If there’s one dish that you should make this winter it’s the classic chicken and dumplings, the epitome of comfort food. It’s a stew-like soup, with a thick stock base filled with big chunks of cooked chicken, carrots, peas and the beautiful pillowy dumplings. It makes for a lovely family style supper. Some biscuits or corn bread wouldn’t hurt and you can go all the way and have a big slice of cake for dessert. I happened to have a rum-flavored pound cake on my cake stand. Everyone was fully sated.
Chicken and Dumplings
There are two ways to make the dish. The traditional way is to boil a chicken in the usual way, with plenty of aromatics to produce a flavorful poaching liquid, with the boiled chicken meat nice and tender falling off the bone.
