This quick and simple dish will become a favorite! You can never go wrong with meat & potatoes. We honor a forgotten actor Brad Davis tonight. Read his story after the recipe.
With just three small pieces of pork butt steaks, some small potatoes and maybe a side of a green vegetable will turn into a wonderful evening.
3 – 4 small pieces of pork butt steak
1/3 cup flour
salt, pepper, paprika
4 yukon gold potatoes
1 yellow onion
2 cups sliced mushrooms
4 oz cream cheese
1 can cream of bacon soup (if you can't find this delicacy, use creamy mushroom)
parsley to garnish optional
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 250. Line a baking pan with foil and spray.
Scrub and thinly slice up the potatoes, cover with damp paper towel.
Slice up onion. Clean and slice mushrooms.
Heat oil in a skillet. Add potato and onion slices. Season with salt & pepper.
Fry until golden and starting to crisp, (8 – 10 mins), Spread in foil lined pan, cover and set in oven.
Coat pieces of pork with flour, salt, pepper, and paprika. Brown about 4 minutes on each side. Just until a golden color. Remove and add a touch more butter to skillet.
Add sliced mushrooms, cream cheese and the un-diluted can of soup. Add ½ a can full of milk. Stir and cook. When it is thick, return the pork, cover and let simmer for 10 - 15 mins.
Serve with the fried potatoes on the side. Cover with the gravy
If you wish, a nice green vegetable rounds out this simple but elegant meal. What a treat!
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Brad Davis
Brad Davis: (1949-1991) – Born Robert Davis on November 6th, 1949. He was an actor whose career should have been stellar. A brave performer who should be remembered. Perhaps the events and pressures that made him great also led to his death.
As a child, Davis suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of both parents. As an adult, he was an alcoholic and an intravenous drug user before becoming sober in 1981.
At 16, after winning a music-talent contest, Davis worked at Theater Atlanta. He then moved to New York City and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the American Place Theater where he studied acting.
He got a role on the soap opera How to Survive a Marriage and he performed in Off-Broadway plays.
As his carrer started to
take off, other television roles soon followed with roles in the
miniseries Roots
His most successful film role was as the main character Billy Hayes in Midnight Express (1978), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Acting Debut – Actor. He was nominated for a similar award at that year's BAFTA Awards, in addition to receiving Best Actor nominations at both ceremonies.
Davis’s career should have taken off. Instead, it never really got off the ground: in part due to homophobia — his bisexuality was generally known if not always acknowledged — and mostly due to his own drug and alcohol abuse.
In 1981 he sobered in time to take the role of track star Jackson Scholz in the Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire.
In 1983, he took a
professional risk playing a gay sailor in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s
Querelle
Diagnosed with HIV in 1985, Davis kept his condition a secret until shortly before his death at age 41, in order to be able to continue to work and support his family.
His wife, freelance casting director Susan Bluestein said: “The Hollywood community may deny it. They will say he could have worked. All I know is that my husband was frightened, and that he wanted to be able to keep putting food on our table for his family,”
Davis was going to write a book about his ordeal of working in Hollywood and having to keep secret his illness. While he died before he could accomplish that. His wife did write a book using Davis’ book proposal as the basis for her book, After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis.
”I make my money in an industry that professes to care very much about the fight against AIDS — that gives umpteem benefits and charity affairs with proceeds going to research and care — but in actual fact, if an actor is even rumored to have H.I.V., he gets no support on an individual basis. He does not work.”
In a 1997 interview with New York Times, Davis’ wife described the great pains he went to seeking medical help only allowing doctors to visit him at home, ”Without the secrecy he may not have gotten better medical care, but earlier medical care,” she said. ”It might have given him a little longer time and better quality of life. We became so isolated. He let a lot of friendships go. He was afraid certain people would pick up on some things. Our world shrank to the bare bones.”
In order to hide his illness Davis didn’t buy prescriptions in his name but was supplied with prescription “leftovers” from others after they died.
When Brad Davis died in 1991, news reports distinguished him as “the first heterosexual actor to die of AIDS.” Not much of that description was true. His bi-sexuality aside, he didn’t die of AIDS. Davis decided to end his life on his own terms by committing suicide by drug overdose when it became clear that his death from AIDS was imminent.
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