Tuesday, December 12, 2017

McKuen Pizzeria Casserole

Here is a great casserole with the tastes of your favorite pizza. A good way to break the holiday “sameness” with a new taste! We have named this after a nearly forgotten LGBT hero: Rod McKuen – be sure to read a short article after the recipe.


Pasta, sausages, mushrooms, mozzarella, and sauce: it's a pizza in a casserole! Try it tonight, just the thing to share while watching the holiday movies.

Ingredients

  • ½ package large pasta shells
  • 16 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 1 jar pizza sauce
  • 1 pkg. smoked pork sausage
  • 1 cup fresh sliced mushrooms
  • ½ yellow onion chopped
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • 3 teaspoons olive oil

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and spray a baking dish lightly.








Do your cutting: chop the onion, rinse the mushrooms and let dry.
Boil a large pot of water and cook the shells for 10 minutes. Drain the pasta shells and place the shells on a lightly greased baking sheet to cool. 
 


While that is cooking, add 2 teaspoons of oil to a skillet over medium high heat and cook the sausages until they are browns. About 7 minutes.
Remove the meat to a cutting board. Slice into ½ inch pieces.



Keep the skillet on and saute the onions & mushrooms for about
7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
By now the pasta should be finished, rinsed and drained well.
Spoon into sprayed casserole along with sausage pieces and the onion/mushroom mix.
Pour in the pizza sauce and mix well.
Stir in half the cheese and season with the Italian seasoning.
 


Cover the dish with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil sprinkle with rest of cheese and bake for 10 more minutes uncovered.
Serve with a side green vegetable if you wish.
For our music:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU_GsIKxse0   




What a new exciting way to enjoy the taste of pizza!
So proud to be serving this ot my Master.
socialslave

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Rod McKuen
When the generation of baby boomers started to develop their own sense of sexuality and self, apart from that of their parents, often they sought out Rod McKuen.

His words, voice, and leadership helped guide questioning youth all over the globe. He truly was a Hero. At the height of his career, he used his not inconsiderable celebrity clout to fight for LGBT freedoms.

Rod McKuen was a singer-songwriter, musician and poet. In fact the best-selling poet in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, including popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions.
McKuen’s songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry, according to the Associated Press.
What is little remembered is McKuen’s queer past and his gay activism work.
A real cowboy
Rod McKuen was born in California at the tail end of the depression. At eleven, he left home to work at jobs that took him throughout the western United States as Rodman on a surveying unit, cowhand, lumberjack, ditch digger, railroad worker, and finally rodeo cowboy.

The more than 1500 songs penned by McKuen include such standards as:
LOVE'S BEEN GOOD TO ME,
JEAN,
I THINK OF YOU,
ROCK GENTLY,
THE WORLD I USED TO KNOW,
WITHOUT A WORRY IN THE WORLD,
A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN,
JOANNA
I'LL CATCH THE SUN.
The French performing society named IF YOU GO AWAY the song of the millennium.

His endeavors on behalf on anti-discrimination won him a second medal from the Freedoms Foundation and he was twice been named Variety Clubs Man of the year.

McKuen is past president of The National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse and came out publicly in his 1977 best selling book FINDING MY FATHER about his own abuse at the hands of a sadistic stepfather.
McKuen was a longtime supporter of gay rights. In the 1950s, he held a leadership role in the San Francisco chapter of the Mattachine Society. McKuen also publicly opposed Anita Bryant and dubbed her:  ‘Ginny Orangeseed’—and gave benefit performances in Miami and at gay discos in New York and LA to raise money for gay rights groups to fight her. He also engaged in AIDS activism for well over a decade, participating in numerous fundraisers in support of AIDS related charities.
The cover for his 1977 Slide… Easy In album, depicts an arm with his fist filled with Crisco, hovering above a can with the label “disco” on it. The so-called “Crisco/Disco” album featured the song “Don’t Drink the Orange Juice,” released during the national “gaycot” of Florida orange juice in response to the Anita Bryant campaign.
Later that same year the Associated Press asked McKuen if he was gay. He responded: “I’ve been attracted to men and I’ve been attracted to women. I have a 16-year-old son. You put a label on.”
McKuen refused to label his sexual activities:
Am I gay? Let me put it this way, Collectively I spend more hours brushing my teeth than having sex so I refuse to define my life in sexual terms. I’ve been to bed with women and men and in most cases enjoyed the experience with either sex immensely. Does that make me bi-sexual? Nope. Heterosexual? Not exclusively. Homosexual? Certainly not by my definition.
I am sexual by nature and I continue to fall in love with people and with any luck human beings of both sexes will now and again be drawn to me. I can’t imagine choosing one sex over the other, that’s just too limiting. I can’t even honestly say I have a preference. I’m attracted to different people for different reasons.
I do identify with the Gay Rights struggle, to me that battle is about nothing more or less than human rights. I marched in the 50’s and 60’s to protest the treatment of Blacks in this country and I’m proud of the fact that I broke the color barrier in South Africa by being the first artist to successfully demand integrated seating at my concerts. I am a die-hard feminist and will continue to speak out for women’s rights as long as they are threatened. These, of course, are all social issues and have nothing to do with my sex life (although admittedly I’ve met some pretty hot people of both sexes on the picket line.)
When Rod McKuen died in 2015 most news outlets erased the fact that for over half a century McKuen selflessly and proudly advocated for gay rights while refusing to put sexual labels on himself.


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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Man's Country Casserole

“He’s a meat and potatoes kind of guy”
“Homeopathic” doctors say that you should never combine steak with high starch carbohydrates such as potatoes. Let's just ignore that, we don't need that kind of negativity in our lives! In fact “meat & potatoes” has come to mean the most important part or essence of the matter. In our case, the matter is dinner! Now slave is not saying that to refuse steak & potatoes makes you a heretic, just saying I didn't climb to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian!


What a casserole: use left-over beef, potatoes, & onions, throw in some cheese how much more masculine a dinner can you get?


Ingredients

  • 1 T. olive oil
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 Tbs mustard
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 C. cooked beef, cut
  • 1 (10 oz.) can cream of onion soup
  • 1 C. sour cream
  • 1¼ C. milk
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 4-6 potatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 1½ C. cheddar cheese, shredded

Directions
Do your cutting: scrub and slice the potatoes thinly. 
 


Chop the onions and garlic. Cut the left-over beef into thin bite sized pieces.
Spray a casserole.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large skillet, heat oil. Add the onions and cook for about 8 minutes. Add the garlic and mustard. Stir as that cooks for about 2 minutes.
Stir in the pieces of meat and let the flavors blend and heat. About 4 minutes.





While that cooks:
In a large bowl add in soup, sour cream, milk, salt and pepper; whisk until well combined. 
 


In the sprayed baking dish, layer the potatoes on the bottom. Next spoon about half of the meat – onion mixture. Spoon half the soup mix over that and repeat with another layer of potatoes, meat and soup.
Sprinkle on cheddar cheese and cover with foil.



Bake for 45 minutes or until bubbly. Uncover and let cheese brown for another 15 minutes.
Serve with a nice green vegetable and maybe a hot bread.
What a hearty meal for my Master!



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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Atherton Chicken Thighs and Whispers

Here is a simple and delicious way of fixing chicken thighs. Brighten up any holiday gathering! This is to honor a long forgotten Irish Bishop John Atherton. Find out his story in a short article after the recipe.
Chicken thighs, mushrooms and garlic in a creamy sauce! This is sure to impress!
Ingredients:
3 boneless/ skinless chicken thighs:
For Mushroom Sauce:
  • 2 cloves garlic crushed
  • 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
  • 1 cup sliced brown mushrooms
  • ½ cup light cream or reduced fat cream
½ cup dried cranberries


Directions:
Before cooking, salt and pepper the chicken and allow to stand 30 minutes at room temperature.
Cut up the garlic. Be sure to pry out any green parts, they are very bitter. Also rinse and drain the mushrooms.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon of oil in and swirl to coat. Lay the chicken into the pan away from you, cook 5 minutes on each side or until browned.
Remove the chicken and tent with foil to keep warm.
Reduce heat to medium-low; add 2 tablespoons of butter, and the mix of mushrooms and garlic. Stir this well. Add the balsamic vinegar and scrape up any brown parts left in bottom of pan. You will want this to flavor your sauce. Cooking for a further 1-2 minutes, or until the you start smelling the garlic.



Stir in the cream until well mixed. Place the chicken back in the pan and cover. Reduce heat and let simmer for 5 minutes.
Stir in the cranberries just before pulling the chicken out to the platter. Spoon the sauce over the chicken.
Serve chicken with the mushrooms sauce and a side of green vegetables.
What a meal to serve my Master!
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It was a time that politics and religion were one and the same. The Pilgrims left England in 1622 to escape that mix.
In 1636 John Atherton was appointed a bishop of the Church of Ireland. He was not welcomed by the Roman Catholic majority in his see. For nearly five years, Bishop Atherton was one of the loudest and most anti-gay proponents for a new law making homosexuality a capital crime.


Then in 1640 Atherton was accused of buggery with a man, John Childe, his steward and tithe proctor. They were tried under that law that Atherton himself had helped to institute. They both faced the death sentence.

The Bishop's fellow clerics did what they could to defend him, to avoid disgrace to the reformed religion of Ireland. Throughout the case he pleaded his innocence in the face of flimsy evidence. His sole accuser was a man lacking integrity and credibility. It was his word against John’s. The accuser won the day and the outcome was inevitable.

Years later, the man on whose sole evidence John was condemned, was himself brought to justice and hanged. At the gallows, he confessed his sins and in that confession declared that the accusation against John Atherton had been completely false.

It is said that during the trial, Atherton burned a bundle of papers, which he had written out of law books, for his own defense.

Reports said that Atherton's attitude during the trial was 'by all condemned;' but when the fatal issue became manifest his manner changed. Three times daily Dr. Nicholas Bernard visited the prisoner, who became penitent, and faced the penalty with equanimity.
'The magnanimity of the man,' says Bernard, 'I did much admire.' When news of a possible reprieve came, 'it moved him not, as rather choosing a present deserved death than the prolonging of an ignominious life; whereby the scandal would but increase'.

The verdict of guilty was hailed by cheers in court, and he was nearly murdered on his way from the bar to the Dublin Gaol in Cork.

He always denied the specific charge of sodomy, and did so once again from the gallows before he was hung on December 5th.
His lover John Childe was hanged shortly afterwards at Bandon Bridge.

This was the second pair of men executed for sodomy in the history of the United Kingdom.
(the first men executed for sodomy were Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven and his two menservants, in 1631.)

A contemporary pamphlet, The Life and Death of John Atherton (1641), remains. However the trial records, were destroyed in the Jacobite rebellion that broke out almost immediately after Atherton's execution.
Fifty years later Atherton was defended as a victim of a conspiracy, on evidence gathered from “people recently living”.

They said the main reason for the Bishop's disgrace was his political efforts in opposing the Articles of Irish Convocation in 1634, and the personal hatred of the Earl of Cork, whom he had successfully sued in a dispute over land rights. Atherton's patron, the Earl of Strafford, also an enemy of the Earl of Cork, was executed for treason in May 1641.

Others said Atherton's demeanor was clearly incompatible with the idea he was the innocent victim of a vile conspiracy. It is to be noted that none of his accusers were Roman Catholics.
The Bishop's body, by his own desire, was buried in the obscurest part of St. John's churchyard, Dublin.

From our vantage point nearly 400 years latter we can see that both sides were using the Bishop's memory for their own political gains.

But what about the man behind the title? Was he gay? There is no true way of telling. Yet just this week we hear the news of another anti-gay, homophobic person of power being caught having homosexual relations. Did he protest too much?


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Sunday, December 3, 2017

Enslaved Chuck Roast

Sweetness with a bite – fork tender meat – messy eating: all are part of the phenomenon known as Bar B Que. Here is a great example using a chuck roast of beef. Texas is known for using beef, whereas most of the rest of the South uses pork. There's a tomato based sauce from Louisiana to Georgia, mustard based sauce in the Carolina's. Sweet & smoky in Missouri, etc etc. Each has found a way into our lives. 
 

Our roast tonight is prepared with a nod to that wonderful style of cooking, low and slow with a blend of sweetness and spices that satisfies and forces us to lick our fingers! It ain't Bar B Que if you don't need a shower afterwords. 
 

Ingredients:
2 – 3 lbs thick cut chuck roast
1 Tbs Kosher salt
1 Tbs brown sugar
1 Tbs smoked paprika
2 tsp white pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
grated ½ of an onion
1 tsp ground mustard
½ tsp liquid smoke (too much of this gives a taste of hot dogs!)
foil
Directions:
Line a roasting tray with foil and spray a rack inside that.
Lay out some foil and place the roast, uncovered.

In a small bowl mix: salt, brown sugar, smoked paprika, white pepper and garlic powder.

Rub this all over the roast covering it well, both sides and the edges.
Let this sit on the counter for at least half an hour while you preheat the oven to 225 degrees.
Mix together the grated onion, ground mustard, and add the ½ tsp of liquid smoke, mix well. Spread in a thin layer over the top of the roast.

Wrap the roast well in foil, sealing the edges. This will help keep the meat juicy. The use of smoked paprika and the touch of liquid smoke will give it that out door smoked flavor. The dry rub of spices and the grated onion will go to produce a Maillard reaction, giving this roast the wonderful flavor we're looking for. 
 

Place in center rack of oven.
Roast 3.5 hours!


The temperature should read 145 degrees, and the meat should be fork-tender. Check it with an instant read thermometer stuck right through the foil. Remove from oven and let sit & rest for 15 minutes before opening and carving up.

NOTE: Your meat will continue to cook slightly after removing from the oven. Aim for 150 degrees for serving a medium roast. 
 


Slice the meat against the grain for the most tender bites. Serve pieces of meat on a platter. If you like, have some of your favorite sauce on the side however you'll find the meat doesn't need it.



Feel free to add a green vegetable as a side, and possibly serve with rice & your heated sauce for that.

Happy to be a slave for my Master Indy.
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About Bar Be Que and Slavery:
Slavery can be traced back to the earliest records we have. It was known in the very first civilizations dating back as far as 3500 BC, as well as in almost every other civilization. It existed in many different forms: chattel slavery, indentured servitude, forced labor, etc. In fact not all slavery was non-consensual. See the Jewish practice of “the Opening of the Ear”

Today there is a portion of people who self-identify as slaves, Consensual slavery, (yours truly as an example). Granted the word slave can be confusing. However I for one can feel a kinship with the millions of my brothers & sisters in bondage. I'm not attempting to diminish the horrors of African-American slavery in the Old South. I'm just saying there were and are other forms of slavery.
Fast forward to a favorite meal in these United States: Bar- B- Que. This was a creation of the enslaved! It was their recipes and traditions that developed our national cravings for this enterprise. It started as a blend of African and First Nationer cooking.
Bar-B-Que is a whole culture! It is so much more than simply a sauce from a bottle. It is a way of cooking, as well as an event that was always integrated! Whites and Blacks, even in the deepest South joined together sharing a great meal and a great time.

This meal was prepared after studying the recipes and ways of cooking Bar B Que from the late 1700's.
Here is a link to one such presentation you might like:








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