"What's for dinner?" Wednesdays

So this is my attempt to capture what I served for dinner on Wednesday nights. I will try to feature recipes I do not get from a cookbook or online (my favorite thing to do!). These will be meals I make up and hope for the best. Granted, the recipe might bring to mind something you've seen before, but since the attempt will be from the top of my head, I won't follow the typical recipe pattern. More loosey-goosey than the standard format. No measuring here, just like my mom. Although she has like 60+ years of cooking experience on me, I gotta start somewhere, right?

Today's "What's for dinner?" is a play on Chinese takeout, something hubby and I do about once a month. Most of the restaurants in my immediate area aren't always the most authentic but they'll do in a pinch. Maybe, if hubby likes this dish, we can skip the take out and eat this instead. I'll have to figure out how to make egg rolls, too! I call this Orange Chicken but it's not the typical orange chicken dish available at most Chinese restaurants because I think they're way to heavy on the orange. I put a hint of orange in my rice instead. But I'll still call it Orange Chicken because I don't have any other name for it.

Say Cheese!

I love taking pictures of my dogs. They're very animated and have great personalities. Coco, the Boxer, is really lively and loves getting her picture taken. Onyx, the Donovan Pinscher, isn't always excited to see a camera. I think she gets nervous hearing the camera click right before the flash goes off. Either that, or she's afraid the camera will steal her soul. I manage to catch them doing something really cute like laying on each other and, at the last minute, Onyx looks away from the camera. It usually ruins the shot but I do have some really cute pictures.

Onyx laying on Coco.

Onyx (front) and Coco (back).

The early bird catches the worm

I admit it, we're freaks. We get up early on the weekends. There has even been a 4:30 am breakfast, but only once. And that was because the dogs started barking and woke us up. And we were hungry. So I sent hubby downstairs to make breakfast (and coffee and orange juice) and asked him to bring it upstairs so we could eat in bed. We never eat in bed or upstairs for that matter. And we have these wonderful "bed in breakfast" trays that we never use. Then, we went back to sleep and didn't wake up until about 9 o'clock, a much more respectable time. That was fun. We were sleepy that day.

Image from Alla's Romantic Getaway B&B