Mikl's Magic Salads

 

 

Mikl's Magic Waldorf Salad

This classic salad was first served in 1893 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel of New York City. Its simplicity made it a big favorite: just chopped apples, celery, grapes, and walnuts in mayonnaise. Some time after “Eagle Brand” sweetened condensed milk was marketed, they offered a recipe for “Magic Mayonnaise”. Both of these have been tweaked over the years and slave thought it would make a fun salad for you.

Mikl's Magic mayonnaise

1 can sweetened condensed milk Non-fat
½ cup white vinegar
½ cup vegetable oil (canola oil works fine also olive oil)
2 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1 pinch cayenne pepper
2 egg yolks: slave uses pasteurized eggs since this is not cooked.

Salad Ingredients

• ½ cup chopped, slightly toasted walnuts
• ½ cup celery, diced
• ½ cup of dried cranberries
• 3 sweet apples, cored and chopped Like Gala
• Mikl's Magic Mayonnaise (Use no more than half of above recipe)
• 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice

Directions:

In small mixer bowl, combine all ingredients for the mayonnaise. Whisk until mixture thickens. (cover and refrigerate to blend flavors.)
Store leftovers in a clean sealed jar.

In a non stick skillet on medium high heat toast the walnuts. No need to any oil. Stir occasionally. This step will make your dish stand out above any store bought salad! This only takes about 5 minutes and you can tell when its done because of the wonderful aroma that comes up! Just don't burn your nuts ;-)

In a large bowl, mix the apples, celery, walnuts, and cranberries. Then add about a half of the recipe for Mikl's Magic mayonnaise. This is best chilled overnight. Serve on a leaf of lettuce. 

 

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Confetti Fruit salad

This is a take on the classic Five Cup Salad, just a bit healthier.

Ingredients:

1 can tropical blend fruit salad in juice – well drained.

1 cup toasted walnuts

1 cup sweetened coconut flakes

1 cup pastel mini marshmallows

1 5 oz carton of non fat plain Greek style yogurt.

Directions:

Mix in a large bowl until well combined and chill overnight.

Hope You enjoy these simple fresh takes on the Olde American Classics!

Independence and This slave

The post today is highly personal. I guess at times all writing has to be. Let me share this part of my life with you.

My Master Indy, in His directives for this blog stated:

“I am glad you are not fearful of Independence – as it can change your life. Imagine if you were independent in your living arrangement as an example?

“For your posts on 7/4 I would like you to have 4 things listed that you wished you could be independent from.”

“Masters are like slave's GPS. “He sets the direction, you get there yourself under His guidance.”

Independence in my own apartment.

This must not sound like much. However slave has been trying to arrange that for over a year now. The thought of living without the constant “put-downs” and snide comments from a family that does not like you starts to feel like a fantasy.

I remind myself that living alone does not mean living by myself. It would allow me to serve not only my Master, but also my friends and neighbors. People I like and like me. Not people I'm chained to by blood I never agreed to. Having pot lucks and full sit down dinner parties like I hosted so many years ago. It brings back memories of my first moving out of the parents home so very long ago.

Independence from the end of month poverty! So often people who make a higher salary, simply have more money to be broke with! I guess slave is saying he wants independence from the lack of order in my spending, and in my planning. When I find money in my account at the start of the month, it is like seeing your penis reattached and watching it grow a “Boner”!

Independence from my poor health! Could this also be taken care of by better planning and a reduction in weight? That wouldn't hurt. It might not stop the aging process and chronic problems. It would certainly help to slow the deterioration that occurs with age. If I could move better, it would allow more movement. Movement burns up weight. Less weight might mean less pinching of the spinal nerves, which in turns causes arms and legs to stop working and slave finds himself on the floor feeling like an idiot.

Independence from the anger! At times, I feel mad at myself for the poor choices I have made in my life. The situation I find myself in is nobody's fault but mine. Mistakes and poor judgment calls have left me in a position where others can take advantage of me and often I prove too weak to fight back. I do not like anger! Getting mad at someone is like taking a poison and expecting them to get sick. Bottom line, they could care less and it harms you!

Funny thing, as slave writes these and considers them, not one appears impossible to achieve. Gee, do you think it is possible that My Master already knows this? That He could think if I spell it out this way, I could see how I can gain these areas of Independence?

Could this be the motive behind His wanting these posts on Independence this month?

You see, at first – when I got these instructions – my heart sank. Ancient fears of abandonment and desertion rushed out of the past. They threatened to blind and choke me. However, as slave believes that the greatest strength comes from trust, I relied on that complete trust that My Master has earned. I rely on His judgment, His sense of direction.

I do not believe in telling lies. I always attempt to be truthful in all things. I have to other option with My Master. When I write about having trust in Him, I mean it. Slave is not perfect, and often makes mistakes. Slave does fall a lot. I have learned from experience, it is not the fall that kills you. It is the “not getting back up” that seals your doom.

Slave hopes this series on independence has helped some of you. I hope you have done this walk with me. Perhaps we have arrived at the same decisions, perhaps not. However it was the walk, the process, the experience, that was more important than the destination.

Both My Master and this slave wish you the happiest of holidays. Celebrate Independence where ever you find it!

Slave finds his only Independence is found IN my GPS – Master Indy!

socialslave.

To satisfy and restore.

To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I cook!

Please buy slave's cookbook:

The Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F315Y4I/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_vAT4sb0934RTM via @amazon

Tennessee Walkers Caramelized Chicken

Tennessee Walkers Caramelized Chicken 

Ingredients:

2½ lbs chicken legs or leg quarters 2 tablespoons olive oil (to help it stop sticking to the pan)
½ cup low sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons ketchup
½ cup brown sugar

½ cup Jack Daniels
2 -3 garlic cloves, minced End up with about 1 tbs of minced garlic.

If you don't have fresh garlic use: 1/2 tsp. garlic powder

2 or 3 ears of fresh corn on the cob

4 to six slices of bacon

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Serve with a green vegetable with no sauce. And of course, macaroni salad, baked lentils, chips, pretzels, beer, and sodas. And cold watermelon to watch the fireworks with!

Directions:

1. Whisk together the sauce: place chicken in bags, add sauce to marinate for at least 2 hours.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

3. Place chicken skin side down in a 9x13 inch baking dish lined with foil and sprayed.

4. Mix 2 tbs of cornstarch into the marinade and pour over the chicken.

5. Bake in preheated oven for one hour, first starting with the chicken skin side down, so it soaks up the sauce, then turn it over at the half hour mark, while basting every 15 minutes.

Use caution when turning the chicken over, that sauce will be hot and messy.

At the end of one hour, turn up the oven temp to 400 for another 15 minutes or 20 minutes just until sauce is caramelized.

Note: while chicken is cooking, peel the husks off of the corn, wrap each ear with a piece or two of bacon. Then wrap up each ear in foil well. You don't want bacon grease to drip into your oven, keep it on the cob – you will love it, Just limit yourself to one ear, no one likes to eat with a pig!

Now when you crank up the oven to 400 degrees for the last bit of cooking on the chicken, put the well wrapped ears in a pan next to the chicken.

You won't find a Fourth of July cook out any better!

The aroma will bring them from miles around :-)

Dilemma of the Independent Slave

Friday we celebrate Independence Day. The day our country was born. The day these thirteen colonies decided “we can do this ourselves!” England was not going to let us. They put up a fight. Those men, mostly farmers, took on the most organized military power in the world. All for the right to be independent.

Comparisons are often to be avoided. Every person, slave or Master faces their particular challenges with different abilities. One can not compare how hard it is for them any more than compare how they view color, you don't know how they see it. At most, the thought that others have faced their difficulties can provide us with the question: “why can't I?”

For many slaves, the thought of becoming independent strikes fear. Yet we know that we MUST be independent to even be a slave. Being a slave has become the most important driving force for our lives. Once we have felt what slavery to a Master brings, we would literally walk through fire to maintain that.

Again, independence does NOT mean a separation nor an abandonment. It does not have to equal being alone, or being deserted. What independence should encompass is developing our own ability to maintain ourselves.

Slave loves old cars! My mom told me that my first word was “car”! So slave uses the thought: “I can't offer to drive someone to the doctors if I haven't taken care of my car.” By extrapolation: “How can I serve, if I have not taken care of myself.” Does this mean that slave's have to become self centered? Not if you want to be a slave!

Instead, we must adjust our viewpoints. Our culture has drummed into us to see things based on “what's in it for me”. As slaves, we have discovered on our own, what we must see is how to “serve another” (what's in it for them?) Thus our slave's dilemma!

Might I suggest a change in the angle of our view.

Perhaps if we see our tasks from the point of: “Which of my own good abilities, do I use to handle this the best way?” That might not appear to be a big difference, but it is. It is a difference that spells success.

Each night Master has slave ask himself: “Did I do the best I could to reflect what I have learned?” What I have learned becomes one of my abilities. The more abilities I have, the better I can serve. The better I reflect that training, the better I can reflect on my Master. As I learn, as I grow, it all becomes a statement of how good my Master is!

It is a praise for my Master, to show the world how much I have been transformed into.

How is this being independent? It shows strength and pride in my subservience. It gives value to my gift. How can I truly honor this Man with a gift or tribute that I do not feel is the Best?

Now how does a slave get to that different angle, that different viewpoint? How does a slave become an independent slave? Well, it does NOT HAVE to mean walking out the door. (although there might come a time when that is the best and only path to take). To build your self assurance, to build your abilities is just like building a muscle in the gym. Take your time! Stretch yourselves. Start small. Repetition, Repetition, Repetition! Stretch again. Don't give up.

Think to yourself, how long has it taken me to get this weak? Getting strong will not be an overnight process. Give yourself time and praise. Stretch yourself by thinking of small steps you can take. Ask Master, if you have one. If not, ask another Master. This is a core thing that Masters enjoy! Work on how you approach a problem. Start small. Then stretch yourself again when you have accomplished it, by thinking about what you have done, how you viewed things, how you thought about things. You change your world when you change the way you think.

Then at night, ask yourself, did I improve? Did I reflect what I have learned? If so, celebrate a little, not too much because tomorrow you are going to have to do more. If not, don't beat yourself up, just be more determined than ever tomorrow you will! Wipe off any dust of failure you might feel clinging on you and rest. Each day is new, will you be? Each day can be great, can you make it great? That should be a resounding YES!

“Yes” always gets you further than “No” any day! As for our slaves dilemma: Can we be strong and still be subservient? How can we be any other way?

Both Master Indy and slave wish you a safe and strong Independence Day!

socialslave

To satisfy and restore.

To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I cook!

Please buy slave's cookbook:

The Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F315Y4I/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_vAT4sb0934RTM via @amazon

 

Firecracker Lentils

Why lentils?

They lower cholesterol and they are especially helpful in managing blood-sugar disorders with their high fiber. This prevents the levels from rising rapidly after a meal. This makes it an excellent snack to have after a “scene” to prevent or ease “Sub Drop”. Also “Top Drop” don't forget them. You will find a small container of this recipe served cold on hand in your playroom with some slices of cheese, seedless grapes, and maybe a small energy drink to be indispensable to your continued enjoyment. You have both put your bodies through a lot!
They also one of the richest sources of both types of fiber the body needs:
Soluble (the kind that forms gel-like the pulls the bile and cholesterol out of the body) and
Insoluble (the kind that helps prevent problems like irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis.)
Lentils have magnesium that helps veins and arteries relax to reduce pressure and improve blood flow.
So lets get to this fabulous makeover of the old standby baked beans!

This recipe can be prepared in stages:

Rinse and boil the lentils, refrigerate overnight. Doctor up the Bar B Que Sauce anytime and refrigerate. You can even do the actual cooking the night before and serve as a cold side dish. Or for that matter, if covered, can be warmed in microwave on medium. If using this method watch out for minor explosions as the moisture in the beans turn to steam. Not dangerous, but messy.

Ingredients:

• 1 lbs lentils, rinsed
• 3 cups low sodium chicken stock +2 cups water
  Bar B Que sauce:
• 2 cups of your favorite bottled Bar B Que sauce
• ½ cup maple syrup
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 1 tbs balsamic vinegar
• 1 tbs dry mustard
• 1 tbs Worcestershire sauce (may use vegetarian variety)
• 1 can 6oz tomato paste Just to make it richer.
  Extras:
• 1 can 15 oz diced roasted tomatoes
• 1 can 8oz pineapple chunks in juice, well drained
• 1 cup diced yellow onion

Optional: 4 strips of bacon fried crisp - save drippings and add to beans

Preparation:

Add the lentils to broth mixture, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes or until tender but whole. Drain any liquid.

While that's coming to a boil and cooking:

Chop the onion. Open the can of diced tomatoes and drain.

In a large bowl mix together the BAR B Que sauce with syrup, brown sugar, balsamic vinegar, dry mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and tomato paste. Then season to taste. Now is the time to adjust for flavors.

Mix in the drained lentils, chopped onion, roasted tomatoes, and drained pineapple chunks. If using crisp bacon, mix in the grease.

Be sure to spray the vessel you use next!

If using a 350 degree oven, spray the baking dish:

If using a crock pot, spray it well first!

Lay the bacon on top.

In oven bake, covered for 30 minutes, then remove the top to get a crust for another 15 minutes.

In the crock pot on high for 3 hours.

Sex and the Independent Slave

We have talked about how slaves need to be independent even if they are in a committed relationship. Today we look at when they are out there in that snake pit called the dating pool!

It does not take long on any BDSM Master/slave chat site to find someone complaining about potential slaves. They are all begging for help. Many profiles and advertisements contain long lists of “needs” and “wants” and limitations of all kinds. It would appear they are only concerned with themselves.

By the same token, all the potential slaves are complaining that there is a shortage of Masters. Well yes, there are more bottoms than Tops and there are more slaves than Masters. This is not to imply that all Masters are Tops! That is NOT a requirement for Mastership. It just seems like whatever type you are looking for is going to be in a minority whenever you are looking. Neither does it take into account all of the various genders out there.

Please note, slave speaks of male Masters because my Master Indy is very male. Slave does have trouble keeping up with all of the various combinations available today. This limitation is on the part of slave. It does not imply or intend disrespect to any! So please, slave respectfully asks you to translate.

Here is yet another example of how important being independent is for the slave. Everyone has had troubles or problems in the past. You just don't have to LEAD with them! The old saying that you can travel further with less baggage is so true. Leave the baggage at home.

Some misguided potential slaves think that if they appear vulnerable and needy, then Master's will be attracted to them. Forget it. That kind of charity happens at the office not in a leather bar. Ever hear “There is no such thing as “mercy sex”?

Lets just think of it this way: which is more attractive to a Master? Someone who is weak and begging. Or some one who is self assured and in control of themselves? Wouldn't it be more satisfying to a Master to have someone like that be willing, on his own, to agree to submit and be subservient? A strong man who bows his head and is willing to serve is more of an ego boast for a Master. A challenge that is won is more satisfying to achieve than a “freebee”.

Please: all potential slaves out there NOTE: the less you need something, the more likely you are to find it. This is NOT easy stuff here. Slave knows full well haw empty a life was when I was not owned. How there was no reason to get out of bed in the morning when I had no one to serve. Slave understands that hollowness of having no Master.

However, no one told you the life was easy. No one guarantees that you will find happiness, or even fairness. Something as wonderful as having a Master to serve takes a bunch of hard work. Yes, a good Master will work you hard for you to become the best you possible. Still to get that wonderful thing, you have to work.

Never look like you need a job on an interview and never look like you will die if you don't have a Master taking care of you.

Remember, you are there for His pleasure. Your please will come from pleasing Him. Deep inside you already know how much you want to nurture, to care for, to serve. Slave is only pointing out that you will feast as long as you don't look hungry.

To be a true slave, you must first Master yourself. Become that independent person. A head bows best if it is accustomed to being held up high! Present what you have to offer. Lead with how you are different from all of the twink sycophants out there. Show what you have, not what you have not!

Let slave admit to you, in writing this, I told Master that it is perhaps the

hardest of anything I have had to face and to write. The very thought of having to say a “Good bye” to My Master. Or to face not being owned by Him anymore, petrifies me.

At times, I'm in a gale force wind and Master tells me: “You will be OK, learn to bend with the wind.” Yet I am petrified of letting go. Master always has me face my greatest fears. Slave is strongest when he has trust. Real trust, not some phony word play trust. Life and death type trust.

Slave has that in His Master. I am always at my strongest with that trust.

If the wind lifts me off of my feet, I shall learn to fly.

However today you don't have to learn to fly. You don't have to face saying a “Good Bye” to the most important person in your life. No, you just have to want to be independent. Then as an independent slave, the sex will come.

Especially at times like this, I have no words to describe how much I own to my Master Indy

His socialslave

To satisfy and restore.

To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I cook!

Please buy slave's cookbook:

The Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F315Y4I/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_vAT4sb0934RTM via @amazon

Lisa Douglas Memorial Chicken

For the tonight’s dish slave has been challenged to simplify dishes that I had created. So this is a version of a Hungarian Paprika Chicken that I had done for Sir Boot Master.

Then Master Indy wants me to post about Independence so that will follow!

Lisa Douglas Memorial Chicken

Ingredients:

2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs

1 medium yellow onion

1 green pepper diced

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 cup low fat sour cream

1 cup low salt chicken broth

1 can low salt condensed mushroom soup

3 tbs sweet paprika

flour just to dust the chicken.

½ pkg wide egg noodles

Directions:

Season the chicken with salt and pepper and dust lightly with flour. In a large, deep skillet, heat oil over medium high heat. Add the chicken and cook, turning once, until browned, about 7 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the chicken to a plate and cover with foil.

Add the onion, green pepper, and garlic to the skillet and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes.

 

In a medium bowl mix the condensed soup, sour cream and the chicken broth. When well combined, add the sweet paprika.

Pour this into the skillet, lower the heat to a slight simmer and return the chicken. Cover and let cook on very low heat for about 20 minutes.

Now is the time to set the water on to boil for the noodles. Just follow what the package says. When the noodles are done, drain and serve in a large bowl. By now the chicken will be ready to serve over a nice bed of noodles.

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Independence and the Consensual Slave.

The term “independence” can mean different things. When you speak to any of the millions of us who self identify as “slaves”, the term can strike fear into their hearts. For to some it might mean rejection or abandonment.

Our culture equates independence with freedom. (That is NOT always the case.) This civilization teaches about “slavery” only from a historical prospective of involuntary servitude. Race is usually thrown into the argument when it was not intended. While this judgment is right and good from societies viewpoint, it starts to get muddled from there.

If you are not to be anyone’s “servant”, the next invariable step is to conclude that you have to lead. Being in charge is the ONLY positive goal in life. At the same time we are supposed to “all work together” to do our part. The necessary goal of equal opportunity gets mixed up with a fallacy of equal abilities and talents. Then things really get in a “mellofva hess”.

So lets back up and say for this discussion, we are NOT talking about races. That is a whole different discussion. I am NOT about to start comparing and contrasting different races of people. PERIOD!

For this discussion we will define independence as meaning “NOT dependent”. It is not depending on something, or someone else, for existence. Not relying on another or others for aid or support.

Now how does this relate with the consensual, self identifying slaves, or to the Master/slave relationship? Lets hope that it allows us a clearer picture of roles and expectations.

In the preliminary negotiations, when hormones are raging it can be difficult to get beyond “Limits” and “Safewords”. We can only hope that calmer conditions prevail when discussions of being in a relationship are undertaken. Expectations can be as different as the differences found in the people themselves. There are no “one size fits all” rules for behavior or roles to play in the relationship.

Yes, slaves must be independent. Think about it. How could a person, who can't take care of themselves, take care of someone else? In a broader sense, a slave must be able to show a completeness, a self assurance, a competency to instill the trust necessary for the relationship to work.

Being “addicted” to someone might sound hot for “friction” fiction, but seldom works in real life.

Note slave is NOT talking about finances here, but rather emotional stability. Even strong proud Masters can use help at times with budgeting and finances.

A slave needs be able to decide on their own to become subservient to a Master, not because he HAS to, but because he WANTS to.

A Master guides and teaches. They generally work a slave to be the best he can be. It would not make much sense if He had to do everything for the slave, now would it? Who is serving who? That might be a case of “topping from the bottom” and that might work for those two people. However, the flaws can be seen if it were taken as a generalization.

It is also said that a Master “needs” a slave. Yet if He really NEEDED one to survive, what kind of Master will he be? How can He teach if He constantly has to have that kind of attention?

A slave must not be depending on the Master for his existence.

A Master must not rely on a slave for aid or support.

The beauty and joy comes from being able to make the choice, not from a desperation, but from a decision.

By the end of the week, our country will be celebrating “Independence Day”. All of us should feel free to participate. Masters and slaves, each with different abilities and wants and needs, complimenting each other.

Masters experiencing the joy of being taken care of and even, at times “babied”.

Slaves feeling the euphoria of being “owned”, and allowed to nurture a wonderful partner.

Each sufficient to themselves, yet making the judgment call to experience this wonderful dynamic of Master/slave. A dynamic that empowers them both to be their best. An exchange of trust and a reliance on the belief that tomorrow can be better if faced together.

Yes each must be independent, and still count on the other. Different abilities and strengths resonating in harmonies that provide the greatest energy to them both.

socialslave is so very proud of Master Indy. As a person and as a Master.

socialslave

To satisfy and restore.

To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I cook!

Please buy slave's cookbook:

The Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F315Y4I/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_vAT4sb0934RTM via @amazon