"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:02:48 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>>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!
>
> Sounds good, although I've never had these 'biscuits' I keep seeing
> mentioned on RFC
>
>>What's on your menu?
>
> Invited over to a friend's place tonight for dinner, I think it
> involves lamb.

Do you know what 'scones' are? Same thing.



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