I'm using up some cooked chicken I made a couple of months ago. I put
the leftover cooked chicken in a freezer container, marked the date and
froze it. Looking for something to make for dinner, this dinner popped
into my head. I let the chicken thaw overnight in the fridge.

My mother made this throught our childhood years and into our teens. We
called it "Chicken on a Biscuit".

It's basically creamed chicken spooned over hot biscuits.

I was never really a fan of chicken but I always loved this simple meal.
It takes me back. Mom never made chicken with dumplings. This was
her sort of equivalent.

It's basically chicken pieces on the bone (she always used skin-on and
bone-in - I don't recall skinless boneless chicken being a big thing
when I was a kid or a teenager) cooked in just enough water to cover.
Seasoned with salt, pepper, a bay leaf. Simmer and cook it down to make
a nice broth.

The chicken is removed, deboned, the meat torn into pieces and added
back to the pot of broth. Make a double batch of heavy white sauce and
add it to the pot. Stir and let cook for a bit. Occasionally it needed
a cornstarch slurry to thicken it a bit. Spoon the creamed chicken over
biscuits. (I use an old Betty Crocker recipe for drop biscuits; in my
teen years Mom used Bisquik.) It's a hearty, filling meal and for
something so easy to make, quite tasty!

What's on your menu?

Jill