Bread of Life

The Bread of Life Discourse is an episode in the life of Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John 6:22-59.

The title "Bread of Life" for Jesus is based on this Biblical episode which takes place in the Gospel of John shortly after the Feeding the multitude episode (in which Jesus feeds the crowds with five loaves of bread and two fish) after which the crowds watch as Jesus walks to the other side of lake on the water after Jesus' walk on water.

In the Gospel of John:

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." (John 6:32-35, New Revised Standard Version)

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Swimming is better than Caffeine

Paul Hudson on Healthy Habits. (I prefer to plug in "swimming in the afternoon" in place of running in the morning)


I used to be a coffee junkie. One cup in the morning to get me started. One cup after lunch so I don’t crash. And another cup in the evening just for kicks. Those were some of the most stressful years of my life. Coffee is a great quick-fix, but quick-fixes are never really fixes; they’re bandages that always manage to come undone. Luckily, a friend put me on to something much healthier and — to be completely honest — much more effective: I started running. You start off slow and short but make your way up to quick and long. Although I may have a cup of coffee here and there, I don’t drink anywhere near as much as I used to and never first thing in the morning. If you’re doing anything first thing in the morning, it needs to be cardio. If you’re not having sex, then I recommend running.

1. It gets your head straight, and your mind focused. Coffee is great for getting you motivated to start your day, but it isn’t very good at giving you the peace of mind necessary to start your day right. Motivation is great, but if you don’t have the mind necessary to make proper, well-thought-out decisions, then it’s sort of useless. Running takes all those running thoughts in your mind and forces you to refocus them onto your two feet hitting the pavement (or treadmill). It forces you to quiet your mind because not doing so would cause you to trip and face plant. After your run, all those chemicals produced and all the energy released leaves you feeling calm, at peace and ready to take on the world. Or your nine-to-five.

2. It’s never easy, but starting off with the most difficult part of your day makes for smooth sailing. Drinking a cup of coffee first thing in the morning is like taking a break before you even get started; that’s why they call it a “coffee break.” Starting things off easy makes scaling up difficult. If, on the other hand, you start things off with a four-to-six-mile run at a respectable pace, sweating profusely, pushing yourself a little further with each quarter mile, the rest of your day won’t seem so difficult. After running out of breath and sweating a kiddy-pool’s worth, everything else seems like a piece of cake. You can either have a cup of coffee and climb a mountain or go for a run and cruise along that mountainside.

3. It gets your heart pumping like coffee, without the crash. Coffee is a bit deceiving. After a cup, you feel like a champ, king or queen of your kingdom. But after a couple of hours, things start to go south. That buzz you were riding becomes more of a murmur. After another hour, you find yourself in need of another boost. You raised the energy bar so high first thing in the morning that you’ll spend the rest of the day trying to bring it back to that state. Not so good for you, but great for the coffee companies. Going for a nice run doesn’t put you on edge. Instead, it makes you feel lighter, strong, quicker, sharper. It clears up that fuzz you see and feel, outlining everything in your reality — both your visual representation of the world around you and your thoughts. The best part is there is no crash. You just keep going steady.

4. No amount of coffee in the world will have you feeling as good tomorrow morning as running this morning will. You would be much better off planning for tomorrow than trying to fix today. Yes, coffee gives you the illusion of energy, of sharp thought and rapid reaction. But it’s pseudo-energy. It doesn’t stay with you because it isn’t a part of you. Running harnesses the energy inside of you and makes it easier for it to surface. We are all made of energy — we just can’t always call upon it when we need it. We wake up feeling sluggish, but instead of loosening up our body and minds, we drink a cup or two of coffee. It feels like energy, but you won’t feel any better tomorrow morning. Instead, you’re going to need to repeat the process just to feel normal.If, instead, you decided to run today in the morning, you may feel a little bit drained once the sun goes down, but getting out of bed tomorrow will be easier. The longer you keep the routine, the easier it will become — until getting out of bed and tackling all the matters at hand will feel effortless.

What sounds better: spending $5 a day (if not more) on coffee just to feel like you NEED more of it or running for free and feeling better each and every day? The choice is yours.

Sewing: Girl's Carpentry

I tell people sewing is more fun than driving a car.

ModCloth Polka Dotted Dress!!!

If I can't buy this I must sew one just like it!
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Also MODCLOTH cupcake dress here.

To Eat Figs off the Tree

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.
― Elizabeth David, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.
― Elizabeth David

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.
― Elizabeth David

Sage Pesto

Servings 12 Units US

1⁄2 cup packed sage leaf
1⁄2 cup packed flat leaf parsley
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
2⁄3 cup walnut pieces
3 cloves crushed garlic (or to taste)
salt
1⁄2 cup olive oil (or to desired consistency)

Directions

Wash and thoroughly dry sage leaves and parsley in your salad spinner.
Put in food processor with Parmesan, walnuts, garlic, and salt.
Process until a gritty but even consistency.
Gradually add olive oil until pesto has reached desired consistency.
Divide into 3 equal portions.
Each portion will coat enough pasta for 4.
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Tubs of Coleslaw: A Colorful Salad

I love cabbage and buy it every week at Price Rite. Last night I made coleslaw for the ten thousandth time. My first recipe was from Marion Cunningham's SUPPER BOOK. A bible for cooks. I use Price rite generic mayo (which is Hellman's), lowfat buttermilk, guilden's price rite generic mustard, Adobo, kosher salt and raisins in place of sugar and red wine vinegar for the dressing. I chop cabbage, red onions, and carrots for a colorful salad. The buttermilk is essential magic. It speeds the process of fermenting the cabbage. Use yogurt diluted with milk, if you don't have buttermilk.

Spaghetti in a Heat Wave

I felt a little guilty wanting to make spaghetti and tomato sauce. I made coleslaw and then I remember our marble sculptor friend who lived in Carrera Italy for years making us a simple marinara sauce. Peel and core garlic chop with Kosher salt put in large skillet with Price-Rite or Job-Lot extra-virgin oil. Heat it up. Add canned tomatoes or crushed tomatoes. Then add about half a cup of full bodied red wine. Simmer a few minutes so the alcohol is cooked out. Go to your garden and pick basil leaves (if you have them). In another pot boil 5 quarts of salted water. Add your favorite pasta and cook al-dente. Combine pasta with sauce and sprinkle with Italian hard cheese. Enjoy. Eat it again for breakfast the next morning.

Night Matches Sleep

“The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves. We are intermittent creatures, always falling to little ends and rising to new beginnings. Our soon-tired consciousness is meted out in chapters, and that the world will look quite different tomorrow is, both for our comfort and our discomfort, usually true. How marvelously too night matches sleep, sweet image of it, so nearly apportioned to our need. Angels must wonder at these beings who fall so regularly out of awareness into a fantasm-infested dark. How our frail identities survive these chasms no philosopher has ever been able to explain.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

Iris Murdoch: Coffee

“Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch: Cook Fast, East Slowly

“I ate and drank slowly as one should (cook fast, eat slowly) and without distractions such as (thank heavens) conversation or reading. Indeed eating is so pleasant one should even try to suppress thought. Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Every meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

I cook the way I paint.

I cook the way I paint. I just do something and then another and then I step back and listen. After chopping garlic in salt and then putting it in the fridge I went to swim. When i came back i made a bucket of coleslaw. Then I boiled tricolor pasta and made garlic oil sauce and then added tomatoes and wine and garden basil. I boiled the pasta with eggs to hardboil them in an energy saving fashion. Lorna Sass would be proud of me.

Maybe I'll make a youtube video of how I make a painting. I'd have to edit out the breaks I take for swimming, walking, reading, baking, cooking, parading, sleeping, and e-mailing.

Playing in Soapy Water

I just washed a week's worth of dishes! A perfect activity for the heat blizzard.

Lazy Spinach Pie

Heat extra virgin olive oil in big skillet, add spinach, green or black olives, corn, Adobo seasoning, saute and eat on crazy home made Ezekiel bread.

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Home-Cooked Family Meals

There are very few people who actually bake and cook anymore in the neighborhood I live in. It's tragic and scary.
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Detemined to Duplicate

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Beef Barn

Many years ago my brother in law came up with my niece and nephew and we swam in Spring Lake and went to the beef barn. The Northern RI experience at its best.

Comfort me with Pancakes

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Love to Learn, Love to Cook

I've always hated school but loved learning. When I was in college I'd skip out at 2PM and bicycle home to make chicken soup or bake bread. I was broke. I got hired to be a prep chef and I bought a blue used VW bug. I learned more about EVERYTHING and had more fun than at my expensive college. Participating in the making and preparing your own food is the highest form of self-love. I'll never understand people who give up cooking and eating just because they live alone. The scent of bread baking and soup simmering is one of life's most sensory pleasures. Sharing home made food is the most sincere of gifts.

Wednesday

When I was a child in the early 70′s, my favorite day of the week was Wednesday. It was my Grandmother’s day off from work and Wednesday was the day she would pull out a big bag of Robin Hood flour, Tenderflake lard, sugar, slabs of real butter, stacks of loaf pans, cookie sheets, pie plates and do the baking for the week.

Batches of dough rising all morning in huge bowls, rows of pans covered in tea towels and linens sitting on the counter waiting their turn to go in the hot oven. The kitchen table covered in flour, wooden spoons and rolling pins and thick glass measuring cups.

Fresh buns, loaves of bread, cinnamon buns, apple pies — those are the items that I remember most. If there was any pie dough left, she’d cut it into strips and sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon that my younger brother and I wouldn’t let cool long once they came from the oven. Nothing better than my granny’s pie dough scraps!

That’s what brought most sparkle to my Grandmother. Cooking and baking and taking care of her family, she loved it all. She never collected a lot of recipes or wrote down many of her own, they were all in her head. She just ‘knew’ from her lifetime of cooking and baking — like so many women of her day.

RecipeCurio.com is simply a place to document and archive my collection of recipes that I’ve gathered over the years. They come in all shapes and sizes — clippings, old booklets, company promotions, loose cookbook pages, index cards. Some commercially printed, some newsprint and many handwritten on slips of paper, backs of envelopes and coupons.

Many of the recipes are worn, stained and dog eared. A few were my Grandmother’s, some are from other loved ones also now passed, and some I’ve accumulated through estate sales and an auction or two. The dates range from the early years of the 1900s til the end of the 20th century. They’re each special to me whether I’ve tried the recipe or not.

It’s my way of taking a few minutes connecting to a time that seems to me less complicated, more wholesome and gives a hat tip to the women of yesterday. As well as preserving and archiving these wonderful recipes that would otherwise be lost.

To this day – Wednesday is still my favorite weekday.

Raspberry Orange Banana Yogurt Smoothie

Delicious.

Weightloss: Lugging A Broken Foot

I don't recommend it as a strategy but lugging a broken foot is a workout. I have done more baking in the last 3 weeks than all winter because the hunger hasn't stopped along with the weight loss.

DIY Wholegrain Cereals

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I Asked her What Kind of Food she Likes

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