{"id":11653,"date":"2013-07-08T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T14:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2013-07-08T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T14:05:43","slug":"recap-762013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130708-11653.htm","title":{"rendered":"Recap (7\/6\/2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--NEW--><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Videos Watched:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Your Life in Jelly Beans<\/b> (linked to from all over)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BOksW_NabEk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nA very interesting visual of how we spend the days of our lives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Recipes Tried:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Herbed Ricotta Gnocchi with Quick Tomato Sauce<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/recipes\/2013\/05\/herb-ricotta-gnocchi-quick-tomato-sauce-recipe.html\">from Serious Eats<\/a>)<br \/>\nA delicious meatless meal that, according to my husband, is &#8220;surprisingly filling; one bowl was almost too much.&#8221; I&#8217;m thrilled to have found a meatless meal with such staying power&#8211;and that&#8217;s as delicious as this is. I&#8217;ll be making it again&#8211;maybe trying out some different herbs and sauces with the basic gnocchi recipe. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Cherry Tomato and Green Bean Salad with Herbed Breadcrumbs<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/recipes\/2013\/07\/cherry-tomato-green-bean-and-wax-bean-salad-with-herbed-bread-crumbs-from-kitchen-garden-cookbook.html\">from Serious Eats<\/a>)<br \/>\nI thought this was pretty good, Daniel thought the green beans were undercooked. Then again, I really like green beans, and, having grown up snitching raw beans while stemming, I enjoy them raw. I may try it one more time, cooking the beans a bit more just to see if it improves Daniel&#8217;s opinion of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Nutrition News:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalsleep.org\/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=29022\">The More you Sleep the Less you Eat<\/a><\/b> (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/the-less-you-sleep-the-more-weight-you-gain-647587090\">LifeHacker<\/a>)<br \/>\nIn a controlled study at University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s sleep lab, scientists discovered that individuals who were in bed only 4 hours a night eat an average of 30% more calories per day compared to individuals who were in bed 10 hours a night. Low-sleep individuals ate an average of 550 calories during the hours between 10 pm and 4 am, when the control group was sleeping. This is an interesting study, but I&#8217;m wishing they had used a 7 or 8 hour\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"center\">Projects Done:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>US Map Jigsaw Puzzle<\/b> (from <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/www.mrprintables.com\/map-of-the-usa-jigsaw-puzzle.html\">Mr. Printables<\/a>)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5327.jpg\" alt=\"The Little Miss and her new puzzle\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nThe little Miss just celebrated her second birthday&#8211;and came down to Lincoln for the weekend following the fourth. I went up to Lincoln for the weekend following the fourth, so I whipped up a gift for her. I have a B&#038;W laser printer, so I printed the states and colored them with permanent markers before pasting them to sturdy cardboard and cutting out the pieces. Then, because I don&#8217;t like to do anything by halves, I created a tray for the pieces and mod-podged the whole thing to make it more durable. The Little Miss seemed to like it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos Watched: Your Life in Jelly Beans (linked to from all over) A very interesting visual of how we spend the days of our lives. Recipes Tried: Herbed Ricotta Gnocchi with Quick Tomato Sauce (from Serious Eats) A delicious meatless meal that, according to my husband, is &#8220;surprisingly filling; one bowl was almost too much.&#8221; &#8230; <a title=\"Recap (7\/6\/2013)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130708-11653.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recap (7\/6\/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\/11653"}],"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=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11671,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}