sarah gray wrote:
> "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

Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful? I've often questioned why they never made
food-scented perfume.

kili