My First Mystery Ingredient: Orzo

Cliff came home from work exhausted and Kaiah (who has Type 1 Diabetes) has been having an epic blood sugar drop tonight. I hadn't planned on making a whole new dish tonight, but Cliff seemed like that would help him for his lunches at work tomorrow. So while he was chasing her dropping sugars with cereal, juice, candy, and yogurt.... I started looking through our 3 cookbooks. I found a recipe that had things we already had in our cupboard and was healthy! I decided it was a good place to start because it had an ingredient that I know nothing about and for some odd reason it was in my cupboard... probably expired... don't tell Cliff! Anyhoo. I had a box of Orzo, whole wheat non-the-less! So I read the directions, and started to assemble the dish.

 

Ok. So there must be a technique where I don't waste this much chicken. I'm embarrassed to show the picture. I think I just need new knives... It takes me so long to hack them into pieces, that one half of the chicken bits are mostly cooked by the time I put the other ones in the pan.

 

Also, I dripped chicken juice all over the floor. So I had to use an antibacterial wipe to clean the floor and my feet before going on.

 

This is Orzo (some kind of rice-looking pasta).

 

Look! Herbs!

After simmering everything together it looked pretty good. 

I also plan on calculating the carbohydrates and calories of each meal. We have to have the carbs for Kaiah's Type 1 Diabetes and both Cliff and I occasionally go on calorie counting kicks. Of course if the meal is gross I won't bother. :)