BROCCOLI AND TOFU WITH PEANUT SAUCE

• 1 lb. regular tofu, extra firm
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 2 TBS. tamari sauce, wheat-free
• 1 TBS. fresh grated gingerroot
• 1 TBS. balsamic vinegar
• 1 TBS. olive oil
• 2 cups broccoli florets
• ¾ cup vegetable broth
• 1 recipe peanut sauce, prepared with vegetable broth

1. Remove tofu from the liquid in its container. Wrap tofu in several layers of paper towel, pressing down firmly to remove as much excess water as possible.
2. Cut tofu into 1” cubes.
3. Combine garlic, tamari, gingerroot, and vinegar in a medium bowl. Add tofu cubes and marinate for 1 hour.
4. Heat olive oil in wok or large skillet. With a slotted spoon, remove tofu cubes from marinade (do not throw away the marinade-you will need it for the sauce) and add carefully to the hot oil. Stir-fry quickly, 2-3 minutes. Remove tofu from pan. Set aside.
5. Add vegetable broth to skillet and bring to a boil. Add broccoli florets and cook over high heat until crisp tender, about 3-4 minutes.
6. Add peanut sauce and tofu and continue to cook until flavors are blended and warmed through. Taste, add reserve marinade to thin the sauce or enhance the spiciness of the dish.
7. Serve hot over brown rice.
   
   Yield: 4 servings
   
   Note: You can cut preparation time by purchasing pre-baked, marinated tofu—just be sure to read labels and purchase a brand without sugar added.
   
   

   PEANUT SAUCE

   Ingredients:
   
   
   • 1 TBS. olive oil
   • 2 tsp. sesame oil
   • ½ tsp. chili oil
   • 2 cloves garlic, minced
   • 2 TBS. soy sauce
   • 2/3 cup peanut butter, sugar-free
   • 1 cup chicken or vegetable broth
   • ½ cup apple juice
   • ¼ cup scallions, sliced into thin rounds
   • 2 TBS. fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
   • 3 TBS. chopped peanuts
   
   
   Process:
   
   
   1. In a medium saucepan, heat olive, sesame, and chili oils over medium heat. Add garlic and cook about 1 minute or until fragrant. Do not brown the garlic.
   2. Carefully add soy sauce, peanut butter, chicken broth and apple juice whisk until well combined.
   3. Cook, stirring occasionally, until flavors are blended and sauce is slightly thickened, 5 to 10 minutes.
   4. Remove from heat and stir in remaining ingredients.
   5. Use as a dressing, dip or sauce for vegetables, pasta, chicken, fish or pork.
   
   
   Yield: 4 servings
   
   Note: ½ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes on 1 finely minced serrano pepper can be substituted for the chili oil. Cook in step 1 along with the garlic.
   
   

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   We were recently having a conversation in the weight loss class about tightening up the steps. One of the class members ranked the quality of each step as a 90% or 100%. Then she averaged the seven steps to get a sense of how she was doing. Her average was 90%.
   
   Connie chimed in and said that kind of math doesn't work in this instance. She talked about how the steps are cumulative. And that when you did the math a different way, the actual score was 68%.
   
   Some of us, including me, said, WHAT are you talking about! I asked her to try again. Intuitively, I knew she was onto something. But this explanation is a winner.
   
   A quick Google search didn't show up any high-level intro explanations of quality and reliability in steps, so I'll just make up an example. First I'll use one for an everyday manufacturing process, and then I'll talk about our 7 steps.
   
   For the everyday manufacturing, say Connie decides to make a DVD about Warrior Wellness available at her web site. The steps to get the DVD from the manufacturer to the person, are:
   
   
   1. DVD maker sends the DVDs to Connie's mail room (LOL)
   2. Connie takes orders from the net and gets them ready to ship
   3. The shipper, say the US mail, ships to the person
   4. The person gets it
   5. The person can play it! yay!
   
   
   What we want is, 100% of the DVDs getting from the manufacturer to the person. But let's say each step has 10% problems:
   
   
   1. 10% of the DVDs get squished when Connie drops the box in her mail room to sign the invoice
   2. 10% of the addresses entered on Connie's web site are off somehow
   3. 10% of the people's mailboxes are ripped off from local drug guys stealing identities, and they rudely toss the DVD
   4. 10% of the CDs don't work in the person's DVD player somehow (Connie has el cheapo manufacturer)
   
   
   So, you'd think, well okay, each step is 90% there, so my customers should be 90% happy right? But let's follow 100 DVDs.
   
   
   1. After Connie drops the box of DVDs, there are 90 DVDs on the way to the customer. (90% of 100)
   2. After step 2, wrong mail address, there are 80 DVDs (90% of 90 DVDs)
   3. After step 3, the mail theft, there are 72 DVDs on the way to the customer. (90% of 80)
   4. After step 4, unplayable DVDs, there are 63 DVDs that actually get to the customer. (90% of 72)
   
   
   So of those 100 DVDs starting out, only 63 got to my customer. That makes a "reliability" of 63% for the end-to-end process. But I thought each step was 90% ! well, it is. Still, if what I want is DVDs to customers, I find a way to tighten those steps.
   
   This happens to EVERY process where the later steps depend on the reliability of the earlier steps.
   
   What I think is hard to understand until it's experienced , is that our steps really truly DO depend on each other. No one else in the diet world talks about this and that's why they all say, make these zillion changes all together.
   
   And, our steps each have smaller steps, so imagine the opportunities to get a little off. Here's just ONE path.
   
   
   1. Breakfast. Protein is 90% of what it needs to be.
   2. Journal. Writing 90% down, but maybe the 10% not written, is what happened after breakfast with light protein! So now I lost a little feedback.
   3. 3 meals, 90%. Lunch had "justa" whites and it was early. Somehow I was "extra hungry" today but I don't make the connection to breakfast.
   4. Vitamins. 90%. I ran out of vitamin C days ago and keep forgetting to pick some up. Hence, my food is not metabolized quite as well. I'm a little hungry.
   5. Browns. 90%. By dinner I feel off and resentful and have my browns and then some.
   6. Sugars. 90%. More justas. I make the family a program-friendly dessert and have more of it than is appropriate for my plan right now.
   
   
   For me, this would be a day for overeating either at dinner or at spud time. I might THINK "oh, my program is 90% on" but, that evening sure FEELS like a not-so-good, only 50% radiant day, and sure enough, the idea of multiplying instead of averaging, matches what I'm feeling.
   
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