Herbed Orange Rice

This is what I made tonight.  Doesn't look as pretty as the Good Housekeeping pic because the orange just would not separate into sections.  I didn't have celery to add to the recipe, but I don't think that altered the flavor much.  I also used fresh squeezed OJ since I have oranges coming out of my ears.

So, how did it taste?  Interesting.  Tart from the fresh squeezed oranges.  However, it was really good when paired with soy sauce and downright awesome when a bit of herbed white vinegar was drizzled upon it (homemade w/ tarragon, sage and like spices).  I'm low carbing so I only had a tiny sample of each flavor.

What did I have for dinner? The last piece of Saucy Chicken with a salad.  Very yummy :)

Here's what I am making tonight

Herbed Orange Rice

Saucy Chicken

Well, the recipe turned out great!  I made some changes though.  Of course, as a low carber, I didn't add the sugar and I didn't use catchup (however people wanna spell it). Oh, and I used whole leg quarters because that's what I had on hand.  So, this is what I put in:

Chicken
1 cup vegetable juice
Soy sauce
Garlic powder (I HAVE to have garlic)
Ginger

I browned then cooked until the chicken fell apart.  It is pictured here with Brie with truffles and cucumber.

The sauce was 11g net carbs altogether and the chicken picked up the flavor but left the sauce in the pan, so net carbs would be about 2g per leg worse case scenario.

My first recipe I am trying

So, I have faltered on my diet a bit.  Not enough to gain weight, but enough to stall.  Anyways, I figured that I am probably getting bored with my food choices, so I have decided to pick out new recipes to try.

I have a carb loving family, so I am warning you that some recipes I will try may be unacceptable for low carbers.  Other recipes I may de-carb or change a bit to be more affordable or tasty.  At any rate, when I try a recipe, I'll try to put a before picture so you know what the original was and then an after picture with an explanation of what I did to it and how it turned out.  Sound good?  Okay, here's the first one: Saucy Chicken Wings taken from my favorite cookbook: Good Housekeeping All American Cookbook.

Little Miss Tinkle Panties...

...fell asleep on the toilet :)

Today's Serenisms:

This morning: "I have diahrrea and it's not coming out!"

This afternoon she was playing I Spy: "I spy with my little eye something green!" she says.  We guess everything there is to guess from grass to lights, so I finally ask, "Your boogers?"  She says, "No, they're black."

It's 4:30PM and I'm having my first cup of coffee...

Yes, it's been that kind of day. Early this morning, my 2 year old Penny was praying to the porcelain Budda for the first time in her life (well, that she can remember).  Here I woke up thinking it would be another potty trip for lil Miss Tinkle Panties. As I lifted her up onto the potty, I noticed she was wet and then I woke up enough to notice the smell and the chunks (tmi?).

Anyways, I ran a shower for her, undressed her bed, remade her bed, dressed her, started a load of laundry, went back to bed, then got up for a whole other cycle of the same. Again, and again, and again.

This sounds terrible, right?  It is...but I learned something about Penny that I never knew before.  Well, maybe I learned a couple of different things.  One, she may be two, but she has a maturity level well beyond her years, maybe that of an 8 year old.  My other girls threw colossal tantrums because they were absolutely mortified their first time.  Penny was different.  Oh, she was a bit disturbed by the whole experience, as anyone would be, but once I showed her how to lean over the toilet, she did just fine on her own. 

This is when I learned that she has the sense of humor of an 8 year old as well.  In fact, I'm probably going to have to admit that my sweet, little, innocent, Pennies from Heavens is nothing other than a SICK, TWISTED, LITTLE FREAK hiding behind kissable chubby cheeks.  Why would I ever say such a thing about this beautiful child???  Because, even though this little girl was going through a puking spell brought on by some sort of food poisoning, she would get up between puking spells to sit by the toilet, look at me and say, "Try again?" then make pretend retching sound in the toilet bowl.  Then she'd look at me and grin the biggest, mischevious, ear to to ear grin!  She was getting a kick out of it!  Then she'd actually puke.

Now that I type this, I really should have seen this coming.  This is my child who used to give me heart attacks when she was just 9 months old because she would fake having a seizure.  Seriously!  One day I looked at her and she started making spasms with her body and I watched in horror wondering if I was actually seeing what I thought I was seeing.  When she was done, she'd give me that same evil grin.  She never did have a real seizure.

Between her and Seren, I'm in for it.  At any rate, she is better now and we are all exhausted from being up all night (morning?).

Update: Since I first posted this, I learned that Penny has been passing nasty raunchy farts and saying in her sweet little voice, "Daddy did it! Daddy faaaaarrrted!"