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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Homemade Chicken and Dumplings Recipe

    My family loves Chicken & Dumplings.  If they had their way, they would eat this 3-4 times a week and never tire of it.  I know everyone makes theirs differently but this is the way I have been cooking mine for years and people always swear this is the best they've ever tasted. Hope you'll try it out for your family and they love it too.
 
 

  Homemade Chicken & Dumplings

2 c. chicken

32 oz. chicken broth

½ tsp. seasoning salt

1 tsp. celery flakes

2 chicken bouillon cubes

2 cans cream of chicken soup

1 can of peas

3 carrots, chopped

½ tsp. thyme

½ tsp. pepper

½ tsp. dill

1 tsp. parsley flakes

2 tsp. onion flakes

1 tsp. basil

1/8 tsp. turmeric (gives it a lovely color)

½ tsp. rosemary

  

For the dumplings:

1 ½ c. flour

2 ½ tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 c. milk

¼ c. cornmeal

1 tsp. parsley flakes



  First, to prepare the broth of the meal, combine all the ingredients together in a large pot.  Cook on medium heat about 15 minutes.  The liquid needs to be nice and hot and bubbly.   As it cooks, prepare the dumplings by stirring all the dumpling ingredients together in a bowl.  
 
      Once the liquid is nice and hot, drop the dumplings into the liquid by small spoonfuls.  Be sure to leave space in between each dumpling because they will swell up as they cook. 

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The dumplings cooking in the pot...
 Let the dumplings cook 3-4 minutes or until the dumplings are done.  Spoon into bowls and enjoy!

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A bowl full of goodness. Doesn't this look delicious?!



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I shared this recipe on the following blogs:
The Gathering Spot
Meal Plan Monday
Claire Justine


Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Freezing Eggs

    Our hens are egg laying machines.  We have a few hens that will even lay twice a day.  They are just really happy girls and love to lay eggs for us every single day and we really do not have that many hens.  Anyway, we always have an abundance of farm fresh eggs.  We give some away, we sell some, we pickle some and we eat a lot but we still pretty much have eggs coming out of our ears!  What to do, what to do?  Freeze them, that's what!

How to Freeze Eggs

         Freezing eggs is really quite easy.  What we do is take 10 farm, fresh eggs and crack them all into a bowl.  Next, whisk them up really good or use a fork to mix them up like you would do if you were making scrambled eggs.  
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The eggs all mixed up.

Once they are whipped up good, pour them into a quart sized baggie.  Try to get all the air out of the bag and label it.  
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10 eggs in the baggie ready to go into the freezer.

We did 4 packages this way for a total of 40 eggs in 4 bags.  We laid the 4 bags flat in a large cake pan and put them into the freezer.  The next day, after they are all frozen completely, you can remove the cake pan and just put the baggies back into your freezer.  
      To defrost a bag, we just put it the refrigerator overnight.  To use, we generally just scramble up the whole bag but if you just want to use a few eggs at a time, 3 T. of mixed egg equal to 1 egg.  It is great to take on camping trips.  Once defrosted, use the eggs within 2-3 days.



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