Better Than Cooking School

Chicken and dumplins are probably every Southern person's favorite meal. They remind you of your grandmother(s) and look so hard to make that they are nearly impossible to find. Cracker Barrel may pretend to have them and some other Southern soul food restaurants but......I had some at Jordan and Saunders awhile ago that were wonderful. They claimed they were so easy to make, etc. so I have been wanting to try to make them for Camille when she gets home. So for a week we have been planning to have dumplins on Sunday night when we had all the time to cook them. Today was the day and after great debate in the grocery store about whole chicken v. a whole chicken cut up and real soup v. reduced sodium, etc. I had the right ingredients and Saunders came over to start the class. Five hours later, when Jordan joined us and it was halftime of some football game, we got to taste the results and they were fantastic, awesome or any other adjective that means wonderful. I can't believe how easy they were and Dean couldn't believe how good they were and it was a great day for cooking. The leaves can get raked tomorrow.