Chicken Phoebe

I think there’s nothing better than having a restaurant quality pasta dish on the table within minutes! This creamy chicken pasta recipe comes from the New Orleans restaurant “Brennan’s”. Originally the cream sauce was served very spicy, here a horseradish mustard is substituted. We named this after Phoebe Couzins. Read about this dynamic woman after the recipe.

Creamy chicken with broccoli and pasta. One pan to wash. Just sit back and enjoy the compliments.

Ingredients

2 tsp kosher (coarse) salt

2 tsp garlic powder

2 Tbs horseradish mustard

1 lb uncooked chicken breast

1 jar mushrooms

4 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 can evaporated milk

8 ounces thin spaghetti noodles

Directions:

Slice the chicken into half thickness.

In small bowl, stir together 2 teaspoons kosher salt and 2 teaspoons garlic powder. Sprinkle over 1 lb uncooked chicken on both sides.

In large skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat. Add chicken; cook 2 to 3 minutes on each side or just until browned. Transfer chicken to plate; set aside.

I, unfortunately, crowded the chicken in the skillet so I could not get a good browning.

In same skillet, empty the drained jar of mushrooms. Sprinkle with 1 TBS cornstarch and stir.

Add the can of evaporated milk, scraping up any brown bits from bottom of skillet. Reduce heat to simmer. Stir in remaining 2 tablespoons unsalted butter. 2 Tbs horseradish mustard. Season to taste with salt.

Add the pasta and broccoli. Stir until all of the pasta has been covered with liquid. Let simmer for 15 mins. Or until pasta is soft and sauce is thickened. Return chicken to skillet. Let simmer for 5 mins.

Sprinkle with chopped fresh parsley if you like.

Sprinkled a little Parmesan cheese on it before eating.

So happy to serve this one dish meal. If you wish, serve with a green salad.

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Phoebe Couzins

Phoebe Wilson Couzins (September 8, 1842 – December 6, 1913) was one of the first female lawyers in the United States. She was the second woman to serve as a licensed attorney in Missouri and the third or fourth to be a licensed attorney in the United States. She was the first woman admitted to the Missouri and Utah bars, and was also admitted to the Kansas and Dakota Territory bars. She was the first female appointed to the U.S. Marshal service. After her career in law she played an active part in the Suffrage movement.

Usually I reserve this space to write about LGBT heroes. Now after more than a hundred years after her death, we have no way of knowing her sexuality.

I can not proclaim that she was a lesbian. I can say that what history we can find about this woman, there has nothing that would refute her being gay.

In a larger sense Phoebe Couzins had a profound impact on the history of our culture. She defied many of its traditions and showed that women can be more than “married to the house”. She is nearly forgotten today and that is sad. If we do not remember her, who will?

Couzins was born to Adaline and John Couzins, who was the chief of police during the Civil War in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1884 he was appointed U.S. marshal of the Eastern District of Missouri by President Chester Arthur. Her mother was active in charity work and volunteered as a nurse.

During the American Civil War, both Phoebe and Adaline helped organize the Western Sanitary Commission, which offered medical aid to wounded soldiers in places without hospitals. During St Louis's 1849 Cholera epidemic, both Adaline and John lead relief efforts. Adaline also actively contributed to the movement for women's suffrage. Phoebe and Adaline were both members of the St. Louis Woman Suffrage Association, where Phoebe drew attention as a public speaker.

Couzins submitted an application to study law at the new Washington University in St. Louis. Her application was accepted by all sixteen members of the Application board, and her historic acceptance opened the gates for women to study law in Washington University. In 1869, Couzins began her studies at the university's law school, and earned her L.L.B degree in 1871, as one of only nine people in her class. Couzins became the first woman in the United States to graduate from a law school. She was also the first female graduate of Washington University. Couzins was licensed to practice law in the federal courts, Missouri, Arkansas, Utah, and Kansas. However, she chose a career in public speaking.

Even before starting her studies, she was the Missouri delegate to the American Equal Rights Association meeting in New York. Couzins was described as a riveting orator and lectured across the United States. In 1884, she testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the legal status of women.

In 1884, John Couzins became U.S. marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri and he made Phoebe one of his deputies. As his health failed, Phoebe started taking over some of his duties. After his death in 1887, Couzins became the first female U.S. Marshal in the country, a position which she held for two months. Upon Phoebe's father's death in 1887, President Grover Cleveland appointed Phoebe interim marshal. However, two months later, Phoebe was replaced by a man.

Couzins served as commissioner for Missouri, on the National Board of Charities and Correction. She was also on the St. Louis World's Fair board of directors. She had written a number of books during her time as Marshal, regarding law and governance. In 1882 President Chester A. Arthur considered her for a position on the Utah Territory Commission.

Couzins contributed to "The Revolution", a women's suffrage publication. She served as a delegate to the American Equal Rights Convention in 1871, which was attended by Susan B. Anthony.  After the convention, she aligned causes with Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to form the National Woman Suffrage Association(NWSA), and toured extensively around the country. .

Couzins was outspoken in her support. She believed in the rise of a new type of suffragist- one who was young and wealthy, and was fighting for suffrage for reasons that opposed her own.

Phoebe later changed positions and renounced woman suffrage and temperance, which was widely publicized in 1897. At this time Couzins herself was battling health conditions, and was becoming increasingly weak. She left the suffrage movement in 1897, and joined the United States Brewers' Association, as a lobbyist against prohibition and temperance. It is assumed that she took up the job because her funds were rapidly dwindling. Her choice was taken as an offense by many suffragists, as temperance was always looked upon favorably by the suffrage movement. She lost her job with the Brewers Association in 1908, when she was about sixty-eight. She then returned to St. Louis, unemployed and disabled. She appealed to the federal government for a job and to the Brewers Association for aid. She solicited friends for help, but was not able to garner enough support.

"I had met Mr. Fair in the Riggs House, Washington, D. C, in 1883, while he was a United States Senator from Nevada. I took a liking to him at once. He seemed to me to be the very ideal of a strong, vigorous and energetic man, who was created to succeed in life, to be a prince and a leader among men.

PHOEBE COUZINS AND JAMES G. FAIR WERE ENGAGED TO MARRY.

The Bereaved Lady Declares Her Firm Belief That Interested Persons Intercepted Their Letters.

Miss Phoebe Couzins, the world-famed woman's rights advocate, orator and author, was the affianced bride of James G. Fair at the time of his death.

Struggling with her sorrow and her sickness, Miss Couzins started westward and arrived in San Francisco shortly after the death of the man who had promised to become her husband. She came and learned that only a few short hours after Mr. Fair's death a document purporting to be his last will and testament was filed in court for probate. A document which did not even mention Miss Couzins' name, although the testator had repeatedly stated in the presence of witnesses that Miss Couzins was to be liberally provided for in a financial way and that she was to become his wife at an early date. One of the witnesses who heard these declarations was Dr. Vincent Herbert of Chicago, who attended Mr. Fair daring a season of sickness at the Grand Pacific Hotel in the spring of 1893. Other reputable and well-known persons heard Mr. Fair make the same statements!

"Well, Mr. Fair, accompanied by his ' secretaries, Bresse and Angus, arrived in Chicago May 7, 1893, and took apartments at the Grand Pacific Hotel. Mr. Fair immediately sent me his card. I met him in one of the parlors and he expressed great happiness at seeing me. He told me then and there that he had come all the way from California for the purpose of asking me to become his wife. I told him that I would give him a definite answer within a few days and delicately intimated that he need have no fear lof ray final decision. He seemed very much pleased at this and we spent the evening very pleasantly talking of the present, the future and old times.

"A few days after that Mr. Fair was taken suddenly and violently ill in a singular manner. That night he sent for me to come to him. I did as requested. He told me he was a very sick man and begged' me to take care of him and to call in my physician. I immediately did so. The doctor prescribed for him. Mr. Bresse and Mr. Angus tried to keep me out of the sick-room, but Dr. Herbert interposed and directed that I be permitted to nurse Mr. Fair. I cared for the sick man until the worst of his illness was past. He often spoke hopefully of the future.

"And that was the last evening that we I were together," said Miss Couzins, "On the following day Mr. Fair was whisked out of Chicago as if he had been a prisoner or a fugitive from justice. I was permitted to see him only for a moment just before he went went away. Angus and Bresse were constantly near him. "While I was speaking to him, just before his departure, a man, who I think was a hireling of Bresse, came and interrupted our conversation. Mr. Fair managed to tell me that he was called away by very important business matters, but that he would speedily return and make me his wife. And so he left. I never saw him again.

"I did write, but I never got an answer after that. I am positively certain that he wrote to me also, but the letters were unquestionably intercepted. His secretaries were constantly on the watch. When I used to call on Mr. Fair in his sick-room at the Grand Pacific his valet or one of the other attaches used to secrete themselves in the closets in order to listen to our conversation.

Miss Couzins was the recipient of many endearing as well as friendly letters from the dead ex-Senator. After the engagement of marriage Mr. Fair wrote love letters like an ardent youth of twenty, and these Miss Couzins holds and cherishes as sacred relics. When asked for a copy of one of these she slowly but emphatically shook her head.

"No, not for any consideration whatever," she said. "I hold them too sacred to be exposed to the ieers of an unfeeling world."

This is the belief of Miss Couzins. She thinks that he was hedged about with men and influences, whose persistence overpowered his individual will, and swayed his moral entity. The facts as viewed by her indicate that in this case Mr. Fair was dragged by a force he could not withstand from the woman he dearly loved and had promised to wed. was prevented from seeing her again, or in any way communicating with her. To this end, the lady believes, many falsehoods were told, and many letters were intercepted by enemies, whose selfish and sinister motives were threatened by the proposed alliance.

When Miss Couzins came to San Francisco she said nothing of her own individual loss or the pain in her heart. She delivered lectures and visited her friends and suffered in silence. At last she became so ill and weary that she could no longer go on as formerly with her public work. She decided to take a season of rest.

One of her admiring friends, Mrs. Knox Goodrich of San Jose, invited her to come and rest with her. Miss Couzins went and for a time was lost sight of to the busy world.

Couzins died in St. Louis on December 6, 1913 in an unoccupied house at 2722 Pine Street and was mourned by only her brother and a few friends. Her funeral was attended by only six people. She was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery on December 8, 1913, with her U.S marshal star pinned to her chest. At her time of death she was in a state of poverty.

Couzins’ grave remained unmarked until 1950, when the Women’s Bar Association of St. Louis paid to erect a headstone in honor of her achievements on behalf of the women lawyers who were inspired by her.