Dutch chops: Utrecht Krbonades

Persecution of gays is nothing new. We prepare to celebrate the Pride and the Stonewall uprising of 51 years ago. Did you know of the first monument to honor those who have been martyred for being gay? Read about it after the recipe we dedicate to those lost individuals.

This dinner was derived from the popular “Outback” Alice Springs Chicken. Here we treat nice thick pork chops with the same honey mustard! Mix up a wonderful mushroom-onion rice and add a side of a green vegetable and you have something to remember that is all your own!

Ingredients:

2 thick pork chops

1 Tbs of sugar substitute (use a sugar twin or equivalent) 

1 Tbs dry mustard

1 Tbs corn starch

½ cup thin onion slices

½ pt fresh mushrooms, sliced

2 slices bacon

1 can cream of onion soup

½ can milk

¾ cup uncooked rice

Directions:

In a small bowl mix the sugar substitute, dry mustard, and corn starch.

Rinse the chops and pat dry with paper towels.

Rub the seasonings into all surfaces of chops.

Let sit on counter while you preheat oven to 210 degrees. Line a baking pan with foil with a rack and spray well.

Slice the onions and mushrooms.

When oven is up to temperature, place the chops on the rack. Let slow roast for one hour. Check the temperature with instant read thermometer. You want it to reach 145 degrees. If not there yet, switch oven over to broil and, watching carefully, broil for 5 minutes per side or until a nice crust forms and the temp is where you want it.

While the chops are cooking in the oven. Cook the bacon in a skillet until almost crisp and remove.

Add the slices of onion and mushroom and cook in the bacon grease for about 8 minutes. Stir in chopped bacon and the can of onion soup, half a can of milk and ¾ cup of rice. Stir until it is well blended and let simmer for at least 20 min to 30 minutes. Serve this along side of your chops.

Slave chose a nice green vegetable for a side.

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Timely punishment depicted as a warning to godless and damnable sinners. Engraving depicting the Dutch massacre of sodomites. Published in Amsterdam, 1731.

The Utrecht sodomy trials of 1730 were a large-scale persecution of homosexuals in the Dutch Republic, starting in the city of Utrecht. Over the following year, the persecution of "sodomites" spread to the rest of the nation, leading to some 250 to 300 trials, often ending in a death sentence.

The Utrecht Dom church Had been built as a replacement of a previous church, it was constructed step by step as they collected money. The building proceeded over decades, and roman catholicism became less popular. The contributions for the church construction became less generous. The most recent part, the nave, was blown away during a "terrible tempest". Without money to reconstruct the nave, it stayed a ruins. These had become a cruising area for 'sodomites', until the city's authorities decided to put an end to this. In a raid, several Utrecht men were arrested, tortured and later put to death.

A number of men, including a Zacharias Wilsma, were arrested and interrogated. Their confessions indicated the presence of networks and meeting places of homosexuals elsewhere in the Republic. In July of the same year, Holland followed suit and a nationwide wave of prosecutions ensued; several men in high positions were suspected, but fled before they could be arrested.

In Utrecht, some forty men were tried, of whom 18 were convicted and strangled. Death by strangling was the most common punishment for homosexual acts in the Dutch Republic, but other punishments during the 1730–31 purge included hanging and drowning in a barrel of water. The convicts' remains were either burnt, cast into the sea or buried under the gallows. Protestant preachers supported the purge, said that shipworms infesting the Dutch dikes were evidence of God's wrath against homosexuals.

Of the trials outside of Utrecht, those in the village of Zuidhorn acquired particular infamy. Grietman Rudolf de Mepsche used the occasion to persecute his political enemies. He had a total of 22 people sentenced to death and executed. Overall, since most accusations of homosexuality appear to have been true, Rictor Norton commented that "this is properly described as a pogrom rather than a hysterical witch-hunt".

Several waves of prosecution followed during the eighteenth century: in 1764 (Amsterdam), 1776 (several cities), and 1797 (Utrecht and The Hague). Other episodes of persecution and execution, occurred in Dutch colonial possessions like Batavia, capital of the seventeenth century Dutch East Indies

As a result of the trials, the word Utrechtenaar gained a second meaning as a slang term to denote homosexuals (first attested in a dictionary of 1861), esp. among students. In common usage, though, it is still used as a euphemism, while Utrechtenaar is more common on the internet (as of 2004).

The city of Utrecht has recently decided to confront this reputation for persecution. Since 1999, The Dom Square has hosted a stone, the so-called Sodomonument, commemorating the deaths of the persecuted sodomites, and telling that the terminology has changed to homosexuality, and the city wants its women and men to live their lives in freedom. 

The Homomonument: An icon of remembrance

Immediately after World War II there were calls to establish a memorial to commemorate the gay men and women who lost their lives in the war. The call for remembrance finally gained traction in the 1980s, when thorough research was conducted on the persecution of homosexuals in World War II.

The Homomonument makes a strong statement that history must not be repeated: "Never again". The monument goes beyond commemorating just the victims of World War II. It also commemorates all LGBTI people who have been or are still being persecuted by government regimes.
This world-renowned icon takes the shape of a triangle on the bank of the canal. Its three points are symbolic: one corner points towards the National War Memorial on Dam Square; another points across the canal to the site of the Anne Frank House; while the third corner points towards COC Amsterdam. It remains the largest monument in the world dedicated to homosexuality and remembrance.

Beside the Homomonument is Pink Point, Amsterdam's official LGBTI information kiosk. Staffed by friendly and knowledgeable volunteers, it presents a wide range of information and flyers from local organizations.

A commemorative stone tells this horrible story and emphasizes that the city now embraces sexual diversity. In the "pandhof" garden you can enjoy the peacefulness of a (newly created) medieval garden in the center of the city, and enjoy the different motives sculptured in the arches of the passage.

The Homomonument takes the form of three large pink triangles made of granite, set into the ground so as to form a larger triangle, on the bank of the Keizersgracht canal, near the historic Westerkerk church.