Chicken and dumplings...

It is a chicken and dumplings day...
After going to the Seafood Festival where I live...
I decided that I need something really good and filling for supper...
I am living right by the bay...
And do not eat seafood...
I know...
go ahead and say it...
But I do not eat seafood...
There are several ways to make chicken and dumplings...
You can bake or boil the chicken...
Today I boiled it...
There are a couple of benefits in doing this...
First... you have chicken broth from boiling it.. and 2nd ...
it literally is very moist comes apart easily...
Put the whole chicken in the water and start to boil...

Remove the chicken after it has cooked...
Save the broth...
while you are waiting for the chicken to cool enough to cut in chunks...
You will need to add the following ingredients...

Chicken broth, instant onion soup mix, can of cream of mushroom soup and frozen mixed vegetables...

Turn up the heat and start it to really cooking...
Then start cutting up and the chicken in chunks...
And add it to the veggies cooking in the broth...Next you want to taking your baking mix and add water...
You are going to make basically a extremely flat biscuit...

then cut them in squares...

and put them in the boiling stock pot with veggies and broth...the pot will look like this...
but remember... the dumplings have flour on them ... so the broth will start to thicken...

After a few minutes... the dumplings will puff up like this.. and look like you have a ton of them in there...
Do not worry.. after about 20 or 30 minutes they will shrink down ...
And then when you put it in a bowl...

And this is what it looks like...
Enjoy!!!!!!!!