One-Pan Meatball and Pepperoni Pasta Bake

 Here is a hearty meal in one dish, cooked in the oven for easy clean-up! A different take on your typical Italian-style meal. While we indulge in the food of Rome, lets check out the LGBT history there!

Pasta, meatballs, mushrooms, and some pepperoni, a hearty man warming meal. Just the thing for our changeable weather.

Ingredients

1 box (16 oz) favorite pasta

2 cans pasta sauce

1 can diced tomatoes with liquid

1 cup chicken broth

1 cup sliced pepperoni (from 6-oz package)

1 bag (16 oz) frozen cooked Italian-style meatballs (32 meatballs)

1 package (8 oz) shredded Italian cheese blend (2 cups)

Directions:

Heat oven to 350°F. Spray a 3-quart baking dish with cooking spray.

Rinse the mushrooms and quarter in large chunks, drain well. Pop in a microwave safe bowl and cook on high for 3 mins.

In a large bowl, mix the sauce, tomatoes with liquid and broth. Stir together well

In the sprayed dish, scatter the frozen meatballs, pepperoni, and warm mushrooms. Pour the pasta into the bowl of sauce. Mix well to make sure all pasta is coated. Then pour this mixture over the meatballs, mushrooms, and pepperoni. Seal dish with foil.

Bake 55 to 60 minutes or until pasta is tender.

Uncover; top with cheese. Bake uncovered 8 to 10 minutes or until cheese is melted.

Throw in some garlic bread along side in the oven and your meal is done! Serve with some green veggies if you wish but not necessary.

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What a meal for my Master!

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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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Classical Gay Ancients

In ancient Rome, men were free to have sex with other males without rebuke, as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were slaves and former slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of “infamia”, excluded from the normal protections accorded a citizen even if they were technically free.

Although Roman men seem to have preferred youths between the ages of 12 and 20 as sexual partners, freeborn male minors were considered as “off limits” at certain periods in Rome, though professional prostitutes and entertainers might remain sexually available well into adulthood.

Roman ideals of being a man were premised on taking an active role. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, scholars have tended to view expressions of Roman male sexuality in terms of a "penetrator-penetrated" binary model; that is, the proper way for a Roman male to seek sexual was to insert his penis into his partner. Allowing himself to be penetrated threatened his liberty as a free citizen as well as his sexual integrity.

It was expected and socially acceptable for a freeborn Roman man to want sex with both female and male partners, as long as he took the penetrative role. The morality of the behavior depended on the social standing of the partner, not gender. Both women and young men were considered normal objects of desire, but outside marriage a man was supposed to act on his desires with only slaves or prostitutes (who were often slaves). Gender did not determine whether a sexual partner was acceptable, as long as a man's enjoyment did not encroach on another man's integrity.

It was immoral to have sex with another freeborn man's wife, his marriageable daughter, his underage son, or with the man himself; (sexual use of another man's slave was subject to the owner's permission). Lack of self-control, including in managing one's sex life and too much indulgence in "low sensual pleasure" threatened to erode the man's identity as a cultured person.

Homoerotic themes are introduced to Latin literature during a period of increasing Greek influence on Roman culture in the 2nd century BC.

Greek cultural attitudes differed from those of the Romans primarily in idealizing eros (or erotic love) between freeborn male citizens of equal status, though usually with a difference of age. An attachment to another man outside the family, was seen as a positive influence among the Greeks. Not so much within the Roman society. Homosexuality was not as pervasive in Rome as it had been in Classical Athens, where it is thought to have contributed to the culture.

In the Imperial era, a perceived increase in passive homosexual behavior among free males was associated with anxieties about the giving up political liberty to the emperor, and led to an increase in executions and corporal punishment. The sexual license and decadence under the empire was seen as a contributing factor and symptom of the loss of the ideals of physical integrity under the Republic. 

When Marcus Tullius Cicero; Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, and orator, talked about his relationship with Mark Antony when he was younger, he insinuated that he established with Antony, a fixed and stable marriage, as if “he had given you a stola.” A stola is the traditional garment of a married Roman woman. The point was to cast Anthony in the submissive role in the relationship and to impugn his manhood.

So when we speak of these ancient societies, our modern word “Gay” needs to be re-defined if we are to understand where we were and where we are going with our culture.