The "rainy" season here in Southern California is unpredictable at best lately. When it does rain however, it pours! Just like the song says. It's true! Man, it pours. I immediately think "Chicken and Dumplings".The smell of shallots and white wine, sweet vermouth, celery and carrots all bubbling together, mixed with a rainy day reminds me of Gramma Deller's kitchen about a million years ago, in Simcoe. Never mattered how cold and miserable it was outside, her bright, warm, delicious kitchen was the best place to be; hands down. She made the dumplings in the traditional way... square little pillows of dough, bobbing up and down in the rolling boil of memories on her Garland range. Here are a couple of different rainy day recipes for you to try, with love from Mary-Jane Deller: Great Gramma's Chicken n'Dumplings: Chicken and Dumplings, like most southern food, evolved out of ...
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