Archive for March 16th, 2009

It’s a cold, rainy day here in Greenville and I woke up dreaming about chicken and dumplings. I make mine in the slow cooker and it’s easy and delicious. You can probably change this up as needed but it’s pretty good the way it is here. I can smell it now wafting throughout our home and can’t wait to dig in later tonight!

Chicken and Dumplings

4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
2 Tbl butter
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 onion, diced
1 package Onion Soup Mix
Chicken Stock
2 packages refrigerated biscuit dough, torn or cut into pieces
1 package frozen mixed vegetables (if desired)

Place the chicken, butter, soups, onion and soup mix in slow cooker and add chicken stock until it’s all covered. Cover and cook on High for 5 hours. Add dough and vegetables. Cook until the dough is cooked, about 1 more hour.

We usually add the vegetables which definitely makes it more of a meal and gives the children some veggies. You can use any kind of biscuit dough or use the croissant dough which is easier to tear into flat pieces.

It smells divine and it’s a snap to throw into the cooker in the morning. I love my crock pot! Happy Eating!

The race is over. We didn’t win. But we didn’t disgrace ourselves either. There were a few tears (not mine!) and a very sad face but all is well now. We ended up “recycling” last year’s car. We painted it army green, covered it in military stickers and hot-glued an army man on the top. Colin named it “Special Ops”. Since our car didn’t win anything last year, I was pretty sure that we would not be in the trophies this year either, but my son is an eternal optimist and was convinced that everyone would “make a worse car” this year.

Being the wonderful and attentive mom that I am, I forgot my camera so you’ll just have to use your imagination! The winning car was a Wii remote. I’m convinced it was an actual Wii remote even though I believe the rules say the car must be made out of wood. If it wasn’t real, someone did a great job on it! There was also a car that looked like a huge pencil. Some of these dads kids are really creative!

So we are looking forward to next year. Hopefully we won’t be recycling the same car again!