Week 7 Recipes

As we finish up week 8 already I realized I never posted my week 7 recipe and I think I totally skipped a week somewhere in here also... Week 6 must have been a busy hectic week for the Miller girls. So here is week 7 which was the week of Valentines Day. Although the recipe has no correlation to Valentines Day... very unlike me. I love to incorporate holidays into our life as much as possible! Okay after all of that confusion here is the recipe (I feel very scatterbrained this weekend) Oh well, it was Orange Chicken!

When Chris is home we enjoy this little Chinese buffet joint down the street... Good food and if we are in a pinch for dinner it will work. Found a recipe for Orange Chicken and thought I would give it a try. The Orange Chicken is always a hit at the Chinese joint... so here we go!

Ingredients:
• 3-4 boneless chicken breasts, chopped into small chunks
• 1/3 cup flour
• olive oil
• 1/2 T salt
• 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
• 3 T ketchup
• 6 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate
• 4 T brown sugar

Cut your chicken breasts into cubes and cover with flour.

Brown the chicken in a skillet then throw it in the crock pot.

In another container mix the vinegar, OJ, brown sugar, salt, and ketchup.

 I left out the ketchup and the mixture still came out fine. I have somewhat of a phobia of ketchup (weird I know) but I was afraid the taste would somehow linger around if I added it so I decided against it.

Cook for 4-5 hours on low. Remember in the beginning the chicken does not have to be completely cooked. Just browned enough so the flour sticks around.

 Well my littlest critic seemed to enjoy it!!

And for me I added veggies and rice and it was delish!

So here we are almost 8 weeks since Chris left and I have tried many new things but I cannot say that I actually "enjoy" cooking. You know how some people love being in the kitchen. I am defiantly not one of those people. Chris is one of those people, as is my mom but I do not really enjoy it...still. But like I said before, if I didn't get  in there and start experimenting Audrey and I would starve while Chris is gone.