[Jamestown1630]

This week: Comfort Food, as we look forward to the Autumn. (And if anyone has a favorite and quicker Chicken and Dumpling recipe, I’d love to know of it.)

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-JT

[JRandomFreeper]

Spent 45 minutes looking for shopping list; when I finally find it, I can't remember what I was going to put on it.

First world problems....

/johnny

[CottonBall]

I just moved to the south, and have been having wonderful chicken and dumplings at local restaurants. They aren’t like the ones I make - which is more of a chicken stew with big pieces of chicken and carrots with a broth/gravy and fluffy dumplings.

The chicken is shredded so you can’t even pick out a piece for the dog! It’s quite thick, with the noodle-like dumplings mingled with a thick gravy, vegetables, and the unidentifiable chicken.

I have no clue how to make it, but I’ll be trying to figure it out!

There’s also a wonderful cornbread salad, if anyone knows how to make that.

[Liz]

.....toward the end of August there is always one day when I can distinctly sense the coming of Fall, even though it is still Summer. It may be a change in the slant of the light that alerts me, or a faint smell of decomposing leaves that have died prematurely; sometimes it's been a fresh wind with a whisper of change on its breath, after a hurricane has grazed the Mid-Atlantic and cleaned the air of the long, hot days of the Summer.......

Beautifully said.....and so evocative....