This meal is based on the clasic Beef Stroganoff. With the change of weather perhaps its time to start using the oven more. This dish is to honor LGBT Hero historian Allen Bérubé. Be sure to read up on this facinating writer after the recipe.
Using pre-made meatballs and pasta with some mushrooms and cream cheese; we present this casserole full of comfort for your table.
Ingredients
12 oz cooked pasta (about 6 cups)
¼ cup butter
1 package (8 oz each) white mushrooms, sliced
½ cup chopped onion
¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 carton (32 oz) beef flavored broth (low sodium)
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon salt + ¼ teaspoon pepper
4 oz cream cheese (low fat), softened and cut into small cubes
¼ cup non fat half & half
1 package (22 oz) frozen cooked beef meatballs, thawed
Chopped Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, if desired
Directions:
Chop the onion and set aside, rinse the mushrooms.
In 12-inch skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and onion; cook 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle flour on top of mushrooms and onions; stir well. Gradually stir in beef broth; add Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.
Heat to simmering, stirring occasionally; cook 3 to 5 minutes or until mixture is slightly thickened.
Stir cream cheese into hot mixture, stirring constantly with whisk until mostly incorporated (small pieces of cream cheese may remain but will incorporate in baking). Remove from heat; stir in half & half.
In baking dish, add the pasta, sauce and meatballs, carefully mixing to coat. Add a splash of Worcestershire sauce then cover with foil.
Cover;
bake 30 to 35 minutes or until sauce is bubbling and casserole is heated through. Stir; cool 10 minutes. Stir before serving; garnish with parsley.
While that sits resting, fix your microwave green vegetable.
Set the table.
Serving Size: 1 Serving = 1/10
Trans Fat ½ g Cholesterol 120mg Sodium 1050mg Sugars 4g
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Allan Bérubé
Allan Bérubé (December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007) was an American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher, and award-winning author. He is best known for his research and writing about homosexual members of the American Armed Forces during World War II. He also wrote essays about the intersection of class and race in gay culture, and about his experience of anti-AIDS activism.
Allan Ronald Bérubé was born in Springfield, Mass., on Dec. 3, 1946. (His family name is pronounced BEH-ruh-bay.) His father was a television cameraman for NBC. Allan spent part of his childhood living with his family in a trailer park in Bayonne, N.J. He lived for a time in Boston and many years in San Francisco. He moved to New York City, and finally settled in Liberty, New York, where he died in 2007.
Mr. Bérubé studied at the University of Chicago before dropping out in his senior year to work against the war in Vietnam. He came out as gay in 1969 and later settled in San Francisco, where, in the 1970s, he helped found the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project.
Starting in 1979, Bérubé was interviewed about his work in publications including Time (magazine), The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Advocate, Christopher Street (magazine), Gay Community News (Boston), and the San Francisco Examiner.
Bérubé’s histories, as he put it, were about the lives of ordinary lesbians and gay men. He was not formally trained as a historian. Instead, his remarkable skills grew out of his decade long involvement in the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project and the broader grassroots queer history movement based on developing ways to return our history to our communities.
Some of his earliest work with the History Project was on women who cross-dressed and passed as men. Bérubé’s historical work, while centering on gay and queer experiences, always examined how sexuality, class, race and gender relations are made in and through each other.
Mr. Bérubé’s approach to history was pragmatic rather than academic: he traveled the country giving illustrated lectures on gay military history and other subjects. He taught at several universities, among them Stanford; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Portland State University in Oregon. In 1996, he was awarded a MacArthur “genius grant.”
His best-known work, “Coming Out Under Fire” (Free Press), published in 1990, explores the uneasy but at times surprisingly benign relationship between the United States military and its gay members.
“Coming Out Under Fire” was also the basis for a documentary film of that name, released in 1994.
The book sprang from a box of letters. One day in the 1970s, a friend of one of Mr. Bérubé’s neighbors salvaged from a Dumpster a cache of correspondence exchanged by a dozen gay G.I.’s during the war. The men, who had met at an Army base in Missouri, were posted to different spots, but they continued to write — in particular about what it was like to be gay wherever they had ended up after the war.
The letters found their way to Mr. Bérubé. “I sorted them out and had a good cry,” he reported. “It captured my heart and raised a lot of questions, so I started doing research.”
“Coming Out Under Fire” draws on interviews with dozens of men and women from all branches of the service. It argues that although gays were specifically barred from the armed forces from 1942 onward, homosexuality and military service, at least early on, were not as incompatible as they might seem.
At the start of World War II, the military, desperate to meet enlistment quotas, quietly admitted gay people with the tacit understanding that they would be discreet about their sexuality. For many gay men and lesbians, Mr. Bérubé wrote, military service was a godsend: It took them away from small-town life and gave them their first opportunity to meet other gay people.
The book earned Bérubé the Lambda Literary Award for outstanding Gay Men's Nonfiction book of 1990 and was later adapted as a film in 1994, narrated by Salome Jens and Max Cole, with a screenplay by Bérubé and the film's director, Arthur Dong. The film received a Peabody Award for excellence in documentary media in 1995. Bérubé received a MacArthur Fellowship (often called the "genius grant") from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1996.
Bérubé’s histories, as he put it, were about the lives of ordinary lesbians and gay men. He was not formally trained as a historian. Instead, his remarkable skills grew out of his decade long involvement in the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project and the broader grassroots queer history movement based on developing ways to return our history to our communities.
Some of his earliest work with the History Project was on women who cross-dressed and passed as men. Bérubé’s historical work, while centering on gay and queer experiences, always examined how sexuality, class, race and gender relations are made in and through each other.
The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union (MCS) represented service workers such as waiters, laundrymen, and messmen who labored in horrible conditions on West Coast passenger liners. It developed into one of the most democratic and diverse unions in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, with an acceptance of both African American and gay members. The struggles MCS members waged for better working conditions and justice led them to understand that they needed to stand together and to not let themselves be divided along lines of race and sexuality.
Bérubé explored the connections of class, race, and sexuality in the life of this union. Former members of MCS told him that gay men made up the majority of the stewards on many passenger lines. Decades before the first U.S. gay rights organizations, the MCS won the first on the job protection for gay workers. There were so many gay men in the union that straight stewards were often also queer-baited and understood how such baiting was a tactic used to divide workers. Gay men were accepted because they were workers just like any other.
Unfortunately, after World War II the combination of shrinking work opportunities and the McCarthyite anti-communist and anti-queer witch-hunts had a devastating impact on the MCS. Under the federal Maritime Security Program developed to keep “Communists and other subversives” off the ships and off the waterfront the Coast Guard began screening seamen believed to be threats to “national security.”
The records of Bérubé's life and work are preserved by the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, of which he was a founding member. Bérubé donated the research and administrative files of his World War II Project to the society in 1995.
Bérubé also donated the records of the Forget-Me-Nots, an affinity group of which he was a member; the group performed civil disobedience at the United States Supreme Court during the 1987 Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, with each participant protesting in honor of an individual who had died of AIDS.
Following Bérubé's death, the executors of his estate donated his complete personal and professional papers to the Historical Society. The society has processed the papers, opened them to researchers and posted an online finding aid; the collection includes more than 75 linear feet (150-plus boxes) of records. Several other collections of personal papers and organizational records at the GLBT Historical Society also include correspondence from Bérubé and other material documenting his work; details are available by searching the society's online catalog of manuscript collections.
Allan Bérubé died in Liberty, N.Y. He was 61.
The cause was complications of stomach ulcers, Wayne Hoffman, his companion, said.
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