There's only one thing to do at times like this; Batten down the hatches and find a reason to pump that stove up! Lol
Here's our particular brand of a cure today: chicken and dumplings, biscuit style.
We're starting with two Rotisserie Chickens from our local market, partially used in two previous meals... So not enough meat for another meal by themselves, but as a good base for stock, or broth... Perfect!
De bone your chickens and throw all the juices, bones, skin in a big pot with water half way up, or to at least cover the chicken in the pot.
Set aside your meat from the chicken you had left, cover and place in the fridge for later use....
A few hours later....
We let our stock cool a bit on the stove before straining the liquid through a colander so we don't have any bones in our chicken and dumplings.
Then we return it to the stove on medium again, and add any vegetables We want. Today we added what we had in our fridge. Some carrots, scallions, and green beans. We also added a little minced garlic for flavor.
In about 20 minutes, after veggies have cooked a bit, we'll thicken the broth a little and then add our dumplings to cook.
We'll be back later with the continuing steps in our cook off the chill Sunday...
And to the end...
We added two tablespoons of flour mixed with about a cup of water to our broth to thicken it a little before adding our dumplings.
To make my dumplings, I took a basic biscuit recipe out of my cookbook, and added a 1/4 cup of milk to make the dough wetter.
I dropped the biscuits in, and am cooking them at a simmering boil with the lid on the pot, anywhere from 25 to 45 minutes depending on size, and turning then gently as they float to the top, occasionally, looking at them to see there size growing as they "fluff: up.
Enjoy!
PPK~
