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I live on purpose. Meaning, I have a purposeful life. Nearly 28 years in every branch of the United States Army. Successful business owner, Avid student, Insightful teacher, Staunch Advocate, Fierce competitor and overall Social butterfly. I am a full-time teacher and student, I give as good as I get while continually evolving into what I will actually be known and remembered for once I no longer grace the visible plane. Learning vicariously through the actions of others has served me well, and helped me to get immersed in a vast arena of pursuits over the years. I cherish my internal solitude, while nourishing my social butterfly nature. I simply. . . AM! As said by Yoda. . . Do, or do not do. There is no try. So, Eat live to live well, sing like you're in the shower, dance like no ones watching, love like you've never been hurt and eat the rainbow without counting calories.

Saturday, April 18, 2020

SMOKED TOFU makes good things BETTER

I love this recipe from Casa de Sante


Ingredients:
350 g firm tofu
150 ml dark gluten free soy sauce
1 teaspoon @casadesante organic bbq coffee rub
1 tbsp garlic oil
2 tbsp maple syrup
To serve:
cooked noodles
baby spinach
beans (canned butter beans or black beans)
cherry tomatoes
fresh parsley
lemon sliced
sesame seeds
Method:
Slice tofu into 5mm thin slices. Make the marinade. In a bowl combine soy sauce, bbq coffee rub, oil and maple syrup. Add in the tofu slices and leave to marinate for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 180C and spray a baking tray with oil. Arrange tofu slices on the prepared baking tray and bake for 15 minutes. Take out from the oven and don’t turn the heat off. Flip each tofu slice and brush with a little marinade. Pop the tray back in the oven and bake for another 10 minutes or until crispy brown.

**The tofu can also be marinated and dehydrated to set the flavor.

Fooling some of the people all of the time

http://www.thebestofrawfood.com/raw-food-video.html


On this page lie some insightful and sometimes contradictory videos about eating, healing, food and the raw food lifestyle (I enjoy seeing these things every now and then).

The thing about anything new (not necessarily new but currently popular), is that people with absolutely NO experience, NO training, NO independent learning and no Self discerning investigation practices and no pro activity at all, will spit their fears and ignorance (albeit often well meaning) in the name of what is good, bad, safe, unsafe, will or will not work all over your exploration for self health management and independence.

Which is why I picked this title:

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.  Abraham Lincoln

So, what does all this mean?  If the choices you have been allowed to make all your adult life for yourself has gotten you filled with calcium buildup all in your joints, indescribable aches and pains in several places over your body, horrible skin disorders, multiple surgeries, no peace of mind, no mental clarity, very little motivation, a dwindling sex drive and blah, blah, blah...Then you my friend are a living example of the Abraham Lincoln quote of being the some that are fooled all of the time.

When do you transition into the some that are not fooled at all?

How can you see whats not good in your life, health and well-being and have little or no desire to confront and correct it?
How can you get a headache every time you eat at a particular restaurant and justify living with the headache and eating there weekly because "it's your favorite restaurant".

How do you ignore the continual lack of intimacy in your relationship, low libido, no libido. . . and just go to work every day, come home in the evening and not have a pressing desire to remedy that low or no function in your life?

We live in a society where the solution is a PILL for every ILL.
You are readily willing to take a pill for a headache that has 75 side effects yet you want to investigate for three or four weeks a solution of eating 30 bananas a day to see if somebody thinks its alright or safe.

Be where you are and take your time to become the best you that you can be.  Live on purpose with purpose and you can be the catalyst for the best there is to come in your life.  It just takes a chance to make a new choice.