This
Midwestern seafood casserole is dedicated to some Dutch sailors from
1725 who were sentenced to a horrible death for the “crime” of a
most natural act between fellow sailors. Read a quick story about
them after the recipe for some great dinner conversation.
Here
in the Midwest, seafood can be very expensive, yet still an important
part of our diet. This casserole features imitation lobster meat,
mushrooms and a bit of peas for a hearty one dish meal.
Ingredients
6
oz. whole wheat pasta
2
slices bacon
1
PKG imitation lobster meat
3
tablespoons butter
4
tablespoons flour (divided)
½
tsp salt
¼
tsp pepper
½
tsp old bay
1
can evaporated non fat milk
4
TBS spiced rum
½
cup button mushrooms (sliced)
1
cup frozen peas
1
cup fresh grated Gouda cheese (divided)
Directions:
Cook
pasta per directions on package. Drain and rinse with hot water.
Heat
oven to 375
degrees.
Lightly spray a 2 quart casserole dish.
Grate
the gouda cheese in a bowl and set aside.
Cook
the bacon until it renders its grease, (about
5 minutes)
remove to paper towels to drain.
Add
mushrooms to the warm bacon grease and dust lightly with 2 TBS flour.
Saute over medium high heat. Cook 6-8
minutes, or until mushrooms are golden. Remove from pan and set
aside.
In
same pan, melt some butter. In a jar, shake well 2 TBS flour, salt,
pepper and Old Bay with ½ can of evaporated milk, Pour into hot
skillet with remaining milk and stir well. Cook until mixture
thickens. This should take about 5
minutes.
Stir constantly with a whisk. Add half of the grated cheese. Add sea
food and mushrooms back to the pan. Chop up the bacon pieces and add
them with the Spiced Rum and the frozen peas.
Continue
stirring until heated through. Place pasta into pan with seafood
mixture, and stir it all together until well mixed. Place it all in
the buttered casserole.
Sprinkle
the top with remaining cheese. Bake for about 25
minutes,
or until light brown and bubbly around the edges.
A
great easy to fix meal in one dish!
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The
Zeewijk Forsaken
The
Zeewijk
(pronounced
GEE-vack)
was built in 1725,
145 feet long by 36 feet wide. Wrecked on her maiden voyage on a
reef off the western coast of Australia. Upon departure 208 seamen
and soldiers were aboard, as well as a cargo of general building
supplies and 315,836 guilders in 10 chests. Jan
Steyns was the
skipper, in his first command.
The
Dutch East India Company required ships to cross from the around the
Cape of Africa to Jakarta, traveling eastwards until turning north.
Steyns ignored the directorate and protests from his steersman and
headed east-northeast.
In
evening darkness on 9 June 1727 the ship crashed heavily into Half
Moon Reef off the western edge of Australia. The ship did not break
up immediately.
Heavy
seas saw at least 10 men drown at the first attempt to launch a
lifeboat. After one week a long boat was launched. Most of the
remaining crew was ferried to what would be later known as Gun
Island. From Gun and surrounding islands, fresh water was available,
as well as vegetables, birds and seals that were combined with the
ship's goods to sustain the survivors.
A
rescue group of 11 set off in the longboat a month latter, but were
never heard of again.
During
that year, two of the teenage sailors, Adriaen
Spoor and
Pieter
Engels,
were caught by their crewmen in“the
abominable and god-forsaken deeds of Sodom and Gomorrah” and
sentenced to death.
Never
mind that such activities were often found on board ship at the time.
Never mind the fact that they had not even seen a member of the
other sex for nearly a year and it did not look like they ever would
after their shipwreck. They were put to death for seeking comfort in
each others arms. Not just death but a slow, lonely horrible death.
They were abandoned alone each on a tiny, rocky island with no water
nor food nor shelter.
In
our Western culture we are taught by the church that man was made by
God. We are well aware what chemical changes happen in the body as
the male matures. Is it a stretch to assume that God planed it that
way?
The
stretch occurs went we become so afraid of the sex act we must
condemn it to death! Instead of acknowledging that it is the upmost
expression of love the body has. It is a gift of God for our joy. It
was designed to be so much more than only for procreation. God is
often described to our limited imaginations as Love itself. To feel
love is to feel the presence of God in our lives. We should be
rejoicing in these feelings instead of reacting with a psychotic
fear.
However
for their crime of being caught, they were abandoned on separate
rocky islands and left to starve while the others escaped in their
patchwork ship.
A similar fate had befallen another Dutch East India Company sailor
two years earlier. In 1725 Leendert
Hasenbosch was
marooned on Ascension Island in the Atlantic for sodomy, and is
presumed to have died of thirst.
Thus
three young men were sentenced to death by starvation and thirst.
Each in solitude, abandoned to a horrible death for the “crime”
of a most natural act between fellow teenage males.
This piece of nearly
forgotten history was dealt with by artist and academic Drew Pettifer
in his exhibition A
Sorrowful Act: The Wreck Of The Zeewijk.
“I came across
this narrative around the Dutch ship Zeewijk in a documentary. It was
just this 32 second segment talking about this sodomy trial on a
Dutch ship in the year 1727 but it turned out to be, as far as
historians currently can tell, the first act of engagement with queer
history in Australia recorded from a European perspective.”
Let
us not forget these lonely souls, especially during the month of
Pride.
