This easy beef pasta bake is packed full of flavor. The dish comes together quickly and is very versatile. It can be made with ground turkey or even ground chicken. The St. Louis LGBT community just learned that one of our beloved Drag Queens and Activist leaders has passed due to the Covid Virus. So this dish is named in her honor.
This recipe is perfect for an easy weeknight dinner or to take to a potluck. It’s fabulous comfort food. Just add a side salad and you have a great meal.
Ingredients:
1 lb of beef
12 ounces of uncooked pasta
1 cup fresh mushrooms
1 yellow onion sliced
1 can French onion soup
½ cup beef stock
1 (16 ounce) container of french onion dip
1 teaspoon of garlic powder
1 teaspoon of Worcestershire Sauce
6 slices of provolone cheese
Note: “Velveting” turns inexpensive cuts of beef ultrasilky. By marinating protein in a slurry of cornstarch it softens the meat. Velveting does more than tenderize your strips of beef – it creates an even protective coating that browns meat more evenly, seals in its juices, and improves overall sauce adhesion.
2 Tbs cornstarch
2 Tbs worchester sauce
1 Tbs oil
1 egg white
Directions:
First do your cutting: Slice the beef into 2 inch by ½ inch strips.
In a seal-able bowl mix: cornstarch, Worchester,oil and the egg white
Add the beef strips, cover and refrigerate for at least 30 mins or up to an hour.
This gives time to cut up the onions, clean and cut up the mushrooms. Place them in a microwave safe bowl and cook on high for 4 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350.
Cook pasta according to directions on the box and drain.
Heat oil in a large skillet, add the microwaved onions and mushrooms, cook until onions are starting to turn brown on the edges about 10 mins.
Remove to a bowl and set aside while you brown the beef strips. Add the soup and broth. Stir until sauce thickens. Return the mushrooms and onions.
Add garlic powder and Worcestershire sauce and mix into the skillet. Stir in the french onion dip.
Simmer for 5 minutes on low heat, stirring occasionally.
Mix pasta and beef mixture together and pour in to a greased 9X13 casserole dish. Top with slices of provolone cheese.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until heated through and cheese is melted.
Serve with a flair!
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Michael Shreves, AKA MICHELLE McCAUSLAND, groundbreaking St. Louis drag performer, dies at 61
Miss Gay Missouri 2012
Michael Shreves, who performed locally for decades as Michelle McCausland and successfully challenged a St. Louis ordinance that made it illegal to dress in drag, died Saturday of COVID-19.
Shreves lived in south St. Louis County and was 61, though “he would say, ‘A lady never tells her age,’” said longtime friend Matthew Kerns.
The Mount Vernon, IL native was a former MISSOURI ENTERTAINER of the YEAR & one-half of the PAINTED LADIES at MEYERS GROVE.
When not performing, Michelle/Michael was an award winning interior designer & active in the LGBT community & MCCGSL Church & Choir.
MICHELLE McCAUSLAND captured the crown of MISS GAY MISSOURI at the SOCO CLUB in Columbia with his Broadway caliber "ANYTHING GOES"---capping off a 30 year quest for the crown.
MICHELLE first competed at MGM 1983; was first alternate in 1988 & never gave up on his dream, indeed MICHELLE McCAUSLAND is proof- positive that talent is ageless.
A St. Louis institution, MICHAEL/MICHELLE has headlined most every drag show cast since 1982.
She is also remembered for successfully challenging the city of St. Louis cross dressing ban following his arrest while performing at UNCLE MARVINS.
It was 30 years before her pageant triumph that Shreves was part of a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union over a so-called masquerade ordinance, passed in 1870, that made it a misdemeanor for a person to appear in public “in dress not belonging to his or her sex.”
She was among other performers at a gay bar in St. Louis and was arrested in January 1984 during a police raid. She was charged with violating a city ordinance that made it unlawful to cross dress.
They challenged the charges in court, prompting a federal judge to deem the cross-dressing law unconstitutional.
The aspiring performer grew up in Mount Vernon, Illinois, acting in high school musicals and summer stock. When he moved to the St. Louis area as a young man, he began performing in drag, coming up with his stage name based partially on the most beautiful girl in his high school.
Her specialties were show tunes and songs by the Carpenters, said a friend. She had a towering personality, even before slipping his 6-foot, 4-inch frame into high heels.
“She was always there to make people laugh,” said longtime friend Matthew Kerns. Kerns, who met Shreves when he was a teenager. “She was a fierce and incredible artist.”
Shreves was a staple of the local LGBTQ community, performing for decades in bars and clubs on both sides of the river. Most recently, she took the show on the road with a quarantine act out of the back of a pickup, called “Women on Wheels.”
“Performing was everything for Michael,” said Kerns. “Michelle had her own closet, and that closet was a room.”
In 2012, Shreves devoted herself to achieving a long-elusive goal: earning the title of Miss Gay Missouri America. She had entered the contest multiple times, always coming up just shy of earning the crown. That year, her rendition of “Anything Goes,” complete with backup dancers, propelled her to the top.
“When you want something for 30 years and get it and never thought you would, it’s amazing,” he said at the time.
“She was one of the early trailblazers who was doing transformative work just by being who she was,” said the Rev. Wes Mullins, the pastor at Metropolitan Community Church in the Carondelet neighborhood, where Shreves sang in the choir and came up with the Christmas décor each year.
“She was a humble person, a salt-of-the-earth guy,” said Mullins. “She was just someone who always wanted to do what was fair and right.”
Shreves is survived by her mother, of Mount Vernon. A celebration of the life will be planned for a later time at the Mahler Ballroom in the Central West End, where Shreves worked as a decorator.
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