Salisbury Steak has nothing to do with Salisbury England. Rather it is named after a Dr. Salisbury who created it along with a diet that was the rage in the early 50s. We named this to honor Gunther Freehill a LGBT hero.
Remember these aren't hamburgers and they are not meatloafs. It is kinda inbetween like a meatball. Shape them into ovals, sprinkle with mushrooms and empty 2 jars of beef gravy on top. Bake and it cooks itself .
Ingredients:
1½ lbs ground chuck
1 yellow onion, grated
½ cup bread crumbs
1 Tbs Worchester Sauce
1 egg
1 teaspoon garlic powder
½ tsp each: salt + pepper
½ lbs fresh mushrooms, sliced
2 (12-ounce) jars beef gravy
Directions:
In a large bowl, combine ground chuck, bread crumbs, egg, garlic powder, salt, and pepper, worchester sauce for a touch of Unami!
Grate the onion into this; mix well. Let set while oven preheats.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Coat a 9- x 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
Form meat mixture into 4 large oval patties and place in baking dish.
Sprinkle the mushrooms over the dish, then pour the jars of gravy on top evenly.
Did You Know?
- Did You Know? Salisbury steak was one of the first main dishes to become a TV dinner favorite in the early 1950's. It's still as popular today, and tastes even better when it's homemade with a side of mashed potatoes!
While that is cooking you have a chance to fix some mashed potatoes and a green side to go alone with.
Note: do not start the microwave vegetable until the meat is out of the oven and starting to rest. The time the vegetable cooks allows the meat its proper resting period. Get into that habit any time you cook meat in the oven!
What a wonderful meal and so easy you can do it after work!
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Gunther Freehill was born in Melvin, Ill., and was the second youngest in a family of nine children in 1953.
He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree in international studies from the Claremont Colleges in California.
He was a leader in the 1980s of the AIDS protest group ACT UP Los Angeles who later became a recognized expert on AIDS policy as an official with the L.A. and D.C. health departments.
A memorial statement released at the time of his death from a heart attack at 60 by the D.C. Department of Health said:
“In his field, he was renowned as an expert, locally and nationally, especially in the administration of the Ryan White CARE Act and other HIV/AIDS public programs,” “His tireless work ethic and devotion to public services has helped save millions of taxpayer dollars and has positively impacted tens of thousands of lives,” “Freehill served as the Care, Housing & Support Services Bureau Chief at the HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease and Tuberculosis Administration (HAHSTA), which is an arm of the D.C. Department of Health.
Guy Weston, executive director of D.C. Care, a local consortium that provides services for people with HIV/AIDS, called Freehill a “virtual encyclopedia of knowledge” on local and federal AIDS programs that HAHSTA uses to assist people with HIV.
“You might not have agreed with all of his positions, but you had to respect his passion, commitment, and all that he accomplished on behalf people with HIV/AIDS in D.C. and beyond,” Weston said.
In 2005 Freehill wrote: “I first came to the Office of AIDS Programs and Policy in the late summer of 1988, when I was involved in ACT UP/Los Angeles. The County had done something, or hadn’t done something. ACT UP/LA didn’t approve, and we organized a picket. I stood on the corner of Sixth and Commonwealth, holding a sign, shoulder to shoulder with Cary Bobier, Bill Capobianco, Larry Day, Richard Iosty, Connie Norman, Bill Oxendine and the great love of my life, Mark Kostopoulos…I tell you their names because of that group, I am the only one who is alive today.”
Raymond Reece, who lives in the Yountville California Veterans Home in the Napa Valley, wrote:
“Gunther and I met in 1980 as members of what was then called the “Gay Academic Union.” Not long after that, the name was changed to the “Lesbian and Gay Academic Union.” By 1983 Gunther and I were in a well-established relationship, living together in our own home [in Silver Lake] and heavily involved in the activities of ACT UP/Los Angeles. In the years before our relationship ended in 1990, we had a very full calendar of ACT UP/LA activities and actions. Gunther’s natural leadership was a very powerful force in developing strategies for the group. I would have to say that our participation in those actions gave both of us some of the most exciting and gratifying times either of us had ever experienced.
When he worked for the LA County and after he moved to Washington, D.C. we maintained contact by telephone. And it breaks my heart to lose my connection with Gunther. I feel very lost. … [I will be with you]
Freehill, who was gay, retained his passion for addressing the plight of people with HIV/AIDS. In the 1990s he gave up his role as a firebrand activist and organizer of AIDS protest rallies to become a bureaucrat in city AIDS offices in L.A. and D.C.
His work was instrumental in the fight for funding social services and health care in Los Angeles and on a national scale.
A former Catholic, Freehill was also an activist against the AIDS policies of the Catholic Church. In a 1991 op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times, Freehill reprehended Church officials on their condemnation of condoms and other contraception.
“It is a known fact that condoms, used properly, block the transmission of HIV, the virus associated with AIDS,” the op-ed stated. “Despite this, the [Church] categorically condemns their use while teaching that taking a human life in self-defense is morally acceptable.
The perverted message is this: The violent use of a knife or a gun to protect your life or the life of someone you love is perfectly moral; the loving, responsible use of a condom to protect your life or the life of someone you love is a grievous sin.” “That message places the lives of those who look to the church for guidance at horrifying risk of contracting a horrifying illness. And in that, at the very least, the church must be stopped.”
In the same piece, Freehill also gave his own organization, ACT UP, sage advice on the power of respect and diplomacy: “Remember that being offensive is not necessarily being effective. Offending people is easy. Challenging people to think is hard.”
At the time of his fatal heart attack in 2013, Freehill was survived by his former partner Raymond Reece of Yountville, Calif.
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