Dedicated
to Randy Shilts LGBT Hero
As June is Pride month
we continue to dedicate our dishes to LGBT heroes. This one goes to
Randy Shilts. Don't forget to read the short write-up after the
recipe for a great topic of conversation at dinner.
This simple dinner for
two consists of a roasted pork tenderloin and some sweet potatoes. A
great blend of savory and sweet with most of the work already done
for you.
Ingredients:
1
– 1.5 lbs pork tenderloin
2
cans candied sweet potatoes drained
1
can pear chunks drained
¼
cup orange marmalade
½
cup brown sugar
½
cup triple sec orange.
Oil
salt
& pepper to taste.
Instructions:
Pre
heat oven to 400 degrees, spray a 9 x 14 baking dish and set
aside.
Drain
the cans of sweet potatoes & pears.
Before
roasting, always sear the pork tenderloin on all sides first.
First,
trim the tenderloin of any silver skin (this can be tough when
cooked, just use a small sharp knife and slide the blade under and
outward to remove it). Pat pork dry with paper towels.
Rub
with a little oil then season with salt. Heat your skillet.
Sear
the pork on all sides until it is golden brown. This will not only
add color but also helps keep the juices inside. A light sear is all
you need.
This
should take about 10 minutes. Transfer the browned pork to a
large plate.
Use
a pastry brush to “paint” the pork all over with orange marmalade
thinned with a bit of oil. This makes brushing easier.
Mix
the sweet potatoes with the pear chunks in the baking dish.
Sprinkle
the ½ cup brown sugar over all. Then push the pork down into this
mix.Douse with the triple sec and roast in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until an internal thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers between 145 and 150 degrees F. That’s really all you need.
(older people insist on cooking pork until it is dry – of course respect their wishes and wait until the temps reach 160 for well done)
Remove from oven and cover with foil. Let this rest for 10 to 15 minutes.
Lift
out the pork, and slice it into 1 inch thick slices. Spread
the potatoes onto a platter and arrange the slices on top.
For our music:
What a rich meal to fix with such ease.
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Randy
Shilts LGBT
leader and writer
Randy
Shilts was the first openly gay reporter at a mainstream metropolitan
newspaper. Shilts
grew up in Aurora, Illinois. Attending college in Oregon, he came out
as gay at 19 years of age in 1971. He became a leader in the
newly-formed Gay People's Alliance.
After
earning a degree in journalism he went to work for The Advocate, and
later covered San Francisco news on local radio, television, and in
the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle.
He
covered the outbreak of the new "gay cancer" first called
GRID. As the pandemic grew, Shilts became the Chronicle's lead
reporter on the disease, making him one of the first in the country.
However
he drew the anger of the gay community with his call to close down
the bath houses and dark rooms where anonymous sex was taking place.
Even labeled a gay Uncle Tom, Randy knew that to lead the orchestra,
you had to turn your back to the audience. Today we look back at
his call for safer sex practices and see it as simply common sense.
At the time many felt that AIDS was created to stop all gay sex. Fear
and paranoia ran rampant for awhile.
In
addition to his crusading journalism, Shilts wrote three
best-selling,
widely acclaimed books that have become classics and must reads for
the LGBT community. His first book in 1982,
The
Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk,
is a biography of the gay politician who was assassinated in his San
Francisco City Hall office.
His
second book: And the Band Played On, published in 1987, is an
extensively researched account of the early days of the AIDS epidemic
in the United States. This was so successful it brought him
nationwide literary fame.
His
third book, Conduct Unbecoming, examines discrimination against
lesbians and gays in the military, was published in 1993. Shilts and
his assistants conducted over a thousand interviews while researching
the book, the last chapter of which Shilts dictated from his hospital
bed.
Shilts
declined to be told the results of his HIV test until he had
completed And the Band Played On. He felt the test result, whatever
it might be, would interfere with his objectivity as a writer. He was
finally found to be HIV positive in March 1987.
In
1994 Shilts died, aged 42, at his ranch in Sonoma County, California,
being survived by his partner, Barry Barbieri.
His
tenacious reporting was highly praised by others in both the gay and
straight communities who saw him as "the pre-eminent chronicler
of gay life and spokesman on gay issues".
As
a fellow reporter put it, despite an early death, in his books Shilts
"rewrote history. In doing so, he saved a segment of history
from extinction."
NAMES
Project founder Cleve Jones described Shilts as "a hero"
and characterized his books as "without question the most
important works of literature affecting gay people."
As
we celebrate Pride Month, lets dig out one of these books for a fresh
reminder of what it was like to be gay then. If we don't remember,
how are we going to mentor future generations?
