Comments on: chicken and dumplings

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:05:36 +0000

This is freaking amazing!
Deb, you have very rapidly catapulted from “a blog I read” to “that blog I check whenever making anything, in case she’s got a recipe for it up”.

By: Geralyn

Geralyn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:33:02 +0000

This is oh so fabulous. I thought we’d have leftovers for days with this but it was lunch then dinner and now gone.

As a California girl cooking for her Southern husband, I thank you.

By: K

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:56:52 +0000

you know what would be a fantastic idea? adding a “Comfort” section to your index to store all the comfort food recipes like this one :)

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:14:32 +0000

Hi Deb,

I had planned to make your steak sandwiches last night and as I searched through my book marks I found this. Bliss! Serendipity!

By the end of his second helping my husband declared he would like to renew our wedding vows. my children declared this “best ever”.

Merci Deb. You rock!

By: MelissaP

MelissaP — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:18:54 +0000

This recipe looks like a great variation on my own southern C&D recipe… I will have to try it. I also wanted to give you a tip for making dumplings. Use only one spoon. Dip the spoon in the hot broth before you scoop up the next “dumpling” and it should slide right off the spoon into the pot. This step doesn’t change the dumpling consistency at all.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:30:52 +0000

This is just to die for! I made some tonight for dinner- my first time using leeks, I bought them specifically for this recipe. I made the stew part dairy-free because my son is allergic to milk, and it’s wonderful! I kept coming back and sampling the broth as it was cooking, it smelled so good. Even my 3-year-old kept trying to taste it! It’s been soooo long since I’ve had really good chicken and dumplings, and this is simply perfect!

By: Psyche1226

Psyche1226 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:29:43 +0000

I just have to say that this is the most astonishingly satisfying treatment of chicken-soup-type dishes it has ever been my delight to try….and the first of its kind to really “WOW” me! The stew portion was spot-on perfection, and flooded my apartment with a heady-yet-delicate fragrance of steamy herbal wholesomeness…and the dumplings! First time trying it, and not only were they almost painfully easy, they were so blissfully fluffy and tender that I practically heard the Hallelujah Chorus upon cutting into one with my fork… This has DEFINITELY earned a deeply-engraved place in my dinner rotation!!!

By: Andi

Andi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:55:19 +0000

My goodness, I just finished making the stew portion of this recipe and I can’t stop tasting it! It is soooo good. I’ve never cooked with leeks before and I really love the flavor. My husband doesn’t like chicken and dumplings but he’s never tasted this before and I think I will have a convert when he smells this walking in the door from work. Thanks for this recipe and your blog, I visit often and am inspired.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:32:21 +0000

This was great! Unfortunately it took me several hours, though, because I accidentally added chocolate soy milk instead of broth after cooking the leeks and had to start over. MFing paper cartons. Anyway, I had to use shallots instead of leeks and white wine vinegar instead of sherry because of my mistake, and it was still awesome! Very filling and warming!

By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:02:24 +0000

up until now i have only ever been a fan of my grandmother’s chicken n’ dumplings, but she passed without writing down the recipe. but then i saw this recipe and decided to try it for my sister’s birthday and for Father’s Day because the photos looked so delicious.
SO GOOD! these dumplings are spot on! and the stew was fantastic and great for a different variety of leftovers!