Yum! There is nothing like Chicken and Dumplings on a cold January day! So I woke up this morning with the idea that I will make chicken and dumplings today for dinner! It is a few hour job, but well worth it. I sadly botched the job. I shake my fist in the air. I have made these a dozen times each year for the past few years. Well turns out getting married takes away your ability to cook! I ended up making chicken mush instead of chicken and dumplings. I found out where I went wrong, you MUST add dumplings while chicken and broth are at a BOIL! I did it at a simmer...CRY! Though they taste just the same, just not so dumplingy.
Onto the Recipe!
1 whole chicken quartered! (no gizzards or anything)
1 Stalk Celery
1 Onion
1 Clove garlic
1 large 16 oz Chicken Broth
4 cups flour
4 teaspoon Baking Powder
2 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter
2 eggs
Milk
Chop up Onion, mince garlic, chop up celery leaves included and throw into pot. Salt and Pepper...pinch of each for seasoning. Add chicken quartered skin side up to pot and cover with water.
Boil 45mins - 1hr until chicken is fall of bone.
take chicken out of pot and debone and remove skin. Put chunks of chicken back into pot.
Add chicken broth and BOIL
Dumplings:
Sift in order
1c. Flour, 1t baking powder
1c. Flour, 1t baking powder, 1t. salt
1c. Flour, 1t baking powder
1c. flour, 1t baking powder, 1t. salt
cut in 1 stick of butter and 2 eggs. mix until dough is crumbly. Add milk as needed to bring dough together. Once dough forms a ball flour a nice surface (I use the table) and roll dough out til it is about 1/4 inch thick and then cut into strips and pull off pieces that seem like the right size dumpling to you!
Add dumplings to BOILING chicken broth with the chicken!
Once all dumplings are in reduce heat and cook on medium for about 15 mins and serve!!
Salt and pepper to taste!
This is a great cold weather meal and everyone will enjoy...even if it turns out chicken mush!
Lets see what comes out of my cauldron tomorrow!
~The Kitchen Witch
I just wanted to give a shout out to Magick Taboo Pagan Podcast. I will be joining the cast of Magick Taboo to give you a dose of the Kitchen Witch. So check out Deo and I on www.magicktaboo.com we are a wacky pair who love to talk about Pagan Events and everything else going on in the world.
Yes I said NACHOS! I love Nachos, especially when I dont really want to cook. Every sunday I brown a couple pounds of ground beef or turkey for the week depending on what I have planned for the meals for coming week. I cheated and used McCormick Taco seasoning, but just about any Taco Seasoning will work.
So I grab a pound of pre-cooked ground beef and throw it in the cauldron on med heat just to warm it up and get any fat to melt. Sprinkle on some taco seasoning with 3/4 cup water....stir it up and let it thicken
Onto my next quick fix of a step...I use a can of Organic Black Refried Beans...YUM! I warm that up in the microwave. While the beans and the beef are warming up onto mixing the salsa!
I just buy a medium heat salsa from the store...I havent got the courage just yet to try and make my own just yet. Anyways I buy just a chuncky salsa but to spice it up I add some corn to it.
So now I am ready to just slap it on some tortilla chips and sprinkle some cheese ontop.
So....on a plate
2-3 handfuls of salted Tortilla Chips
3 table spoons Black Refriend Beans
4 table spoons taco seasoned ground beef
as much salsa as you want
sprinkle some cheese (I use sharp cheddar)
and Microwave!
Presto you have NACHOS....I know nothin crazy or impressive for my first dish.
Lets see what comes out of my cauldron tomorrow!
~The Kitchen Witch
Every morning I will post on the meals I created the night before, be them a success or monstrous failures. I will include a photo of the end result and the recipe. I will focus on many different types of foods and meals anyone would enjoy.
A little about myself, I am a newly married woman who has never had to really learn to cook. Due to the economy I find myself without a job at the moment, which gives me the perfect opportunity to learn to cook. This blog is my venue to vent my failures and show off all my successes. I am pagan, and have been practicing for 13 years and my husband has been practicing for 25 years. Along with cooking, I will share some crafts, fun spells and history behind meals I make for the major Equinoxes and Sabbaths.
So for now this is it, I am off to go grocery shopping and get the supplies I will need for the coming 2 weeks!
Lets see what comes out of my cauldron tomorrow!
~The Kitchen Witch
