Cooking

Honestly, I've been cooking a fair bit lately, but mostly just ripping of Pioneer Woman. I might post a few of those recipes here anyway. But tonight I made chicken noodle soup with dumplings because Beej has a cold. It wasn't from scratch, though. We were supposed to get two feet of snow overnight so I had bought quite a bit of pre-cooked chicken in case we lost power. I bought a Rotisserie chicken and we didn't eat it (nor lose power). I used a bit of the breast it for chicken sandwiches (with prosciutto, pepper jack, and spicy mayo on kaiser rolls), but I used the rest of it (sans skin) for soup. I also used the pre-made stock. I sauteed about 1/3 C. of red onion, then added that to 8 C. of water and the bones from the rotisserie chicken, meat already removed, and added two pre-made chicken stock things, and two bay leaves to the crockpot. I let that boil on high for about an hour. Then after an hour, I added the chicken meat, one stalk celery sliced thin, one large carrot sliced thin, about 1/2 tsp dried thyme, some salt and pepper. I boiled the egg noodles in more chicken stock and made dumplings that I boiled in the same chicken stock. I had to add more chicken stock because the noodles and dumplings absorbed a lot of the broth.

Dumplings: 1 egg, 1/4 C. milk, 1 & 1/4 C. flour, and salt and pepper. Mix until no longer too tacky.