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I just came across this easy-to-make recipe for Chicken Breasts with Spicy Honey-Orange Glaze on ivillage.com. Now, if I was making it, I’d probably leave out the pepper flakes, green onions (when serving it to kids), parsley and possibly the orange zest (grated orange peel for those who don’t know.) I seriously doubt it would change the taste that much, and if I don’t already have these items onhand I wouldn’t want to buy them for one recipe. Note* Some pizza places give away small packages of red pepper flakes with their pizza.

You can serve the chicken with a salad, and the easy apple dessert Baked Apple Snack below, also from ivillage.com.

A sweetly spicy sauce dresses up your chicken main dish for an easy weeknight dinner. Kids love it! Serve a salad alongside for a healthy meal.

Serving: 6
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup honey
2 tbsps frozen orange juice concentrate
1 tsp grated orange zest
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1 tbsp margarine
1/2 tsp vegetable oil
Garnish: green onion, chopped
Garnish: fresh parsley, chopped

DIRECTIONS:
1. In small bowl, combine honey with juice concentrate, orange zest, garlic, salt and red pepper flakes.

2. Rinse chicken with cold water and pat dry. Season lightly with salt. In large non-stick skillet, heat margarine and oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook about 4 minutes, until seared. Turn chicken; cook another 4 minutes until just cooked through.

3. Pour honey mixture over chicken and cook, turning chicken to coat as sauce begins to thicken, about 2 minutes. Serve chicken breasts with honey-orange glaze spooned over the top. Sprinkle with parsley and green onion.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION:
Based on individual serving.
Calories: 200
Total Fat: 4 g
Carbohydrates: 14 g
Protein: 27 g

Source: National Honey Board Wen Zientek

Your home will smell like fresh apple pie while this easy dessert is baking.

Serving: 1
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 60 minutes
Total Time: 70 minutes

INGREDIENTS:
apple
brown sugar
cinnamon
raisins

DIRECTIONS:
1. Wash and core one apple per person.

2. Place apples upright in a baking dish.

3. Fill centers of apples with raisins and brown sugar.

4. Sprinkle some cinnamon on top.

5. Bake for one hour at 180 degrees.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION:
Based on individual serving.
Calories: 167
Total Fat: 2 g
Carbohydrates: 44 g
Protein: 1 g

Source: Helene Siegel Wen Zientek

Sitting at your desk? Bored? Looking at your waste basket thinking about the NBA? Try this little game…during your break, of course.

This next game really got my attention. I love to play pool. Try your hand at it, and let me know how you did.

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These guys, Eddie Ifft, Bryan Callen and Dov Davidoff are funny, but what I find even more endearing is their brutal honesty about how the male mind thinks about women.

Friday, Oct. 20th ‘06

WARNING: This podcast includes sexual content that might not be suitable for children.

I heard about a family nearby that was giving away baby bearded dragon lizards. Knowing my teen daughter would want one I started researching them online. Bearded dragons are quite easy to care for, about the same as tree frogs. The hardest part is keeping enough live crickets onhand. They’re very docile, making them great pets for older children. The only thing you have to watch out for is germs. You must wash your hands after you handle them.

I found some reptile tanks for sale at a very good price on Craigslist, arranged for us to see them and the lizards, and loaded my daughter and her friend in the car. I bought both tanks since the price was so good, and ended up putting my aquatic turtle in one. After a quick trip to Petco (where they sell older bearded dragons for $59 each) and a few quick calls to the lizard owners, we were set with our supplies and headed to see the babies.

Bearded dragons can grow to over 20 inches in length. The babies we looked at were only one to six days old and very tiny. They were about 3 inches long and thin. We saw the parents and learned more about their care. We were in love. We decided to bring two babies home.

Until the babies are three to six months old they can’t live in sand. They can ingest it and get sick. We covered the floor of their tank in rabbit food like the previous owners recommended. We included a heating lamp with ultra violent rays that’s set to stay on 14 hours a day and a hollow half-log they can hide under and climb on. We dip their heads in the water dish everyday, something you have to do until they figure out they need to drink on their own. They eat live baby crickets and Romaine lettuce. One of the lizards was scared of the crickets at first, but he’s now chasing and eating them like he should.

I never imagined I’d have a red-eared slider and bearded dragons in my home, with my dogs, cats, parrots and fish, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. When I was a little girl I used to pretend I had a pet store, and dreamed of owning one when I grew up.

About a year ago my son was driving out in the country near Alamo, California, when he spotted a turtle alongside the road. He stopped, because it’s not every day he sees a turtle nearly the size of a dinner plate. He looked around and didn’t see any houses nearby, nor did he see any ponds or places for a turtle to “hang out.” Concerned for it’s safety being so close to traffic, and knowing how much I love animals, he brought it to me.

After a quick internet search I learned it was a red-eared slider, an aquatic turtle, probably an adult, and most-likely male. It’s a good thing my son picked it up, because these turtles are not native to California, and in fact, releasing them into the wild is illegal. My son named him Lima after a baseball player.

I learned that Lima likes to eat strawberries and watermelon, and that he doesn’t like to eat minnows. We caught some minnows at a local park thinking they’d be a great snack for Lima. We were wrong; they’ve become his buddies. I also feed him turtle pellets, like dog food but smaller, and a variety of other fruits and vegetables.

For the first year Lima stayed outside, in a 3×3x3 wire cage on the ground, with a shallow “pond” (tub) of water and a basking rock. I’m sure he would have been happier with access to the entire backyard, but I have dogs and I didn’t want him in any danger. Recently I brought Lima inside and put him in a tank with about 30 gallons of water and a stack of rocks he can climb when he wants to dry off. It makes me happy to see him swimming in more water. I’m sure he’s happier too. Yes, we brought his minnow buddies along.

Seeing how Lima got along with the minnows, I figured I’d add more interest to the tank by buying two goldfish and an albino catfish. Turns out it’s not that Lima enjoys the company of minnows. It’s just that he has more refined tastebuds. I can’t find the goldfish or catfish anywhere.

As you can see in this photo, Eliot Spitzer has no problem finding time to meet with women’s groups. He’s seen here with Marcia Pappas, President of the New York chapter of NOW on June 28.

This would be of no concern under normal circumstances. But what are men supposed to think when they find out Spitzer, who’s running for Governor of New York, has been refusing to meet with fathers’ groups?

Aren’t governors supposed to represent everyone in their state?

Shouldn’t he at least find out what their concerns are?

Is he only concerned with well-funded groups?

I believe Spitzer has some questions to answer.

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William Wagener of On Second Thought TV interviewed Ron Branson, founder of the Judicial Accountability Initiative Law, or J.A.I.L. South Dakota voters will be able to vote for J.A.I.L on next month’s ballot.

As a special addition at the end, Wagener includes video of Darren Mack, sixteen days before his wife was shot dead and the judge in his divorce case was shot. Mack, father to an 8-year-old daughter, has been charged with both crimes.

Recently a senior judge disqualified all Washoe District Court judges from a list of civil cases involving Darren Mack. Senior Judge J. Charles Thompson said “a reasonable person” might question whether those judges “would be entirely impartial when one of their own is the victim of such a serious offense.”

From the Associated Press:

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A judge dismissed an indecent exposure charge against a woman accused of disrobing in front of a 14-year-old boy, saying the law only applies to men.

Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong said earlier in the week that the law only mentions someone who “exposes his person.”

“It’s gender specific,” Armstrong said.

What makes this more disturbing is that the “full-frontal nudity” was a way to punish the boy for playing basketball too loudly. He ran inside to tell his parents, obviously not enjoying the peep-show. I’m happy the female prosecutor is appealing the case.

Prosecutor Alison N. Norton said the decision to throw out the case will be appealed because another section of state law says that “words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter.”

After all, Alexis Luz Garcia, 40, of Corona “threatened to do it every time he played basketball.” I can see this boy’s house being the neighborhood hang-out, but not for his video games or wide-screen TV.