Chicken. It's What's for Dinner. Rural Thursday Blog Hop

I think I've cooked chicken in just about every manner these past few weeks.  Except frying.  I don't do fried chicken.  Anyhow, the other day I (in desperation for something new and different) emailed my mom for her dumpling recipe. She makes seriously awesome chicken and dumplings.  She emailed me back something along the lines of take a few handfuls of flour and a few spoonfuls of crisco and some buttermilk and mix it up until it looks like oatmeal.  Uh huh.  So google it was.  I found a dumpling recipe and decided to see if I could use it to accompany my chicken that had been in the crockpot all day.  I turned the crockpot on high while I mixed up the dumplings, then as quickly as possible removed the chicken from the crockpot and dropped in the dumplings.  I covered it up and let it cook for 20 minutes (instead of the 10 minutes on the recipe).  It turned out perfectly and even made a nice gravy style broth too.

Another day, another chicken in the crockpot.  This time after it was done, I shredded it and tossed it with barbecue sauce.  Served up with homemade cole slaw, corn, and mashed cauliflower. 

Mashed cauliflower, you say?  Hey, don't knock it 'til you try it!  You boil the cauliflower just like you would potatoes, and then mash it the way you would potatoes (I like to add a little butter, light sour cream, light cream cheese, salt and pepper to mine).  It is so good! 

I finally told Paul I had to take a break from chickens.  I just can't cook another one for a good while.  Thankfully, our portion of grass fed beef is here, so bring on the beef recipes!

This is a blog hop hosted by A Rural Journal and myself.  Grab the code below the button and paste it into your blog post about anything relevant to the rural life.  Then add your direct link to the linky.  Nature pictures, crafts, recipes, animals and small-town events would all be perfect!  Please try to visit at least 5 other blogs that link up and leave them some comment love.  This is a fun way to meet other rural bloggers, so I hope you'll join in!