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SouthernExposure

06/30/2010 09:14AM

I made a pot full of pure comfort food on our recent trip and it was easy.

Empty a foil box of chicken stock into a pot along with 2 foil bags of chicken breast meat, dehydrated peas, sliced carrots, dry onion flakes, garlic and parsley. Adjust flavor of stock with salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer, cover and let cook for about 45 minutes. At home, make up a dry dumpling mixture of flour, salt, spices, powdered milk and baking powder and seal it up in a zip lock bag. Once the stock has cooked, add water to the dumpling mixture, massage lightly to wet the mixture and drop spoonfuls of the dumplings into the stock. Do not stir. Cover the pot with a tight lid and let simmer for 15 minutes without lifting the lid. Let the pot cool for a few minutes and dig in.

SE

"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look" P.J. O'Rourke

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fishguts

06/30/2010 10:42AM

Sounds excelent! Thanks, another good one.

fishguts

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mooseplums

06/30/2010 01:20PM

MMM I bet that that's good. A good meal choice for a lay-over day. Might have to try that one! Thanks for sharing.

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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fraxinus

06/30/2010 05:10PM

Sounds good. I've never had chicken stock in the foil boxes. Wondering if the quality is that much better than carrying in chicken boullion cubes, 4-6 of those is a lot lighter than a quart or more of fluid. Just askin'. #:^)

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SouthernExposure

07/01/2010 06:31AM

You're probably right, it could be a suitable substitute, but bouillon cubes tend to run pretty high in salt content. The stock has a different flavor and I thought that it would be a better base for the dish. Losing 2 pounds in the food barrel would have been good though.

SE

"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look" P.J. O'Rourke

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520eek

07/11/2010 09:33AM

I would like to know what amounts for dry dumpling mix....never have made at at home or anywhere for that matter

I have a lot on my mind....but not much in my mind!

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SouthernExposure

07/11/2010 10:44AM

quote 520eek: "I would like to know what amounts for dry dumpling mix....never have made at at home or anywhere for that matter
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You can use something like Bisquick, but I make a simple biscuit-type dough:

1 cup Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Powdered Garlic
1/2 teaspoon Parsley
Powdered Milk (quantity to make 1/2 cup of milk)
1 tablespoon Shortening

Mix the dry ingredients together, cut in shortening really fine. Put in ziplock bag.

At camp, add water amount called for on the dry milk box. Massage the bag until all dry ingredients are moistened, but not too much. Scoop up big spoonfuls of the dough and drop them into the stock. Fit a tight lid on the pot and leave it alone for 15 minutes.

I hope you enjoy it.

SE

"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look" P.J. O'Rourke

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rmpeterson2

07/11/2010 05:39PM

Sounds a lot better than the instant (rip, pour, stir) mix that we normally have!

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serenityseeker

07/11/2010 07:30PM

You can buy high quality chicken bouillon or soup base. Watch the ingredients. The lower salt is on the ingredient list the less salt it has. Super Target has a great soup base in a small jar, but I forget what the name is. I am going to follow this recipe, but bring a big old scoop of soup base in a plastic baggie for my stock.

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Savage Voyageur

07/11/2010 09:13PM

Reading this is making me hungry. I will remember this one. It is so simple and will be great on a cold day in camp.

So many lakes, so little time

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sloughman

07/11/2010 09:36PM

SE,
Sounds great, I think I'll add this to my next trip.

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