Mom's Homemade Chicken and Dumplins'

Todd's favorite meal, hands down, is chicken and dumplings. Not just any chicken and dumplings, his mom's chicken and dumplings. Every Christmas, birthday, random Tuesday, you ask Todd what he wants for dinner and this is the answer every.single.time. Growing up this was a specialty in the Coyer house and Barb would spend hours making this for her family. The kicker is Barb didn't just make her chicken and dumplings from scratch, she actually made her own homemade noodles to go with it. Yes, homemade noodles, it bears repeating. Somewhere between 3 kids, a husband, a nursing career, endless boy scout/soccer/wrestling/football/baseball events, she found time to make homemade noodles, the woman is a saint.

Since my last attempt at making chicken and dumplings ended with a perplexed Todd asking where the noodles went ::remembers his sad, confused face:: , I decided to humbly ask Barb is she wouldn't mind sharing her recipe with me and to my delight, she was happy to. :) You know a recipe is good when it is just explained to you without anything written down. Though I know that even following this recipe to a T it could never be exactly like Barb's (moms always add a little something) but by golly I'm going to try to come close.

The Cooking Components

The ingredients

The excited yet nervous cook :)


The tester and his loyal sidekick, Thunder Cat

The Experiment


Boiling the chicken, onions and carrots. I have never boiled a whole chicken before, I was shocked how easy it was.


Chicken done and shredded


My homemade noodles. I'm pretty darn proud of myself. Next time, I'm making them thinner and shorter.

Noodles in!

Chicken and Dumplings in!

Finito!

Time to eat!

The Reviews

Shan: This recipe was awesome. I think this will just get easier and better each time I make this. My noodles were a little thick and a bit too long but I can fix that next time. Thank you so much Barb, we will be making this over and over and over again and passing this along.

Todd: He was very happy. He gave me some tips between mouth fulls for next time to make it a bit more like mom's but he loved this. He ate his whole bowl, half of mine and was last seen hovering over the stove shoveling in the leftovers. I would say he liked it. :)

Thunder Cat: She prefers food of the canned variety and chose not to sample. Her loss. :)