Here
we have a cross between a stroganoff and a lagsna with some extra vegetables thrown in. The recipe calls for browned ground beef, which
works just fine, slave had some roasted beef to use up so that's what
I put it. We dedicate this dish to a gifted but tormented LGBT hero
playwright Tennessee Williams. Read a short story about him after
the recipe.
A
great casserole for Autumn, beef, mushrooms, cheese, corn, green
beans braised together to warm the insides. Try it tonight.
Ingredients:
12
ounces pasta
1
pound ground chuck (or roasted beef)
1
small onion, chopped
1
cup green beans
1
can corn
1
(8-ounce) package fresh mushrooms, sliced
½
cup beef broth
½
tsp. dried oregano
1
(8-ounce) container sour cream You can substitute
with ricotta cheese or plain yogurt.
12
ounces container small-curd cottage cheese
1
teaspoon garlic powder
2
cups (8-ounces) shredded cheese use any white cheese of your liking.
½
cup grated Parmesan cheese
1
teaspoon salt
Directions:
Preheat
oven to 350
degrees F. Cook
pasta according to package directions; drain and keep warm.
Meanwhile,
cook ground chuck in a large skillet, stirring until it crumbles and
is no longer pink. About
8 minutes.
Drain
and return to skillet. Stir in onion, green beans, corn, and
mushrooms. Cover and cook over medium-high heat 10
minutes or
until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally.
Stir
in beef broth, and oregano; set aside.
In
a large bowl combine sour cream, cottage cheese, garlic, and salt. Add
the pasta, tossing to coat.
Spread
half of that mixture in a lightly greased 9- x 13-inch baking dish.
Top with half of the meat mixture, half of the cheese. Repeat layers
with remaining pasta and meat mixtures. With Parmesan cheese on top.
What
a dish to set before Master!
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Tennessee Williams
Thomas
Lanier Williams III (March
26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee
Williams was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries
Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three
greatest playwrights of the 20th-century.
Williams
was born in Columbus, Mississippi. His father was a traveling shoe
salesman who became an alcoholic and was frequently away from home.
His mother, Edwina, was the daughter of the Reverend Walter Dakin, an
Episcopal priest from Illinois who was assigned to a parish in
Clarksdale, Mississippi. Williams lived in his parsonage with his
family for much of his early childhood.
As
a child, Williams nearly died from a case of diphtheria that left him
weak and virtually confined to his house for a long time. His father
Cornelius had a violent temper and was a man prone to use his fists.
He regarded his son's effeminacy with disdain. His father was
promoted to a job at the home office of the International Shoe
Company in St. Louis when Williams was 8 years old. At age 17, his
short story "The Vengeance of Nitocris" was published in
the August 1928 issue of the magazine Weird Tales.
Williams
attended the University of Missouri in Columbia where he enrolled in
journalism classes. Soon he began entering his poetry, essays,
stories, and plays in writing contests, hoping to earn extra income.
His
first submitted play was Beauty
Is the Word 1930
and he became the first freshman to receive honorable mention in a
writing competition.
After
he failed a military training course in his junior year, his father
pulled him out of school and put him to work at the International
Shoe Company factory. He hated it! He
set a goal of writing one story a week. Williams
often worked on weekends and late into the night.
Overworked,
unhappy, and lacking further success with his writing, by his 24th
birthday Williams had suffered a nervous breakdown and left his job.
He drew from memories of this period, for characters that would
appear in his works. By the mid-1930s his mother separated from his
father due to his worsening alcoholism and abusive temper. They never
divorced.
In 1936 Williams
enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis where he wrote the
play Me,
Vashya (1937).
In the autumn of 1937, he transferred to the University of Iowa,
where he graduated with a B.A. in English in August 1938. He later
studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York City.
Speaking of his early days as a playwright Williams wrote, "The
laughter ... enchanted me. Then and there the theatre and I found
each other for better and for worse. I know it's the only thing that
saved my life." Around 1939, he adopted "Tennessee
Williams"
as his professional name.
With
the help of his agent, Williams was awarded a $1,000 grant from the
Rockefeller Foundation in recognition of his play Battle
of Angels.
Using
some of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939
to write for the Works
Progress Administration (WPA),
a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
created to put people to work. Williams lived for a time in New
Orleans' French Quarter, the setting of his 1977 play Vieux
Carré.
The Rockefeller grant brought him to the attention of the Hollywood
film industry and Williams received a six-month contract as a writer
from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio, earning $250 weekly.
During
the winter of 1944–45, his play The
Glass Menagerie,
was produced in Chicago and garnered good reviews. It moved to New
York where it became an instant hit and enjoyed a long Broadway run.
The Glass Menagerie won the award for the best play of the season,
the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
The
huge success of his next play, A
Streetcar Named Desire,
secured his reputation as a great playwright in 1947.
By
the late 1930s, Williams began exploring his homosexuality. In New
York City, he joined a gay
social circle. In
the summer of 1940, Williams initiated a relationship with Kip
Kiernan (1918–1944),
a young Canadian dancer he met in Provincetown, Massachusetts. When
Kiernan left him to marry a woman, Williams was distraught. Kiernan's
death four years later at age 26 was another heavy blow.
Williams
spent the spring and summer of 1948 in Rome in the company of an
Italian teenager, called "Rafaello"
in Williams' Memoirs. He provided financial assistance to the younger
man for several years afterward. Williams drew from this for his
first novel, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
When
he returned to New York that spring, Williams met and fell in love
with Frank Merlo (1922–1963). An
actor of Sicilian ancestry, he had served in the U.S. Navy in World
War II. This was the enduring romantic relationship of Williams'
life and it lasted 14
years until
infidelities and drug abuse on both sides ended it. Merlo, who had
become Williams' personal secretary, took on most of the details of
their domestic life. He provided a period of happiness and stability,
acting as a balance to the playwright's bouts with depression. His
years with Merlo, in an apartment in Manhattan and a modest house in
Key West, Florida was Williams' happiest and most productive.
Shortly after their breakup, Merlo was diagnosed with inoperable lung
cancer. Williams returned to him and cared for him until his death.
Between
1948 and 1959 Williams had seven of his plays produced on Broadway:
Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953),
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Garden
District (1958), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). By 1959, he had
earned two Pulitzer Prizes, three New York Drama Critics' Circle
Awards, three Donaldson Awards, and a Tony Award.
Williams'
work reached wide audiences in the early 1950s when The Glass
Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire were adapted as motion
pictures. Later plays also adapted for the screen included Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof, The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the
Iguana, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Summer and Smoke.
After
the extraordinary successes of the 1940s and 1950s, he had more
personal turmoil and theatrical failures in the 1960s and 1970s.
Although he continued to write every day, the quality of his work
suffered.
In
the years following Merlo's death in 1963, Williams descended into a
period of nearly catatonic depression and increasing drug use; this
resulted in several hospitalizations and commitments to mental health
facilities. His doctor, Dr. Max Jacobson – known popularly as Dr.
Feelgood – would give him injections in increasing amounts
of amphetamines to
overcome his depression. Jacobson combined these with prescriptions
for the sedative Seconal to relieve his insomnia.
His
plays Kingdom of Earth (1967), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969),
Small Craft Warnings (1973), The Two Character Play (also called Out
Cry, 1973), The Red Devil Battery Sign (1976), Vieux Carré (1978),
Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980), and others were all box office
failures. Negative press notices wore down his spirit. His last
play, A
House Not Meant to Stand,
was produced in Chicago in 1982. Despite largely positive reviews, it
ran for only 40 performances.
Throughout
his life, Williams remained close to his sister, Rose, who was
diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman. In 1943, as her
behavior became disturbing, she was subjected to a
lobotomy,
requiring her to be institutionalized for the rest of her life. As
soon as he was financially able, Williams moved Rose to a private
institution just north of New York City, where he often visited her.
He gave her a percentage interest in several of his most successful
plays, the royalties from which were applied toward her care. The
devastating effects of Rose's treatment may have contributed to
Williams' alcoholism and his dependence on various combinations of
amphetamines and barbiturates.
As
Williams grew older, he felt increasingly alone; he feared old age
and losing his sexual appeal. In the 1970s, when he was in his 60s,
Williams had a lengthy relationship with Robert
Carroll,
a Vietnam veteran and aspiring writer in his 20s. Williams had a deep
affection for Carroll and respect for what he saw as the younger
man's talents. Along with Williams' sister Rose, Carroll was one of
the two people who received a bequest in Williams' will.
On
February 25, 1983, Williams
was found dead at age 71 in
his suite at the Hotel Elysée in New York. Chief Medical Examiner of
New York City Elliot M. Gross reported that Williams had choked to
death from inhaling the plastic cap of a bottle.
In
late 2009, Williams was inducted into the Poets' Corner at the
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. Performers and
artists who took part in his induction included Vanessa Redgrave,
playwright John Guare, Eli Wallach, Sylvia Miles, Gregory Mosher, and
Ben Griessmeyer.
The
U.S. Postal Service honored Williams on a stamp in 1994 as part of
its literary arts series.
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