On Mon 18 Aug 2008 09:18:57a, Melba's Jammin' told us...

> In article >,
> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>
>> Jill wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>>
>>
>> It's chicken stew with dumplings either way, with vegetables or
>> without. If you were to omit the dumplings from your recipe, wouldn't
>> you be left with chicken stew (albeit a rather PLAIN chicken stew)?
>>
>> Bob
>
>
> Would it be chicken stew or would it be stewed chicken? The former
> connotates, in my feeble mind, the inclusion of vegetables, like beef
> stew. The latter is simply a way of cooking a shicken. What say ye?

To me, "chicken and dumplings" implies stewed chicken (perhaps with a
modicum of seasoning vegetables like bits of carrot and onion and celery),
then with the dumplings added. OTOH, "chicken stew", without or without
dumplings, implies a significant amount of vegetables.

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