This
tasty gooey stuffed meat loaf might never have been served at this
mid-fifties drive-in in Boise. However slave presents it in honor
and remembrance of the family who built the business and had their
world turned upside down by power seeking bigots.
Enjoy
this drive in fare of cream cheese & tomato stuffed meat loaf and
make the effort to learn about this bit of LGBT history so we don't
have to endure it again.
Ingredients:
1
lbs ground Beef
¾
cup oats – uncooked
½
cup yellow onion chopped fine
1
Tbs Brown sugar
1
Tbs Worcestershire sauce
¼
tsp liquid smoke (optional)
1
Tbs mustard
1
Tbs minced garlic
1
tsp salt + ½ tsp pepper
¼
cup BBQ sauce
Stuffing:
8oz.
Low fat cream cheese at room temperture
2
slices American cheese torn into small bits
½
cup diced tomatoes drained
1
can potatoes diced
Directions:
Pre
heat oven to 350
degrees
Chop
the onion and garlic.
Mix
the ground beef with oats, onions, brown sugar and garlic, then add
Worcestershire
sauce, mustard, liquid smoke (careful with this a little goes a long
way) carefully stir in the BBQ sauce until well mixed. Let sit for 5
full minutes!
Mix
together the stuffing: Stir the tomatoes into the cream cheese and
add the torn bits of American cheese until well blended.
Spread
out some waxed paper. Spoon out the meat loaf mixture as follows:
Slightly
less than half on one side. Then slightly less than half on the
other:
Shape
the meat to have raised edges.
Spoon
in half of the cheese mix into one side, then repeat on the other.
Carefully
lift one side on top of the other. Now seal the top and bottom
together. Use the left over mix to fill in any gaps and to seal all
the way around.
Line
a baking pan with foil and spray a cooking rack to fit inside.
Carefully
lift the meatloaf onto the rack and spray the outside with cooking
spray. Bake for 30
minutes.
Lift
the baking rack with meatloaf out of pan. Drain the pan of grease.
Open
the can of diced potatoes and spread across the bottom of pan and sit
the meatloaf rack back on top.
Return
to the oven for another 45
minutes. During
this time the meat will drip onto the potatoes giving them a
wonderful taste.
Carefully
lift the meatloaf off the rack to the platter. Don't worry if it gets
a bit messy. The taste is fantastic. Serve with a simple green side
dish.
At
that time in 1955: “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"
was the number one song on the radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDtxiNwDS8
Al
Travelstead just had that touch. Everything seemed to turn to gold.
First a dance studio then a simple drive-in where he would put on
roof top shows. Al had even been a branch president of the local LDS
Church.
Then
the world fell apart. A police officer friend came to him and said
“You better get out of town, we've got a warrant for you.”
This
wasn't just any charge this was a morals charge for "infamous
crimes against nature"!
The whole state capitol was in the
throes of a massive witch hunt. Lives were being ruined, suicides,
families torn apart.
November of 1955 was Hell in Boise! Al
disappeared and escaped to Mexico. As soon as he could he sent word
to his wife to sell the property for what she could get and bring the
kids.
He was never again able to be successful – he had lost his “touch”.
Howdy
Pardner Drive-In Cafe would never be the same. Nor would the majority
of the 43,000 residents of that western state capital.
Media spread
the Horror around the country & the world. Not because it was
strange, but to use it for a renewed hysteria against all LGBT's!
Serving
my Master Indy
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
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