Friday Distractions -- Random Links & Recipes Bookmarked

Ready for the weekend? To help you pass your Friday here are the highlights of what distracted me this week online, what I bookmarked that I hope to one day eat, and a picture.   

Finding “Real” in writing and elsewhere. (via Zuburbia)

Let your kids be inspired by the winners of the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge's recipes. Download all 54 peer-produced recipes here.

"When we hold on to stuff we no longer want or use, it does indeed cost us something more, if only in the time spent organizing and contemplating them." from You Probably Have Too Much Stuff by Carl Richards

What is in your beef? Results of Congresswoman Slaughter's request for some major companies to disclose their policies on antibiotic use in meat and poultry production.

The 9 Nanas have one mission and one mission only: to create happiness and it all begins with baked goods. *heartwarming*

Recipes Bookmarked
Coconut Cake at Saveur
Pineapple Sponge Cake (Gluten-Free) at Saveur
Zucchini-Crust Vegetarian Pizza Margherita at Kalyn's Kitchen

Glen Echo Park, Maryland, August 2012

I'm not crazy about the weird pause-reset in the video, but the song is good. (via Frontier Psychiatrist)