@ruby3881, I just boil my chicken with with seasoning, like poultry seasoning, lemon pepper, etc.  When it’s done, I then take the meat off the bone, add to the seasoned water and add chicken bouillon cubes, carrots and celery.  Then boil it to boil the dumplings.

I’m not sure that I’ve ever met a chicken dish I didn’t enjoy! I do love an oven roasted chicken. That’s a comfort food for me. And homemade chicken noodle soup is also comforting. I love to make it with plenty of veggies and nice, broad noodles.

Fried chicken is a treat. We don’t eat it often, and I’m sure my arteries are happy for that! My…[Read more]

@4cryingoutloud Do you make your chicken any particular way when you cook this dish? My mother always used to buy a canned or jarred chicken, only for when she cooked chicken and dumplings. I’m not even sure that she knows why (probably my grandmother used chicken she’d canned…)

I don’t make dumplings with plain stewed chicken very often, but I…[Read more]

@peachpurple Your porridge with peanuts and minced meat sounds interesting. Do you make it with rice, or with some other grain?

Most people here think oats when they hear the words “porridge,” but my mother grew up eating a cereal called Red River. It’s a blend of grains that includes wheat, rye and flaxseed. She always said there was millet too,…[Read more]

@kaka135 There is some link between morning sickness and hormone levels. My levels are always very high, so more morning sickness 🙁

The only time I wasn’t sick was when I miscarried. The pregnancy tests were coming back kind of borderline, and the doctor knew I’d conceived but he couldn’t find the heartbeat. I lost the baby at 9 weeks but it…[Read more]

@kaka135 I made that one on a site called Canva. I like to use their templates sometimes, just for fun. They have a wide variety of graphic types and sizes, and lots of sample layouts you can customize. It’s free, for anyone who wants to try it 🙂