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Tuna More Or Less Casserole

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Easy. Not particularly quick. Tasty. Comfort food. Mom taught me this one.

Tuna Casserole

Ingredients:

One standard box of Kraft Mac ‘n’ Cheese

One can Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup

One small can mushroom pieces (because I LOVE mushrooms).  Omit if you don’t like mushrooms like I do.

One can tuna. You can use the cheap stuff here.

Grated cheese ( use a blend of grated cheese that says ‘Mexican’)

Butter

Milk

Salt

Pepper

Procedure:

This one’s HARD, so pay close attention.

First, prepare the mac ‘n’ cheese per the package.  While you’re doing this, be preheating your oven to 350 degrees.

Next, dump the soup right out of the can along with the drained mushrooms and the drained tuna on top of the mac ‘n’ cheese.  Stir to combine.  Break up the tuna a bit, but not too much, so you can find chunks later.  Add salt and pepper to YOUR taste.

Dump the resultant mess into an 9×9 pan that you’ve buttered or sprayed with PAM.  Sprinkle cheese on top.  Cover with aluminum foil and bake for forty-five minutes, then uncover and bake an additional fifteen minutes to brown the cheese on top.

Allow to cool fifteen minutes.  Serve.

Leftovers can be wrapped and frozen for later.

History

Today in History – October 14

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1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England. Forever colors the makeup of our heritage.

1789 – George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day, thanking Gaia and the Great Spirit for America’s bounty.

1910 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House. Today that’s an FAA “Prohibited Zone” and they’d have shot his butt down.

1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech. If such a thing happened to Obama, the country would be clamped under martial law before sunset.

1938 – Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities. The difference between Nazi ghettoes and American “ghettoes” is that in America, you’re free to go to work and move yourself out. In the real ghettoes, they loaded you on a train and took you to a death camp.

1939 – German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak. Somewhat the British version of the USS Arizona.

1943 – Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of eleven SS. About half of the camp’s six hundred prisoners escape; about fifty survive the war. Sometimes you HAVE to fight. You might not win, but you fight anyway. Better to die as a lion.

1943 – 291 planes left England from the U.S. 8th Air Force for the “Black Thursday” raid on Schweinfurt. We lost 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the raid: 650 men. 65 made it back after the war after spending time as POW’s. Twelve more planes were scrapped due to battle damage after returning to England.

1947 – Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. The next two weeks are very tense, especially when seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy (me) situated between a SAC bomber base (Chennault AFB) and two major oil refineries, sure targets, both.

1982 – President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. Thirty years later, drugs appear to be winning.