Stove Top Toad in a Hole

Feeling froggy? Here is a quick stove top version of the English classic “Toad in a Hole”. Normally this is cooked in an oven on high heat. Sometimes in England you will find this served with a fried onion gravy instead of our syrup. Your choice.

Sausages, with a puffy batter encasing them. Serve with syrup, and maybe very cold milk.

Ingredients:

2 precooked smoked sausages ( I like “Beddar than Cheddar”)

½ cup generic pancake batter

2 eggs

2 Tbs milk

cooking spray

Butter & syrup to serve.

Directions:

Place the pancake mix in a bowl and stir in 2 eggs. Thin the batter just a touch by adding 2 Tbs milk, do not over mix. It will be thick and lumpy, that's fine! Let it sit while you warm up the sausages.

Spray a skillet, cut the sausages in thirds and warm them over a medium heat for about 3 minutes.

When sausages are up to temperature, add 1 Tbs of butter and melt. Then pour the batter over the sausages. Tilt skillet until batter is all around. Let it puff up. Lift the edges and allow the mix to flow into the skillet around the pancake. Once the egg mixture starts to look dry, flip one side over the other. This should start to show a light brown. Don't worry if it is not perfect, you are going for taste! 

By now the mixture should be set and puffed. Slide this on a plate, butter and pour syrup over the top.

If you prefer a savory dish. Open a can of condensed french onion soup, mix in 2 tbs of cornstarch. Heat and stir until thick. Pour this over the puffy plateful.

Great Briton on a plate.

Enjoy.

For our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjsNNcsUNzE

So happy to fix this for my Master's brunch!

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Lou Reed

Lou Reed was an American musician, singer, songwriter and poet. He was the rhythm/lead guitarist, singer and principal songwriter for the rock band The Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. The Velvet Underground became regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground and alternative rock music.

After leaving the band in 1970, Reed released twenty solo studio albums. His second, Transformer (1972), was considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre, anchored by Reed's most successful single, "Walk on the Wild Side".

Reed has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; as a member of the Velvet Underground in 1996 and as a solo act in 2015.

Lewis Allan Reed was born on March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. His family was Jewish; his father had changed his name from Rabinowitz to Reed. Reed said that although he was Jewish, his real god was rock 'n' roll.

His sister Merrill, said that as an adolescent, he suffered panic attacks, became socially awkward and "possessed a fragile temperament". Having learned to play the guitar from the radio, he developed an early interest in rock and roll and rhythm and blues, and during high school played in several bands.

He began experimenting with drugs at the age of 16. His first recording was as a member of a doo-wop band called the Jades. His sister recalled that during his first year in college he was brought home one day, having had a mental breakdown, after which he remained "depressed, anxious, and socially unresponsive" for a time, and that his parents were having difficulty coping. Visiting a psychologist, Reed's parents were made to feel guilty as inadequate parents, and consented to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Reed appeared to blame his father for the treatment to which he had been subjected. He wrote about the experience in his 1974 song, "Kill Your Sons". Reed later recalled the experience as having been traumatic and leading to memory loss. He believed that he was treated to dispel his feelings of homosexuality.

Upon recovery from his illness and associated treatment, Reed resumed his education at Syracuse University in 1960, studying journalism, film directing, and creative writing.

In 1961, he began hosting a late-night radio program on WAER called Excursions on a Wobbly Rail. The program typically featured doo wop, rhythm and blues, and jazz, particularly the free jazz developed in the mid-1950s. Reed's sister said that during her brother's time at Syracuse, the university authorities had tried unsuccessfully to expel him because they did not approve of his extracurricular activities.

One of Reed's fellow students at Syracuse in the early 1960s was the musician Garland Jeffreys; they remained close friends until the end of Reed's life.

While at Syracuse, Reed was also introduced to intravenous drug use for the first time, and quickly contracted hepatitis. He later said that his goals as a writer were "to bring the sensitivities of the novel to rock music" or to write the Great American Novel in a record album. Reed graduated from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences with a B.A. cum laude in English in June 1964.

A temporary band, called "the Primitives" included Welsh musician John Cale. Reed and Cale lived together on the Lower East Side, and invited Reed's college acquaintance guitarist Sterling Morrison and Cale's neighbor drummer Angus MacLise to join the band, forming the Velvet Underground. Though it had little commercial success, the band is considered one of the most influential in rock history. Reed was the main singer and songwriter in the band.

The band soon came to the attention of Andy Warhol. Warhol's associates inspired many of Reed's songs as he fell into a thriving, multifaceted artistic scene. Reed rarely gave an interview without paying homage to Warhol as a mentor. 

Rolling Stone listed “The Velvet Underground” as the 13th greatest album of all time. Václav Havel credited the album, which he bought while visiting the US, with inspiring him to become president of Czechoslovakia. Reed left the Velvet Underground in August 1970, moving back into his parents' home on Long Island. He took a job at his father's tax accounting firm as a typist, by his own account earning $40 a week ($263 in todays dollars.)

Reed's commercial breakthrough album, Transformer, was released in November 1972. Transformer was co-produced by David Bowie. The single "Walk on the Wild Side" was a salute to the misfits and hustlers who once surrounded Andy Warhol in the late '60s and appeared in his films.

Each of the song's five verses describes a person who had been a fixture at The Factory during the mid-to-late 1960s: (1) Holly Woodlawn, (2) Candy Darling, (3) "Little Joe" Dallesandro, (4) "Sugar Plum Fairy" Joe Campbell and (5) Jackie Curtis. The song's transgressive lyrics evaded radio censorship. "Walk on the Wild Side" was Reed's only entry in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, at number 16.

Bowie and Reed got into a fight during a late-night meeting which led to Reed hitting Bowie. Bowie had told Reed that he would have to "clean up his act" if they were to work together again.

Berlin (July 1973) was a concept album about two junkies in love in the city. The songs variously concern domestic violence ("Caroline Says I", "Caroline Says II"), drug addiction ("How Do You Think It Feels"), adultery and prostitution ("The Kids"), and suicide ("The Bed"). Response to Berlin at the time of its release was negative, with Rolling Stone pronouncing it "a disaster". Since then the album has been critically reevaluated, and in 2003 Rolling Stone included it in their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Berlin made number 7 in the UK charts.

Following the commercial disappointment of Berlin, Reed befriended Steve Katz of Blood, Sweat & Tears, who suggested Reed put together a "great live band" and release a live album of Velvet Underground songs. The album Rock 'n' Roll Animal was released February 1974. This gave Reed's songs the live rock sound he was looking for, and the album peaked at #45 on the Top 200 Billboard Chart for 28 weeks and soon became Reed's biggest selling album. It went gold in 1978, with 500,000 certified sales.

Sally Can't Dance which was released later that year (in August 1974), became Reed's highest-charting album in the United States, peaking at number 10 during a 14-week stay on the Billboard 200 album chart in October 1974.

1975's Coney Island Baby was dedicated to Reed's then-partner Rachel, a transgender woman Reed dated and lived with for three years.

In 1998, The New York Times observed that in the 1970s, Reed had a distinctive persona: "Back then he was publicly gay, pretended to shoot heroin onstage, and cultivated a 'Dachau panda' look, with cropped peroxide hair and black circles painted under his eyes."

The 1989 album New York, which commented on crime, AIDS, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, then-President of Austria Kurt Waldheim and Pope John Paul II, became his second gold-certified work when it passed 500,000 sales in 1997. Reed was nominated for a Grammy Award for best male rock vocal performance for the album.

In May 2000, Reed performed before Pope John Paul II at the Great Jubilee Concert in Rome. The New York Times published a Reed poem called "Laurie Sadly Listening" in which he reflects on the September 11 attacks.

Reed had suffered from hepatitis and diabetes for several years. He was treated with interferon but developed liver cancer. In May 2013, he underwent a liver transplant at the Cleveland Clinic. Afterwards, on his website, he wrote of feeling "bigger and stronger" than ever, but on October 27, 2013, he died from liver disease at his home in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 71.

Palatine Pork with Green Beans & Potatoes

This recipe dates back to the early Pennsylvania Dutch and was very popular during the depression. It should bring back many memories. I could find no name for it so I dug out the revolutionary war term for any german-speaking immigrant: “Palatine”.

Here we use a sheet pan for easy clean-up. Roasting vegetables always provides the best flavor. It is a simple fare with pork chops, green beans and potatoes.

Ingredients:

2 thick cut boneless pork chops

½ C low salt teriyaki marinade

12 oz fresh green beans

1lbs of tiny new potatoes (or small ones, cleaned and quartered)*

olive oil

salt

pepper

garlic powder

*If you want lower carbs: use cauliflower instead of potatoes.

Directions:

Night before: place 2 pork chops in a zipper bag along with the marinade. Let blend overnight in refrigerator, turning once.

Remove, let come to room temperature.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a rimed baking sheet with foil and spray with cooking spray.

Rinse potatoes. Let dry and place in large bowl. Add about 3 Tbs olive oil and stir around until well coated.

When oven is up to temperature. Dump the potatoes on the sheet and stir around, leaving a space down the middle of the sheet. With fingers sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

Place the two chops in the center of the sheet pan. Let roast for 15 minutes.

While that is in the oven, rinse green beans and snap the ends off. Put them in the bowl with oil, stir around, then sprinkle these over the potatoes on the sheet pan. 

Return to oven for another 15 minutes. Check pork for 155 degrees, if not there, return to oven for another 10 – 15 minutes. If worried or you just want a crust on the pork, change oven to broil and carefully broil for about 5 – 7 minutes. Remove and let rest for 5 minutes.

This makes a full meal: protein, vegetable and starch, if you wish, you can add a bread but it is not necessary.

A good meal for my Master and quick clean-up for slave.

For our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yLlG1POr9 c

Proud to be owned by Master Indy!

socialslave

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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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Cadmus Steak & Mushroom Pie

After a bout with a winder cold slave is eager to get back to cooking. Felt the need for something special for my Master. So this recipe has a few steps that take awhile. It is old fashioned home style cooking. Steak & mushroom pie has been called Britain on a plate, variations are everywhere in that country. This recipe is dedicated to a LGBT hero painter Paul Cadmus, a short biography fallows.

Slow cooking beef until it is tender, fresh mushrooms and onions between layers of pastry can warm the cloudiest day and fill a strong mans stomach till his toes curl!

Ingredients:

2 lbs good chuck roast cut into chunks

2 onions

2 cups fresh button mushrooms, rinsed and quartered

1 large carrot, peeled and grated

1 prepared pie crust

2 tube crescent rolls

salt, pepper, smoky paprika, garlic powder

1 jar beef gravy

cornstarch

egg

Directions:

On the night before

Preheat oven to 215 degrees.

Spray a dutch oven and rough chop an onion into eights, place in pot. Cut the roast into 2 inch chunks dust with a mixture of your seasonings: salt, pepper, paprika, and garlic powder. Place in pot over the bed of onions.

Cover with foil and a lid. Let slow roast for 3 hours.

Drain the pot and transfer the beef to a bowl, when cooled, place in refrigerator overnight.

Next day:

Pre heat oven to 400 degrees with a pizza stone in the oven!

Take out pie crust, prick the bottom according to package directions and let bake for about half of the time listed. Be sure to place the foil pan inside of a regular metal pan for support.

While that is in oven take out the beef and let come to room temperature.

Rinse and quarter the mushrooms. Peel and grate the carrots into a bowl. 

Cut up the remaining onion into the size of the quartered mushrooms. Do the same with the beef.

This is a good time to pick over the beef and remove any grizzle or fat.

Mix together in a skillet over medium heat and pour in the gravy.

Stir in the grated carrot.

Stir occasionally until flavors meld and filling is heated through. If it is runny, add a slurry of 1 Tbs cornstarch mixed with 2 tbs beef broth. Stir until thick!

By now the crust should be ready to come out of the oven. Leave the oven on.

Let both the filling and the crust cool slightly. 

Cover the counter with a sheet of waxed paper.

Unroll the crescent rolls. Separate into triangles.

Now spoon the slightly cooled filling into the pie crust.

Next notice the size of the pie. You want the triangles to go from the edge toward the center, overlapping the points. Roll the short side of the triangle up until it fits!

Brush the top with the beaten egg to make a pretty finish.

Finish baking for another 18 to 20 minutes until the pie is as pretty as you can stand it!

Allow the pie to sit for 10 minutes before serving.

For an extra English treat, Mix up french onion soup with some cornstarch and heat stirring until it is a thick gravy to serve on top!

For our music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Kp7WX7y8M

Note this recipe makes 2 pies, slave took meals to several elderly neighbors who were not feeling well.

So honored to be serving my Master Indy with a British special!

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To gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

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Paul Cadmus 

American artist widely known for painting social interactions in urban settings. He also produced many highly finished drawings of single nude male figures.

Cadmus was born on December 17, 1904, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His father, who studied with Robert Henri, worked as a commercial artist, and his mother illustrated children's books.

At age 15, Cadmus left school to attend the National Academy of Design for 6 years. Cadmus learned to draw from plaster casts and two years later he was admitted to the life drawing class. He received a bronze medal from the Academy the following year for excellence in the discipline. He began to study printmaking in 1923, and soon after began exhibiting his work and publishing illustrations for the weekly book review section of The New York Herald-Tribune. By 1926 Cadmus completed his course work at the Academy, having won numerous scholarships and prizes for excellence.

He then enrolled at the Art Students League of New York in 1928 taking life-drawing lessons while working as a commercial illustrator at a New York advertising agency.

From 1928 to 1931 Cadmus was employed as a layout artist at a New York advertising agency.

It was here that he met fellow student Jared French who was to become perhaps the single most important influence on Cadmus’s life and work.

It was French who encouraged Cadmus to abandon commercial work and pursue a career as a fine artist. He urged his lover to use the time consuming method of egg tempera.

Cadmus compared the delicate brushstrokes of egg tempera to “heartbeats, each equally important yet almost invisible or unnoticeable.”

Several years after meeting, the two decided to travel to Europe in search of a more stimulating environment where they could live inexpensively and paint.

They continued their education while traveling through Europe from 1931 to 1933.

Cadmus’s sister Fidelma sent him newspaper clippings on the newly organized, government-sponsored Public Works of Art Project. With their passports about to expire and their money almost spent, Cadmus and French returned to America in October of that year. Cadmus was accepted into the PWAP in December as one of the program’s first participants.

He was to be employed by painting murals at post offices. 

In 1934, at the age of 29, he painted The Fleet's In! This painting, which featured carousing sailors and women, included a stereotypical homosexual solicitation and erotic exaggeration of clinging pants seats and bulging crotches. It was the subject of a public outcry led by Admiral Hugh Rodman, saying, "It represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable, drunken brawl."

The publicity helped to launch Cadmus’s career, and he stated at the time, "I had no intention of offending the Navy. Sailors are no worse than anybody else. In my picture I merely commented on them – I didn't criticize."

In 1938, his painting Pocahantas Saving the Life of John Smith, a mural painted for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, had to be retouched when some observers noticed a fox pelt suggestively hanging between the legs of an Indian depicted in the painting. Cadmus used his lover, Jared French, as the model for John Smith in the mural.

In 1940, two paintings, Sailors and Floozies (1938) and Seeing the New Year In, were removed from public view because the Navy "didn't like it" and there was "too much smell about it." The paintings were being exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and were removed, while a third, Venus and Adonis, remained.

Cadmus, considered to be a master draftsman, was interested in the Italian Renaissance artists, the so-called "masters of muscle."

He was transfixed by the human body, both the ideal and the repulsive. His ideal was a stylized erotic version of the male body. He found the grotesque everywhere from Greenwich Village cafes, subway stations, the beach at Coney Island to American tourists in an Italian piazza. His art is a form of satire and caricature of his subjects.

Cadmus’s first one-man show was held at Midtown Galleries in New York in 1937. The exhibition attracted more than 7,000 viewers, many of whom were eager to see for themselves these controversial works that had received such extensive newspaper and magazine coverage and caused such unprecedented public outcries.

From 1937 until 1945, Cadmus, his lover, Jared French, and French's wife, Margaret Hoening, summered on Fire Island and formed a photographic collective called PaJaMa ("Paul, Jared, and Margaret"). In between Provincetown, Truro, Fire Island, and New York, they staged various black-and-white photographs of themselves with their friends, both nude and clothed.

Later in the 1940s, Cadmus and his then lover, George Tooker, formed a complicated relationship with French and his wife. When the Frenches bought a home in Hartland, Vermont, they gave Cadmus a house of his own on the property, which French later took back and gave to his Italian lover.

In 1950 several of Cadmus’s works were included in “American Symbolic Realism” at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, and Architect was exhibited at the Whitney Annual. In the years 1951 to 1953 Cadmus lived and worked in France and Italy.

In 1965, Cadmus met and began a relationship with Jon (Farquhar) Anderson (July 30, 1937, New Haven, CT - October 21, 2018, Weston, CT), a former cabaret star, in Nantucket that lasted until Cadmus' death in 1999.

From the beginning of their 35-year relationship, the then 27-year-old Anderson was Cadmus' model and muse in many of his works.

He began work on a series of highly developed drawings of the male nude for which Jon Anderson is the principal model. The large sheets of paper are often hand-toned, and the rendering is sensuous and deliberate.

In 1999, he died at his home in Weston, Connecticut, due to advanced age, just five days shy of his 95th birthday.