Chicken and dumplings

Easily one of the greatest meals ever created.

Chicken & Dumplings Platter at Cracker Barrel FTW.

where is the cracker barrell located, please.

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Chicken and dumplings

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i didn't grow up eating C&D at home (no one in my family cooked it); so, my exposure to this stuff was exclusive to the school cafeteria. let's just say i usually went without lunch those days...just never understood the appeal. if Cracker Barrel is a better representation of what "good" C&D is suppose to taste like, I'm still not impressed...

I did make Donald Link's recipe for cajun chicken and dumplings and it was by far the best i've had...the only time C&D both looked and tasted good...

but i'm guessing i'm in the minority, as someone that doesn't like them. my wife loves the stuff, which is the only reason i even tried Donald Link's recipe...trying to keep her happy...

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Chicken & Dumplings Platter at Cracker Barrel

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yes! nearly as good as my grandma's...

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Surely, your grandma can cook lots better than that.

They come nothing close to the C&D's my grandmother made and passed down through my momma to me.



oops...didn't mean to call you shurly.

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They come nothing close to the C&D's my grandmother made and passed down through my momma to me.

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My Aunt Pearl would make her dough from scratch, and I'm telling you. I've honestly never tasted any better. Not that I'm an expert on Chicken and Dumplins, but my taste buds can surely taste the difference. Never forget that lady. When she cooked, it was banquet style. She would cook for an army of people, and had everything you could imagine on the table. They lived on a farm in Mississippi. I loved visiting them.

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My Aunt Pearl would make her dough from scratch

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Same as my grandmother and momma and I do it they way I was taught from them. When making the dumplings, I don't use water, but the stock from boiling the chicken. m-m good!

Cracker Barrel basically simmers the dumplings in chicken broth until they break up and thicken the broth.

Its ok.. But growing up it was always prepared more like a chicken stew with basically drop bisquits thrown in at the end.

Anyone else make it like this?

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Cracker Barrel basically simmers the dumplings in chicken broth until they break up and thicken the broth.

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that is more of the way i had it, and prefer it to the thicker roux based versions. But, my granny is from rural Mississippi and her influence ruled on soul food/country cooking.

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more like a chicken stew with basically drop bisquits thrown in at the end

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Yeah, just like this.

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But growing up it was always prepared more like a chicken stew with basically drop bisquits thrown in at the end.

Anyone else make it like this?

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this description sounds similar to the Donald Link recipe for C&D.