Little Monster Bacon-Wrapped Chicken

This being the birthday of LGBT hero Lady Gaga, I thought we could dedicate this meal to her. Read about this fascinating entertainer in a short article after the recipe.

Chicken thighs, rubbed, rolled up, and wrapped in bacon. All roasted in the oven on a sheet pan with some vegetables. A one pan meal that hits all of the buttons!

Ingredients:

4 skinless, boneless chicken thighs

¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper

4 slices of bacon

Chicken rub*

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 425°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Chicken Rub:

1 Tbs smoky paprika

1 Tbs brown sugar

1 Tbs dry mustard

1 tsp garlic powder

2 tsp salt & 1 tsp pepper

Mix well in a shallow bowl. Pat the chicken dry with paper towels.

Lay both sides in the rub, pressing it in. Roll the piece back up and place on wax paper.

When the pieces are done, lay out 4 pieces of bacon, spaced apart so that each piece of chicken can be rolled up with the bacon. Place on parchment lined baking sheet with bacon ends tucked under.

Bake the chicken in the preheated oven for 25 to 35 minutes, or until the bacon is crispy and the chicken registers 165° on an instant-read thermometer.

Fixing some “California Mix” vegetables on the same sheet tray and some mac & cheese to make a beautiful meal for my Master.

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To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

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Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born this day in 1986, known professionally as Lady Gaga. A singer, songwriter, and actress, She is known for reinventing herself throughout her career and for her versatility in numerous areas of the entertainment industry.

Germanotta began playing the piano at age four when her mother insisted she become "a cultured young woman". The lessons taught her to create music by ear, which she preferred over reading sheet music. Her parents encouraged her to pursue music, and enrolled her in Creative Arts Camp. As a teenager, she played at open mic nights.

She rose to prominence with her debut album, the electropop record The Fame, and its chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". The album was reissued as The Fame Monster (2009), which included the successful singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro".

Gaga's second full-length album, Born This Way (2011), explored electronic rock and techno-pop and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with more than one million copies sold. Its title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store with over a million downloads in less than a week.

Her collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek (2014), and her soft rock-influenced fifth studio album, Joanne (2016), continued to top the US charts.

During this period, Gaga ventured into acting, playing leading roles in the miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel (2015–2016), for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and the critically acclaimed musical drama film A Star Is Born (2018). She also contributed to the latter's soundtrack, which yielded her fourth US number-one single "Shallow", and made her the first person to win an Academy, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award in one year.

Having sold 124 million records as of 2014, Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists. Her achievements include various Guinness world records, 11 Grammy Awards and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She has been declared Billboard's Artist of the Year and Woman of the Year, and included among Forbes's power and earnings rankings. She was ranked number four on VH1's Greatest Women in Music in 2012 and second on Time's 2011 readers' poll of the most influential people of the past ten years.

She is known for her philanthropy and social activism, including her work related to mental health awareness and LGBT rights. Gaga founded her nonprofit organization, the Born This Way Foundation, which focuses on empowering youth, improving mental health and preventing bullying.

Ten years ago she was tested borderline positive for lupus, but claims not to be affected by the symptoms and maintains a healthy lifestyle.

In a 2014 interview, Gaga said she had been raped at age 19, for which she later underwent mental and physical therapy. She has posttraumatic stress disorder that she attributes to the incident, and says that support from doctors, family and friends has helped her.

As a bisexual woman, Gaga actively supports LGBT rights worldwide. She attributes much of her early success as a mainstream artist to her gay fans and is considered a gay icon. Early in her career she had difficulty getting radio airplay, and stated, "The turning point for me was the gay community."

She thanks FlyLife, a Manhattan-based LGBT marketing company with whom her label Interscope works, in the liner notes of The Fame.

One of her first televised performances was in May 2008 at the NewNowNext Awards, an awards show aired by the LGBT television network Logo.

Gaga spoke at the 2009 National Equality March in Washington in support of the LGBT movement. She attended the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards accompanied by four gay and lesbian former members of the United States Armed Forces who had been unable to serve openly under the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which banned open homosexuality in the military.

Gaga urged her fans via YouTube to contact their senators in an effort to overturn the policy. In September 2010, she spoke at a Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's rally in Portland, Maine. Following this event, The Advocate named her a "fierce advocate" for gays and lesbians. Gaga appeared at Europride, an international event dedicated to LGBT pride, in Rome in June 2011. She criticized the poor state of gay rights in many European countries and described gay people as "revolutionaries of love". Gaga was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church Monastery so that she could officiate the wedding of two female friends.

Gaga was named the "Queen of Pop" in a 2011 ranking by Rolling Stone (based on record sales and social media metrics), and she ranked fourth in VH1's Greatest Women in Music in 2012.

Gaga has been often regarded as a trailblazer for sometimes utilizing controversy to bring attention to various issues.

According to Kelefa Sanneh of The New Yorker, "Lady Gaga blazed a trail for truculent pop stars by treating her own celebrity as an evolving art project."

Including Born This Way as one of the 50 best female albums of all time, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield considers it "hard to remember a world where we didn't have Gaga, although we're pretty sure it was a lot more boring".

In 2015, Time also noted that Gaga had "practically invented the current era of pop music as spectacle".