Thursday, December 5, 2019

Legal Lime Beef Vegetables

It is not often I've run across a Chinese Kosher meal. Of course there must be many Jewish people living there and their meals are often very compatible. Here is a quick to put together unique dish that will brighten any holiday table that is a bit weary of poultry by now. We dedicate this to an LGBT hero Raymond Burr. Read a quick story about him after the recipe.

Here a cheep cut of beef is prepared with green beans in a lime sauce over rice. Very easy to throw together and a completely different taste!

Ingredients:
¾ pound brisket or breakfast steak
½ tsp finely shredded lime peel
2 tablespoons lime juice
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons sugar
1½ teaspoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon cooking oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 9-ounce package frozen green beans, thawed and drained
2 green onions, cut into 2-inch lengths
1 4-ounce can sliced mushrooms, drained
Hot cooked rice or couscous

Directions:
Partially freeze beef. Do your cutting. Thinly slice the meat, across the grain, into bite-size pieces. Toss in cornstarch and set aside.




Chop the garlic, cut the green onions, zest the limes and squeeze the juice in a small bowl Add the Worcestershire sauce, sugar, and cornstarch. Mix well and set aside.



Preheat a large skillet over high heat. Add cooking oil. (Add more oil as necessary during stir frying.) Stir-fry garlic in hot oil for 30 seconds.






Add green beans to skillet. Stir-fry 2 minutes. Add green onions and stir-fry about 1 minute or till vegetables are crisp tender. Remove to a bowl.





Add half of the beef to the skillet. Stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes or till done. Remove meat from skillet. Stir-fry remaining beef for 2 to 3 minutes. Return all meat to skillet. Once you have a nice crispy crust, push meat mixture from center of skillet. Stir sauce and add to center. Cook and stir till thickened and bubbly.
Add mushrooms and vegetable mixture. Cook and stir for
1 minute more. Serve over rice. Makes 4 servings.

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Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr was a Canadian-American actor. He stared on stage and on radio but is primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. He was prominently involved in multiple charitable endeavors.

Raymond was born 1917, in New Westminster, British Columbia. Burr said that he weighed 12.75 pounds at birth, and was chubby throughout his childhood. "When you're a little fat boy in public school, or any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful," he remembered. His weight was always an issue for him in getting roles. 

When Burr was six, his parents divorced. His mother moved to Vallejo, California, with him and his younger siblings Geraldine and James. Burr graduated from Berkeley High School. 

In later years, Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood. He developed a passion for growing things and joined the Civilian Conservation Corps for a year in his teens. He did acting work in his teen years, making his stage debut at age 12 with a Vancouver stock company.

Burr grew up during the Great Depression and hoped to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, but he was unable to afford the tuition. He briefly attended Long Beach Junior College and taught for a semester at San Jose Junior College, working nights as a radio actor and singer.

Burr moved to New York in 1940 and made his first starring role on the stage in 1942 when he was an emergency replacement in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Quiet Wedding. He became a member of the Pasadena Playhouse and performed in some 30 plays over the years. He returned to Broadway for Patrick Hamilton's The Duke in Darkness (1944). His performance as the loyal friend of the imprisoned protagonist led to a contract with RKO Radio Pictures.


Burr appeared in more than 50 feature films between 1946 and 1957, creating an array of villains that established him as an icon of film noir. Film historian Alain Silver described Burr's private detective in Pitfall as "both reprehensible and pathetic", a characterization also cited by film historian Richard Schickel as a prototype of film noir, in contrast with the appealing television characters Burr later created. "He tried to make you see the psychosis below the surface, even when the parts weren't huge," said film historian James Ursini. "He was able to bring such complexity and different levels to those characters, and create sympathy for his characters even though they were doing reprehensible things."


His portrayal of the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window (1954) is his best-known film role, although he is also remembered for his role in the 1954 Godzilla which he reprised in the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla. 


"I was just a fat heavy," Burr told journalist James Bawden. "I split the heavy parts with Bill Conrad. We were both in our twenties playing much older men. I never got the girl but I once got the gorilla. I menaced Claudette Colbert, Lizabeth Scott, Paulette Goddard, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck. Those girls would take one look at me and scream and can you blame them? I was drowned, beaten, stabbed and all for my art. But I knew I was horribly overweight. I lacked any kind of self esteem."

His performance in A Place in the Sun (1951), made an impression on Gail Patrick and her husband Cornwell Jackson, who had Burr in mind when they began casting the role of Los Angeles district attorney Hamilton Burger in the CBS-TV series Perry Mason.

As a young man Burr weighed more than 300 lbs., which limited his on-screen roles. "But in radio this presented no problems, given the magnificent quality of his voice," reported The Globe and Mail. "He played romantic leads and menacing villains with equal authority, and he earned a steady and comfortable income."

Working steadily in radio since the 1940s, often uncredited, Burr was a leading player on the West Coast. He had a regular role in Jack Webb's first radio show, Pat Novak for Hire (1949), and in Dragnet (1949–50) he played Joe Friday's boss, Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives.

In 1956 Burr was the star of CBS Radio's Fort Laramie, an adult Western drama produced, written and directed by the creators of Gunsmoke.
In August 1956, CBS announced that Burr would star in the television series Perry Mason. Although the network wanted Burr to continue work on Fort Laramie, the TV series required an extraordinary commitment and the radio show ended. 


Executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson told Burr that he was perfect for Perry Mason but at least 60 pounds overweight. He went on a crash diet over the following month; he then tested as Perry Mason and was cast in the role. While Burr's test was running, the writer who created Perry Mason, Earl Stanley Gardner, reportedly stood up, pointed at the screen, and said, "That's Perry Mason."
Known for his loyalty and consciousness of history, Burr went out of his way to employ his radio colleagues in his television programs. Some 180 radio celebrities appeared on Perry Mason during the first season alone.

The series ran from 1957-66. Burr received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations and won the award in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as Perry Mason. The series has been rerun in syndication ever since, and was released on DVD between 2006 and 2013.

Burr moved from CBS to Universal Studios, where he played the title role in the television drama Ironside, which ran on NBC from 1967 to 1975. In the pilot episode, San Francisco Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside is wounded by a sniper during an attempt on his life and, after his recovery, uses a wheelchair for mobility, in the first crime drama show to star a police officer with a disability. The show earned Burr six Emmy nominations—one for the pilot and five for his work in the series—and two Golden Globe nominations. 

In 1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie, Perry Mason Returns. The same week, Burr recalled, he was asked to reprise the role he played in Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), in a low-budget film that would be titled Godzilla 1985. 

"When they asked me to do it a second time, I said, 'Certainly,' and everybody thought I was out of my mind," Burr told Tom Shales of The Washington Post. "But it wasn't the large sum of money. It was the fact that, first of all, I kind of liked 'Godzilla,' and where do you get the opportunity to play yourself 30 years later? So I said yes to both of them." Although Burr is best remembered for his role as Perry Mason, a devoted following continues to appreciate him as the actor that brought the Godzilla series to America. 

He agreed to do the Mason movie if Barbara Hale returned to reprise her role as Della Street. Hale agreed. The rest of the principal cast had died, but Hale's real-life son William Katt played the role of Paul Drake, Jr. The movie was so successful that Burr made a total of 26 Perry Mason television films before his death.

Burr married actress Isabella Ward in 1948. They were married shortly before Burr began work on the 1948 film noir Pitfall. They lived in the basement apartment of a large house in Hollywood that Burr shared with his mother and grandparents. The marriage ended within months, and Ward returned to her native Delaware. They divorced in 1952, and neither remarried.



In 1960, Burr met Robert Benevides, an actor and Korean War veteran, on the set of Perry Mason. Benevides gave up acting in 1963, and he became a production consultant for 21 of the Perry Mason TV movies. They owned and operated an orchid business and then a vineyard in California's Dry Creek Valley. They were domestic partners until Burr's death in 1993. Burr bequeathed his entire estate to Benevides, and Benevides renamed the Dry Creek property Raymond Burr Vineyards and managed it as a commercial enterprise.

As a prototypical Hollywood star, Burr had to keep his private life hidden. His stories of his own life became more fluid in their verasity. All typical of the day. Later accounts of Burr's life explain that he hid his homosexuality to protect his career. "That was a time in Hollywood history when homosexuality was not countenanced", Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas recalled in a 2000 episode of Biography. "Ray was not a romantic star by any means, but he was a very popular figure … If it was revealed at that time in Hollywood history it would have been very difficult for him to continue."

Dean Hargrove, executive producer of the Perry Mason TV films, said in 2006, "I had always assumed that Raymond was gay, because he had a relationship with Robert Benevides for a very long time. Whether or not he had relationships with women, I had no idea. Raymond had the ability to mythologize himself, some of his stories tended to grow as time went by."

Burr was a well-known philanthropist. He gave enormous sums of money, including his salaries from the Perry Mason movies, to charity. He was also known for sharing his wealth with friends. He sponsored 26 foster children through the Foster Parents' Plan, many with the greatest medical needs.

Burr made repeated trips on behalf of the USO. He toured both Korea and Vietnam during wartime and once spent six months touring Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. He sometimes organized his own troupe and toured bases both in the U.S. and overseas, often small installations that the USO did not serve.

In 1960, Ray Collins, who portrayed Lt. Arthur Tragg on the original Perry Mason series, and who was by that time often ill and unable to remember all the lines he was supposed to speak, stated, "There is nothing but kindness from our star, Ray Burr. Part of his life is dedicated to us, and that's no bull. If there's anything the matter with any of us, he comes around before anyone else and does what he can to help. He's a great star—in the old tradition."
During the filming of his last Perry Mason movie in the spring of 1993, Burr fell ill. A Viacom spokesperson told the media that the illness might be related to a malignant kidney tumor that Burr had removed that February. It was determined that the cancer had spread to his liver and was at that point inoperable. Burr threw several "goodbye parties" before his death on September 12, 1993
Burr was interred with his parents at Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, British Columbia.




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