Living in today’s world is like trying to make tofu taste good. Let’s be honest: tofu is tasteless and the texture is like biting into a mushy sponge.

Listening to the news, even here down under is depressing. It makes me want to bury my head in the sand. News is bad, not just tasteless, but sour and rotten. It makes tofu look good.

So I cut my block of firm tofu into little squares:

They aren’t all squares some turned out to be rectangles. I laid them out flat on a towel, covered them with the towel and weighed them down with a cast iron pan. Left them for thirty minutes. I tossed them with 1 Tablespoon of olive oil, 1 T of soy sauce and then added 1 T of corn starch (called corn flour in AU) I then put them in a 200 degree C oven (400 F) for 30 minutes. They were supposed to taste nice and crispy then, but still they were basically icky. Maybe like voting for Democrats who keep continuing tax breaks for the rich. Like a government that allows all this money to be wasted on corn flour campaigns – the rich buying the politicians, leaving the ordinary man without a voice.

I needed a different flavor. We all need a new voice, someone who has ideas to give everyday people a way to have a decent life in a world where work has been taken over by machines. Now it seems like either you don’t work at all or you work 24 hours a day. My successful children seem to work 24 hours a day. I have time to cook Tofu because I’m retired. I have a guaranteed income. People say I worked for that – yes I did for 36 years, but I wouldn’t mine if everyone had a basic income, and had time to create, to garden, to spend with their children, and to make tofu taste good.

Yes I discovered that you can make tofu taste good. If you take those crispy tofu squares and rectangles and fry them with Hoisin sauce (I used Rollot Vietnamese made in Australia). The tofu squares are crispy and delicious.

Google “Basic Income” – it’s an idea that needs to spread.