Here's a potato recipe I stumbled upon, and it turned out to be really simple. Every recipe I do is prepared for the getting the most nutrition. Sometimes the easiest way is also the most nutritious.

I don't peel potatoes, just clean them really well and remove eyes.

I try to avoid using cornstarch. Corn products give the least amount of nutrition per calories consumed. So, in this recipe I used oatmeal for the thickener.


QUICK AND EASY SCALLOPED POTATOES

Oil the casserole pan you've chosen for the number of servings. Use one potato per person.

Slice your nice clean potatoes into the bottom of the casserole making only one layer.

Dot with little squares of Cheddar or mozzarella cheese. Then sprinkle with a thin layer of of oatmeal (avoid the instant kind if possible.) I also sprinkle flax seed with the oatmeal. Add salt lightly between each layer, too.

Alternate layers of these ingredients till you reach the top of the pan. For an interesting effect, cut the last layer of potatoes into small cubes. You can add some thin wedges of onion with these. The onions turn dark brown on the tips.

Now add milk till it fills the casserole to about a half an inch from the top.

Bake at 300 degrees or until bubbling. . .about thirty minutes.

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Flawed Economic System - Could Neurosis be the Cause?

A more sophisticated economic theory leaped out at me one day when I decided to leaf through the alumni publication sent out by my old alma mater. Usually nothing interests me about those days of old because nothing is same there anymore.

Page turn. In this beautifully done publication, a photo of an interesting looking man was situated next to a caption. It pressed for an answer : “What kind of shopper are you ?” I hoped it wasn’t anything trite like a ten question quiz. It wasn’t.

The man in the photo, Paul J. Albanese, studied economics but changed over to psychology when he couldn’t agree with the teachings of economic theories regarding human behavior.

He believed the predictions and forecasts about people in modern day society are different now. Marketing forecasts should be based on a few more categories of types of people and what kind of behaviors come from each.

According to this new perspective on economics, four different personality categories branch out in varying degrees of intensity. Believed to provide market researchers with more accuracy and detail – Albanese describes normal, neurotic, primitive, psychotic in that order. More gray area to ponder is that the not-normal folks have good days when they may pass as normal.

The Normal type consumers earn their namesake category because of being consistent and predictable. Neurotic shoppers are ambivalent, indecisive individuals. Primitives are a pain in the neck to everyone around them. Compulsives will max out a credit card, and spend every dollar they have when binging on excess. Psychotic shopping is the low end extreme where people have been arrested for passing bad checks.

Albanese: “Typically when marketers do research, there’s an implicit assumption that everyone they’re using as research are [functioning] at the normal level. And unless they are at the normal level, their behavior might not be consistent, causing the research to be flawed.”

Does he mean to imply that greed isn’t part of the equation? What about avarice?

The flawed research may be what Greenspan referred to in his public apology speech in late October 2008. He seemed to be quivering as he spoke of the flaw in his thinking. He stood up to take responsibility for his part in the financial crisis. apologize for the errors of his wrong thinking.

If we have a new economic reality to deal with – what is it? And if we are suddenly supposed to do business by this new reality, what was the old one? How did we succeed with the old reality if indeed it was so very wrong? I think it comes down to morals.

A generation of noble folks is passing on. Now we have people doing business who are of a new belief system, can be from any part of the world, of any religion or lack thereof.

More on the psychology of economics: Ignoring these nuances could influence the premises that the marketers use for judging a trend as well as the motivations behind the trend. After twenty five years of research, the economic psychologist states that a marketer must be able to distinguish someone who has bipolar disorder from someone who simply operates at the primitive level.

We’ve had fun with statistics and calculating the variables with the amazing speeds our computers have computed, but now it’s time to soften the edges of the cookie cutter. The economic system that once operated on trust, can do so no more – that’s where the tear in the fabric became a flaw.

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