{"id":11095,"date":"2013-05-11T17:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T22:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=11095"},"modified":"2013-05-11T17:31:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T22:31:47","slug":"recap-5112013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130511-11095.htm","title":{"rendered":"Recap (5\/11\/2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"center\">Nutrition and Health News:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sucking on your baby&#8217;s pacifier might help him be healthy<\/b><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Infants whose parents sucked on their pacifiers to clean them developed fewer allergies than children whose parents typically rinsed or boiled them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This study adds to the growing evidence for the so-called &#8220;hygiene hypothesis&#8221;, the idea that protecting our kids from exposure to &#8220;germs&#8221; is actually counterproductive&#8211;leading to weaker immune systems and\/or autoimmune diseases. Read more in the <a href=\" http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/06\/why-dirty-pacifiers-may-be-your-childs-friend\/?ref=health\">New York Times&#8217; article.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Books added to my TBR list:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Hug a Bull<\/i> and <i>I Love Ewe<\/i> by Aaron Zenz<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingtoknow.com\/2013\/05\/hug-bull-by-aaron-zenz.html\">reviewed by Carrie at Reading to Know<\/a>)<br \/>\nThese children&#8217;s picture books that teach the names of male and female animals sound <b>wonderful<\/b>. Since my new library owns copies, I&#8217;ll definitely be looking them up!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><b><i>The Vegetarian Myth<\/i> by Lierre Keith<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/seth.heasley.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/book-review-the-vegetarian-myth-by-lierre-keith\/\">reviewed by Seth at Collateral Bloggage<\/a>)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen quite a few food fads go by in my relatively few years&#8211;but the most recent fads, whether &#8220;whole foods&#8221; or &#8220;paleo&#8221; are by far the most unique. Unlike the fads of the past, which were based on complicated (and often flawed) scientific\/nutritional arguments, this latest fad is almost entirely fought using evolutionary and environmental arguments. This book, which appears to argue for a similar approach to food (and against vegetarianism), sounds like it could be an interesting read. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Recipes Tried:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cheeseburger Crescent Casserole<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillsbury.com\/recipes\/cheeseburger-crescent-casserole\/039f0f1d-769d-4b4d-812a-1626e1e3188a\">from Pillsbury<\/a>)<br \/>\nDaniel bought some crescent roll dough I don&#8217;t know how long ago&#8211;and it&#8217;s been sitting in the kitchen ever since. Maybe two months? I don&#8217;t particularly like the stuff, so I hadn&#8217;t used it. But finally, I decided that it must be used, so I searched for recipes. This is a really simple recipe that I adjusted rather significantly. I added onions and green peppers and red peppers and jalepenos and mustard; and used minced dill pickles instead of dill pickle relish and swiss cheese instead of American. But it wasn&#8217;t half bad, tasted like a cheeseburger. If you happen to accidentally have crescent roll dough on hand, this is a good way to get rid of it (how&#8217;s that for a glowing review?)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Chicken Enchilada Pizza<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howsweeteats.com\/2013\/03\/chicken-enchilada-pizza\/\">from How Sweet Eats<\/a>)<br \/>\nThis was a.maz.ing. No other way to put it. I enjoyed it fresh from the oven. I enjoyed it microwaved for lunch the next day. I enjoyed microwaved three days later. It was wonderful. I used 2 cups of white flour and one cup of whole wheat in the crust, used my mom&#8217;s homemade enchilada sauce for the meat, and skipped the avocado (mine went bad in the produce basket before I made this recipe, boo!) I also cut up whole tomatoes and shredded my own romaine lettuce to cut down on cost&#8211;I think this might also have been why even the lettuce wasn&#8217;t too gross on reheating. I can&#8217;t vouch for using a regular pan, but this cooked up great on my pizza stone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20130511-01.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Chicken Enchilada Pizza\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<li><b>Creamsicle French Toast<\/b><br \/>\nDaniel and I decided to make French Toast this morning, since Daniel&#8217;s project is done (at last) and we had some bread in the freezer from last week&#8217;s Caprese Grilled Cheese. Daniel was looking at various recipes and found one that involved orange liqueur&#8211;which got me to think about oranges. I figured that I had orange juice concentrate in the freezer, and we had cream cheese in the fridge&#8230;why not mix the two together and use that as a filling for our French toast? Our bread was sliced thinly enough that we made them more like a sandwich, but they turned out pretty decent, if I do say so myself. Not like every-weekend-wonderful, but certainly a nice experiment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Apps\/Plugins\/Technological Gizmos Used:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>TWICCA for Android<\/b> (linked to by <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5810139\/the-best-twitter-client-for-android\">LifeHacker<\/a>)<br \/>\nApparently TweetDeck is going the way of GoogleReader&#8211;which means I needed a new Twitter Client for my phone. LifeHacker was so kind as to suggest Twicca. I&#8217;m liking it so far, although I wish it had the capability of running my Twitter feed and my Facebook feed side by side like TweetDeck did. Oh well, nothing has everything. <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=jp.r246.twicca&#038;hl=end\">Download Twicca here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Videos that Made Me Laugh:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WYcWA_RNl1s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHT: <a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2013\/05\/10\/bird-to-your-mother-funny-and-amazing-babbling-beatboxing-parakeet\/\">22 Words<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition and Health News: Sucking on your baby&#8217;s pacifier might help him be healthy &#8220;Infants whose parents sucked on their pacifiers to clean them developed fewer allergies than children whose parents typically rinsed or boiled them.&#8221; This study adds to the growing evidence for the so-called &#8220;hygiene hypothesis&#8221;, the idea that protecting our kids from &#8230; <a title=\"Recap (5\/11\/2013)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130511-11095.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recap (5\/11\/2013)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11095"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11209,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}