McKuen Pizzeria Casserole

Here is a great casserole with the tastes of your favorite pizza. A good way to break the holiday “sameness” with a new taste! We have named this after a nearly forgotten LGBT hero: Rod McKuen – be sure to read a short article after the recipe.

Pasta, sausages, mushrooms, mozzarella, and sauce: it's a pizza in a casserole! Try it tonight, just the thing to share while watching the holiday movies.

Ingredients

• ½ package large pasta shells
• 16 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1 jar pizza sauce
• 1 pkg. smoked pork sausage
• 1 cup fresh sliced mushrooms
• ½ yellow onion chopped
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 3 teaspoons olive oil
  

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and spray a baking dish lightly.

Do your cutting: chop the onion, rinse the mushrooms and let dry.
Boil a large pot of water and cook the shells for 10 minutes. Drain the pasta shells and place the shells on a lightly greased baking sheet to cool. 
 

While that is cooking, add 2 teaspoons of oil to a skillet over medium high heat and cook the sausages until they are browns. About 7 minutes.
Remove the meat to a cutting board. Slice into ½ inch pieces.

Keep the skillet on and saute the onions & mushrooms for about
7 minutes, stirring occasionally.

By now the pasta should be finished, rinsed and drained well.
Spoon into sprayed casserole along with sausage pieces and the onion/mushroom mix.

Pour in the pizza sauce and mix well.
Stir in half the cheese and season with the Italian seasoning.
 

Cover the dish with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil sprinkle with rest of cheese and bake for 10 more minutes uncovered.

Serve with a side green vegetable if you wish.

For our music:  
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What a new exciting way to enjoy the taste of pizza!

So proud to be serving this ot my Master.

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Rod McKuen

When the generation of baby boomers started to develop their own sense of sexuality and self, apart from that of their parents, often they sought out Rod McKuen.

His words, voice, and leadership helped guide questioning youth all over the globe. He truly was a Hero. At the height of his career, he used his not inconsiderable celebrity clout to fight for LGBT freedoms.

Rod McKuen was a singer-songwriter, musician and poet. In fact the best-selling poet in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, including popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions.

McKuen’s songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry, according to the Associated Press.

What is little remembered is McKuen’s queer past and his gay activism work.

A real cowboy

Rod McKuen was born in California at the tail end of the depression. At eleven, he left home to work at jobs that took him throughout the western United States as Rodman on a surveying unit, cowhand, lumberjack, ditch digger, railroad worker, and finally rodeo cowboy.

The more than 1500 songs penned by McKuen include such standards as:

LOVE'S BEEN GOOD TO ME,

JEAN,

I THINK OF YOU,

ROCK GENTLY,

THE WORLD I USED TO KNOW,

WITHOUT A WORRY IN THE WORLD,

A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN,

JOANNA

I'LL CATCH THE SUN.

The French performing society named IF YOU GO AWAY the song of the millennium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1DyhDXrVo

His endeavors on behalf on anti-discrimination won him a second medal from the Freedoms Foundation and he was twice been named Variety Clubs Man of the year.

McKuen is past president of The National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse and came out publicly in his 1977 best selling book FINDING MY FATHER about his own abuse at the hands of a sadistic stepfather.

McKuen was a longtime supporter of gay rights. In the 1950s, he held a leadership role in the San Francisco chapter of the Mattachine Society. McKuen also publicly opposed Anita Bryant and dubbed her:  ‘Ginny Orangeseed’—and gave benefit performances in Miami and at gay discos in New York and LA to raise money for gay rights groups to fight her. He also engaged in AIDS activism for well over a decade, participating in numerous fundraisers in support of AIDS related charities.

The cover for his 1977 Slide… Easy In album, depicts an arm with his fist filled with Crisco, hovering above a can with the label “disco” on it. The so-called “Crisco/Disco” album featured the song “Don’t Drink the Orange Juice,” released during the national “gaycot” of Florida orange juice in response to the Anita Bryant campaign.

Later that same year the Associated Press asked McKuen if he was gay. He responded: “I’ve been attracted to men and I’ve been attracted to women. I have a 16-year-old son. You put a label on.”

McKuen refused to label his sexual activities:

Am I gay? Let me put it this way, Collectively I spend more hours brushing my teeth than having sex so I refuse to define my life in sexual terms. I’ve been to bed with women and men and in most cases enjoyed the experience with either sex immensely. Does that make me bi-sexual? Nope. Heterosexual? Not exclusively. Homosexual? Certainly not by my definition.

I am sexual by nature and I continue to fall in love with people and with any luck human beings of both sexes will now and again be drawn to me. I can’t imagine choosing one sex over the other, that’s just too limiting. I can’t even honestly say I have a preference. I’m attracted to different people for different reasons.

I do identify with the Gay Rights struggle, to me that battle is about nothing more or less than human rights. I marched in the 50’s and 60’s to protest the treatment of Blacks in this country and I’m proud of the fact that I broke the color barrier in South Africa by being the first artist to successfully demand integrated seating at my concerts. I am a die-hard feminist and will continue to speak out for women’s rights as long as they are threatened. These, of course, are all social issues and have nothing to do with my sex life (although admittedly I’ve met some pretty hot people of both sexes on the picket line.)

When Rod McKuen died in 2015 most news outlets erased the fact that for over half a century McKuen selflessly and proudly advocated for gay rights while refusing to put sexual labels on himself.