In England they refer to ground beef as “Minced”. Here is yet another meatloaf recipe for you to try. We dedicate it to the wonderful wit, Quentin Crisp. While not many would call him an LGBT hero (he did not believe in gay rights), He was a highly intelligent performer who lived through decades of homophobia and almost daily beatings in the streets of London in the 1930's.
In this take on meatloaf the breadcrumbs are replaced by torn up all grain wheat bread slices! Try the rich flavoring this gives and read about an interesting writer and actor to give you excellent dinner conversation.
Ingredients
½ cup milk
3 bread slices torn up
1 LBS ground beef
½ onion grated
1 tsp salt
pepper
¼ tsp seasoned salt, such as Lawry's
2 eggs, beaten
3 thin bacon slices cut in half and partially cooked
Tomato Sauce:
½ cup ketchup
6 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
Dash or 2 Worcestershire sauce
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Start partially frying the bacon.
You don't want it crisp, it will finish in the oven.
Pour the milk over the bread and allow it to soak in while oven preheats. Grate the onion and add it with the juice to the bread pieces. Place the ground beef, salt, some pepper, and seasoned salt in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the egg. With clean hands, mix the ingredients until well combined.
Form the mixture into a loaf shape on a sprayed 9 x 13 baking dish, which will allow the fat from the meat to drain.
Next, make the tomato sauce: Pour the ketchup into a bowl. Add the brown sugar and dry mustard, and splash in the Worcestershire sauce. Stir the mixture until well combined. Pour half of the sauce over the meatloaf. Lay the bacon slices over the top.
Save the other half of the sauce to serve along side.
For our sides I chose to roast cauliflower along with the meatloaf.
Bake for 45 minutes, and then pour over another one-third of the remaining tomato sauce over the meatloaf. Check with a thermometer. You want the meat at 155 to 160
Bake for an additional 20 to 25 minutes or so, if still not done, flip the oven to broiler for 7 mins to give the top a crust.
Allow to sit 10 minutes before serving. This is the best time to microwave the mixed veggies for a second side.
Serve with a dessert of pear halves with non fat plain yogurt.
What a wonderful meal for my Master.
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So happy to serve this for my Master:
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To nourish, support and maintain.
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======================================= Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp (1908 – 1999) was an English writer, raconteur, actor, and perhaps best known wit since Oscar Wilde.
From a conventional suburban background, Crisp wore make-up and painted his nails. During his teenage years he worked briefly as a rent-boy. His one-person stage show was a long-running hit both in Britain and America and he also appeared in films and on TV.
Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, on Christmas Day 1908. He changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties after leaving home in 1030.
Around this time Crisp began visiting the cafés of Soho – his favorite being The Black Cat – meeting other young gay men and rent-boys, and experimenting with make-up and women's clothes. For six months, he worked as a prostitute.
During this time, he wore bright make-up, dyed his long hair crimson, painted his fingernails and wore sandals to display his painted toe-nails! This brought admiration and curiosity from some quarters, but generally attracted hostility and violence from strangers passing him in the streets.
Crisp attempted to join the British army at the outbreak of the Second World War, but was rejected and declared exempt by the medical board on the grounds that he was "suffering from sexual perversion". Crisp left his job as an engineer's tracer in 1942 to become a model in life classes in London.
He continued posing for artists for three short books by the time he came to write The Naked Civil Servant at the urging of his agent, Donald Carroll. The book was published in 1968 to generally good reviews.
In 1975 the television version of The Naked Civil Servant was broadcast on British and US television, making actor John Hurt and Crisp into stars. He devised a one-person show and began touring the country with it.
When his autobiography was reprinted in 1975, following the success of the television version, Gay News commented that the book should have been published posthumously (Crisp said that this was their polite way of telling him to drop dead).
By now Crisp was a theater-filling raconteur: his one-person show sold out the Duke of York's Theater in London in 1978. He then took the show to New York. Crisp decided to move to New York permanently. In 1981, he arrived with few possessions and found a small apartment in Manhattan's East Village.
In the intervening years, he never attempted any housework, writing famously in his memoir "After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."
As he had done in London, Crisp allowed his telephone number to be listed and saw it as his duty to converse with anyone who called him. For the first twenty or so years, he habitually answered calls with the phrase: "Yes, Lord?" ("Just in case," he once said.)
His openness to strangers extended to accepting dinner invitations from almost anyone. Whilst he expected the host would pay for dinner, Crisp would regal his host with wonderful stories and yarns, much as he did in his theatrical performances. Dinner with him was said to be one of the best shows in New York.
He continued to perform his one-man show, published books on the importance of contemporary manners and supported himself by accepting social invitations, and writing film reviews and columns for UK and US magazines and newspapers. He said that provided one could exist on peanuts and champagne, one could quite easily live by going to every cocktail party, premiere and first night to which one was invited.
Crisp also acted on television and in films. He made his debut as a film actor in the Royal College of Art's low-budget production of Hamlet (1976), supported by Helen Mirren. He subsequently appeared in the 1985 film The Bride, which brought him into contact with Sting, who played the lead role of Baron Frankenstein. Crisp also appeared on the television show The Equalizer in the 1987 episode "First Light".
The 1990s would prove to be his most prolific decade as an actor, as more and more directors offered him roles. In 1992 he was persuaded to play Elizabeth I in the film Orlando. He won acclaim for a dignified and touching performance. Crisp next had an un-credited cameo in the 1993 AIDS drama Philadelphia. Crisp accepted some other small bit parts and cameos, such as a pageant judge in 1995's To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Crisp's last role was in an independent film, American Mod (1999), while his last full-feature film was HomoHeights (also released as Happy Heights, 1996).
Crisp remained fiercely independent and unpredictable into old age. He caused controversy and confusion in the gay community by jokingly calling AIDS "a fad", and homosexuality "a terrible disease". He was continually in demand from journalists requiring a sound-bite, and throughout the 1990s his commentary was sought on any number of topics.
At the age of ninety Crisp came to the realization that he was a trans woman rather than a gay man. In The Last Word, published posthumously, Crisp said, "The only thing in my life I have wanted and didn't get was to be a woman. It will be my life's biggest regret. If the operation had been available and cheap when I was young, say when I was twenty-five or twenty-six, I would have jumped at the chance. My life would have been much simpler as a result".
Crisp died of a heart attack in November 1999, nearly one month before his 91st birthday, in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester, on the eve of a nationwide revival of his one-man show. He was cremated with a minimum of ceremony as he had requested, and his ashes were flown back to New York.
In 2017, MB Books published The Last Word: An Autobiography by Crisp, edited by Ward and Watts. Finally, in 2019, MB Books published And One More Thing by Crisp, a companion book to The Last Word: An Autobiography, again edited by Ward and Watts.
Sting dedicated his song "Englishman in New York" (1987) to Crisp. He had jokingly remarked "that he looked forward to receiving his naturalization papers so that he could commit a crime and not be deported." In late 1986 Sting visited Crisp in his apartment and was told over dinner – what life had been like for a homosexual man in the largely homophobic Great Britain of the 1920s to the 1960s. Sting was both shocked and fascinated and decided to write the song. It includes the lines:
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile,
Be yourself no matter what they say.
Sting says, “He was gay at a time in history when it was dangerous to be so. He had people beating up on him on a daily basis, largely with the consent of the public."
In 2009 a television sequel to The Naked Civil Servant was broadcast. Entitled An Englishman in New York, the production documented Crisp's later years in Manhattan. Thirty-four years after his first award-winning performance as Crisp, John Hurt returned to play him again.
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