Slater Stroganoff

Do not let the LONG recipe scare you away from this most fantastic pork meal you can fix! It is named for LGBT hero Don Slater. Read about him after the recipe for some great dinner conversation topics! To make this an easy effort, slave has broken it up to three steps. Two of which can be done the night before.

Here we show how to brine pork, how to cook it low and slow to keep it juicy and tender and then turn it into a classic comfort food from our past. Take notes, try it and then experiment with your own variations!

Ingredients:

About 2 lbs pork steak, or cut up pork shoulder (butt)

¼ cup kosher salt

2 tablespoons dark brown sugar

1 tsp Old Bay seasoning,

½ tsp onion powder,

2TBS pancake syrup,

3 cloves garlic.

2 onions sliced

For stroganoff:

1 bag extra wide egg noodles

1 cup mushrooms

1 can cream of mushroom undiluted

1 cup sour cream

Directions:

Start the night before

Two easy steps that can be done while you watch TV in the evening.

Step one:

We start by brining the pork. This is a MUST for the best and juiciest dinner.

Ingredients

4 cups water

¼ cup kosher salt

2 tablespoons dark brown sugar

1 tsp Old Bay seasoning,

½ tsp onion powder,

2TBS pancake syrup,

and garlic.

In a large bowl or pot dissolve the kosher salt and sugar in the water. Stir, it does not take boiling or even very hot water, just stir. Once the salt and sugar are dissolved, add any remaining ingredients. Put the pork in and cover whole thing with plastic wrap that has been pushed down to liquid and add a saucer to keep the meat submerged. Keep the meat fully submerged in the brine.

Place in the fridge for 2 hours (no more than 2 hours or you’ll have a salty mess).

After the two hour brine rinse under cold water to remove any excess surface salt. Brining can easily over salt your meat so you have to rinse afterwards. *

Step two:

While that brines, slice the onions thinly. If you use a mandolin, please be careful and always use the food handle.

Spray a dutch oven lightly and add the onions. Make sure this fits into your oven, then preheat oven to 215 degrees.

After you have rinsed the meat well and patted dry with paper towels, lay it onto the bed of onions. Cover the pot with foil, then add the lid. You want a good seal.

Place into the heated oven to roast for about 2 and a half hours. This low slow cooking will break down the collagen in the meat leaving it tender and juicy.

Then remove the meat and wrap, remove onions and wrap. Dump the dutch oven and let soak overnight.

* This brine is for a pork shoulder (or pork steaks) but would work for basically anything. The flavors used are some very basic aromatics. The real power of brine is the salt.

A basic brine is made of salt, sugar, and some aromatics. For this pork shoulder brine, we are using some Old Bay seasoning, onion, syrup, paprika, and garlic. You can add whatever flavor profile you like.

Step Three: The Day Of

Cook the noodles according to package directions.

Cut up the meat into bite sized pieces and place in bowl. Heat up butter in skillet and add the onions, let them cook for about 15 mins and add mushrooms.

Add the pieces of pork. Gradually stir in can of mushroom soup with 1 cup sour cream.

Heat to simmering, stirring occasionally; cook 15 minutes or until warmed through.

Serve over a bed of the noodles. What a treat!

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Donald Slater

Much of this information was drawn from an article by Linda Rapp on http://www.glbtq.com

 

 Donald Slater (1923-1997)

Donald Slater was born in Pasadena in 1923. He graduated from high school in 1942 and joined the military in the wake of Pearl Harbor. His military service was short-lived, however; a bout of rheumatic fever led to his being discharged in October of the same year.

Taking advantage of an Army program that paid his tuition, Slater enrolled at the University of Southern California in 1944. At around the same time he found the love of his life, Antonio ("Tony") Reyes.

The pair met one night when they were both cruising Pershing Square in Los Angeles.
Slater recalled the scene: "We kept skulking around in the underbrush of the square, and, AAGH!, bumping into each other. 'What! You again!' Finally we couldn't stop laughing, and we decided we must be meant for each other, and we never changed our minds."

 

A short while after getting together with Reyes, Slater brought him home to meet his family, to whom he came out at the same time. His mother and three siblings were dismayed, but his father, was more accepting, saying, "I wish this were not so, but since it is, I'm pleased you have made such a wonderful choice in your partner." He made it clear that Reyes would always be welcome in their home. Thereafter, Reyes was included in all the Slaters' gatherings and, he recalled, was treated "as a member of the family."

In his years at USC, Slater became part of the Los Angeles "gay underground," frequenting rather sleazy Main Street bars. He was not a diligent student but had nearly completed his degree in English literature in 1948 when he was again stricken with rheumatic fever. He received permission from the Army to postpone his final term.

After he was on his feet again, Slater traveled extensively, working in the galley of a freighter. When the ship docked, Slater was able to visit port cities throughout Europe. When the voyage was over, Slater returned to college and completed his bachelor's degree.

In the early 1950s Slater and Reyes attended several meetings of the Mattachine Society, the first successful homosexual society that was formed in 1950. However they were disappointed by the organization and did not join.

In November, 1952, Don helped found ONE, America’s first openly distributed homosexual magazine.

“A social movement has to have a voice beyond its own members,” he said. For the first time, ONE gave a voice to the “love that dare not speak its name.” Nobody had ever done that. The magazine was the beginning of the movement.”

The first issue of ONE Magazine--24 pages long--rolled off the presses in January 1953. Its contents included an article on harassment by police, other news stories, several book notices, a poem, and a letter to readers asking for their support.

News dealers were reluctant to stock it, so ONE members took to sales themselves, making the rounds of gay bars and encouraging patrons to spend a quarter for the magazine.

Despite its historical significance, the magazine was not a moneymaker. ONE never paid for itself. “It wouldn’t have survived if we editors hadn’t put our own money into it continually. We wanted it to work. So we all just pitched in.”

Advised against including fiction in ONE so that the magazine could not "be accused of catering to the perverted." Nevertheless, Slater put the story "But They'll Outgrow It" by David Freeman in the July 1953 issue, and trouble ensued.

The August 1953 issue was seized by the United States Post Office, but a lawyer was able to get the copies released three weeks later. In October 1954 Postmaster Otto K. Olesen confiscated another issue, declaring it obscene because of its inclusion of what Joseph Hansen called "a limp lesbian love-story and some crude comic verses."

The legal battle was much more protracted this time. After adverse decisions, the case was finally accepted by the U. S. Supreme Court. In January 1958 the justices, without requiring oral arguments, unanimously reversed the lower courts. Ruling in One, Inc. v. Olesen that the mere discussion of homosexuality was not obscene.

The decision meant that gay or lesbian content was not, in and of itself, sufficient grounds for declaring a publication obscene and that gay and lesbian magazines (unless they were pornographic) could be sent through the mail.

Without this valuable tool who knows how long the struggle would have taken.

 

 

In 1965 Slater found himself at loggerheads with W. Dorr Legg, another of the founding members of One, Inc. Legg wanted to make ONE's mission primarily educational, offering classes and lectures. Slater preferred to keep the emphasis on the magazine.

"Tangents," was the name chosen for Slater's new magazine.

Although Slater was generally not much given to public demonstrations, on Armed Forces Day, May 21, 1966, he organized a motorcade through Los Angeles and Hollywood in protest of the discriminatory policies of the United States military with respect to homosexuals. Activist Harry Hay and his life partner John Burnside made signs for the cars in the parade.

 Slater was persistent in fighting for justice for gay and lesbian veterans denied honorable discharge and ruled ineligible for pensions. Though rarely successful, he was tireless in supporting gay veterans.

When the youth movement erupted in the late 1960s, Slater embraced it. In his editorial Slater optimistically wrote that "these protest buttons say openly and flatly what yesterday's youngsters only dared whisper . . . . The buttons indicate a change in attitude toward Western sexual hypocrisy by a whole generation." He went on to express the hope that these young people "as mature men and women will make up an America a whole lot less harrowing for homosexuals to live in."

Slater was less than impressed with other parts of the beginning gay rights movement, notably the founding of the Metropolitan Community Church by the Reverend Troy Perry. Slater rejected organized religion for its condemnation of homosexuality and felt that Perry and other people of faith ought to demand changes in policy in their own churches "instead [of] . . . accept[ing] their judgment of us as loathsome monsters, who must creep off and pray with our own kind, forever despised and rejected."

Slater had always hoped to use journalism to spark a dialogue between homosexuals and heterosexuals. However, the subscribers to Tangents were overwhelmingly gay, and with the arrival of publications specifically targeted to a gay readership such as The Advocate (originally a bi-weekly tabloid before it emerged as a powerhouse of the gay press), subscriptions to Tangents declined, and eventually the magazine folded.

Slater carried on, working at the Homosexual Information Center (HIC) in Los Angeles until a heart ailment forced him into the hospital for a valve implant in 1979. In the process of surgery he became infected with hepatitis B and nearly died.

He was able to resume working, but in 1983, upon leaving the HIC office, he was mugged and severely beaten in the parking lot. After a long recovery in the hospital, he and Reyes retired to a cabin in the mountains of Colorado, where they could enjoy time together, surrounded by their beloved pets and the natural beauty of the place.

Warned by doctors of the need for further heart surgery but fearing another infection, Slater put off additional medical procedures. He suffered a serious heart attack in December 1996. Too frail to survive another operation, he passed on Valentine's Day 1997, in the loving company of his partner of 51 years and old friends.

A true hero of the LGBT movement and one that must always be remembered.