This casserole is a version of the great taste of stroganoff. This dish is dedicated to the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Shakespeare is well known and honored but what about his contemporary. Here is an interesting quick story of him for great dinner conversation. An easy to fix hearty meal.
Beef & sausage with mushrooms in a creamy cheese sauce. Served on a bed of pasta. A great recipe to play with once you have it mastered.
1 (16 oz) package pasta (used whole wheat rigotini)
1 pound ground beef + ½ lbs sausage
½ cup chopped onion
1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 pinch garlic powder (Optional)
1 cup fresh mushrooms
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of bacon soup
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese softened to room temperature
½ c milk, plus more to taste
1 cup frozen peas
½ cup shredded carrots
Directions:
Heat the pasta water to a boil and add 1 tsp salt. Add the pasta and cook til “Al Dente”.
Drain the pasta and keep them warm in their cooking pot.
Rinse and slice the mushrooms. Allow to drain well in a colander.
While that cooks, heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Start the onions and add the ground beef and sausage that has been cut open and casing removed. Cook until well brown and crumbly. 6 – 8 minutes. Remove to a paper towel lined bowl to drain.
Add a TBS of butter to the remaining grease in the skillet. Sprinkle in the sliced mushrooms and coat with 3 TBS of flour stirring til well mixed. Stir occasionally as the mushrooms lose their water and turn a crispy brown. About 10 minutes.
Stir in the carrots and peas.
Mix the 2 cans of soup in a large bowl with the milk and garlic powder. Add to skillet.
Dot with the cream cheese. Stir and cook until well mixed. Pour in the cooked beef & sausage. Let simmer for 6 – 10 minutes.
Serve hot on a bed of the pasta with a side of mixed vegetables and enjoy!
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was baptized in February 1564. This makes him about two months older than William Shakespeare.
By age 16, Marlowe attended Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584. In 1587, the university hesitated to award his Master of Arts degree because of a rumor that he intended to go to France, to become a Roman Catholic priest. If true, that would have been a violation of a royal edict issued by Queen Elizabeth I in 1585.
His degree was awarded on schedule when the Privy Council intervened on his behalf, commending him for his "faithful dealing" and "good service" to the Queen. The nature of Marlowe's service was not specified, but the theory is that Marlowe was operating as a secret agent for a Privy Council member Sir Francis Walsingham. Vague wording was typically used to protect government agents.
Marlowe launched his literary career in 1587.
Six dramas have been attributed to Christopher Marlowe either alone or with other writers. Tamburlaine was the first to be performed on a regular commercial stage in London in 1587. Believed by many scholars to be Marlowe's greatest success. It is generally considered the beginning of the mature phase of the Elizabethan theater.
Dido, Queen of Carthage
Tamburlaine; Part I
The Jew of Malta
Doctor Faustus
Edward II
The Massacre at Paris
Also:
Amores, first book of Latin elegiac couplets by Ovid with translation by Marlowe; copies publicly burned as offensive in 1599.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, by Marlowe.
Hero and Leander, by Marlowe
Pharsalia, Book One, by Lucan with translation by Marlowe.
Marlowe's plays were enormously successful, possibly due to the imposing stage presence of his lead actor, Edward Alleyn. Alleyn was unusually tall for the time and was a favorite of Marlowe.
His plays flourished throughout the 1590s. However, Marlowe's translation of Ovid was banned and copies were publicly burned as part of Archbishop Whitgift's crackdown on offensive material.
Little is known about Marlowe's adult life. Much has been written, including speculation of: his being a spy for the royality; his private same-sex interests; and the puzzling circumstances surrounding his death.
An informer called Richard Baines submitted to the authorities a "note containing the opinion of one Christopher Marly concerning his damnable judgment of religion, and scorn of God's word". Baines attributes to Marlowe a total of eighteen items which "scoff at the pretensions of the Old and New Testament" such as, "Christ was a bastard and his mother dishonest [unchaste]", "the woman of Samaria were whores and that Christ knew them dishonestly", "St John the Evangelist was bedfellow to Christ and leaned always in his bosom" and "that he used him as the sinners of Sodom".
At that time, plays had to be approved by the Master of the Revels before they could be performed and the censorship of publications was under the control of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Authorities did not consider any of Marlowe's works to be unacceptable other than the Amores.
It has been stated that Marlowe was homosexual. Marlowe is reported as saying: "all they that love not Tobacco & Boies were fools".
Many point to how many times Marlowe explores homosexual themes in his writing: in Hero and Leander, Marlowe writes of the male youth Leander: "in his looks were all that men desire..."
Edward the Second contains the following passage enumerating homosexual relationships:
The
mightiest kings have had their minions;
Great Alexander loved
Hephaestion,
The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept;
And for
Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped.
And not kings only, but the
wisest men:
The Roman Tully loved Octavius,
Grave Socrates,
wild Alcibiades.
On Wednesday, 30 May1593, Marlowe was killed. One published report said Marlowe was "stabbed to death by a bawdy serving-man, a rival of his in his lewd love".
The coroner's report was discovered in 1925. Marlowe had spent all day in a house, together with three men: Ingram Frizer, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley. All three had been employed by members of the Privy Council. These witnesses testified that Frizer and Marlowe had argued over payment of the bill. In the ensuing struggle, according to the coroner's report, Marlowe was stabbed above the right eye, killing him instantly. The jury concluded that Frizer acted in self-defense and was pardoned. This description has been disputed and outcome as impossible. There is doubt that such a wound could have resulted in instant death.
It was well known that the witnesses were professional liars. There have been some interesting theories:
Jealous of her husband Thomas's relationship with Marlowe, Audrey Walsingham arranged for the playwright to be murdered.
Sir Walter Raleigh arranged the murder, fearing that under torture Marlowe might incriminate him.
The Queen ordered his assassination because of his subversive atheistic behavior.
Frizer murdered him because he envied Marlowe's close relationship with his master Thomas Walsingham.
Marlowe's death was faked to save him from trial and execution for subversive atheism.
It is unlikely that the full circumstances of Marlowe's death will ever be known.
Marlowe was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford immediately after the inquest, on 1 June 1593.
In July 2002, a memorial window to Marlowe, a gift of the Marlowe Society, was unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Notice the question mark!
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