Chicken and Dumplings

What a great meal for a cold rainy night! My kids love Chicken and Dumplings and is an easy go to meal for me. The recipe is so versatile as most soup recipes are. You really just need to dump in what you have. I will post the basic recipe and then tell you how I changed it up last night using what I had. 

Chicken and Dumplings        (Items marked in red are ones I substituted)

2-3 Chicken Breasts boiled and shredded (save stock)          
Small Onion

Celery

1 Bay Leaf

1 Can Chicken Broth

1 Package Lipton Noodle Soup

3 Diced Potatoes
1 Can Cream of Chicken or Mushroom Soup

Bisquick Biscuits 

Boil chicken with onion, celery and bay leaf. Remove bay leaf and shred chicken. Add chicken, broth, leftover chicken stock, potatoes, cream of chicken soup, and noodle soup. Bring to boil and add salt and pepper. Drop biscuits and boil for about 20 minutes until biscuits and potatoes are done.

Alrighty!! Great basic recipe! Last night I simplified it some due to having to use what I had on hand and it turned out great! (I had 3 servings!!!)

Here are the changes I made last night... easy peasy folks!
~Instead of shredding the chicken I just cubed.. or diced it up small to save time.
~I omitted the celery because I didn't have any
~I didn't use chicken broth OR the noodle soup. Instead I used the stock I saved from boiling the chicken. I drained out the onion and bay leaf and chicken goo. I then threw in a chicken bullion cube.
~No Bisquick in the house but I did have a package of Grands Biscuits. They were the jumbo butter ones that I just quartered. 
~ I also added carrots to mine.. I used canned but fresh is good too! If you use canned be sure to wait to add them until right before you drop your biscuits.