What is it about Fall that makes me want chili and tamales and gumbo and chicken and dumplings? I guess all seasons bring on their own special food cravings but for me, Fall seems to be the most demanding as far as bringing on the food desires.
Canned Chicken & Broth
With lots of home canned chicken, making dumplings is a breeze! No raw chicken to deal with, no hot chicken to take off the bones or shred . . just pop open a jar!
Dumpling Dough
While I was out of town last week, I ate chicken & dumplings at a restaurant and it was good, but not as good as my homemade so tonight it’s chicken & dumplings for dinner. I use the same recipe my mom has used for years and years and it’s the same recipe Chad and Nicole use so, we all think it’s a good one.
Vince and I went to the store today and I was out of my homemade biscuit mix. I looked at the boxed mix in the store . . more like I looked at the price . . and said no way! I came home and made up a batch of homemade biscuit mix, then got the dumplings going.
Rolled Dumplings
All the while I was rolling them out, I was thinking how much I love the solid counter tops. In all my houses but one before this one, since I’ve been born I think, I’ve had solid counter tops and I don’t think I ever appreciated how nice they are til having those horrible tile counter tops here for 2 years. As I was rolling out the dumplings, I said to Vince “Thank you for getting rid of those counter tops and getting these!” He said “You’ve told me that already!” and I said “I’m sure you’ll hear it again.”
Shredded Chicken
Having canned chicken is so nice! For the dumplings I knew I needed more broth than what’s in one quart of chicken so I used an extra quart of broth but, tomorrow I’m making a recipe that calls for chicken so I went ahead and drained two more jars of chicken for tomorrow night’s meal and used that broth for the dumplings, so I had broth from three jars of chicken, plus one jar of just broth.
Canned Chicken
This is the chicken straight out of the jar for tomorrow night’s meal.
Pot of Dumplings
Have I said lately that I love eating at my house? 🙂
Dinner
Squash from the garden, coleslaw and dumplings . . good dinner! And there are lots of dumplings left over for lunches and maybe another dinner this week.
Pat says
Love chicken and dumplings. My mom made the best.
Kim Paventy says
Love having Chicken n Dumpling, I can’t really fix it now since my husband is diabetic but I make it for myself when he is on a business trip. I can’t agree with you more about cooking in the fall, we love soups and stews and this is the time of year for that kind of cooking, I sub turnips for potatoes in stews and pot roast and we don’t miss the potatoes at all.
Teresa says
“Have I said lately that I love eating at my house?” My husband says this every day. We have been on vacation for 2 weeks and have yet to go out to eat. Why would he want to if he gets served meals like you serve Vince?
Carolyn says
I need some crafting time and would like to send my husband to your house to eat. He would enjoy every bite and politely say thank you after eating. Plus he does dishes. I’m thinking one week out of every month would be nice during the winter. In the summer he would enjoy working in the garden so that would help you.
Joyce says
I miss my Mom’s chicken and dumplings…
Gladys Young says
I would like to know how to can the chicken and broth.
Gladys Young says
Also, the recipe for dumplings.
Terri S. says
I made chicken and dumplings last night too. I don’t know if it’s a regional thing, but our dumplings are not rolled out and cut. The dough has parsley in it and is dropped into the stewed chicken by spoonfuls and cooked for 10 minutes covered and 10 minutes uncovered and then they’re perfect. You spoon the dumplings off the top put them in a bowl, and ladle the chicken and gravy over them. I also put celery, carrots and onion in with my chicken and broth, so it’s a one-pot meal all by itself. My mom never made this, so it’s something I learned to do on my own and it’s become a family favorite. I am diabetic, but I calculated the nutritional value in my recipe and I can fit this in with my daily eating plan just fine. I can’t eat a lot of dumplings, but I can have 1 or 2 small ones and be within my carbohydrate limits for the meal. I use low fat chicken broth, and only breast meat chicken which also skinnies it up a bit.
liz says
That’s the way I learned how to make the chicken and dumplings. Mom didn’t put in the carrots, onions and celery but I started to do and I think it is wonderful meal. When I store the leftovers, I put the dumplings in a separate container so they don’t get soggy.
I grew up in Michigan and I am going to try making pasties which is a meat pie that we could get all around the UP. I bought a rutabaga to chop up into the mix and I had to tell the young man at the register what it was.
Terri S. says
LOL. I live in Michigan and I know pasties well. My husband is from New Jersey and he never heard of a rutabaga, but I introduced him to pasties and he loves them. When I was a kid, my mom would get together with a neighbor and they would spend a day making pasties and put them in the freezer. They’re real comfort food for me!!