The Pauley Principle: The Puzzle of the Pauley Principle, Part 3

Welcome to The Pauley Principle!

The Pauli Principle, named for Wolfgang Pauli, deals with atoms and electron-sharing that results in new, stronger bonds. Think 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen, a shared delectable (!) electron and VOILA! Water!

Similarly, when you prepare whole food to share with family and friends, especially foods you've grown, something amazing happens. Meals become tastier and healthier. Your soul, not just your stomach, becomes fulfilled. You live life more abundantly as a result. During a shared meal, the bonds that people create grow stronger and become something new: GREATER than the sum of the parts! I give you The Pauley Principle.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Puzzle of the Pauley Principle, Part 3

Your Life's Puzzle Becomes Multi-Dimensional

Our lives overlap, our decisions impact others: friends, family, and people we'll never know. You are finding that whenever you collaborate and share your left-over pieces with others, whether it's your talent, time or personal produce, you enrich another person's life. These left-over pieces then form parts of others' puzzles, other lives, and you begin to see the interconnectedness. If it fills a need for the other person, it goes on the edge of their puzzle. If it's enrichment that you add to another's life, it goes in the center of their puzzle. Either way, that piece remains in the center of your puzzle. Your puzzle expands beyond its surface. Picture a pancake that is bubbling in the center. Your life is bubbling both over and under at its center. Know that there will be obstacles whenever you attempt to make the world a better place, but this all adds depth and height to your center. Never, ever EVER give up!

Your puzzle is now three-dimensional. Sharing and acts of kindness change your puzzle immediately and drastically. It can never go back to being flat. In fact, it hasn't been flat for a very long time. The pieces you have shared are still shared. They're still part of the enrichment, the core, of your own. Maybe you can sense that you're adding to the puzzle of someone else's life. Imagine their puzzle forming an interconnection with yours. At the same time, theirs and yours are also interconnected with others. This would be very hard to draw. Much of it is invisible to you but you can sense the shape these puzzles are taking and your part in changing them. You are a necessary part of others' lives. Look beyond the surface of your puzzle, toward the center, way beyond your edge. You're supplying basic needs and/or enriching other people's lives. If all you do is smile, tell a stupid joke or plant flowers, that enriches others' lives, but you're doing way more than that. Remember your interconnectedness.

Bottom line: The more acts of kindness you do, the stronger your support system becomes, even though obstacles and misunderstandings will sometimes occur. If there are gaps in your support system, trust in God to fill them. Be of good faith, not giving in to the whinings and complaints of others. Continue to work hard. Strive to be happy. In all you do, act out of love. Your life's puzzle, multi-dimensional and ever-changing, will eventually be complete.

2 comments:

Allies Creative DesignsJanuary 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Thank you so much for writing this article. You are absolutely true. Yes a smile can change your whole day or someone elses. I strive to be happy and hope that I show my love to others. Please get putting articles in your blog in regards to recipes, and positive ideas and energy for our life's puzzle. Have a fantastic day. Hugs
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DanitaJanuary 29, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Love your blog Ronda! I can't wait til your next posting.
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Give Yourself the Fast Food Alternative: 1, 2, 3 makes 4 and More

For many people, late night ballgames, church, work and other events make fast food too convenient to resist, but what's in that stuff? I can't begin to answer. Big franchises such as Taco Bell say the 63% or so that isn't beef is made up of "the secret ingredient". If we consume their food, don't we have a right to know what that secret is? And more importantly, what's it doing to our bodies? My plan is worth the effort since meals eaten at home with the family benefit our physical and mental health.

Here's an alternative and my answer to Rachael Ray's A Week in a Day. I call it 1,2, 3 Makes 4 and More. On the fifth day, Friday, make a quick and easy pizza.
In one day, you can make a roast, a hearty soup, and a one-dish casserole to get you through most of the work week.
Meal 1: the roast with salad and a veggie.
Meal 2: the soup served with warm bread or in a bread bowl.
Meal 3: the casserole with a salad.
Meal 4: soup from Meal 2 served with sandwiches using the roast, Meal 1.
Meal 5: homemade pizza.

Plan meals and shop for it. Then take a few hours to prepare the entrees ahead. Start with a roast seasoned to taste. I'm talking real meat. While that's slow cooking, start chopping veggies and meat for a good, hearty soup, one that will be a meal in itself. Get it started and simmering away and then begin a one-pot meal that takes a little more attention.

This week my plan is Day 1, a slow roasted ham with salad and mashed potatoes; Day 2, minestrone; and Day 3, shepherd's pie. I'm making mashed potatoes for two days (meals 1 and 3) at one time on my cooking day. The fourth meal will be ham sandwiches with minestrone. Salads and breads round out the meals for the week. Fruits with cheese make a quick and good-for-you dessert. A truly delicious recipe for shepherd's pie is in my blog.

Be good to you. Be good to others. On days 6 and 7, change it up by going out, having a pot luck with friends and family or grilling out. Remember, live your life abundantly.

About Venison

Venison should taste really delicious! No kidding. It is my favorite meat, except for crab.

Some things to consider though:
*If you wouldn't think of eating a bull, then don't eat a deer that had huge antlers or was in rut. I don't. It affects the flavor and tenderness of the meat.
*Replace the deer fat with beef fat for your ground meat for an 80/20 ratio. Deer fat tends to be slightly bitter and leaves that thick coating in your mouth that, although edible, is not palatable.
*For roasts, sear with butter and olive oil. These impart a wonderful flavor.
*For sausage, use pork shoulder, at a ration of about 3 parts ground venison with 1 part ground pork shoulder.
*Venison by nature is a lean red meat. A good young deer processed properly will give you many delicious meals.
*Anything you would do with beef, except ribs, you can do with venison. Look for my recipe for Shepherd's Pie. Use either beef or venison. Enjoy, share, and live abundantly.

Plan Now for Maple Syrup

Maple syrup is cooked down from sap that you gather from sugar maple trees. There are no other ingredients, not even water. And it's incredibly good. On the market, maple syrups will often have corn syrup, gluten, color and other additives which can stretch profitability and decrease the steaming time required. Since it takes 35-45 gallons of the thin slightly sweet sap to make a gallon of pure maple syrup, doing it the old-fashioned way takes time but the result is pure YUM!

If you have the opportunity to tap into maple trees and decide you'd like to give this a try, plan ahead. If you steam off the sap inside your kitchen, it can strip your wall-paper! Been there, done that, at our old farmhouse. If you cook it down outside with a gas turkey fryer, the cost can end up being around $8 a pint. We began cooking over a wood fire a few years ago, using a tripod and kettle. Oh, and a large firewood supply. Whatever method you choose, proceed slowly and with caution.

Gather your supplies. We use food safe plastic jugs, buckets, and little water line spouts. Maple syrup production houses will collect into stainless steel vats using long water lines but we simply gather the jugs, pour into buckets and bring it to the kettle twice daily. I buy little pint jugs to store it in. Very fresh, very pure. Start tapping the trees when daytime temperatures are going to be above freezing but nights are still very cold. In Ohio, the sap will be running fast sometime in February.

Try my cousin Stephanie Krupla's recipe for Sticky Bun Tea Ring and you'll want to search for maple trees you can tap into yourself!