Maelgwn Medieval Pottage Stew

October is LGBT History Month. For tonight's dish, lets go back to the age of King Arthur. We pay homage to one of his contemporaries the early Welsh King Maelgwn Gwynedd. Yes, he too was “a friend of Dorothy”. With fall weather a hearty pottage stew from that time will comfort Your King at His feasting table.

Beef, carrots, celery, spinach, and some good white beans slow cooked in an earthenware crock will delight all who are invited to join at your table.

Ingredients

• 1 pound cubed beef meat
• 1 cup chopped onion

• 1 cup chopped carrots
• 1 32 oz container beef broth – low sodium
• 1 can beans
• spinach
• 1 pkg frozen 4 Cheese Tortellini *
  

Wipe out the slow cooker and spray with cooking spray. Set on low

Do your cutting: chop the onions and carrots, set aside.

Trim off any fat off the beef. Fat adds taste but should be cooked out. This doesn't happen in a slow cooker. So trim it off. 

I add the chunks of fat to the oil I have heating in a large skillet while I cut up the rest of the beef. 

 

Cut into 1 – 2 inch cubes.

Mix ½ cup of flour with a ½ tsp of salt + pepper to taste. Roll the cubes in a half cup of flour until coated on all sides.

Save back a bit of left over flour to make a surry for thickening if needed. But throw away any not cook today!

Now remove the chunks of fat from the skillet, they have done their job, throw them away. 

 

Saute the beef until browned on all sides. The flour will have given it a nice touch of a crust. 

 

Set aside, add the onion to the same skillet and stir them around picking up any bits of that wonderful beef flavor. “Sweat” the onions until they start to turn transparent.

Now to the slow cooker:

add the carrots, then the onions

Now the beef and pour in the 32 oz carton of beef broth.

 Cover and let cook for 6 ½ hours on low.

While this is simmering, cut the stems off the spinach and drain the white beans.

At the 6 ½ hour mark, add the spinach by handfuls, stirring each in as it wilts. Pour in the beans.

Add the frozen Tortellini 

Cover and cook for an additional hour.

*If you wish to use regular pasta, I suggest thin noodles or angel hair. Add at the end of the cooking time. Re-cover, turn off the heat, and let sit for 20 minutes. The pasta will be fully cooked and not mushy.

Such a hearty royal dish fit for your King or Master

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Maelgwn Gwynedd died c. 547 was one of the first kings of the North Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd in the 6th century A.D.

It is said that "Malgo, king of the Venedotians" addicted himself to sex with other men!

We know that Maelgwn had at least three wives, and according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, also had male lovers.

He is nicknamed Maelgwn Hir, or Maelgwn "the Tall" in Welsh. He was sent to St. Illtud's school and given a prestigious education. His royal courts were filled with musicians, poets, and bards, including the famed Dark Age bard Taliesin.

He lived in a time of great political change. He was a contemporary of the historical King Arthur. His life span crossed the time from the general peace Arthur had wrought, to the wars resulting in Arthur's death.

In The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens by Mike Ashley, he is listed as homosexual.

The only contemporary information is provided by Saint Gildas, who includes Maelgwn among the five British kings who he condemns in his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae.

Maelgwyn is descried as "first in evil" and stating that he was "drunk on wine pressed from the vine of the Sodomites". Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that he "made himself hateful to God, for he was given to the vice of homosexuality."

How much more interesting the Arthur legend is knowing some of the other Kings around him were guy. Lets fantasize our own legend of the gay king Maelgwn!

Mr Kristofer Chicken Casserole

Here is a quick simple casserole that will satisfy the hungriest of Masters! Basic comfort food. For fun we are spotlighting a BDSM role model tonight:

Mr. Kristofer Weston. Read more about this interesting man after the recipe. 

 

Caned chicken, noodles, frozen vegetables and soup! Raid the pantry time for this great meal. 

 

Ingredients:

½ box bow tie pasta

2 cans cooked chicken

1 pkg frozen mixed vegetables

1 cup milk

1 22.6oz can cream of chicken soup

½ chopped onion

½ cup mushrooms

4 oz low fat cream cheese

½ pkg ranch dressing mix

Directions:

Put the water on and cook the noodles. Use the shortest time listed on package.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking dish with cooking spray.

While the pasta cooks Do your cutting:

Rinse the mushrooms and cut them into large chunks. Chop the onion. Cut the cream cheese into 1 inch chunks.

Drain the chicken

In a large bowl add the mushrooms, onions, and frozen vegetables. Mix well. 
 

In a bowl mix the soup with the milk, cream cheese hunks and half packet of ranch dressing mix. Stir carefully.

 
Add the cooked pasta to the large bowl. Pour the soup mixture on top and stir in. Last step is to gently add in the chicken. Try to keep the larger chunks together.

Dump this into the sprayed casserole. Cover with a lid or foil.

Roast at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.


Let the casserole rest for 5 minutes before serving it.

The vegetables will be cooked and all of their great taste will be infused into the casserole.

You could serve with a crusty bread, however basically this is a one dish meal with protein, dairy, vegetables, starch, and a cheese.

All in a hot package, rather like Mr Kristofer himself!

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So honored to be serving my Master Indy

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To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

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Mr Kristofer Weston

Mr. Kristofer Weston is a porn director, Leather Daddy and bondage expert, actor and true BDSM role model in the San Francisco area.

Having directed over 60 Porn films and working for studios like Falcon and Colt, he knows his way around the adult and kink industry.

You might know Mr Kristofer as Amp Somers' Daddy or as a director for porn flicks for Boundjocks, and Kinkmen. Mr Kristofer now directs all the hot videos and visuals for Mr-S-Leather in San Francisco. 

Or from the Youtube Channel: Watts the Safeword.

KRISTOFER WESTON - STEVE LANDESS

He has been a player in the BDSM Community since he was 19. That’s when “Leather Daddy Zeus” took the young blond under his wings and showed him the ropes.

In 1992 Kristofer graduated from college and took a trip to Europe meeting the owner of RoB of Amsterdam in a Leather bar. He was offered a job opening the RoB of Amsterdam store in San Francisco. They had just purchased Drummer Magazine and wanted to keep an eye on the operations in San Francisco while they ran the company in Europe.

One of his duties was to review all of the S/M porn that they sold and grow the video sales through Drummer. He soon became a video content expert.

After three years of managing RoB San Francisco Kristofer quit and started his own video distribution company called MASTA Entertainment.

In 1995 I started to direct his own movies under the porn name Steve Landess. He quickly learned he had a knack for directing.

By 2001 John Rutherford became President of Falcon Studios and asked Kristofer to direct the Falcon line of videos. Selling his MASTA, he started directing Falcon movies under my real name of Kristofer Weston. His first movie, “Branded”, had the actors being tied down and branded with a hot iron….Mr Rutherford seemed to like this.

Rutherford bought COLT Studio Group in 2004, and Kristofer got to direct the hottest and hunkiest men in the world for both the COLT and Buckshot brands! 

 

 

Kristofer@mrKristofer.com

He and His pup Amp run the youtube chanel: Watts the Safeword

The two kinksters will take us through how their relationship works, How the world of kink has evolved into the scene, as well as just about any other topic connected with the BDSM scene.

He also has a bondage blog: MrKristofer.com

...and a website: justfor.fans/KristoferWeston 

 

He travels extensively promoting the BDSM/Leather lifestyle. Lecturing, demonstrating, and otherwise being a role model for kinksters all over the world.

Creamy French Scrambled Eggs

Got the most wonderful surprise this last week! After several decades of considering myself an expert on all the ways of cooking eggs, I learned a “new” one! Scrambled is considered the quickest way to fix eggs. But leave it to the French to do it better. It is such a simple technique, I hesitate to make a post on it. However the taste is fantastic! Try it sometime as a special treat.

Turn simple scrambled eggs into a fancy unique presentation by simply adding love! Garnish with sliced tomatoes, serve with bacon, just about anything goes with these nearly spoonable eggs. 

 

Ingredients:

4 large eggs

1 Tbs non fat Half & Half

Salt and pepper to taste

optional 1 tsp mayonnaise

Directions:

In a small bowl, combine eggs, half & half, salt and mayo if using. Stir with a fork until all mixed together. You don't have to whip these with a whisk or incorporate air, just blend.

In a small sized non-stick skillet, lightly coat with less than a tsp of oil and let warm over medium low heat. This is important. Usually scrambled eggs are cooked quickly over a high heat.

You don't want a hot pan! When you add the eggs you don't want to hear them “talk” - make any noise. If you hear them sizzle, the pan is too hot!

Notice the halfway mark on the stove knob – then pick halfway from that to off. Use this setting.

Now, using a soft flexible spatula start gently stirring. Many spatulas are marked heatproof with a red handle. Here I use a silicone “French spatula”.

THIS will take time. Maybe a full 8 – 10 minutes. Don't stir fast, just keep the mixture moving. Normally the proteins coagulate rapidly in a hot skillet. Here you want to do it slowly. Let the proteins come together in a gentle loving approach. This is simply adding love, time and effort into your cooking. Focus on who it is you are cooking for. Think about how surprised they will be. How their toes will curl at the creamy taste. Here when they use the term “French creamy eggs”, they are referring to the texture not to adding a cream sauce.

The eggs will be fully cooked, only not in a solid blob. Remember the eggs will continue to cook on the plate.

The eggs should be a soft spoonable delight. Serve with toast points and maybe a couple of sliced tomatoes. Sprinkle with pepper to taste.

Truly heavenly.

For flair, add caviar or roasted maitake mushrooms, or how about a Louisiana-style hot sauce on top! But for breakfast – who are we kidding? Just make this recipe first. You can play with it another day.

Give it the proven “low and slow” technique, you will be rewarded.

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So excited to have learned something new about an old skill.

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Geng Le Dragon Eggs

While working on this recipe, I realized that I have been sadly neglecting LGBT info from the far east. It is important and very rich with characters. So this dish is dedicated to one such LGBT leader Geng Le. Please read a quick story about him after the recipe.

While the original recipe calls for ground pork, shrimp and crab, here we use a more forgiving supermarket list of pork sausage and crabmeat. A great tasting mound of meatballs in a dragon sauce served on ramen noodles, enjoy!

Ingredients

Dragon Sauce:

¾ cup white vinegar

½ cup soy sauce

½ cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

½ cup vegetable oil

½ cup chopped garlic

Meatballs:

• 1 lbs pork sausage
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• ½ tsp pepper
• ¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 large egg
• ½ cup panko bread crumbs
• 8 ounces crabmeat
• ½ cup green onions, finely diced

Directions

For the dragon eggs:
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
Mince the garlic and set aside. Slice the green onions for a garnish and set aside.

Open the sausages and place the loose pork in a large mixing bowl.

Add the minced garlic and green onions. Next pour in the breadcrumbs.

Add the egg.

In a small bowl mix the soy sauce, sugar, black pepper, red pepper flakes and ¼ cup water. Pour over and gently mix in.

Drain the crabmeat and work this in last. Set aside for 15 minutes.
This allows the bread crumbs to expand.

  

Lay out wax paper and make balls of meat mixture.

 
 Place on a parchment lined tray and bake for 18-22 minutes, or just until the center of each meatball is cooked.

While that is cooking:

 

For the dragon sauce: In a medium bowl: add the vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, red pepper flakes and Worcestershire and bring to a boil; set aside.

Cook ramen noodles according to package directions, but do not use the seasoning packet. Drain well.

Microwave some sugar snap peas to for a nice green side dish.

Transfer meatballs to a covered dish to keep warm.

Cover with dragon sauce and serve with bed of cooked ramen noodles.

Slice green onions for a garnish.

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What a unique dish to serve my Master Indy

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To nourish, support and maintain.

To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I cook!

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The Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by 

Dan White

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Geng Le is an LGBT hero and leader you may never have heard of. A former policeman with an activist bent, his movie star looks are conservative and conventional.

Homosexuality was still illegal in China while he was on the force. Now, he's arguably one of the most important figures in the country's LGBT community.

During the 16 years Geng spent on the force he felt moments of deep depression. ‘I feared the times when I was asked questions like: “When will you get a girlfriend, when will you get married?”’ remembers Geng. ‘I felt like it was too hard to live this life with such a secret.’

“I once thought I was the only gay in the world,” he said. Textbooks and Chinese Internet sites told him that being gay is an illness. Some even recommended electroshock or aversion therapies. It wasn’t until he started to look through foreign websites that he realized he wasn’t alone in the world.

“That’s when I had the idea to create a website, to tell people what homosexuality is,” he said. His website danlan.org soon became a popular way for gay people to connect in China, and an emotional outlet for Geng Le. “It was the only place where I could be true to myself,” he said. 

By 2007, danlan.org had become China’s largest gay website. When his supervisors at the police bureau found out about the other work, Geng was forced to resign. His family was devastated. His friends and colleagues turned their backs.

Unsurprisingly, it was repeatedly shut down by authorities who claimed that it violated traditional moral principles.

Attempts to commercialize it proved as problematic as censorship. Brands who might have bought ads feared that associating with homosexuals would taint their image, so they boycotted the site.

However Geng’s mother, at least, is accepting of his boyfriend, who lives with him.

In 2012, his life took a different path. He met with China’s Premier Li Keqiang to discuss his work in HIV prevention. Their handshake was broadcast on Xinwen Lianbo, or News Simulcast, China’s prime time news program produced by the state-owned China Central Television (CCTV).
In the same year, he launched Blued. 

 
Blued, Geng’s new gay dating app, now has 15 million users, including around 12 million in China (Grindr has a total of five million users). Geng has used the brand to set up HIV testing stations for gay men, strengthening his relationship with the government, which has struggled to connect with much of the gay community and has recently placed an increased focus on treating and preventing the spread of the disease.

Blued, similar to popular foreign apps such as Grindr and Jack’d. Crucially, however, Blued allows users to connect their profiles to their Weixin and Weibo accounts. Roughly 70 per cent of its users are active on it at least once a month and a quarter log on everyday.

The state-run Xinhua news agency has stated that health authorities are concerned that the ‘broad use of the internet by gay and bisexual men in China… may exacerbate the country’s already high prevalence of HIV’. Geng – who uses his websites to promote safe sex – believes it is the opposite. Previously, gay men in China had little choice other than to search each other out in public toilets or parks. But this activity has decreased since online dating opened other avenues to meet new people.

Geng, now 40, has long dreamed of having his own child.
“Ever since I turned 35, I’ve wanted to become a father, just an original desire,” Geng said.
One year ago he finally had his son through surrogacy in California, where the practice is legal. Xiao Shu’s mother is an anonymous Caucasian egg donor.

“I want an exciting life, to prove that even if you are gay, you can be successful, you can be rich, you can have respect and approval, you can have social status,” he said, speaking in his sprawling office building in Beijing, where he oversees about 200 employees. "You can have dreams, and a happy life.” 
 

“I am apologetic that I can’t give Xiao Shu a perfect family,” he said. “But I will teach him to be strong, just like I have been. I will tell him, your father is gay, but he wanted to give you life. I have confidence, and responsibility, to give you a happy life. I hope you won’t blame me for having you. Maybe you will say, thank you, dad, for bringing me into this world.”