FAMILY RECIPES
CHICKEN N DUMPLINS
Soup Ingredients: Butter, onions, carrots, celery, garlic, chicken
stock, cream of chicken, thyme, salt pepper, and shredded chicken.
Optional: Flour
Combine stock, and cream of chicken in large pot, proceed to sauté
vegetables. Combine contents and bring to a boil while preparing
dumplings.
Dumpling Ingredients: Flour, baking powder, pepper, salt, thyme,
butter, and milk
Combine dry and wet ingredients, then combine them together and
mix till dough is formed. Dust flat surface with flour and begin to roll
portions of dough with a rolling pin (we use our largest cup).
After soup is boiling, and dumplings are rolled. Proceed to add
dumplings into soup, and simmer for roughly 15 minutes.
FRIED CHICKEN
Breading ingredients: flour, seasoning salt, garlic salt, onion powder,
pepper, dash paprika
Other ingredients: Canola oil, eggs, chicken
Preparation: bring oil to 375 degrees, rinse chicken, combine
breading ingredients in a bowl, in another bowl whisk eggs, and
have a plate ready for battered chicken.
After preparing, begin to dip chicken into batter then egg, and then
batter again. Carefully place chicken into heated oil, cook each
chicken leg roughly 6 minutes on each side. Remove chicken from
oil, check temperature in thickest part of the meat. It is important
that the chicken is removed no sooner than 165 degrees, and not
long after 165 degrees.
RIBS N CABBAGE
Ingredients: Slab of Ribs, 2 heads of cabbage, onion, garlic powder,
seasoning salt, pepper.
Fry ribs with seasoning till brown. Put in large pot and fill pot with
water till ribs are covered, add cubed onion. Bring contents to a boil
and add cabbage. Cover and reduce heat to medium and cook until
cabbage is tender.
HAM N BEANS
Ingredients: Pinto beans, ham hocks, cubed onion, minced garlic,
salt, pepper
Preparation: Soak beans over night
Combine ingredients in large pot and add water till contents are
covered. Cook, covered, on medium to low heat for several hours
until beans are tender. Occasionally stirring and removing fat that
accumulates at the top. Serve with cornbread.