"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:02:48 -0500, jmcquown >
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>>>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.
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>>>My mother made this throught our childhood years and into our teens. We
>>>called it "Chicken on a Biscuit".
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>>>It's basically creamed chicken spooned over hot biscuits.
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>>>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!
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>> Sounds good, although I've never had these 'biscuits' I keep seeing
>> mentioned on RFC
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>>>What's on your menu?
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>> Invited over to a friend's place tonight for dinner, I think it
>> involves lamb.
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> Do you know what 'scones' are? Same thing.

Not here they're not. Here, scones are always sweet and often have fruit in
them.