re: Chicken and Dumplings-Floaters or Swimmers?

Well, I haven't gone that far...haha...but I don't care to eat a dish that looks like a winter sky. My C&D kick arse and look the part.

Good call. Maybe I'll skip the cheese, on a count of wanting to be able and still fit into my skinny jeans.

I'm gonna start a "post a picture of yourself" FDB thread soon. I want to know who are the pretenders 'round here. I imagine a lof the Country Boy Can Survive muthafrickas are pretenders who spend their days working the cash register at the local Verizon outlet and eating the new microwavable Old El Paso Heat & Serve Fiesta Rice.

You may be right, but I can vouch for a few of us that will make the stereotypes come to life.

First round of burgers are on me.

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Rohan2Reed Chicken and Dumplings-Floaters or Swimmers? Nice. Let's all meet up at the Big John's in Winnsboro.

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I ate there last week on the way back from Monroe. Good lord that's a good burger. I haven't had one of those in ten years.

My wife makes her grandmothers East Texas recipe and I knock it back like I'm going to the electric chair. When she is ready to drop her dumplings she gets me to swirl the gravy so the don't stick together.

That's my contribution to chicken and dumplings.

Shortening, buttermilk, salt and pepper and flour. Make dough, roll out on floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick, and cut with knife or cutter to 1 inch by 2 inch pieces or thereabouts. Dust dumplings with flour, and add to simmering chicken stock a handful at a time and stir after each drop to make sure they don't stick together or grab the bottom of the pot. Cook for about 10 minutes on a simmer. Done.