Is it the Crock Pot Chicken and Dumplings? That looks really good! And the biscuit trick is fantastic! It would be a good use-up for leftover ‘Cheater Chicken’ from the deli, or canned chicken would be fine, too.
https://www.spendwithpennies.com/crock-pot-chicken-and-dumplings/
When I was a kid, I HATED dumplings. Mom’s were the pastiest, most icky thing I’d ever eaten. (Her dumplings have not improved with age!)
I was a kid that ate most anything, but I drew the line at those dumplings. You could send me to bed without supper; I was NOT eating them! I disliked them so much that I wrote a story called, ‘The Dumpling That Ate Our Home Town’ complete with illustrations.
She was not amused. ;)
Yes that’s the one but I would make my own dumplings. Sour cream dumplings. Haven’t made them in ages. Mine are small, light and fluffy. That is funny about your story.
When I was a kid, dumplings were what Grandma made to go as a side to pork roast with sauerkraut and gravy. They looked like big fluffy round balls that you fork split and poured the gravy on. She was from Czechoslovakia, and that was one of the things I love so much of hers. I still have a copy of her hand-written recipe that was passed around the family. When my aunt went off on her own, she asked Grandma for that recipe, and of course, Grandma obliged. It’s the sweetest letter. A treasured keepsake and when I make pork roast like that, I have to pull that recipe out. I can almost hear my Grandma’s kind voice.
Other than Grandma’s dumplings, I didn’t know what chicken and dumplings were until I got older, and they just looked like big fat noodles to me. We probably called the dish chicken with noodles, even though they are a little different than just egg noodles. I’ve never tried to make those from scratch. I’d love to have a nice recipe for them though. It’s pretty good comfort food.
P.S. Forgot to mention that I hated my Mom’s beef stew. I don’t like anyone’s stew much either. It was always made with an inexpensive, tough cut of beef, and whatever vegetables were leftover from another meal. Just no. Don’t go near it. It took me years to think about eating anything remotely similar, including beef pot pie.