"kilikini" > wrote in news:g7nug2$jcm$1
@news.datemas.de:

> jmcquown wrote:
>> I've got a whole cut up chicken simmering on the stove with celery,
>> onion, carrot, bay leaves, salt & pepper. Chicken & dumplings for
>> dinner! I prefer small drop dumplings to rolled doughy dumplings.
>>
>> I only add the vegetables to make a nice rich stock. They get
>> strained out and discarded when I remove the chicken to debone it. I
>> know some people add vegetables to the (almost) finished product -
>> carrots, celery, green beans, corn, peas, even potatoes. Doesn't
>> that make it chicken stew with dumplings instead? Not that it really
>> matters, it's just not what I think of as chicken & dumplings.
>>
>> Jill <--whose Scottish grandmother added drop dumplings to beef or
>> mutton stew
>
> MMMMMMMM, I'll bet the kitchen smells great, Jill. Yum.

the whole house! They need to make "simmering chicken stock" potpourri.

Saerah