Chicken and Dumplings

This was great, easy and comforting.
Here is what I did.
In my slow cooker I layered
1. medium sized whole red potatoes
2. 1 quartered onion
3 Frozen chicken breast
4 carrots, ( celery and leeks would be good too.)

Then I mixed
1 can cream of chicken
about 1/2 can of broth
some poultry seasoning 1 tsp maybe
2 teaspoons about of Susie Q seasoning
and dumped it over the chicken.
I cooked it on medium low for about 5 hours.  If the chicken is thawed then cut the potatoes in half and it should cook faster.

Dumplings
These were so good and light!
1 C Flour
3/4 C cake flour (softaskilk)
2 t baking powder
1/2 t soda
3/4 t salt
3 T shortening
I mixed these in my kitchenaid with the cake paddle untill it was crumby (just go slow!)
Add 1 large egg
3/4 C butter milk.
about 40 minutes before serving, turn it up to high, and twenty minutes before serving use a big spoon to shape a dumpling and place it ON TOP of a piece of chicken or potato. If you just put it on the sauce it will just disintigrate.



They don't brown so just give a little toothpick test.
For dinner trade I kept the wet and dry ingredients separate becuase I didn't know how it would react.

What a fun week of food!

Thanks Heidi for making us our APRIL FOOLS DINNER, I totally fooled my kids, they thought I was so cool to make "cake for dinner," they were only frowning for a minute until they tasted it, then they were in heaven.

Mer made AWESOME boneless barbeque pork ribs (I love crockpot meals!), sweet potatoes with an ingenious idea to make cinnamon- sugar- butter YUM! And for an april fools dessert "cake pie" she got the recipe out of a amish book she is reading, it had no choice but to be good!

Katie went wild with two different options of homemade pizza! BBQ chicken or Ranch Chicken pizza's, with extra dough to make bread sticks, not to mention cookie dough truffles! Thank you Thank you!!!

I made EASTER BRUNCH, hashbrown/egg/ham quiche (is that how you spell it?) Cinnamon rolls and butcher cut bacon, a little tip, go to your butcher and get your bacon it is the same price and sooooo much better! Don't forget the OJ.

HAPPY EASTER everyone and thanks for helping me make such cute memories with my family, I certainly don't think I would have the energy or time to do all of that on my own. I LOVE DINNER TRADE!!!

super mom

My kids laughed and laughed tonight over thier "cake" dinners.  They really enjoyed the whole concotion and  they loved that it was in a cake pan.

Last night when I tucked Tommy in I asked him what the best part of his day was  he said  "Dinner with you... youre' the bestest!"   So thanks for the pizzas Katie,  they loved it.