Pier Luigi Chicken Lasagna

Tonight's delight is a Chicken Cordon Bleu inspired take on lasagna! No tomato sauce here. We use an elevated sauce featuring thyme and the balance of chicken with ham and cheese present well on homemade pasta. We dedicate it to Pier Luigi Farnese who in the early 1500's served as duke of Castro as well as Duke of Parma. While being a rather ruthless leader, he spent his time pursuing other men with or without their consent.

 

 Using the tastes of Chicken Cordon bleu in a lasagna might seem exotic, it will establish your reputation as a true chief.

Ingredients

1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter

1 cup Panko crispy bread crumbs

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon white or black pepper

1 can (12 fluid ounces) Evaporated Milk

3/4 cup chicken broth – low salt

2 tsp mustard

1 tsp chopped fresh thyme leaves

1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, cubed

1 ¼ cups shredded Guyere cheese.

12 cooked homemade lasagna noodles

3 cups shredded cooked chicken

1 cup chopped cooked ham

2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese (8 oz)

Additional chopped fresh thyme leaves if desired for garnish

Directions:

Make your noodles! With the help of a KitchenAid mixer it is much easier to make pasta so quickly.

Homemade Pasta Recipe

Ingredients:

2½ cups all-purpose flour, tapped through a mesh strainer

1 cup semolina flour, strained, plus extra flour for preparing

½ teaspoon salt

4 large eggs, beaten + 1 egg beaten in separate bowl as needed

2 Tablespoons water

Directions:

Use a spoon to fluff up the flour within the container.

Use a spoon to scoop the flour into the measuring cup. Don't pack in the flour with your spoon or you'll get too much. Don't tap the measuring cup either. Just scoop it in.

Use a knife or other straight edged utensil to level the flour across the measuring cup.

Place 4 eggs, water, flour and salt in mixer bowl. Begin adding the water 1 tablespoon and add more as needed.

Attach flat beater. Turn to speed 2 and mix for 30 to 60 seconds. Add more water if the dough is too dry, in ½ Tablespoon increments.

Change out the flat beater for the dough hook. Turn to speed 2 and knead for 2 minutes. Knead until the dough indents when you touch it. Remove the dough, Dust a cutting board with the semolina flour and knead by hand. you only have to hand-knead it for a minute or so after it was done.

Cover dough with plastic wrap and let it sit for approximately 20 minutes. This resting time is important!

Cut dough into four pieces before processing with pasta sheet roller machine. Take one piece and flatten into a rectangular shape. Adding flour to both sides. Be sure to cover the other pieces with plastic wrap or a damp tea towel.

Attach the pasta roller to your counter and set it to #1. Roll the pasta dough through. While still on #1, fold the dough in half and run it through again two more times.

Adding a little bit of flour on each side of the dough again, change setting to #2 and pass the pasta dough through the sheet roller. Do this twice and then twice each on #3. For lasagna you want a thicker pasta to hold up the layers so don't do the #4 setting. You will use that for pasta like spaghetti, etc.

Once you’re done, fold the pasta up gently and cover with plastic while you repeat the process for the remaining 3 pieces of dough.

For other types of pasta, add flour to each side of your long pasta sheet. Change the attachment to your spaghetti or fettuccine cutter.

Run the pasta sheet through and with your left hand, hold on to the pasta as it comes through the cutter. It's usually really long so cut it and then wind it around your hand to create a nest. Allow pasta to dry for a few minutes before boiling.

Your gorgeous pasta can be used immediately or allowed to dry before freezing.

When boiling your pasta, it only needs 3 to 7 minutes to boil.

For our lasagna, place a sheet of wax paper on the counter and sprinkle “lightly with flour”.

If you freeze the extra, never thaw them out before cooking as this makes them stick together.

Dump into boiling water and gently move them around in the salted water. Never clumps this way.

Lay out the cooked noodles on a lined baking sheet while you prepare the rest of the dish.

Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray.

Sauce:

1/3 cup butter or margarine

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon white or black pepper

1 can (12 fluid ounces) Evaporated Milk

¾ cup chicken broth, low salt

1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, cubed

MELT butter in small saucepan. Stir in flour, salt and pepper. Gradually add evaporated milk and broth. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes just to a boil. 

 

 Stir in the cream cheese and grated Guyere. Always spray the grater first this makes it easier to clean. Stir until melted and add the ¼ tsp thyme.

 Remove from heat. 

Spread 1 cup of the sauce in bottom of baking dish; top with a layer of 3 noodles.

On top of noodles, spoon 1 cup of the chicken, 1/3 cup of the ham, 1 cup of the sauce and ½ cup of the Monterey Jack cheese. Repeat two more layers, starting with noodles. Top with remaining noodles, sauce and cheese.

Spray piece of foil with cooking spray; cover sprayed side down. Bake 35 minutes.

In small microwavable bowl, microwave 2 tablespoons of the butter uncovered on High 20 to 40 seconds or until melted. Add bread crumbs to bowl, and stir until mixed well; set aside.

Remove lasagna from oven; uncover, and top with bread crumb mixture. Bake uncovered 10 to 15 minutes or until bread crumbs are lightly browned, noodles are tender and edges are bubbly.

Let stand 20 minutes before serving. Garnish with additional thyme.

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So happy to serve this to my Master Indy.

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Pier Luigi Farnese was the first Duke of Castro and the first Duke of Parma and Piacenza.

Pier Luigi Alexander Farnese was born in 1503 from the union between Cardinal Alexander Farnese (future Pope Paul III) and a Roman noblewoman.

His illegitimacy tormented Pier Luigi all his life, and doubtless contributed to the formation of his character. The nobility of Piacenza was frequently known to insult him as "the bastard son of the Pope." As the eldest and beloved son he was legitimized along with his brother Paul at the age of two in 1505 by Pope Julius II.

He was given a famous humanist tutor, and quickly developed a love of war and fortifications.

Alexander was, however, keen to make Pier Luigi the true head of the Farnese family and so arranged a favorable marriage alliance with Gerolama Orsini, daughter of the Count of Pitigliano. In 1513 the engagement contract was drawn up, and in 1519 the wedding celebrated.

Despite a loveless marriage, Gerolama remained a faithful devoted wife giving him four children and tolerating Pier Luigi's excesses, brutality, and extravagances.

Pier Luigi Farnese quickly became the stereotype of a mercenary soldier: wild and amoral. He had courage and daring and while strong and audacious was also sufficiently brutal to offend many observers. Nor did he always fight on the traditional side of the papacy.

In 1520, at the age of seventeen, he and his brother Ranuccio were already employed as mercenaries in the pay of the Republic of Venice. As a result, he served under the standard of Charles V - remaining with the emperor until 1527, he was present at the Sack of Rome of that year, in which he took part.

While his brother Ranuccio withdrew to defend the Pope; Pier Luigi crossed the Tiber and quartered his men in the family palace, thus saving it from destruction.

Luigi withdrew from Rome into the Roman countryside, taxing it without mercy and permitting a climate of theft and murder. 

 

 When his father was elevated to the papacy as Paul III in 1534, his first action was to make Pier Luigi's eldest son, Alessandro Farnese, a cardinal. But Charles V only reluctantly allowed the granting of titles to Pier Luigi agreeing an annual pension on the condition that the news was not made public.

The office of Captain General of the Church had become vacant, and Paul nominated his son. Pier Luigi traveled through the Papal States defeating pockets of resistance before arriving in triumph at Piacenza.

The Duchy of Castro operated as a functioning State within the Patrimony of Saint Peter. It possessed rich forests full of game, fertile vineyards and fields, and a great number of fortresses. The Pope also awarded his son the cities of Nepi and Ronciglione. Pier Luigi was tasked with repairing all the fortresses over which he was now feudal lord. During his life Pier Luigi gained a certain reputation for cruelty, ruthlessness and decadence. A particular scandal erupted in 1537, when he was accused of raping a young bishop Cosimo Gheri, who subsequently died.

Eventually to no one's surprise, Pier's reputation caught up with him and he was stabbed him to death. The conspirators hung his body from a window of his palace in Piacenza. Pier Luigi's body was brought back and buried in Piacenza; later the body was transported to the family tomb on the island of Bisentina on Lake Bolsena.

Pier Luigi Farnese had married Girolama Orsini and sired four children. Letters exist from Pier Luigi's father, Paul III, reproaching him for taking male lovers when on an official mission to the court of the emperor; and another from the chancellor of the Florentine embassy detailing a man-hunt he had mounted in Rome to search for a youth who had refused his advances.

So historians feel safe in labeling him as a bisexual. While not exactly a “hero” he definitely shaped the course of Italian history.

Chicken Cambacérès

Chicken Cambacérès (COM-bas-R-ess)

This chicken delicacy is named for the famous LGBT hero of France: Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duc de Parme. That's a mouthful and so is this chicken! Learn about this great man in a short essay after the recipe.

Slave understands that the instructions look difficult but if you read them first, the task is really easy. Most of it is to make sure the breading stays on the meat! This is a variation of Chicken Kiev. It is so juicy and full of flavor. Plus once you learn how to bread the meat you can use it for all kinds of other dishes. Fried chicken, Fish, Pork, even vegetables! 

 

 

Ingredients:

3 chicken breasts (boneless-skinless)

3 Tbs real butter

3 Tbs grated Gruyere cheese

1 Tbs fresh parsley, chopped

½ tsp garlic powder.

Directions: 

 

 To grate the cheese always spray the grater first.

 

 Chop the parsley:

In a medium bowl or mixer, Mix together butter, parsley, garlic, and grated cheese, and season generously with salt and pepper.

                          

Roll butter into a ½ inch thick log, then wrap tightly in plastic wrap and place in freezer for an hour.

Take the chicken pieces out of the package and pat dry with paper towels.

Roll in cornstarch. 

 

 

With a knife, poke a hole down into the meat, not all the way through but wide enough for the butter stick.

Place in refrigerator uncovered to dry for 15 to 20 minutes. (a dry surface will help the coating adhere evenly to the chicken.)

NOTE: this is a good time to fix the vegetables.

 

 Cut a piece of the frozen butter/cheese log and place inside the pocket of each piece and shove it in completely, the frozen butter should hold it.

Sprinkle lightly with more corn starch, Let sit while you prepare batter.

Batter:

½ cup sparkling water, cold

1 egg (yolk and white separated)

1 cup flour

½ cup cornstarch

Directions:

To make the batter: Mix ½ cup cold sparkling water. An egg yolk, 1 cup flour and a half cup of cornstarch. Blend. Beat the egg white and when thick, fold into the mixture. Never add salt to the batter.

Dip the chicken in this and place on a plate to sit. It should seal up the slit. Again, chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. This will help the batter to solidify, and adhere better when the chicken is cooked.

 

 

Heat the oil or fat until hot before adding the chicken. Gently lay the breaded meat in your pan. Be sure not to overcrowd.

Use your probe thermometer to keep track of the temperatures of the meat and oil. Don’t try to turn the chicken! When the bottom is the shade of golden you want, gently loosen the pieces with a wide spatula and transfer them to a plate. Heat more oil or fat in the pan until hot and return the chicken pieces, uncooked side down; cook over medium heat without turning until brown on the other side and fully cooked inside. Internal temps should reach 150 F for at least 3 minutes.

Drain them on a wire rack turned upside down on paper towels.

Bring it to the table as soon as it is done. Battered fried food must be done in real time: the closer you get to eating it, the better. This is because the cover given by the batter and the humidity of the food quickly remove the crunchiness. In short, it is never good to preserve the delicacies fried in batter: better to make a sacrifice and eat them immediately!

So you want to make sure your vegetables are done before frying! They will stay warm, the chicken wont keep!

What an elegant meal to serve my Master!

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Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès

Cambacérès was a famous French lawyer and statesman during the time of the French Revolution. He is best known as one of the authors of the Napoleonic Code, which still forms the basis of French civil law and that of much of the Western world.

Cambacérès has been credited with the decriminalization of homosexuality in France. Many historians argue that point. Consider: Cambacérès was open about his attraction to men. He remained unmarried and is noted as having been surrounded by unmarried young men. To have been able to hold important positions in government at the time was in itself a “revolutionary” act and an important contribution to society.

Cambacérès was born in 1753 in Montpellier, France. In 1774, he graduated in law from the college d’Aix and succeeded his father as Councillor in the court of accounts and finances in Toulouse.

He was a major supporter of the French Revolution of 1789.

In 1792, he represented the department of Hérault at the National Convention which proclaimed the First French Republic in September of that year.

In revolutionary terms, Cambacérès was a moderate. His legal expertise made him useful to all parties.

As a member of the Committee of General Defence from 1793, Cambacérès worked on much of the legislation of the revolutionary period.

During 1795, he was employed as a diplomat and negotiated peace with Spain, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Batavian Republic.

Cambacérès had been appointed as Minister of Justice by 1799.

He supported the coup that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul, forming a new regime designed to establish a stable constitutional republic.

In 1802 he rendered substantial help in establishing the life consulate for Bonaparte. He was made archchancellor of the empire in 1804 and was created Duke of Parma in 1808. Presiding over the Senate and, as a rule, over the Council of State, he exercised extended powers during Napoleon’s absences.

Cambacérès was appointed Second Consul. He was effectively second-in-command of France during the Napoleonic era.

Cambacérès was charged with the drawing up of a new Civil Law Code – later called the Napoleonic Code, recognized as France’s first modern legal code. It came into effect in 1804.

Napolean’s conquests of Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, western Germany, and Spain meant that the legal code created by Cambacérès shaped the legal framework of much of Europe and Latin America.

As to decriminalization of homosexuality: Prior to the Revolution, sodomy had been a capital crime under royal legislation. The penalty was burning at the stake. Executions rarely happened, men caught having sex with other men were usually cautioned or imprisoned.

The National Assembly of 1791 removed a range of criminal offenses that were religion-based, such as blasphemy. While sodomy wasn’t specifically mentioned in this context, it fell under the umbrella of religious crimes and so was effectively removed by the National Assembly at that time.

The Penal Code of France was updated in 1810. This would have been an opportunity to reinstate the decriminalization of sodomy and homosexuality if that was an issue. There is no evidence that any consideration was given to this.

Public decency offenses were used to police public sexual encounters between men.

The fact that Cambacérès was homosexual was a well known one and it appears he did not at all attempt to conceal his sexual orientation. Indeed, Napoleon is recorded as frequently joking on the matter with him and it had no bearing on the high offices he held. Homosexuality had been decriminalized under the Revolution and Napoleon elected to keep it that way and so compared to other countries Revolutionary and Napoleonic France was a  period of relative freedom for gay people.

Excluded from public life at the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, Cambacérès reluctantly returned to it in the Hundred Days, at Napoleon’s bidding, when he directed the Ministry of Justice and presided over the Chamber of Peers.

Exiled at the Second Restoration, he lived in Belgium until 1818, when he was allowed to return to France, with his restored. He lived quietly until his death in 1824. He was buried with full honors in Pere Lachaise cemetery.

 

The Boys of Pompeii Pork Chops

Here is another slow cooking meal that insures your chops will be juicy and tender. It cooks on low for four hours! We dedicate it to the long lost gay community of ancient Pompeii. Read about them after the recipe.

Nice bone in chops, slow cooked in a soup based sauce, easy and juicy!

Ingredients:

4 pork chops, bone in (about 2 pounds)

1 onion, sliced

4 cloves garlic, minced

¼ cup flour

1 can evaporated milk

1 can cream of onion soup

2 tsp. paprika

2 tsp. garlic powder

1 tsp. poultry seasoning

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

½ teaspoon each salt + pepper

Directions:

First, always wipe out your slow cooker and spray it.

Do your cutting: carefully slice the onion on a mandolin slicer. Mince the garlic.

Brown the pork chops on both sides in a large frying pan over high heat.

Add the sliced onion and the minced garlic in the bottom of the slow cooker. Place the pork chops on top. Set on LOW.

In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the evaporated milk together with the cream of onion soup and ¼ cup flour until blended. Stir in the mustard and the spices before pouring over the pork chops.

Cook on low for 4 hours.

Once ready, remove the pork chops from the slow cooker and serve with the cooking gravy.

Goes well with potatoes, rice or pasta and a green vegetable.

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So honored to serve this to my Master on the occasion of his birthday!

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To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

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The Boys of Pompeii

Back in 79 AD, Mt Vesuvius erupted burying Pompeii yet preserving the city.

The ash preserved homoerotic frescoes that Christianity would no doubt have destroyed had they not been covered.

The city was not completely buried, and tops of buildings were still above the ash making it obvious where to dig or salvage building material. But it was mostly forgotten.

Further eruptions particularly in 471–473 and 512 covered the remains more deeply.

Around 1700 the city of Pompeii and a sister city Herculaneum were “re-discovered” and work began on excavations.

When the artwork was first discovered, people found it so scandalous that much of it was locked away in the National Museum of Naples, where it remained hidden from view for over 100 years. In 2000, the art was finally made view-able to the public, but minors must be accompanied by an adult.

The art work was not just sexual, much of it was HOMOSEXUAL!

Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offered a unique look at Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried. Historians got an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants, although much of the evidence was lost in the early excavations.

Organic remains, including wooden objects and human bodies, were entombed in the ash and decayed leaving voids which archaeologists found could be used as molds to make plaster casts of unique and often gruesome figures in their final moments of life. This technique is still in use today, with a clear resin now used instead of plaster because it is more durable, and does not destroy the bones, allowing further analysis.

Two such bodies were found wrapped in a poignant embrace as they were covered beneath molten rock and layers of ash. The heterocentric culture of the scientists assumed them to be two women. However that was not the case.

The bodies were originally dubbed “The Two Maidens” but in a startling discovery scientists found the two bodies were actually male – raising speculation that they may have been gay lovers.

“We always imagined that it was an embrace between women. But a CAT scan and DNA have revealed that they are men. “You can’t say for sure that the two were lovers. But considering their position, you can make that hypothesis. It is difficult to say with certainty.” said Massimo Osanna, director-general of the world-famous archaeological site.

One of the two bodies is lying at a right angle to the other and seen with his head resting on the other’s chest in search of comfort and perhaps protection.

Extensive anthropological tests of the duo’s bones and teeth have revealed that one of the them was a young man aged about 18 years of age while the second was probably an adult male aged about 2 years older. Buried for centuries, the tenderness and love still evokes feelings today.

Gay history was usually erased, but glimpses are preserved on the walls of Pompeii. One of the fascinating things preserved in Pompeii is the graffiti on the city walls where the thoughts of the people remain, uncensored by subsequent history.

One scratching on a wall reads, ” Phoebus the perfume sellers sucks real good.”

Others walls around Pompeii read like a truck stop bathroom, including some colorful gay comments:

On the bar-brothel of Innulus and Papilio:

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

On the house of the Citharist below a drawing of a man with a large nose:

Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.

On the basilica:

Phileros is a eunuch!

On the Eumachia Building:

Secundus likes to screw boys.

On the house of Orpheus:

I have buggered men.

 

There is a frieze on the walls of the Suburban Baths showing sixteen sex scenes, including male-male and female-female couples and same-sex pairings within group sex scenes. Both men and women went to the bathe there, sharing a singular changing room.

The scenes may have served as a way to remember where you put your clothing! Like parking lots that use animals or colors.

Human history is filled with the love shared by LGBT's, a history too often hidden from us. So let us rejoice and share these long forgotten important parts of life.