"Please no!" you might say...."Don't you have anything more interesting to blog about?"....no indeed... i do not. :) it isn't all that bad i guess but was one of those times when it seemed worse at the time and now i look back and laugh at my lack of...ahhh self confidince.
so why dont y0u just sit back and enjoy hearing about my sorry supper attempts.
So the other day mom asks me, "Hey, how about you make supper sometime this week." Ok, before i go any further i first have to say that i get up at 6:00am to make breakfast every single morning of every single day for 5 brothers with appetites the size of Texas!!!! Not to mention my Dad, mom and sister besides. My sister, who normally cooks supper, i might add is away for the week so that leaves me with her share of house work, which normally isn't so bad i mean c'mon! i can do this!
Ok, this shouldn't be too hard i think. So i had to first figure out what to make, something that will feed 9. I came up with chicken and dumplings. that sounded easy enough and besides, it would feed a whole herd of boys too...and i have made them before! Soo..Whala! Mom said she wanted me to makeit on friday night, so i wanted to get an early start so it would be sure to be ready on time so i fix up the chicken and get it boiled and cleaned. Ick. then i boil back the broth to cook dumplings. Next i mix up the dough. i have to mention here that the recipie we usually use got left out on the window sill last summer and faded so bad it is almost completly illedgeable and i just had to guess at some of the measurments or ask mom what it had said there.
So the other day mom asks me, "Hey, how about you make supper sometime this week." Ok, before i go any further i first have to say that i get up at 6:00am to make breakfast every single morning of every single day for 5 brothers with appetites the size of Texas!!!! Not to mention my Dad, mom and sister besides. My sister, who normally cooks supper, i might add is away for the week so that leaves me with her share of house work, which normally isn't so bad i mean c'mon! i can do this!
Ok, this shouldn't be too hard i think. So i had to first figure out what to make, something that will feed 9. I came up with chicken and dumplings. that sounded easy enough and besides, it would feed a whole herd of boys too...and i have made them before! Soo..Whala! Mom said she wanted me to makeit on friday night, so i wanted to get an early start so it would be sure to be ready on time so i fix up the chicken and get it boiled and cleaned. Ick. then i boil back the broth to cook dumplings. Next i mix up the dough. i have to mention here that the recipie we usually use got left out on the window sill last summer and faded so bad it is almost completly illedgeable and i just had to guess at some of the measurments or ask mom what it had said there.
The first batch i did SOMETHING wrong. I'm still not sure what but mom was in the other room so when ever i had a question i had to run back and forth between her and the boiling pot of chicken broth. by the time i got them things cooked up andstrained them out of the broth they had turned into one big pile of grayish white paste.It was so nasty! i won't even put on a picture of them.it was terrible! I was not about to feed my family that for supper because...well...i would never hear the end of it.
SoOo...feeling like some kid who did somthing bad and had to hide before anyone else might see it, i ran the bowl out to the barn and dumped it. imagine that...the dogs even turned their noses up at my dumplings....well its not like i blame them, those were the most sorry looking excuse for dumplings i have ever seen.
SoOo...feeling like some kid who did somthing bad and had to hide before anyone else might see it, i ran the bowl out to the barn and dumped it. imagine that...the dogs even turned their noses up at my dumplings....well its not like i blame them, those were the most sorry looking excuse for dumplings i have ever seen.
i started mixing up the next batch,then i rolled out the dough and cut it into squares.
i made a double batch of dumplings this time so i had to cook them in 4 separate batches.and what do ya know, they even were nice and fluffy when they were all cooked up. then i added that chicken i cleaned earlier and let it simmer together for a bit. when it was all said and done the whole thing from start to finish took from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until right before 6.
The finished product of my hard work...
And there you have it, in the end they turned out alright i suppose, everyone said they liked them. All i could think of though was for a 5 hour pot of hard work, they better be good! But i'm afraid it will be some time before i try it again :)
2 comments:
Mmmmm! That looks great! Have you tried making dumplings out of homemade tortillas??? They are probably basically the same thing. Before we started making our tortillas from scratch, we used the store-bought ones for dumplings...very easy, and tasty! But now, we use the homemade ones...if we can get them rolled thin enough! :-)
Thanks for sharing, looks lovely!
that's a great idea jen! i'll rememebr that:)
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