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It has noodles & tuna in it, that&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s how everyone makes it, the ones I saw here when I went to the potlucks? were all made alike.....I never had the urge to taste any.

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From: Virginia Butterfield <butter@...>
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Sent: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:20:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Sorry guys, we love it here.? Maybe it is just how it is made?

Ginny Butterfield

Cranberry Twp, Pa

On 7/8/2017 1:17 PM, SwampThing wrote:

Makes me want to barf just thinking about it, I wouldn&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t feed
it to an animal, so why would I eat it?

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From: Four Housecats of the Apocalypse
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To: [email protected]

Sent: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:44:11 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole - OT

?

When we got married I let

Carol know that serving tuna-noodle casserole was grounds
for instant divorce.

Thankfully I was never threatened with that at home when I
was growing up. Did

taste it at friends homes but it always made me want to

barf.

-----
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From:SwampThing

To:[email protected]

Sent:
Friday, July 07, 2017 7:49 PM

Subject:
Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A

Brief History of Tuna Casserole - OT

Mine never made it, no one in my family ever did,I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t
know anyone in

the south who did, maybe they do, but I can&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t stand it, I
don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t like

casseroles, anyway, except two I make, a yellow summer squash
one & a corn

one, which is actually corn pudding.I never see tuna casserole
at my

church? pot lucks? either. Maybe it&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s more of a northern

dish.?

----- Original Message -----

From: Virginia Butterfield
<butter@...>

To: [email protected]

Sent: Fri, 07

Jul 2017 19:44:02 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna

Casserole - OT

NOTE from Ginny, below

is an interesting article on tune

noodle casserole.? Also a link

to the web page source.?? My

own grandmas and mom religiously

made tuna noodle casserole and so did I

(still do). However the

recipe given in the article is way too complicated

for my simple

cooking style.?? We made our casseroles with cream

of mushroom

soup, cooked noodles, canned tuna, a splash of milk,

sometimes

canned mushroom pieces and/or canned peas. ? We topped

the

casserole with crushed potato chips, bread crumbs, or

cheese

depending on the mood and ingredients on hand.

Anyway, enjoy the article --Ginny

from

A Brief History of Tuna

Casserole

BY: HEATHER ARNDT ANDERSON ILLUSTRATIONS: ELEANOR SKRZAT

?

Although most associated with 1950s Middle America, this

iconic

bootstrap recipe first popped up in the Pacific Northwest

in

1930.

There are no lukewarm feelings when it comes to tuna

casserole.

People are hot or cold on the stuff. Cookbook author Helen

Evans

Brown fell decidedly in the latter category. She

intentionally,

defiantly, left it out of her seminal West Coast Cook

Book

(1952), writing that “[i]f, for instance, a dish composed of

tuna

fish, canned mushroom soup, and corn flakes is in any

danger of becoming a

dish of the region, I prefer to ignore it.

If by doing so I can give it

ever so gentle a nudge toward

oblivion, that is good.”

Helen Evans Brown’s good friend James Beard—probably

somewhat

reluctantly—included a modified recipe for it in his

1955

casserole cookbook. That same year, he lamented in a letter

to

Brown that “only tuna fish and potato chips and Campbell’s
soup

seem

to sell, if you can believe the recipes.”

Although it’s mainly associated with Middle America, and

the

1950s housewife, the earliest printed recipes for tuna

casserole

appeared two decades earlier in the Pacific Northwest. The

first

one, “Noodles and Tuna Fish en Casserole,” came from

Sunset

Magazine, from a “Mrs. W. F. S.” residing in

Kennewick,

Washington, in 1930. The same year, a “tuna fish and

noodles

casserole” appears on a menu suggested by the 100% real

The

Modern Hospital magazine, which probably sounds pretty

appropriate

to the dish’s haters. (Published by the American

Hospital Association from

1913 to 1974, the journal offered the

latest guidance in nursing,

occupational and physical therapies,

hospital administration, and,

evidently, nutritious and

well-balanced casseroles.)

Two years later a version appeared in Cook Book of Many

尝补苍诲蝉—补

cookbook that the Americanization Department of

Portland,

Oregon’s Parent-Teacher Association established to help

Portland

women relate to their immigrant neighbors. Although there

is

nothing specifically German about the “German Noodles and Tuna

贵颈蝉丑”

recipe, it does bear a striking resemblance to the Sunset

recipe. It’s made

from the same Holy Trinity of noodles, tuna,

and white sauce, with a pretty

pimento garnish. Had James Beard

known of its Pacific Northwest roots (he

was a native

Oregonian), he may have been warmer on the stuff.

Mrs. W. F. S.’s groundbreaking recipe included the

mushrooms and

the cheese topping familiar today; in fact, the addition

of

mushrooms probably had something to do with the widespread

switch to

canned cream of mushroom soup in lieu of laborious

white sauce. The

introduction of Campbell’s cream of mushroom

soup in 1934 was the

game-changer that cemented tuna casserole’s

place in the American

丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉 culinary arsenal. Aside from

the canned tuna, it was this

ingredient’s ubiquity during World

War II (a nadir of American ingredient

availability and culinary

ingenuity) that inspired the inimitable M. F. K.

Fisher to

include a noodle-less version of tuna casserole in How to Cook

a

Wolf (1942), offering the caveat that “condensed mushroom
soup,

while

far from perfection, is a very present help in time of

culinary

迟谤辞耻产濒别.”

After the war, tuna casserole remained in the

丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉

rotation, but the dish shed its Pacific Northwest roots

and

became associated with funerals (it’s a thing, swear!), and

the

Midwest. This all makes sense. It contains all of the
components

of

the canonical hotdish (what Midwesterners call casseroles):

protein, a

vegetable of some kind, a starchy substrate, and a

creamy binder. That

bastion of lay cooking, allrecipes.com,

features over 2,500 recipes for

tuna casserole.

For these reasons, too, it was a permanent fixture

in

mid-century home-ec curricula: economical and time-saving,
with

no

real cooking skill required besides the ability to wield a

can opener. The

“no skill required” might be why it is so

maligned, but if done with even

the smallest amount of care or

intent (which really isn’t difficult, let’s

be honest), it has

all of the elements of any legitimate comfort food:

bouncy

noodles; firm flakes of briny tuna and sweet, crunchy peas;

a

creamy, savory sauce deftly binding it all together; and a

lacy

melted-cheese matrix suspending the bits of crispity

topping.

Miraculously, the cheesy topping avoids the wrongness of

merely

existing in the same place as canned fish: it just makes

the

topping more fatty and crispy. Sublimity.

My own mother—who cooked professionally and loathed doing

it at

home—relied fairly heavily on tuna casserole to keep her

family

fed. I grew up on the version one creates when the larder

is

filled solely by food stamp spoils and food bank donations,
but

I

always loved it as a kid. Since I have more time, enjoy

cooking, and can

afford slightly better ingredients, I’ve been

making a nicer version of it

for nearly my entire adult life.

?

The Tuna Casserole is Not For

Wimps

4 servings

?

The beauty of a tuna casserole is its infinite

adaptability. You

can dump two cans into cooked pasta and call it good, or

you can

zhoozh it up with home-canned albacore and fresh lemon

thyme

from the garden (like I do). With a combination of canned tuna

and

homemade white sauce, this recipe hits the sweet spot

between effort and

ease. I firmly believe that, in the absence

of rationing and all of its

caveats, MFK Fisher would have

enjoyed this recipe. I bet it could have

even turned Helen Evans

Brown around.

INGREDIENTS

??? MUSHROOM SAUCE

??? 2 tablespoons butter

??? ? cup finely diced button or cremini

mushrooms

??? 2 tablespoons minced shallots (or mild

onion)

??? 3 tablespoons flour

??? 1 ? cup milk (whole is best)

??? pinch of dried thyme

??? salt and pepper

??? CASSEROLE

??? 8 ounces (half a bag) wide egg noodles

??? 10 ounces (2 cans) solid white albacore,

drained (I prefer

water-packed)

??? 1 cup frozen peas

??? ? cup grated cheddar cheese

??? ? cup dried bread crumbs, panko, or French

fried onions

??? Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter your

favorite casserole dish.

(I use the Corningware one I inherited from my

grandmother, who

bought it with S&H Green Stamps in the 1970s.)

??? In a medium sauté pan, melt the butter over

medium-high

heat. Add the mushrooms and shallots, and cook until

the

shallots are translucent (about five minutes), stirring often.

Turn

the heat down to medium-low, then sprinkle the flour over

the sautéed

mushrooms and shallots, stirring to coat. Keep

stirring and cooking for a

few minutes, until the roux becomes

fragrant.

??? Turn off the burner, and slowly pour in the

milk, stirring

with enough vigor to smooth out any lumps. Turn the burner

back

on, to medium-low, and simmer for about five minutes. Add the

thyme

and season with salt and pepper to taste.

??? While you’re making the sauce, boil the

noodles in salted

water according to the package directions, then drain.

Crumble

the tuna into the pot with the noodles, add the peas, then

add

in the finished sauce, stirring to thoroughly combine.

Scrape

everything into the buttered casserole and top with the

cheese,

then the bread crumbs/panko/French fried onions.

??? Bake until the cheese is melted, the topping

browned, and

the sauce bubbly (about 15 minutes).

from

--

Ginny Butterfield

Cranberry Twp, Pa

--

Cats

are connoisseurs of comfort.

When

I was younger I could remember anything, whether it
happened or

not.?

Mark

Twain

Virus-free.

--

Cats
are connoisseurs of comfort.

When
I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened
or not.?

Mark Twain

--

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.?

Mark Twain

Sorry guys, we love it here.? Maybe it is just how it is made?

Makes me want to barf just thinking about it, I wouldn&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t feed
it to an animal, so why would I eat it?

----- Original Message -----

From: Four Housecats of the Apocalypse
<h.rockwood1113@...>

To: [email protected]

Sent: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:44:11 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole - OT

?

When we got married I let

Carol know that serving tuna-noodle casserole was grounds
for instant divorce.

Thankfully I was never threatened with that at home when I
was growing up. Did

taste it at friends homes but it always made me want to

barf.

-----
Original Message -----

From:SwampThing

To:[email protected]

Sent:
Friday, July 07, 2017 7:49 PM

Subject:
Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A

Brief History of Tuna Casserole - OT

Mine never made it, no one in my family ever did,I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t
know anyone in

the south who did, maybe they do, but I can&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t stand it, I
don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t like

casseroles, anyway, except two I make, a yellow summer squash
one & a corn

one, which is actually corn pudding.I never see tuna casserole
at my

church? pot lucks? either. Maybe it&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s more of a northern

dish.?

----- Original Message -----

From: Virginia Butterfield
<butter@...>

To: [email protected]

Sent: Fri, 07

Jul 2017 19:44:02 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna

Casserole - OT

NOTE from Ginny, below

is an interesting article on tune

noodle casserole.? Also a link

to the web page source.?? My

own grandmas and mom religiously

made tuna noodle casserole and so did I

(still do). However the

recipe given in the article is way too complicated

for my simple

cooking style.?? We made our casseroles with cream

of mushroom

soup, cooked noodles, canned tuna, a splash of milk,

sometimes

canned mushroom pieces and/or canned peas. ? We topped

the

casserole with crushed potato chips, bread crumbs, or

cheese

depending on the mood and ingredients on hand.

Anyway, enjoy the article --Ginny

from

A Brief History of Tuna

Casserole

BY: HEATHER ARNDT ANDERSON ILLUSTRATIONS: ELEANOR SKRZAT

?

Although most associated with 1950s Middle America, this

iconic

bootstrap recipe first popped up in the Pacific Northwest

in

1930.

There are no lukewarm feelings when it comes to tuna

casserole.

People are hot or cold on the stuff. Cookbook author Helen

Evans

Brown fell decidedly in the latter category. She

intentionally,

defiantly, left it out of her seminal West Coast Cook

Book

(1952), writing that “[i]f, for instance, a dish composed of

tuna

fish, canned mushroom soup, and corn flakes is in any

danger of becoming a

dish of the region, I prefer to ignore it.

If by doing so I can give it

ever so gentle a nudge toward

oblivion, that is good.”

Helen Evans Brown’s good friend James Beard—probably

somewhat

reluctantly—included a modified recipe for it in his

1955

casserole cookbook. That same year, he lamented in a letter

to

Brown that “only tuna fish and potato chips and Campbell’s
soup

seem

to sell, if you can believe the recipes.”

Although it’s mainly associated with Middle America, and

the

1950s housewife, the earliest printed recipes for tuna

casserole

appeared two decades earlier in the Pacific Northwest. The

first

one, “Noodles and Tuna Fish en Casserole,” came from

Sunset

Magazine, from a “Mrs. W. F. S.” residing in

Kennewick,

Washington, in 1930. The same year, a “tuna fish and

noodles

casserole” appears on a menu suggested by the 100% real

The

Modern Hospital magazine, which probably sounds pretty

appropriate

to the dish’s haters. (Published by the American

Hospital Association from

1913 to 1974, the journal offered the

latest guidance in nursing,

occupational and physical therapies,

hospital administration, and,

evidently, nutritious and

well-balanced casseroles.)

Two years later a version appeared in Cook Book of Many

尝补苍诲蝉—补

cookbook that the Americanization Department of

Portland,

Oregon’s Parent-Teacher Association established to help

Portland

women relate to their immigrant neighbors. Although there

is

nothing specifically German about the “German Noodles and Tuna

贵颈蝉丑”

recipe, it does bear a striking resemblance to the Sunset

recipe. It’s made

from the same Holy Trinity of noodles, tuna,

and white sauce, with a pretty

pimento garnish. Had James Beard

known of its Pacific Northwest roots (he

was a native

Oregonian), he may have been warmer on the stuff.

Mrs. W. F. S.’s groundbreaking recipe included the

mushrooms and

the cheese topping familiar today; in fact, the addition

of

mushrooms probably had something to do with the widespread

switch to

canned cream of mushroom soup in lieu of laborious

white sauce. The

introduction of Campbell’s cream of mushroom

soup in 1934 was the

game-changer that cemented tuna casserole’s

place in the American

丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉 culinary arsenal. Aside from

the canned tuna, it was this

ingredient’s ubiquity during World

War II (a nadir of American ingredient

availability and culinary

ingenuity) that inspired the inimitable M. F. K.

Fisher to

include a noodle-less version of tuna casserole in How to Cook

a

Wolf (1942), offering the caveat that “condensed mushroom
soup,

while

far from perfection, is a very present help in time of

culinary

迟谤辞耻产濒别.”

After the war, tuna casserole remained in the

丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉

rotation, but the dish shed its Pacific Northwest roots

and

became associated with funerals (it’s a thing, swear!), and

the

Midwest. This all makes sense. It contains all of the
components

of

the canonical hotdish (what Midwesterners call casseroles):

protein, a

vegetable of some kind, a starchy substrate, and a

creamy binder. That

bastion of lay cooking, allrecipes.com,

features over 2,500 recipes for

tuna casserole.

For these reasons, too, it was a permanent fixture

in

mid-century home-ec curricula: economical and time-saving,
with

no

real cooking skill required besides the ability to wield a

can opener. The

“no skill required” might be why it is so

maligned, but if done with even

the smallest amount of care or

intent (which really isn’t difficult, let’s

be honest), it has

all of the elements of any legitimate comfort food:

bouncy

noodles; firm flakes of briny tuna and sweet, crunchy peas;

a

creamy, savory sauce deftly binding it all together; and a

lacy

melted-cheese matrix suspending the bits of crispity

topping.

Miraculously, the cheesy topping avoids the wrongness of

merely

existing in the same place as canned fish: it just makes

the

topping more fatty and crispy. Sublimity.

My own mother—who cooked professionally and loathed doing

it at

home—relied fairly heavily on tuna casserole to keep her

family

fed. I grew up on the version one creates when the larder

is

filled solely by food stamp spoils and food bank donations,
but

I

always loved it as a kid. Since I have more time, enjoy

cooking, and can

afford slightly better ingredients, I’ve been

making a nicer version of it

for nearly my entire adult life.

?

The Tuna Casserole is Not For

Wimps

4 servings

?

The beauty of a tuna casserole is its infinite

adaptability. You

can dump two cans into cooked pasta and call it good, or

you can

zhoozh it up with home-canned albacore and fresh lemon

thyme

from the garden (like I do). With a combination of canned tuna

and

homemade white sauce, this recipe hits the sweet spot

between effort and

ease. I firmly believe that, in the absence

of rationing and all of its

caveats, MFK Fisher would have

enjoyed this recipe. I bet it could have

even turned Helen Evans

Brown around.

INGREDIENTS

??? MUSHROOM SAUCE

??? 2 tablespoons butter

??? ? cup finely diced button or cremini

mushrooms

??? 2 tablespoons minced shallots (or mild

onion)

??? 3 tablespoons flour

??? 1 ? cup milk (whole is best)

??? pinch of dried thyme

??? salt and pepper

??? CASSEROLE

??? 8 ounces (half a bag) wide egg noodles

??? 10 ounces (2 cans) solid white albacore,

drained (I prefer

water-packed)

??? 1 cup frozen peas

??? ? cup grated cheddar cheese

??? ? cup dried bread crumbs, panko, or French

fried onions

??? Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter your

favorite casserole dish.

(I use the Corningware one I inherited from my

grandmother, who

bought it with S&H Green Stamps in the 1970s.)

??? In a medium sauté pan, melt the butter over

medium-high

heat. Add the mushrooms and shallots, and cook until

the

shallots are translucent (about five minutes), stirring often.

Turn

the heat down to medium-low, then sprinkle the flour over

the sautéed

mushrooms and shallots, stirring to coat. Keep

stirring and cooking for a

few minutes, until the roux becomes

fragrant.

??? Turn off the burner, and slowly pour in the

milk, stirring

with enough vigor to smooth out any lumps. Turn the burner

back

on, to medium-low, and simmer for about five minutes. Add the

thyme

and season with salt and pepper to taste.

??? While you’re making the sauce, boil the

noodles in salted

water according to the package directions, then drain.

Crumble

the tuna into the pot with the noodles, add the peas, then

add

in the finished sauce, stirring to thoroughly combine.

Scrape

everything into the buttered casserole and top with the

cheese,

then the bread crumbs/panko/French fried onions.

??? Bake until the cheese is melted, the topping

browned, and

the sauce bubbly (about 15 minutes).

from

--

Ginny Butterfield

Cranberry Twp, Pa

--

Cats

are connoisseurs of comfort.

When

I was younger I could remember anything, whether it
happened or

not.?

Mark

Twain

Virus-free.

--

Cats
are connoisseurs of comfort.

When
I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened
or not.?

Mark Twain

--

Makes me want to barf just thinking about it, I wouldn&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t feed it to an animal, so why would I eat it?

----- Original Message -----
From: Four Housecats of the Apocalypse <h.rockwood1113@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:44:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna Casserole - OT

?

When we got married I let
Carol know that serving tuna-noodle casserole was grounds for instant divorce.
Thankfully I was never threatened with that at home when I was growing up. Did
taste it at friends homes but it always made me want to
barf.

----- Original Message -----

From:SwampThing

To:[email protected]

Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 7:49 PM

Subject: Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A
Brief History of Tuna Casserole - OT

Mine never made it, no one in my family ever did,I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t know anyone in
the south who did, maybe they do, but I can&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t stand it, I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t like
casseroles, anyway, except two I make, a yellow summer squash one & a corn
one, which is actually corn pudding.I never see tuna casserole at my
church? pot lucks? either. Maybe it&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s more of a northern
dish.?

----- Original Message -----
From: Virginia Butterfield
<butter@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 07
Jul 2017 19:44:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole - OT

NOTE from Ginny, below
is an interesting article on tune
noodle casserole.? Also a link
to the web page source.?? My
own grandmas and mom religiously
made tuna noodle casserole and so did I
(still do). However the
recipe given in the article is way too complicated
for my simple
cooking style.?? We made our casseroles with cream
of mushroom
soup, cooked noodles, canned tuna, a splash of milk,
sometimes
canned mushroom pieces and/or canned peas. ? We topped
the
casserole with crushed potato chips, bread crumbs, or
cheese
depending on the mood and ingredients on hand.

Anyway, enjoy the article --Ginny

from

A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole

BY: HEATHER ARNDT ANDERSON ILLUSTRATIONS: ELEANOR SKRZAT

?

Although most associated with 1950s Middle America, this
iconic
bootstrap recipe first popped up in the Pacific Northwest
in
1930.

There are no lukewarm feelings when it comes to tuna
casserole.
People are hot or cold on the stuff. Cookbook author Helen
Evans
Brown fell decidedly in the latter category. She
intentionally,
defiantly, left it out of her seminal West Coast Cook
Book
(1952), writing that “[i]f, for instance, a dish composed of
tuna
fish, canned mushroom soup, and corn flakes is in any
danger of becoming a
dish of the region, I prefer to ignore it.
If by doing so I can give it
ever so gentle a nudge toward
oblivion, that is good.”

Helen Evans Brown’s good friend James Beard—probably
somewhat
reluctantly—included a modified recipe for it in his
1955
casserole cookbook. That same year, he lamented in a letter
to
Brown that “only tuna fish and potato chips and Campbell’s soup
seem
to sell, if you can believe the recipes.”

Although it’s mainly associated with Middle America, and
the
1950s housewife, the earliest printed recipes for tuna
casserole
appeared two decades earlier in the Pacific Northwest. The
first
one, “Noodles and Tuna Fish en Casserole,” came from
Sunset
Magazine, from a “Mrs. W. F. S.” residing in
Kennewick,
Washington, in 1930. The same year, a “tuna fish and
noodles
casserole” appears on a menu suggested by the 100% real
The
Modern Hospital magazine, which probably sounds pretty
appropriate
to the dish’s haters. (Published by the American
Hospital Association from
1913 to 1974, the journal offered the
latest guidance in nursing,
occupational and physical therapies,
hospital administration, and,
evidently, nutritious and
well-balanced casseroles.)

Two years later a version appeared in Cook Book of Many
尝补苍诲蝉—补
cookbook that the Americanization Department of
Portland,
Oregon’s Parent-Teacher Association established to help
Portland
women relate to their immigrant neighbors. Although there
is
nothing specifically German about the “German Noodles and Tuna
贵颈蝉丑”
recipe, it does bear a striking resemblance to the Sunset
recipe. It’s made
from the same Holy Trinity of noodles, tuna,
and white sauce, with a pretty
pimento garnish. Had James Beard
known of its Pacific Northwest roots (he
was a native
Oregonian), he may have been warmer on the stuff.

Mrs. W. F. S.’s groundbreaking recipe included the
mushrooms and
the cheese topping familiar today; in fact, the addition
of
mushrooms probably had something to do with the widespread
switch to
canned cream of mushroom soup in lieu of laborious
white sauce. The
introduction of Campbell’s cream of mushroom
soup in 1934 was the
game-changer that cemented tuna casserole’s
place in the American
丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉 culinary arsenal. Aside from
the canned tuna, it was this
ingredient’s ubiquity during World
War II (a nadir of American ingredient
availability and culinary
ingenuity) that inspired the inimitable M. F. K.
Fisher to
include a noodle-less version of tuna casserole in How to Cook
a
Wolf (1942), offering the caveat that “condensed mushroom soup,
while
far from perfection, is a very present help in time of
culinary
迟谤辞耻产濒别.”

After the war, tuna casserole remained in the
丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉
rotation, but the dish shed its Pacific Northwest roots
and
became associated with funerals (it’s a thing, swear!), and
the
Midwest. This all makes sense. It contains all of the components
of
the canonical hotdish (what Midwesterners call casseroles):
protein, a
vegetable of some kind, a starchy substrate, and a
creamy binder. That
bastion of lay cooking, allrecipes.com,
features over 2,500 recipes for
tuna casserole.

For these reasons, too, it was a permanent fixture
in
mid-century home-ec curricula: economical and time-saving, with
no
real cooking skill required besides the ability to wield a
can opener. The
“no skill required” might be why it is so
maligned, but if done with even
the smallest amount of care or
intent (which really isn’t difficult, let’s
be honest), it has
all of the elements of any legitimate comfort food:
bouncy
noodles; firm flakes of briny tuna and sweet, crunchy peas;
a
creamy, savory sauce deftly binding it all together; and a
lacy
melted-cheese matrix suspending the bits of crispity
topping.
Miraculously, the cheesy topping avoids the wrongness of
merely
existing in the same place as canned fish: it just makes
the
topping more fatty and crispy. Sublimity.

My own mother—who cooked professionally and loathed doing
it at
home—relied fairly heavily on tuna casserole to keep her
family
fed. I grew up on the version one creates when the larder
is
filled solely by food stamp spoils and food bank donations, but
I
always loved it as a kid. Since I have more time, enjoy
cooking, and can
afford slightly better ingredients, I’ve been
making a nicer version of it
for nearly my entire adult life.

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The Tuna Casserole is Not For
Wimps

4 servings

?

The beauty of a tuna casserole is its infinite
adaptability. You
can dump two cans into cooked pasta and call it good, or
you can
zhoozh it up with home-canned albacore and fresh lemon
thyme
from the garden (like I do). With a combination of canned tuna
and
homemade white sauce, this recipe hits the sweet spot
between effort and
ease. I firmly believe that, in the absence
of rationing and all of its
caveats, MFK Fisher would have
enjoyed this recipe. I bet it could have
even turned Helen Evans
Brown around.

INGREDIENTS

??? MUSHROOM SAUCE

??? 2 tablespoons butter

??? ? cup finely diced button or cremini
mushrooms

??? 2 tablespoons minced shallots (or mild
onion)

??? 3 tablespoons flour

??? 1 ? cup milk (whole is best)

??? pinch of dried thyme

??? salt and pepper

??? CASSEROLE

??? 8 ounces (half a bag) wide egg noodles

??? 10 ounces (2 cans) solid white albacore,
drained (I prefer
water-packed)

??? 1 cup frozen peas

??? ? cup grated cheddar cheese

??? ? cup dried bread crumbs, panko, or French
fried onions

??? Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter your
favorite casserole dish.
(I use the Corningware one I inherited from my
grandmother, who
bought it with S&H Green Stamps in the 1970s.)

??? In a medium sauté pan, melt the butter over
medium-high
heat. Add the mushrooms and shallots, and cook until
the
shallots are translucent (about five minutes), stirring often.
Turn
the heat down to medium-low, then sprinkle the flour over
the sautéed
mushrooms and shallots, stirring to coat. Keep
stirring and cooking for a
few minutes, until the roux becomes
fragrant.

??? Turn off the burner, and slowly pour in the
milk, stirring
with enough vigor to smooth out any lumps. Turn the burner
back
on, to medium-low, and simmer for about five minutes. Add the
thyme
and season with salt and pepper to taste.

??? While you’re making the sauce, boil the
noodles in salted
water according to the package directions, then drain.
Crumble
the tuna into the pot with the noodles, add the peas, then
add
in the finished sauce, stirring to thoroughly combine.
Scrape
everything into the buttered casserole and top with the
cheese,
then the bread crumbs/panko/French fried onions.

??? Bake until the cheese is melted, the topping
browned, and
the sauce bubbly (about 15 minutes).

from

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Ginny Butterfield

Cranberry Twp, Pa

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Cats
are connoisseurs of comfort.

When
I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or
not.?

Mark
Twain

Virus-free.

--

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.?

Mark Twain

Be sure to read below about what all he has already done............

???????? President Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s Mental Health

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By Capt Joseph R. John, July 7, 2017: Op Ed /g/DaAgency/messages/ 359

?

In the below listed opinion piece by nationally renowned Psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Abelow, M. D., about President Donald J. Trump, Dr. Abelow expands in his rebuttal of the non-stop, out of control attacks on the President, by the Progressives, Leftists, the new Marxists Democrats, and Obama’s Organization For Action (OFA).? They continue to mischaracterize every one of the President Trump’s accomplishments, as they move forward in their plan to effect the first Coup d’ Estate of the President of The United States in 241 years.?

?

It would be interesting to be able to see psychiatric evaluations of political opportunists who continue to make unfair, frothing at the mouth, out of control vitriol attacks on President Trump; progressives like Maxine Waters, Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren (aka Pocahontas), Michael Moore, and talk show anchors on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Show, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.? Mika and Joe poke President Trump, on air, in their expression of deep hatred and their immature obsession with the election of President Trump. Their daily rants continue for three hours a day---non-stop.? Some of their obnoxious comments designed to attack, belittle, and degrade the President of The United States are as follows:

?

President Trump is “out of his mind”, “a pig”, “lying every day”, “a Nazi”, “destroying the country”, “a fascist”, “does? not display normal behavior”, “a thug”. “mentally ill”, “a dope “, “fearful of women”, “dumb”, “developing a dictatorship”, “ugly”, “creating a malignant presidency”, “ a narcissist”, “a goon”, “going to get someone killed in the media”, “ a smuk”, “ a stupid piece of shit”, “a racist”, “operating with impunity”, “unpatriotic to criticize the press”, “none of what he says is normal”, “he has teensy hands”, “he wants to kill people”, etc.

?

While Joe, Mica, and the corrupt media, attack and belittle President Trump every day, they expect President Trump to treat them with respect, and dare him to respond to their daily vitriol attacks .?

?

For 8 years, the media representatives, in their double standard, failed to investigate, and report on the Obama administration’s scandals and ?corruption, in violation of the US Constitution.? Obama weaponized the FBI, IRS, CIA, and DOJ, and employed the power of those agencies of the US Federal Government to illegally attack and suppress the civil rights of his political opponents.

?

In their hostile and perverted evaluation of the President Trump’s very substantial accomplishments over the last 5 months, the corrupt left of center liberal media establishment are no longer reporting the truth about President Trump’s accomplishments.? They continue to report that President Trump hasn’t been able to govern, has not followed through on his campaign promises, and is not making any progress at all.? Below is a partial list of President Trumps accomplishments, in just 5 months:??

?

1. President Trump has signed 42 pieces of legislation into law; very few presidents have ever done that
2. Although Senate Democrats delayed their confirmation for 4 months, President Trump appointed a highly qualified Cabinet,
3. After 8 years, the economy is getting back on track; the stock market and the S& P 500 Index is at an all-time historic high
4. The unemployment rate has decreased to 4.7%, while hundreds of thousands of new jobs are being created
5. The ISIS Caliphate in Raqqa, created in in 2013 and declared in 2014, but never attacked by Obama, has been destroyed
6. Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, controlled by ISIS for nearly 3 years, but never attacked by Obama, has been taken
7. US Immigration Laws violated by Obama for 8 years, are now being enforced by ICE, DHS, CBP, Justice, & Border Patrol
8. The US Military is being rearmed, re-manned, and spare parts are being reordered for all equipment
9. The 2 million Convicted Criminal Illegal Aliens, released from prisons into the general population by Obama for 8 years, instead of returning them to their countries of origin, are now being rounded up by ICE and being deported by the thousands
10. A new conservative Supreme Court Justice has been appointed; thousands of conservative Federal Judges are also being appointed?
11. The US reaffirmed its support for Israel?
12. The US withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership
13. The US withdrew from the UN Global Warming Paris Accords; it unfairly charged “only the US” billions of dollars
14. The Supreme Court? paused the flow of Immigrates from the 6 failed states that permit Terrorists training in their countries
15. The President Trump addressed 52 majority Muslim nations in a historic anti-terrorist summit, hosted by Saudi Arabia in Riyadh
16. The? US put Iran on notice that it would oppose their nuclear weapons development and their state sponsor of terrorism
17. The US put North Korea on notice that it would take military action if necessary to oppose their nuclear blackmail
18. President Trump changed Obama’s one sided agreement with Communist Cuba; demanded Cuba return cop killers living there
19. The US informed Korea, China, Mexico, Europe, Japan, etc. that it would renegotiate one sided trade agreements
20. Dismantled many of Obama’s anti-business Executive Orders that suppressed The Free Enterprise System
21. Reaffirmed “Free Exercise of Religion” for all Americans, especially for Christians who were oppressed over the last 8 years
22. Ordered construction of the Border Wall to close the wide open Southern Border, to curb drug smuggling and white slavery
23. Approved completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
24. Approved completion of the Keystone Pipeline.?
25. Ordered DOJ and DHS to withhold Federal Funds from Sanctuary Cities
26. Ordered all Federal Agencies to cut two Federal Regulation for every new Federal Regulation they impose
27. Prevented the hiring of all federal employees, outside of the requirement for the enlistment of US Military personnel
28. Cancelled Obama’s order that forced woman to allow men to use their bathrooms, and shower in their locker rooms
29. Prevented the US Government from funding abortions performed internationally, that Obama used US federal funds to pay for
30. Passed a law that allows the Secretary of VA to revoke bonuses, protect whistleblowers, and fire all inept employees
31. Signed 15 Resolutions reversing Obama’s oppressive Executive Orders
32. Repealed restrictive regulations on the energy market, and allowed US LNG companies to supply LNG to Europe
33. Passed “The Vietnam? Recognition Act”, Honoring Vietnam Veterans for their Honorable service in Vietnam
34. Working diligently to get Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare that has failed the American taxpayer
35. Working with Congress to decrease the heavy tax burden on American Citizens and the highest taxes on US corporations in the world?
36. Working with Congress to pass Kate’s Law that will jail deported Convicted Criminal Illegal Aliens if they return to the US

Rasmussen: Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s Job Approval

JULY 2	44%
JUNE 13	?45%
JUNE 4	?45%
MAY 30	43%
MAY 23	48%
MAY 14?	44%
MAY 7	?47%
?	?

Source: Real Clear Politics.

?

The latest POLITICO / Morning Consult poll today revealed that a clear majority of voters support President Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries. Six in 10 voters back the travel ban, with 60% of voters supporting the State Department&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s new guidelines that require entrants to prove a close family relationship with a U.S. resident in order to enter the country—unfortunately 28% oppose them, many of the 28% are supporters of CAIR and The Muslim Brotherhood, the two International Terrorist Organization, whose members Obama placed in thousands of sensitive positions in all US Government Agencies—they have become a “Fifth Column”.

?

The corrupt and dishonest left of center liberal media establishment continues to use derogatory language whenever they refer to the above listed outstanding accomplishments by President Donald? J. Trump, and they are doing everything in their power to perpetuate their ?treasonous “Coup d’ Estate”, working very closely with Obama’s Organization For Action, to disenfranchise 62+ million American voters and bring down The President of the United States.??

?

In reviewing the actions of President Trump in just the last 5 months, the future for the Republic, over the next 4 years looks very bright, as the Trump administration continues to work to “Right The Ship of State.”? Please review the below listed article by nationally renowned Psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Abelow, M. D., about President Donald J. Trump

?

Copyright by Capt Joseph R. John.? All Rights Reserved.? The material can only posted on another Web site or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author.? It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the permission from the author.??

?

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt??? USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184

San Diego, CA 92108

?

?

?

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

-Isaiah 6:8

?

?

?

?

Following President Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s? announcement that the USA would withdraw from the Paris Accord, former CBS anchor (now with AXS TV) slammed the President with a series of?ad hominem?(eg based on feeling or prejudice, rather than facts, reason, or logic)?attacks,?that ended with strong suggestions that the President had some serious psychological issues.

?

Many others have made the same assertion.

Begs the question... What do psychiatrists think?

?

In the paragraphs below, Dr. Keith Abelow provides his opinions on this subject.

?

?

Remarks by Keith Abelow, M.D., Psychiatrist

?

Let me issue the standard disclaimer of psychiatrists who discuss the mental health of public figures: I have not personally examined President Trump.

?

Now, let me put to rest the concerns of Sen. Al Franken and political commentators John Oliver and Andrew Sullivan and anyone else who publicly or privately has questioned the president&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s sanity:?Donald Trump is stone cold sane.

?

When a man acquires billions of dollars through complex real estate transactions, invests in many countries, goes on to phenomenal success in television and turns his name into a worldwide brand,?it is very unlikely that he is mentally unstable.

?

When the same man obviously enjoys the love and respect of his children and his wife, who seem to rely on him for support and guidance;?it isextraordinarily?unlikely that he is mentally unstable.

?

When the same man walks into the political arena and deftly defeats 16 Republican opponents and then the Democratic heir-apparent to a two-term president&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s administration,?the odds of that man being mentally unstable become vanishingly thin.

?

And when that very same man attracts to his team the kind of intellect and gravitas represented (to name just a few) by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general and commander of the U.S. Central Command,?he cannot be mentally deranged. Period. It is a statistical impossibility.

?

Those who assert otherwise are political opportunists, or fools, or both (and I am thinking here, in particular, of Sen. Franken).

?

President Trump is the first human being to win this nation&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s highest office without having held any other political office or serving as a general. Most political pundits thought his quest was pure folly.

?

Most journalists assessed his chances as zero. So who was laboring under quasi-delusional thinking?

?

Answer: Not Donald J. Trump.

?

Anecdotally, by the way, I have never had one bad Trump experience. Not one. I own several of his ties — all of them of the highest quality. I have stayed in his hotels and never had a single complaint (and I am a born complainer). I have eaten in his New York restaurant — flawless service, excellent food. I own an apartment at Trump Place in Manhattan. Impeccable design, sturdy construction, fabulous amenities.?A mentally unstable man would be unlikely to deliver superior products across multiple industries, don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t you think?

?

If you&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;re still worried about the mental stability of the president, note this: The stock market doesn&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t like instability. Investors, en masse, can take the measure of a man pretty darn well. The stock market has hit record high after record high since Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s election, and if you think that&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s an accident, or that investors have all been fooled,?it&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s time to start wondering about your own capacity for rational thought.

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I should note that nothing I am saying should besmirch the reputations of men like President Abraham Lincoln or Sir Winston Churchill, both of whom are said to have fought the ravages of major depression or bipolar disorder. One was instrumental in ridding America of slavery. The other was instrumental in saving the world from tyranny.

?

Mahatma Gandhi, by the way, also reportedly suffered from depression. Psychiatric illness does not, a priori, disqualify a person from rendering extraordinary service to mankind.

?

Mind you, neither Lincoln nor Churchill nor Gandhi led a nation after becoming a business sensation and television star.?That trifecta defines one man: President Donald J. Trump.

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Now, think about those who are rabble-rousing about the president&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s mental status. Take Sen. Al Franken. He&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s all worried about the president allegedly overestimating the crowd size at his inauguration. But Franken is allied with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who asserted she is Native American, when there is no evidence of that whatsoever.

?

And they&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;re calling Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s sanity into question??Really, you can&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t make this stuff up.

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Dr. Keith Ablow, Psychiatrist

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Walton H. Owens, Jr., PhD

Professor?Emeritus?of Political Science

College of Business and Behavioral Sciences

Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631

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By Capt Joseph R. John, July 7, 2017: Op Ed /g/DaAgency/messages/ 359

?

In the below listed opinion piece by nationally renowned Psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Abelow, M. D., about President Donald J. Trump, Dr. Abelow expands in his rebuttal of the non-stop, out of control attacks on the President, by the Progressives, Leftists, the new Marxists Democrats, and Obama’s Organization For Action (OFA).? They continue to mischaracterize every one of the President Trump’s accomplishments, as they move forward in their plan to effect the first Coup d’ Estate of the President of The United States in 241 years.?

?

It would be interesting to be able to see psychiatric evaluations of political opportunists who continue to make unfair, frothing at the mouth, out of control vitriol attacks on President Trump; progressives like Maxine Waters, Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren (aka Pocahontas), Michael Moore, and talk show anchors on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Show, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.? Mika and Joe poke President Trump, on air, in their expression of deep hatred and their immature obsession with the election of President Trump. Their daily rants continue for three hours a day---non-stop.? Some of their obnoxious comments designed to attack, belittle, and degrade the President of The United States are as follows:

?

President Trump is “out of his mind”, “a pig”, “lying every day”, “a Nazi”, “destroying the country”, “a fascist”, “does? not display normal behavior”, “a thug”. “mentally ill”, “a dope “, “fearful of women”, “dumb”, “developing a dictatorship”, “ugly”, “creating a malignant presidency”, “ a narcissist”, “a goon”, “going to get someone killed in the media”, “ a smuk”, “ a stupid piece of shit”, “a racist”, “operating with impunity”, “unpatriotic to criticize the press”, “none of what he says is normal”, “he has teensy hands”, “he wants to kill people”, etc.

?

While Joe, Mica, and the corrupt media, attack and belittle President Trump every day, they expect President Trump to treat them with respect, and dare him to respond to their daily vitriol attacks .?

?

For 8 years, the media representatives, in their double standard, failed to investigate, and report on the Obama administration’s scandals and ?corruption, in violation of the US Constitution.? Obama weaponized the FBI, IRS, CIA, and DOJ, and employed the power of those agencies of the US Federal Government to illegally attack and suppress the civil rights of his political opponents.

?

In their hostile and perverted evaluation of the President Trump’s very substantial accomplishments over the last 5 months, the corrupt left of center liberal media establishment are no longer reporting the truth about President Trump’s accomplishments.? They continue to report that President Trump hasn’t been able to govern, has not followed through on his campaign promises, and is not making any progress at all.? Below is a partial list of President Trumps accomplishments, in just 5 months:??

?

1. President Trump has signed 42 pieces of legislation into law; very few presidents have ever done that
2. Although Senate Democrats delayed their confirmation for 4 months, President Trump appointed a highly qualified Cabinet,
3. After 8 years, the economy is getting back on track; the stock market and the S& P 500 Index is at an all-time historic high
4. The unemployment rate has decreased to 4.7%, while hundreds of thousands of new jobs are being created
5. The ISIS Caliphate in Raqqa, created in in 2013 and declared in 2014, but never attacked by Obama, has been destroyed
6. Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, controlled by ISIS for nearly 3 years, but never attacked by Obama, has been taken
7. US Immigration Laws violated by Obama for 8 years, are now being enforced by ICE, DHS, CBP, Justice, & Border Patrol
8. The US Military is being rearmed, re-manned, and spare parts are being reordered for all equipment
9. The 2 million Convicted Criminal Illegal Aliens, released from prisons into the general population by Obama for 8 years, instead of returning them to their countries of origin, are now being rounded up by ICE and being deported by the thousands
10. A new conservative Supreme Court Justice has been appointed; thousands of conservative Federal Judges are also being appointed?
11. The US reaffirmed its support for Israel?
12. The US withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership
13. The US withdrew from the UN Global Warming Paris Accords; it unfairly charged “only the US” billions of dollars
14. The Supreme Court? paused the flow of Immigrates from the 6 failed states that permit Terrorists training in their countries
15. The President Trump addressed 52 majority Muslim nations in a historic anti-terrorist summit, hosted by Saudi Arabia in Riyadh
16. The? US put Iran on notice that it would oppose their nuclear weapons development and their state sponsor of terrorism
17. The US put North Korea on notice that it would take military action if necessary to oppose their nuclear blackmail
18. President Trump changed Obama’s one sided agreement with Communist Cuba; demanded Cuba return cop killers living there
19. The US informed Korea, China, Mexico, Europe, Japan, etc. that it would renegotiate one sided trade agreements
20. Dismantled many of Obama’s anti-business Executive Orders that suppressed The Free Enterprise System
21. Reaffirmed “Free Exercise of Religion” for all Americans, especially for Christians who were oppressed over the last 8 years
22. Ordered construction of the Border Wall to close the wide open Southern Border, to curb drug smuggling and white slavery
23. Approved completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
24. Approved completion of the Keystone Pipeline.?
25. Ordered DOJ and DHS to withhold Federal Funds from Sanctuary Cities
26. Ordered all Federal Agencies to cut two Federal Regulation for every new Federal Regulation they impose
27. Prevented the hiring of all federal employees, outside of the requirement for the enlistment of US Military personnel
28. Cancelled Obama’s order that forced woman to allow men to use their bathrooms, and shower in their locker rooms
29. Prevented the US Government from funding abortions performed internationally, that Obama used US federal funds to pay for
30. Passed a law that allows the Secretary of VA to revoke bonuses, protect whistleblowers, and fire all inept employees
31. Signed 15 Resolutions reversing Obama’s oppressive Executive Orders
32. Repealed restrictive regulations on the energy market, and allowed US LNG companies to supply LNG to Europe
33. Passed “The Vietnam? Recognition Act”, Honoring Vietnam Veterans for their Honorable service in Vietnam
34. Working diligently to get Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare that has failed the American taxpayer
35. Working with Congress to decrease the heavy tax burden on American Citizens and the highest taxes on US corporations in the world?
36. Working with Congress to pass Kate’s Law that will jail deported Convicted Criminal Illegal Aliens if they return to the US

Rasmussen: Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s Job Approval

JULY 2	44%
JUNE 13	?45%
JUNE 4	?45%
MAY 30	43%
MAY 23	48%
MAY 14?	44%
MAY 7	?47%
?	?

Source: Real Clear Politics.

?

The latest POLITICO / Morning Consult poll today revealed that a clear majority of voters support President Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries. Six in 10 voters back the travel ban, with 60% of voters supporting the State Department&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s new guidelines that require entrants to prove a close family relationship with a U.S. resident in order to enter the country—unfortunately 28% oppose them, many of the 28% are supporters of CAIR and The Muslim Brotherhood, the two International Terrorist Organization, whose members Obama placed in thousands of sensitive positions in all US Government Agencies—they have become a “Fifth Column”.

?

The corrupt and dishonest left of center liberal media establishment continues to use derogatory language whenever they refer to the above listed outstanding accomplishments by President Donald? J. Trump, and they are doing everything in their power to perpetuate their ?treasonous “Coup d’ Estate”, working very closely with Obama’s Organization For Action, to disenfranchise 62+ million American voters and bring down The President of the United States.??

?

In reviewing the actions of President Trump in just the last 5 months, the future for the Republic, over the next 4 years looks very bright, as the Trump administration continues to work to “Right The Ship of State.”? Please review the below listed article by nationally renowned Psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Abelow, M. D., about President Donald J. Trump

?

Copyright by Capt Joseph R. John.? All Rights Reserved.? The material can only posted on another Web site or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author.? It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the permission from the author.??

?

Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt??? USN(Ret)/Former FBI

Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184

San Diego, CA 92108

?

?

?

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

-Isaiah 6:8

?

?

?

?

Following President Trump&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s? announcement that the USA would withdraw from the Paris Accord, former CBS anchor (now with AXS TV) slammed the President with a series of?ad hominem?(eg based on feeling or prejudice, rather than facts, reason, or logic)?attacks,?that ended with strong suggestions that the President had some serious psychological issues.

?

Many others have made the same assertion.

Begs the question... What do psychiatrists think?

?

In the paragraphs below, Dr. Keith Abelow provides his opinions on this subject.

?

?

Remarks by Keith Abelow, M.D., Psychiatrist

?

Let me issue the standard disclaimer of psychiatrists who discuss the mental health of public figures: I have not personally examined President Trump.

?

Now, let me put to rest the concerns of Sen. Al Franken and political commentators John Oliver and Andrew Sullivan and anyone else who publicly or privately has questioned the president&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s sanity:?Donald Trump is stone cold sane.

?

When a man acquires billions of dollars through complex real estate transactions, invests in many countries, goes on to phenomenal success in television and turns his name into a worldwide brand,?it is very unlikely that he is mentally unstable.

?

When the same man obviously enjoys the love and respect of his children and his wife, who seem to rely on him for support and guidance;?it isextraordinarily?unlikely that he is mentally unstable.

?

When the same man walks into the political arena and deftly defeats 16 Republican opponents and then the Democratic heir-apparent to a two-term president&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s administration,?the odds of that man being mentally unstable become vanishingly thin.

?

And when that very same man attracts to his team the kind of intellect and gravitas represented (to name just a few) by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general and commander of the U.S. Central Command,?he cannot be mentally deranged. Period. It is a statistical impossibility.

?

Those who assert otherwise are political opportunists, or fools, or both (and I am thinking here, in particular, of Sen. Franken).

?

President Trump is the first human being to win this nation&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s highest office without having held any other political office or serving as a general. Most political pundits thought his quest was pure folly.

?

Most journalists assessed his chances as zero. So who was laboring under quasi-delusional thinking?

?

Answer: Not Donald J. Trump.

?

Anecdotally, by the way, I have never had one bad Trump experience. Not one. I own several of his ties — all of them of the highest quality. I have stayed in his hotels and never had a single complaint (and I am a born complainer). I have eaten in his New York restaurant — flawless service, excellent food. I own an apartment at Trump Place in Manhattan. Impeccable design, sturdy construction, fabulous amenities.?A mentally unstable man would be unlikely to deliver superior products across multiple industries, don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t you think?

?

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Mahatma Gandhi, by the way, also reportedly suffered from depression. Psychiatric illness does not, a priori, disqualify a person from rendering extraordinary service to mankind.

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Mind you, neither Lincoln nor Churchill nor Gandhi led a nation after becoming a business sensation and television star.?That trifecta defines one man: President Donald J. Trump.

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----- Original Message -----

From:SwampThing

To:[email protected]

Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 7:49 PM

Subject: Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A
Brief History of Tuna Casserole - OT

Mine never made it, no one in my family ever did,I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t know anyone in
the south who did, maybe they do, but I can&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t stand it, I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t like
casseroles, anyway, except two I make, a yellow summer squash one & a corn
one, which is actually corn pudding.I never see tuna casserole at my
church? pot lucks? either. Maybe it&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s more of a northern
dish.?

----- Original Message -----
From: Virginia Butterfield
<butter@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 07
Jul 2017 19:44:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole - OT

NOTE from Ginny, below
is an interesting article on tune
noodle casserole.? Also a link
to the web page source.?? My
own grandmas and mom religiously
made tuna noodle casserole and so did I
(still do). However the
recipe given in the article is way too complicated
for my simple
cooking style.?? We made our casseroles with cream
of mushroom
soup, cooked noodles, canned tuna, a splash of milk,
sometimes
canned mushroom pieces and/or canned peas. ? We topped
the
casserole with crushed potato chips, bread crumbs, or
cheese
depending on the mood and ingredients on hand.

Anyway, enjoy the article --Ginny

from

A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole

BY: HEATHER ARNDT ANDERSON ILLUSTRATIONS: ELEANOR SKRZAT

?

Although most associated with 1950s Middle America, this
iconic
bootstrap recipe first popped up in the Pacific Northwest
in
1930.

There are no lukewarm feelings when it comes to tuna
casserole.
People are hot or cold on the stuff. Cookbook author Helen
Evans
Brown fell decidedly in the latter category. She
intentionally,
defiantly, left it out of her seminal West Coast Cook
Book
(1952), writing that “[i]f, for instance, a dish composed of
tuna
fish, canned mushroom soup, and corn flakes is in any
danger of becoming a
dish of the region, I prefer to ignore it.
If by doing so I can give it
ever so gentle a nudge toward
oblivion, that is good.”

Helen Evans Brown’s good friend James Beard—probably
somewhat
reluctantly—included a modified recipe for it in his
1955
casserole cookbook. That same year, he lamented in a letter
to
Brown that “only tuna fish and potato chips and Campbell’s soup
seem
to sell, if you can believe the recipes.”

Although it’s mainly associated with Middle America, and
the
1950s housewife, the earliest printed recipes for tuna
casserole
appeared two decades earlier in the Pacific Northwest. The
first
one, “Noodles and Tuna Fish en Casserole,” came from
Sunset
Magazine, from a “Mrs. W. F. S.” residing in
Kennewick,
Washington, in 1930. The same year, a “tuna fish and
noodles
casserole” appears on a menu suggested by the 100% real
The
Modern Hospital magazine, which probably sounds pretty
appropriate
to the dish’s haters. (Published by the American
Hospital Association from
1913 to 1974, the journal offered the
latest guidance in nursing,
occupational and physical therapies,
hospital administration, and,
evidently, nutritious and
well-balanced casseroles.)

Two years later a version appeared in Cook Book of Many
尝补苍诲蝉—补
cookbook that the Americanization Department of
Portland,
Oregon’s Parent-Teacher Association established to help
Portland
women relate to their immigrant neighbors. Although there
is
nothing specifically German about the “German Noodles and Tuna
贵颈蝉丑”
recipe, it does bear a striking resemblance to the Sunset
recipe. It’s made
from the same Holy Trinity of noodles, tuna,
and white sauce, with a pretty
pimento garnish. Had James Beard
known of its Pacific Northwest roots (he
was a native
Oregonian), he may have been warmer on the stuff.

Mrs. W. F. S.’s groundbreaking recipe included the
mushrooms and
the cheese topping familiar today; in fact, the addition
of
mushrooms probably had something to do with the widespread
switch to
canned cream of mushroom soup in lieu of laborious
white sauce. The
introduction of Campbell’s cream of mushroom
soup in 1934 was the
game-changer that cemented tuna casserole’s
place in the American
丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉 culinary arsenal. Aside from
the canned tuna, it was this
ingredient’s ubiquity during World
War II (a nadir of American ingredient
availability and culinary
ingenuity) that inspired the inimitable M. F. K.
Fisher to
include a noodle-less version of tuna casserole in How to Cook
a
Wolf (1942), offering the caveat that “condensed mushroom soup,
while
far from perfection, is a very present help in time of
culinary
迟谤辞耻产濒别.”

After the war, tuna casserole remained in the
丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉
rotation, but the dish shed its Pacific Northwest roots
and
became associated with funerals (it’s a thing, swear!), and
the
Midwest. This all makes sense. It contains all of the components
of
the canonical hotdish (what Midwesterners call casseroles):
protein, a
vegetable of some kind, a starchy substrate, and a
creamy binder. That
bastion of lay cooking, allrecipes.com,
features over 2,500 recipes for
tuna casserole.

For these reasons, too, it was a permanent fixture
in
mid-century home-ec curricula: economical and time-saving, with
no
real cooking skill required besides the ability to wield a
can opener. The
“no skill required” might be why it is so
maligned, but if done with even
the smallest amount of care or
intent (which really isn’t difficult, let’s
be honest), it has
all of the elements of any legitimate comfort food:
bouncy
noodles; firm flakes of briny tuna and sweet, crunchy peas;
a
creamy, savory sauce deftly binding it all together; and a
lacy
melted-cheese matrix suspending the bits of crispity
topping.
Miraculously, the cheesy topping avoids the wrongness of
merely
existing in the same place as canned fish: it just makes
the
topping more fatty and crispy. Sublimity.

My own mother—who cooked professionally and loathed doing
it at
home—relied fairly heavily on tuna casserole to keep her
family
fed. I grew up on the version one creates when the larder
is
filled solely by food stamp spoils and food bank donations, but
I
always loved it as a kid. Since I have more time, enjoy
cooking, and can
afford slightly better ingredients, I’ve been
making a nicer version of it
for nearly my entire adult life.

?

The Tuna Casserole is Not For
Wimps

4 servings

?

The beauty of a tuna casserole is its infinite
adaptability. You
can dump two cans into cooked pasta and call it good, or
you can
zhoozh it up with home-canned albacore and fresh lemon
thyme
from the garden (like I do). With a combination of canned tuna
and
homemade white sauce, this recipe hits the sweet spot
between effort and
ease. I firmly believe that, in the absence
of rationing and all of its
caveats, MFK Fisher would have
enjoyed this recipe. I bet it could have
even turned Helen Evans
Brown around.

INGREDIENTS

??? MUSHROOM SAUCE

??? 2 tablespoons butter

??? ? cup finely diced button or cremini
mushrooms

??? 2 tablespoons minced shallots (or mild
onion)

??? 3 tablespoons flour

??? 1 ? cup milk (whole is best)

??? pinch of dried thyme

??? salt and pepper

??? CASSEROLE

??? 8 ounces (half a bag) wide egg noodles

??? 10 ounces (2 cans) solid white albacore,
drained (I prefer
water-packed)

??? 1 cup frozen peas

??? ? cup grated cheddar cheese

??? ? cup dried bread crumbs, panko, or French
fried onions

??? Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter your
favorite casserole dish.
(I use the Corningware one I inherited from my
grandmother, who
bought it with S&H Green Stamps in the 1970s.)

??? In a medium sauté pan, melt the butter over
medium-high
heat. Add the mushrooms and shallots, and cook until
the
shallots are translucent (about five minutes), stirring often.
Turn
the heat down to medium-low, then sprinkle the flour over
the sautéed
mushrooms and shallots, stirring to coat. Keep
stirring and cooking for a
few minutes, until the roux becomes
fragrant.

??? Turn off the burner, and slowly pour in the
milk, stirring
with enough vigor to smooth out any lumps. Turn the burner
back
on, to medium-low, and simmer for about five minutes. Add the
thyme
and season with salt and pepper to taste.

??? While you’re making the sauce, boil the
noodles in salted
water according to the package directions, then drain.
Crumble
the tuna into the pot with the noodles, add the peas, then
add
in the finished sauce, stirring to thoroughly combine.
Scrape
everything into the buttered casserole and top with the
cheese,
then the bread crumbs/panko/French fried onions.

??? Bake until the cheese is melted, the topping
browned, and
the sauce bubbly (about 15 minutes).

from

--

Ginny Butterfield

Cranberry Twp, Pa

--

Cats
are connoisseurs of comfort.

When
I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or
not.?

Mark
Twain

--

----- Original Message -----

From:SwampThing

To:[email protected]

Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 7:49 PM

Subject: Re: [DaAgency] [Petsburgh] A
Brief History of Tuna Casserole - OT

Mine never made it, no one in my family ever did,I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t know anyone in
the south who did, maybe they do, but I can&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t stand it, I don&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;t like
casseroles, anyway, except two I make, a yellow summer squash one & a corn
one, which is actually corn pudding.I never see tuna casserole at my
church? pot lucks? either. Maybe it&/g/DaAgency/messages/39;s more of a northern
dish.?

----- Original Message -----
From: Virginia Butterfield
<butter@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 07
Jul 2017 19:44:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Petsburgh] A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole - OT

NOTE from Ginny, below
is an interesting article on tune
noodle casserole.? Also a link
to the web page source.?? My
own grandmas and mom religiously
made tuna noodle casserole and so did I
(still do). However the
recipe given in the article is way too complicated
for my simple
cooking style.?? We made our casseroles with cream
of mushroom
soup, cooked noodles, canned tuna, a splash of milk,
sometimes
canned mushroom pieces and/or canned peas. ? We topped
the
casserole with crushed potato chips, bread crumbs, or
cheese
depending on the mood and ingredients on hand.

Anyway, enjoy the article --Ginny

from

A Brief History of Tuna
Casserole

BY: HEATHER ARNDT ANDERSON ILLUSTRATIONS: ELEANOR SKRZAT

?

Although most associated with 1950s Middle America, this
iconic
bootstrap recipe first popped up in the Pacific Northwest
in
1930.

There are no lukewarm feelings when it comes to tuna
casserole.
People are hot or cold on the stuff. Cookbook author Helen
Evans
Brown fell decidedly in the latter category. She
intentionally,
defiantly, left it out of her seminal West Coast Cook
Book
(1952), writing that “[i]f, for instance, a dish composed of
tuna
fish, canned mushroom soup, and corn flakes is in any
danger of becoming a
dish of the region, I prefer to ignore it.
If by doing so I can give it
ever so gentle a nudge toward
oblivion, that is good.”

Helen Evans Brown’s good friend James Beard—probably
somewhat
reluctantly—included a modified recipe for it in his
1955
casserole cookbook. That same year, he lamented in a letter
to
Brown that “only tuna fish and potato chips and Campbell’s soup
seem
to sell, if you can believe the recipes.”

Although it’s mainly associated with Middle America, and
the
1950s housewife, the earliest printed recipes for tuna
casserole
appeared two decades earlier in the Pacific Northwest. The
first
one, “Noodles and Tuna Fish en Casserole,” came from
Sunset
Magazine, from a “Mrs. W. F. S.” residing in
Kennewick,
Washington, in 1930. The same year, a “tuna fish and
noodles
casserole” appears on a menu suggested by the 100% real
The
Modern Hospital magazine, which probably sounds pretty
appropriate
to the dish’s haters. (Published by the American
Hospital Association from
1913 to 1974, the journal offered the
latest guidance in nursing,
occupational and physical therapies,
hospital administration, and,
evidently, nutritious and
well-balanced casseroles.)

Two years later a version appeared in Cook Book of Many
尝补苍诲蝉—补
cookbook that the Americanization Department of
Portland,
Oregon’s Parent-Teacher Association established to help
Portland
women relate to their immigrant neighbors. Although there
is
nothing specifically German about the “German Noodles and Tuna
贵颈蝉丑”
recipe, it does bear a striking resemblance to the Sunset
recipe. It’s made
from the same Holy Trinity of noodles, tuna,
and white sauce, with a pretty
pimento garnish. Had James Beard
known of its Pacific Northwest roots (he
was a native
Oregonian), he may have been warmer on the stuff.

Mrs. W. F. S.’s groundbreaking recipe included the
mushrooms and
the cheese topping familiar today; in fact, the addition
of
mushrooms probably had something to do with the widespread
switch to
canned cream of mushroom soup in lieu of laborious
white sauce. The
introduction of Campbell’s cream of mushroom
soup in 1934 was the
game-changer that cemented tuna casserole’s
place in the American
丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉 culinary arsenal. Aside from
the canned tuna, it was this
ingredient’s ubiquity during World
War II (a nadir of American ingredient
availability and culinary
ingenuity) that inspired the inimitable M. F. K.
Fisher to
include a noodle-less version of tuna casserole in How to Cook
a
Wolf (1942), offering the caveat that “condensed mushroom soup,
while
far from perfection, is a very present help in time of
culinary
迟谤辞耻产濒别.”

After the war, tuna casserole remained in the
丑辞耻蝉别飞颈蹿别’蝉
rotation, but the dish shed its Pacific Northwest roots
and
became associated with funerals (it’s a thing, swear!), and
the
Midwest. This all makes sense. It contains all of the components
of
the canonical hotdish (what Midwesterners call casseroles):
protein, a
vegetable of some kind, a starchy substrate, and a
creamy binder. That
bastion of lay cooking, allrecipes.com,
features over 2,500 recipes for
tuna casserole.

For these reasons, too, it was a permanent fixture
in
mid-century home-ec curricula: economical and time-saving, with
no
real cooking skill required besides the ability to wield a
can opener. The
“no skill required” might be why it is so
maligned, but if done with even
the smallest amount of care or
intent (which really isn’t difficult, let’s
be honest), it has
all of the elements of any legitimate comfort food:
bouncy
noodles; firm flakes of briny tuna and sweet, crunchy peas;
a
creamy, savory sauce deftly binding it all together; and a
lacy
melted-cheese matrix suspending the bits of crispity
topping.
Miraculously, the cheesy topping avoids the wrongness of
merely
existing in the same place as canned fish: it just makes
the
topping more fatty and crispy. Sublimity.

My own mother—who cooked professionally and loathed doing
it at
home—relied fairly heavily on tuna casserole to keep her
family
fed. I grew up on the version one creates when the larder
is
filled solely by food stamp spoils and food bank donations, but
I
always loved it as a kid. Since I have more time, enjoy
cooking, and can
afford slightly better ingredients, I’ve been
making a nicer version of it
for nearly my entire adult life.

?

The Tuna Casserole is Not For
Wimps

4 servings

?

The beauty of a tuna casserole is its infinite
adaptability. You
can dump two cans into cooked pasta and call it good, or
you can
zhoozh it up with home-canned albacore and fresh lemon
thyme
from the garden (like I do). With a combination of canned tuna
and
homemade white sauce, this recipe hits the sweet spot
between effort and
ease. I firmly believe that, in the absence
of rationing and all of its
caveats, MFK Fisher would have
enjoyed this recipe. I bet it could have
even turned Helen Evans
Brown around.

INGREDIENTS

??? MUSHROOM SAUCE

??? 2 tablespoons butter

??? ? cup finely diced button or cremini
mushrooms

??? 2 tablespoons minced shallots (or mild
onion)

??? 3 tablespoons flour

??? 1 ? cup milk (whole is best)

??? pinch of dried thyme

??? salt and pepper

??? CASSEROLE

??? 8 ounces (half a bag) wide egg noodles

??? 10 ounces (2 cans) solid white albacore,
drained (I prefer
water-packed)

??? 1 cup frozen peas

??? ? cup grated cheddar cheese

??? ? cup dried bread crumbs, panko, or French
fried onions

??? Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter your
favorite casserole dish.
(I use the Corningware one I inherited from my
grandmother, who
bought it with S&H Green Stamps in the 1970s.)

??? In a medium sauté pan, melt the butter over
medium-high
heat. Add the mushrooms and shallots, and cook until
the
shallots are translucent (about five minutes), stirring often.
Turn
the heat down to medium-low, then sprinkle the flour over
the sautéed
mushrooms and shallots, stirring to coat. Keep
stirring and cooking for a
few minutes, until the roux becomes
fragrant.

??? Turn off the burner, and slowly pour in the
milk, stirring
with enough vigor to smooth out any lumps. Turn the burner
back
on, to medium-low, and simmer for about five minutes. Add the
thyme
and season with salt and pepper to taste.

??? While you’re making the sauce, boil the
noodles in salted
water according to the package directions, then drain.
Crumble
the tuna into the pot with the noodles, add the peas, then
add
in the finished sauce, stirring to thoroughly combine.
Scrape
everything into the buttered casserole and top with the
cheese,
then the bread crumbs/panko/French fried onions.

??? Bake until the cheese is melted, the topping
browned, and
the sauce bubbly (about 15 minutes).

from

--

Ginny Butterfield

Cranberry Twp, Pa

--

Cats
are connoisseurs of comfort.

When
I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or
not.?

Mark
Twain

--