This Midwestern seafood casserole is dedicated to some Dutch sailors from 1725 who were sentenced to a horrible death for the “crime” of a most natural act between fellow sailors. Read a quick story about them after the recipe for some great dinner conversation.

Here in the Midwest, seafood can be very expensive, yet still an important part of our diet. This casserole features imitation lobster meat, mushrooms and a bit of peas for a hearty one dish meal.

Ingredients

6 oz. whole wheat pasta

2 slices bacon

1 PKG imitation lobster meat

3 tablespoons butter

4 tablespoons flour (divided)

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp pepper

½ tsp old bay

1 can evaporated non fat milk

4 TBS spiced rum

½ cup button mushrooms (sliced)

1 cup frozen peas

1 cup fresh grated Gouda cheese (divided)

Directions:

Cook pasta per directions on package. Drain and rinse with hot water.

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly spray a 2 quart casserole dish.

Grate the gouda cheese in a bowl and set aside.

Cook the bacon until it renders its grease, (about 5 minutes) remove to paper towels to drain.

Add mushrooms to the warm bacon grease and dust lightly with 2 TBS flour. Saute over medium high heat. Cook 6-8 minutes, or until mushrooms are golden. Remove from pan and set aside.

In same pan, melt some butter. In a jar, shake well 2 TBS flour, salt, pepper and Old Bay with ½ can of evaporated milk, Pour into hot skillet with remaining milk and stir well. Cook until mixture thickens. This should take about 5 minutes. Stir constantly with a whisk. Add half of the grated cheese. Add sea food and mushrooms back to the pan. Chop up the bacon pieces and add them with the Spiced Rum and the frozen peas.

Continue stirring until heated through. Place pasta into pan with seafood mixture, and stir it all together until well mixed. Place it all in the buttered casserole.

Sprinkle the top with remaining cheese. Bake for about 25 minutes, or until light brown and bubbly around the edges.

A great easy to fix meal in one dish!

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The Zeewijk Forsaken

The Zeewijk (pronounced GEE-vack) was built in 1725, 145 feet long by 36 feet wide. Wrecked on her maiden voyage on a reef off the western coast of Australia. Upon departure 208 seamen and soldiers were aboard, as well as a cargo of general building supplies and 315,836 guilders in 10 chests. Jan Steyns was the skipper, in his first command.

The Dutch East India Company required ships to cross from the around the Cape of Africa to Jakarta, traveling eastwards until turning north. Steyns ignored the directorate and protests from his steersman and headed east-northeast.

In evening darkness on 9 June 1727 the ship crashed heavily into Half Moon Reef off the western edge of Australia. The ship did not break up immediately.

Heavy seas saw at least 10 men drown at the first attempt to launch a lifeboat. After one week a long boat was launched. Most of the remaining crew was ferried to what would be later known as Gun Island. From Gun and surrounding islands, fresh water was available, as well as vegetables, birds and seals that were combined with the ship's goods to sustain the survivors.

 

A rescue group of 11 set off in the longboat a month latter, but were never heard of again.

During that year, two of the teenage sailors, Adriaen Spoor and Pieter Engels, were caught by their crewmen in“the abominable and god-forsaken deeds of Sodom and Gomorrah” and sentenced to death.

Never mind that such activities were often found on board ship at the time. Never mind the fact that they had not even seen a member of the other sex for nearly a year and it did not look like they ever would after their shipwreck. They were put to death for seeking comfort in each others arms. Not just death but a slow, lonely horrible death. They were abandoned alone each on a tiny, rocky island with no water nor food nor shelter.

In our Western culture we are taught by the church that man was made by God. We are well aware what chemical changes happen in the body as the male matures. Is it a stretch to assume that God planed it that way?

The stretch occurs went we become so afraid of the sex act we must condemn it to death! Instead of acknowledging that it is the upmost expression of love the body has. It is a gift of God for our joy. It was designed to be so much more than only for procreation. God is often described to our limited imaginations as Love itself. To feel love is to feel the presence of God in our lives. We should be rejoicing in these feelings instead of reacting with a psychotic fear.

However for their crime of being caught, they were abandoned on separate rocky islands and left to starve while the others escaped in their patchwork ship. A similar fate had befallen another Dutch East India Company sailor two years earlier. In 1725 Leendert Hasenbosch was marooned on Ascension Island in the Atlantic for sodomy, and is presumed to have died of thirst.

Thus three young men were sentenced to death by starvation and thirst. Each in solitude, abandoned to a horrible death for the “crime” of a most natural act between fellow teenage males.

This piece of nearly forgotten history was dealt with by artist and academic Drew Pettifer in his exhibition A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck Of The Zeewijk.

“I came across this narrative around the Dutch ship Zeewijk in a documentary. It was just this 32 second segment talking about this sodomy trial on a Dutch ship in the year 1727 but it turned out to be, as far as historians currently can tell, the first act of engagement with queer history in Australia recorded from a European perspective.”

 

 Let us not forget these lonely souls, especially during the month of Pride.