Ultimate Chicken And Dumplings And Screwy Weather

 When I saw the recipe for Ultimate Chicken And Dumplings on the “Serious Eats” blog, I knew I wanted to make it.  But after making the best chicken noodle soup we’ve ever had, I decided to use it for the broth then just substitute the dumplings for the noodles.  I won’t reprint the broth or baked chicken recipe here but it can be found by clicking on the above link.  The one difference is that I removed the veggies from the broth.  For the dumplings, I doubled the ingredient amounts.  Sorry about the less than great pics.

Home Grown (Restaurant), Bodie, And Snow

When Madison (granddaughter) lived with us the first time, she was in 8^th grade and, even though we had two dogs, we decided to get her a dog of her own.  After some looking around we ended up with a cute little Maltese puppy that Madison named Bodie and we all grew to love him so we were disappointed when she moved back home and opted to take Bodie with her – but of course we understood. 

When Madison went off to college, Bodie ended up with Rhett and Beth, which is the current situation but since they both retired in October, they have been traveling extensively and Bodie ends up being boarded a lot.  Since they plan on more traveling, we all thought it would be best for Bodie if he stayed with us for a while, which of course we will also like.

To get him we each made the approximately three-hour drive to Asheville, NC and met for lunch at an interesting little place called HomeGrown  which is a converted old house.  I borrowed some of the pics from the web.

Chicken Stir Fry, Snow, and Capt. Romeo

 I’m back to eating healthier with very low carbs so a chicken stir-fry dish seemed to fit the bill well but before I get into the food let’s look at the weather.  It was 76F on New Years Day and we awoke on Jan 3 to this.