Carpathian Chicken

Finding a bag of frozen chicken patties in the refrigerator inspired me to create this variation of an old classic. Named for a fictitious country in the Balkans. Given a gypsy flavor to dress up the otherwise ordinary. Might have called it chicken in drag.

Chicken with a balsamic cheese sauce and grapes.

Ingredients:

4 chicken patties

½ cup chopped onion

2 Tbs butter + 2 Tbs oil

1½ cups chicken stock

¼ cup pancake mix

2 Tbs balsamic vinegar

1 cup dark red seedless grapes

½ grated Gruyere cheese

8 oz sliced mushrooms

Directions:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Lightly grease a 13×9-inch baking pan.

In a large nonstick skillet, melt 2 tbs of butter over medium high heat and sauté the mushrooms and onions for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove.

Cook the chicken patties for 3 to 4 minutes per side in another Tbs of oil added to skillet.

Remove the chicken and place in baking pan. Leave the drippings in the skillet.
Sprinkle the mushrooms and onions over the chicken.

In the same skillet, mix the broth, pancake mix, balsamic vinegar and boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. You want a nice thick sauce, then pour this over the chicken.

In a bowl, mix together the cheese and grapes and sprinkle over the chicken.
Bake the chicken for 12 to 14 minutes in a preheated oven. Remove and let rest for 5 minutes.

Yes Brussels Sprouts

Ingredients

2 packages frozen Brussels sprouts, thawed

¼ cup pancake syrup

zest from orange

juice of ½ orange

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking tray and spray well.

Place sprouts in foil lined pan. Zest the orange over that.

Mix sprouts with syrup, juice, and zest. Must be well coated. Stir roast along side the casserole for 15 mins.

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Peter Staley 

Peter Staley (born January 9, 1961) is an American political activist, known for his work in HIV/AIDS activism. As an early and influential member of ACT UP, New York, he founded both the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the educational website AIDSmeds.com.

Peter Staley was born in Sacramento, California, in 1961; the third of four children. Their family moved throughout the US until he was eight. He attended Oberlin College where he majored in economics and government, spending his junior year abroad at the London School of Economics before graduating in 1983. Following his graduation, he went to work for J.P. Morgan, where his brother Jes Staley was working (Jes became the CEO of J.P. Morgan's Investment Bank, before leaving in 2013 to join BlueMountain Capital and is now the CEO of Barclays).

After observing similarities with the symptoms depicted in the made-for-TV drama An Early Frost, Staley consulted with his physician, Dr. Dan William, who diagnosed Staley with AIDS-Related Complex (ARC) in 1985. In 1987, he decided to attend a meeting for ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power). He became very involved. Although he had come out to his family, Staley remained closeted at work, working as a bond trader by day and chairing ACT UP's fundraising operations by night.. On March 24, 1988, he took part in an ACT UP demonstration on Wall Street on the first anniversary of the group. At that demonstration, he was in one of the first waves of people sitting in the street to block traffic, and was interviewed by a local TV station who broadcast his image with the caption "Peter Staley, AIDS victim."

The next year, Staley and three other activists barricaded themselves in an office at Burroughs Wellcome in Research Triangle Park, NC to protest the price of AZT (at the time priced at $8,000-$10,000 per year). The four protesters chained themselves together, and were cut apart and charged with trespassing and property damage. Staley, who at the time had been in talks with AZT developer David Barry to lower the price on the drug, would make peace with the company years later, following their $1 million donation to AIDS clinical trials programs in 1992.

In September 1989, Staley and six other activists staged another demonstration to protest the rising cost of AZT, this time in the New York Stock Exchange. Dressed in suits and carrying fake credentials, they chained themselves to a balcony above the trading floor before unfurling a banner that read "Sell Wellcome", drowned out the opening bell with airhorns, and dropped fake $100 bills that read, "Fuck your profiteering. We die while you play business." on the traders below. Within days, Burroughs Wellcome lowered the price of AZT by 20%.

That year he was part of a group that stormed the Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal, at the time a members-only event for doctors and HIV/AIDS researchers. They took over seats reserved for dignitaries, and released their first Treatment and Data report calling for speedier access to AIDS drugs, although coverage of the demonstration was overshadowed by the events at Tiananmen Square. The next year, Staley was a featured speaker at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in 1990, held in San Francisco. Staley would be involved in many more demonstrations and protests, ultimately being arrested 10 times, although he does not have a criminal record due to the work of pro bono lawyers.

Involvement with TAG

In 1991, Staley founded an ACT UP activist affiliate called TAG (which originally stood for Treatment Action Guerrillas, and later Treatment Action Group). Formed from ACT UP's Treatment and Data Committee, the group was focused on actively working to pursue AIDS treatment solutions through activism, and working with groups that had been targeted by ACT UP, such as pharmaceutical companies.

TAG broke away from ACT UP to focus on protesting government agencies on working for faster drug solutions through more coordinated AIDS research efforts. At the 1992 International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, the group called for negotiations and more proactive measures than protests in order to achieve those goals. Staley later said that he regretted the split, wishing that they had been "able to keep it together as an organization."

amfAR

From 1991-2004, Staley served on the board for amfAR (the Foundation for AIDS Research). A nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and treatment education, the group has invested more than $366 million in its various programs over the course of its history, which have spawned significant advances in the realm of the treatment and prevention of HIV.

During this time, he was named to President Bill Clinton's AIDS National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development, an 18-member panel of scientists, doctors and AIDS advocates to work to speed the research for new AIDS drugs.

Carpathian Chicken 

AIDSmeds.com

In 1999, Staley founded AIDSmeds.com, a site "dedicated to providing people living with HIV the necessary information they need to make empowered treatment decisions." It expanded to include topics including gay health, and education and resources related to gay health. In 2006, AIDSmeds.com merged with POZ, a publication for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Staley is still with the merged organization as a blogger and advisory editor.

Ad campaign against crystal meth

In 2004, Staley funded and launched an ad campaign in New York, warning of the link between crystal meth use and HIV in gay and bisexual men.

A former crystal meth addict himself, Staley had ads placed on phone booths along Eighth Avenue in Chelsea that read "Huge Sale! Buy Crystal, Get HIV Free!" The controversial ads attracted attention from both supporters and detractors. Two months later, New York City appropriated the first government funds anywhere in the U.S. targeting meth prevention for gay men. Other cities and states soon followed. According to ongoing CDC HIV surveillance studies, meth use among gay men in New York City fell from 14% in 2004 to 6% in 2008.

How to Survive a Plague

Staley features prominently in the 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague, which depicts the early years of the AIDS epidemic and the actions of ACT UP and TAG. For the film, director David France relied heavily on archival footage, much of it taken from VHS tapes in Staley's personal collection. The documentary was nominated for an Oscar.

In 2013, Staley was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to New York State’s Ending the Epidemic Task Force, which developed a blueprint to dramatically lower HIV infections in the state by 2020. In 2014, Staley was appointed by Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, to the search committee tasked with finding the next Director of AIDS Research at the NIH.

Also in the 2014, Staley helped form a coalition of advocates for Truvada PrEP – the once-a-day pill that prevents HIV infections – that successfully pressured Gilead Sciences to liberalize its patient assistance programs, removing barriers to access for this new tool to fight the AIDS epidemic.

In the fall of 2016 he was welcomed by Harvard to teach about the impact and joys of activism.

Personal life

Staley and his partner, along with their dog, divide their time between rural Pennsylvania and an apartment in New York City's West Village, not far from where ACT UP first recruited him.