Making dinner tonight was a lot of fun. I wasn’t super rushed and got to try out a new recipe. I was watching a little bit of The Cooking Channel and saw a recipe for orange beef. Realizing that I had oranges in the fridge I decided to make my first ever batch of orange chicken. I figured that it was going to turn out really nasty or really good and I got very lucky. Hubs actually told me to go write down the ingredients because he wants it again :)

I’m awful at following recipes, I usually just see something and go for it. So, to be honest, I don’t know how much of this is the same and how much is different from the one on TV, but this is what I did.

Marinade:
soy sauce
zest of 1 orange
juice of 1 orange
3 chopped garlic cloves
honey

I just mixed all of that up in random order and marinated the chicken for about 2 hours before cooking it on the stove. When I cooked it, I followed the direction from TV, and took the chicken out of the marinade and cooked it on high heat, then added the marinade back in to get thick and coat everything.

This was some of the best chicken I’ve had in a long time. Next time I’m going to make a really big batch and freeze it for my bento stash.

Along with the chicken we had rice, baby collard greens, and I had an ume.



While everything was finishing cooking I decided that I wanted an appetizer. After fumbling around in the fridge, I came up with these....



It’s just a little bit of krab salad on a cold slice of cucumber and topped with sesame seeds. I used some black seeds for color and the cool plum flavored seeds which looked great but also gave a ton of flavor.

These would be great served on my block of pink Himalayan salt. I have a brick of it that you can freeze and serve food on, we used it for shrimp cocktails one day, it was so neat. I have to remember it next time!

Happy Bento-ing!