Mandarin Rice Pudding

One of the downsides of being a hobbyist cook is that when I want a snack, simple things will no longer do. Unless I've cooked something, especially when I'm in the mood to cook, it doesn't feel like it's worth eating. Tonight I was struck by the sudden urge to cook, but since I did not feel like looking up a recipe, I decided to just cook the chicken we had in the fridge. Once I looked in the pantry I saw the jar of mandarin oranges, and decided to MacGuyver a mandarin sauce for my chicken.

As I started cooking the mandarins I decided that they could do with some cinnamon and brown sugar to sweeten the sauce some more, a nice sweet sauce for the savory chicken (fried plain in olive oil) was just what I needed.