Eric's Sausage Broccoli Sunrise

Tonight's dish is to honor an LGBT hero in the fashion industry: Eric Rutherford! Our diverse community grows and strengthens with our heroes and leaders. Learn more about Eric in a short article after the recipe.

Here we shake up the typical sausage & vegetable pasta with the bright taste of orange. You can use thawed broccoli but fresh will taste so much better and cooks along with the pasta. This casserole type dinner will bring miles of smiles to your table.

Ingredients:

1 head of fresh broccoli

6oz. Uncooked linguine pasta broken into 3 inch pieces

1 lbs Italian sausage

1 yellow onion chopped

½ orange zested and juiced

1 can evaporated milk

2 Tbs flour

salt & pepper to taste

Directions: 

 

Rinse the head of broccoli and cut off the florets. Let them sit in water with 1 Tbs white vinegar to clean.

Put water on to cook pasta. Before adding break into 3 inch pieces.

Zest & juice the orange into a small bowl and set aside.

Chop the onion and set aside.

When water is boiling, add pasta according to directions on box. When just 3 minutes before it is ready, add the broccoli to the boiling pot. When time is up, remove and drain. Reserve ½ cup of pasta water.

While that is boiling. Add the cut up onion to a skillet over medium heat and saute until starting to turn transparent.

Add the crumbled sausage and cook for an additional 8 minutes or until it is completely cooked. Drain and return to heat. 

 

Sprinkle with flour and stir to coat, then add in the can of evaporated milk along with the orange juice & zest. Stir until this starts to thicken. You want more of a soup like texture than a gravy. If too thick add milk, if too thin add some of the reserved pasta water.

Now stir in the drained pasta & broccoli. This makes a wonderful one vegetable meal. Serve with a crusty bread. Sprinkle with Parmesan if you wish, but not necessary.

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Eric Rutherford

The LGBT community has long been defined as youth centered. It is easy to find ageism with prejudice & discrimination against the elderly. Just as it once was focused on twinks with a swimmers build, the gay culture began the acceptance of the Bear Community. Now we find a surging admiration for distinguished fun loving men of experience. Leading the charge of the Silver Foxes is our hero Eric Rutherford.

Where Cary Grant, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen took their place as legendary ’screen idols’, there was a void in the market for real men. Advertising had resigned the 45 year old man to modeling thermal underwear in mail order catalogs.

Eric Rutherford earned his right to be called a hero. Eric was born in Michigan but was raised in Florida. He recalls “Mom wanted me to be a smart athlete, a positive leader with a large circle of friends and loved by his family.”

Pretty soon Eric was gaining a sense of individual style and it wasn’t long before the Fashion world found him . “I was aware of fashion and the power of presentation at a very early age”.

The family belonged to a beach club that had VERY strict guidelines about what was ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. (Right khaki shorts. Wrong length) etc. 

 

Eric relates that fashion photographers discovered his brother on the street. He was so pretty that some people thought he was a girl. Eric, on the other hand, was affectionately known as the stocky one with bad skin!

Eric moved to Los Angeles to attend USC’s program in Theater. “I modeled a little whilst in high school but became more focused on acting which I never would have started to do if my mom hadn’t pushed us to try as many things as possible.” says Eric. 

 

Eric fought rejection at times but was still determined to work in the fashion industry. “It was great when you got hired because that meant you were good looking. When you didn’t book the job, my young mind defined the rejection as, you’re ugly, you don’t fit in”

Just a few years ago Eric was re-discovered at a five year olds birthday party. A casting director thought he had a great look which was ‘very hot right now’. 

 

“The difference this time for me was that I was completely comfortable with my looks, my gray hair, my deep laugh lines, etc. I was happy with who I was. My own sense of success wasn’t based on booking the job or someone liking me. So when I decided to get back into modeling, I embraced it”.

Eric knows first hand of the effects that ageism has. Recently Eric opened up on a You tube channel about his ex-boyfriend who committed suicide because he felt he had “aged out of the community”. He was in his 60s. He was wildly accomplished. Good-looking guy. Incredible friends. “He felt invisible in this community and the culture. He wasn’t wanted.

Eric loves people and is never more at home than when he’s discussing life, love and inspiration. He loves presenting on a web series, #Silver Fox Says. Here Eric gives us his fashion tips, do’s and don’ts and a heads up where to get our hands on his favorite pieces from the season. 
 

Eric’s warmth, energy, and enduring smile hides the great effort and past battles raged finding acceptance of himself and in the culture. He gives us a much needed role model while allowing ourselves to feel wanted and loved.