Chicken and Dumplings
Oh man... I ain't had Chicken and dumplings since Hector was a pup.
But even *even* just fried chicken.
Everybody thinks chicken comes from a box. It's been SO long since I've been invited to dinner and there was fried chicken, or chicken on the grill. It's just crazy.
I think I posted this elsewhere, But in the course of my Blue Haired Ol Ladies' Committee from my clan helping me out in my current malady, one of the things that appeared in volume was frozen chicken breasts. They were stuffed in every hole in my freezer. Butt tons of em.
Well there they sit, because I don't know my way around a peeled and frozen chicken breast- I don't know how to handle it. So there they sit for a year, and now they're gonna go bad pretty soon, so I gotta use em up... So what to do?
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Well being a redneck boy, I know what to do with any meat... I cut it into bite-size chunks, drug it through the eggwash, drug it through the flour, and threw it in the oil. Well basically, That's Southern fried chicken, without the skin.
OMG!!! It was SO very good! One chicken breast made a bowl full of bites.... I fried up greens and veggies, Threw a couple little taters in the nuke, worried it all together with some butter, and laid them bites across the top. And it was AWESOME.
What could you do with them bites with some onion, peppers, pineapple, and some Thai sweet and sour sauce over rice? Or throw em through some Franks for a buffalo wing effect, lay em next to a baked potato with broccoli in a cheese sauce on the side?
Oh, man! You can make some stuff with that.
And if you really want it cheap, fry up the whole chicken...
And if you really really want it cheap, raise up the chicken in the first place.
And that brings me back to you... Chicken and dumplings.
We had that a whole lot. If old hens went to freezer camp, invariably that hen wound up in chicken and dumplings. Them old birds ain't good for eating without you put em on a boil for a while.
//rant
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