butter in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Sear the pork on both sides until they’re starting to brown, approximately 3 – 5 minutes per side. Add to the slow cooker. (It’s OK to overlap the pork slightly, with bones toward the outside). Pour in the chicken broth.

Add the remaining ½ tablespoon of butter to the sauté pan, followed by the sliced onions. Cook the onions until they begin to brown, about 3-5 minutes. Remove about 2 spoonfuls to bowl lined with paper towel.

In a bowl mix the Thyme, brown sugar, soy and worchester sauses into the cup of applesauce.

Add this to the pan of onions. Stir until heated through.

Pour on top of the pork in the cooker and sprinkle the last of the reserved onion on top. Dot with a couple of pats of butter and cover.

Cook for 5 hours on low or 2 – 3 hours on high.

Carefully remove the cooked pork and set them aside on a plate.

Remove 3 ladels full to a sauce pan on stove top. Whisk the cornstarch and water mixture into the cooking liquid over medium high heat. This will give a wonderful “pan sauce”.(If the sauce doesn’t thicken enough, use additional cornstarch slurry, but keep in mind that the sauce will thicken more as it cools.)

Serve with mixed vegetables or mashed potatoes, rice, or your favorite sides.

So happy to serve this to my Master Indy.

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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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Soni Wolf: the driving force behind Dykes on Bikes

Soni S.H.S. Wolf (1948 - 2018) was an American gay activist. She described herself as a dyke, and was also a motorcycle enthusiast and former U.S. Air Force Vietnam-era veteran. She co-founded the Dykes on Bikes (DOB) after their 1976 San Francisco Pride parade debut, and rode with them each year from 1978 until her death in 2018. The group is a highly visible symbol of empowerment and LGBT pride. Wolf refused to accept dyke as an insult, and she insisted on treating all people with respect and dignity.

Soni S.H.S. Wolf grew up in Rhode Island.

She joined the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. She served as medic at a hospital in Texas treating wounded combat veterans. She never revealed what S.H.S. stood for, nor did she speak of her time treating wounded soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. She said she was too traumatized by the treatment of Vietnam vets to do so.

The brutal war, which lasted from 1964 to 1973, was the first major time veterans returned not as a unit but individually, without parades celebrating victory as it was “the first major lost war abroad in American history”. It was also divisive with protests against it, and a growing opposition to United States involvement, with the public often projecting their hostility onto the vets.

After her discharge she moved into San Francisco’s gay district, The Castro, and became a manager of photocopier centers for Charles Schwab Corporation, and other brokerages and law firms.

Dykes on Bikes

In 1976, a group of 20-25 lesbians decided to ride their motorcycles in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade which had started six years before. They led the parade to prevent their bikes from overheating due to idling behind the slower-moving walking contingents. Some motorcyclists had done the parade before, but it wasn’t as organized. One of the riders noted them as being “dykes on bikes” which was overheard, and reported in the city’s main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Dykes on Bikes (DOB) formalized within a week of the parade. Although the name originator isn’t known, Wolf embraced the name, and helped the new group leverage it to become one of the most visible, and empowering symbols of LGBTQ communities.

Brook Oliver, lead attorney in DOB’s effort to trademark, said,

“Soni was the founding mother of Dykes on Bikes,” and added “She was the inspiration and the mentor that allowed Dykes on Bikes to flourish all over the world.”

Wolf continued working with the group to organize into a 501(c)(3) non-profit. She also served on the board of San Francisco Pride. DOB grew larger than San Francisco, with sixteen chapters and thousands of members in the U.S., Britain and Australia.

Trademark challenges

Wolf, as primary witness, led the DOB fight to register the groups’ name, and later, it’s logo. The first case went to the Supreme Court and took five years from 2003 to 2008. The legal battle began after DOB filed a trademark application in 2003. Twenty-four expert witnesses provided evidence that DOB had reclaimed dyke for the lesbian community, and the term was used to empower. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) denied the trademark application twice because of the Lanham Act, which does not allow consideration of trademark that could be considering disparaging to a group of people. The PTO said dyke is vulgar, offensive, "scandalous", and, according to Webster's dictionary, is "often used disparagingly".

In July 2007 the Supreme “declined” to hear the case, rendering a decision in favor of protecting the name Dykes on Bikes. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board allowed the group to register its name.

In 2008, Wolf became central again in a second round of legal battles when DOB went to the same agency, the PTO to register the groups’ logo, which includes the name of the group, Dykes on Bikes.

The PTO, now denied the logo application for the same reason it had previously refused the first name registration. This time the Supreme Count heard oral arguments for the case, ruling in favor of the DOB in January last year.

Wolf served as the DOB historian and secretary for many years, and in 2016 she was made Secretary Emeritus. In July 2017 she stepped back from administrative duties.

Last year, Nomi S.H.S. Wolf passed away at age 69 from complications of pulmonary disease and pneumonia.

Kate Brown, past President and current spokesperson for the San Francisco Dykes on Bikes had this to say: “Soni leaves an indelible mark on history and especially on those who shared her daily life. Soni steadfastly refused to accept ‘Dyke’ as an epithet. She blazed the trail for the rest of us in courage and LGBTQ pride. She taught me leadership takes many forms; there is strength in patience, power in listening, and small acts have a way of being defining moments in history. Like the roads we ride, our lives take many twists and turns. I am forever grateful for the route that brought Soni into my life.”

Pride executive director George F. Ridgely Jr. in a prepared statement. “Soni was an integral member of the San Francisco Pride family, and she will be missed.”

In June, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Wolf was one of fifty inaugural heroes to be named on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor placed inside the Stonewall Inn, and within the Stonewall National Monument. 

 

Michael Callen Memorial Chicken Mac Soup

Dijon mustard gives this creamy and cheesy hybrid dish some tang. A really hearty bowl of comfort! We named this to honor a great LGBT leader Michael Callen. Read about him after the recipe.

What a combination of the great tastes of chicken soup and mac & cheese. Yet since this does not use a cream sauce but rather one based with potato you will find it a tad healthier.

Ingredients

1½ c. macaroni

3 slices bacon, cut up onto pieces

1¼ lb. boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cubed

1 small onion, chopped

1 small red bell pepper, chopped

2 cans diced potatoes

6 c. chicken stock

Kosher salt + pepper

4 tbsp. unsalted butter, divided

2 tsp. Dijon mustard

1 small head broccoli, cut into small florets (about 4 cups)

8 oz. extra-sharp cheddar cheese, grated (about 2 cups)

Sliced fresh chives, for garnish

Directions

Do your cutting. Chop the bacon, set aside. 

Chop the onion and red bell pepper, cut up the chicken, cut the broccoli into florets.

In a dutch oven on the stove top, cook up the bacon pieces until done and releasing the grease. Remove the bacon with a slotted spoon to a paper towel.

Add the chicken pieces and cook, stiring about 7 - 9 minutes until starting to turn a nice golden color. Remove to paper towels.

Add the onions and red pepper and let cook 3 – 5 minutes. Remove to paper towels.

Add about 1 cup of the chicken stock to deglase the pot, stirring the brown bits from the bottom with a wodden spoon. Add rest of stock and the drained cans of diced potatoes. Bring to a simmer for 20 – 25 minutes. Stir ocassionally so nothing burns to the bottom.

Check to make sure the potatoes are mushy and carefully with an emersion blender, puree this into a creamy base. 

 Keep this simmering as you add the uncooked pasta, chicken, and bacon. Let simmer for 3 – 5 minutes then stir in the broccoli and the onion mix. Let that cook for another 5 minutes until tender. Stir often so nothing sticks to the bottom.

At this point the macroni should be just about cooked. Remove from heat and let the soup stand for 1 minute. (this prevents the soup from breaking).

 Stir in the mustard and gradually add the cheese by spoonfuls until melted and smooth. (if you add it all at once you will get oil dropets)

Taste and adjust with salt and pepper.

If you wish, garnish with extra cheese.

What a hearty, healthy bowl of comfort! So honored to serve this to my Master Indy.

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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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Michael Callen
“He was one of the omnipresent, one of the titans.”
— Tony Kushner

As a composer, singer, writer and AIDS activist, Michael Callen played a major role in shaping America’s response to the epidemic.
Callen was an AIDS activist before there was an AIDS movement. From the time of his diagnosis with Gay-Related Immune Deficiency in 1982, he was involved in virtually all of the positive responses to the epidemic, including the self-empowerment of People with AIDS; the invention of safer sex; the community-based research movement; development of prophylaxis for major opportunistic infections; and the establishment of buyer’s clubs providing low-cost access to both experimental and approved AIDS treatments.
Callen coined the term “people with AIDS” (PWAs) to replace the early characterizations of PWAs as AIDS victims, thus laying the foundation for the PWA “self-empowerment movement.” Callen emphasized that people could live with AIDS and continue to make significant contributions to society despite their diagnosis.
Michael Callen was born 1955 in an Indiana suburb of Cincinnati. He earned a degree in music in 1977 from Boston University. After graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a singer. Though Callen realized he was gay as a teenager, he did not explore his sexuality until his years in Boston and New York; and when he did, he did so with gusto. He became a self-described and unapologetic "slut."
Initially diagnosed with GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) in 1982, Callen became an early AIDS activist and threw himself into understanding the disease. His overarching focus was one of survival, believing hope was a crucial factor in living with AIDS. Callen worked closely with his physician, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, a virologist from South Africa.
He was convinced that GRID was sexually transmitted. In 1983 Callen co-wrote one of the first guides on safe-sex practices, “How to Have Sex in an Epidemic.” This was the first guide to safe sex. The advice in the pamphlet, based on the concepts of his doctor, has become the accepted standard of risk reduction. Thus Callen has been rightly called the “Father of Safe Sex!
Recognizing the physical, psychological, and political harm of arguing for gay me to cease all sexual activity, Callen took a moderate approach: gay men could have sex, but in ways that mediated risk. Gay people were becoming more widely accepted and attaching shame and negativity to sex — what some referred to as an “anti-sex” approach — could have damaging consequences.

He was one of the few people during the early years of the epidemic to argue against a diagnosis of AIDS as an automatic death sentence. In his 1988 article, “Not Everyone Dies of AIDS,” published in the Village Voice, Callen wrote:
“Believing that I could survive was probably the precondition necessary for my actual survival. Unlike many other people with AIDS who considered themselves, in playwright Larry Kramer’s phrase, merely ‘ticking time bombs,’ my AIDS world view admitted from the first at least the possibility of recovery… Having hope won’t guarantee that you’ll survive AIDS, but not having hope seems to guarantee that you’ll succumb quickly.”

Callen joined with a fellow person with AIDS Richard Berkowitz and partner Richard Dworkin to write an essay entitled "We Know Who We Are: Two Gay Men Declare War on Promiscuity” for the New York Native.
What the men referred to as “promiscuity” was the frequent backroom, unprotected sexual encounters that dominated the gay sexual culture of the time and place. In the post-Stonewall Riots and gay liberation years, the popular belief was that sex was a revolutionary act, and more sex was equivalent to being more liberated. Callen argued that gay men needed to rethink their attitudes toward sex and relationships.
He was also a strong writer on the politics of sexuality. His essays appeared regularly in newspapers, magazines, journals, and books, including The Village Voice, The New York Native and Outweek.







He appeared on television talk shows and wrote for newspapers and magazines. He became the face of AIDS, as the disease was renamed.

In addition to his political work, Callen was a popular singer and composer in the gay community. Callen’s AIDS activism had a major influence on his music, as reflected in his solo album, Purple Heart (Significant Other Records, 1988), which The Advocate reviewer called, “the most remarkable gay independent release of the past decade.”
As a member of the gay a cappella group The Flirtations, he toured internationally and recorded two albums, The Flirtations (Significant Other Records, 1990) and Out on the Road (Flirt Records, 1992).

Callen’s song “Living in Wartime,” an AIDS battle cry from Purple Heart, was featured in the original production of Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart. Callen also wrote, along with Oscar winner Peter Allen and Marsha Malamet, “Love Don’t Need a Reason,”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlwCTqFeUk), which Callen sang at numerous gay and AIDS-related events, including the New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles AIDS walkathons and the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights; and on network television programs, such as the Geraldo Show.
The song has been covered by numerous gay men's choirs as well as the Peter Allen Broadway musical The Boy From Oz (1998).
Shortly before his death from AIDS-related complications in December 1993, Callen completed vocal tracks for 48 new songs. Twenty-nine of these compositions have been released as a double CD, titled Legacy, which garnered four Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Recording by a Male Artist.  Legacy, recorded with the help of such prominent musicians as Holly Near, Cris Williamson, David Lasley (James Taylor), Greg Wells (k.d. lang), Fred Hersch, Arnold McCuller (Phil Collins) and Steve Sandberg (David Byrne, Ruben Blades) are a testament to Callen’s commitment to the gay and lesbian community as well as his own passionate struggle for gay identity and selfhood.