[TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?

[Jim Ray]

Well, mama used to make chicken and nufflings as I pronounced it in my
youth by rolling out the dough and cutting the strips. Now, in my first
attempt to follow her recipe, I did, indeed, make a pillow of dough by
using self rising flour instead of the prescribed plain flour. Mama's
Georgia-born recipe for chicken and dumplings was strips. My bastardized
version was a large blob. I reverted back to mama's recipe and followed
directions.

We threw that batch out and went to Village Pizza on Western Blvd for
their $3.99 buffet that night.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Rodney Radford
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 3:46 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?


>> You could call it a Chicken Dumpling but you would still be wrong.
Great comfort food.
>Actually, Texas is below the mason dixon line and we call it Chicken
Dumplings.

Actually there is a big difference between "Chicken <optional and>
Dumplings" and "Chicken <optional and> Pastry".

They both start out with very similar ingredients, but the process
differs in how the dough is prepared. With Pastry, it is rolled into a
large, flat sheet, and then cut into strips and layered in the pot.
Dumplings are larger blobs where you simply take a handful of dough and
'dump' it into the pot.  The result is that dumplings are typically much
thicker.

Here are two pictures of the difference:


*** Dumplings: 
The author of the attached article refers to the dumplings as 'pillows
of dough'.

http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=4892
http://www.roadfood.com/photos/9989.jpg


*** Pastry:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brennarella/760016452/

*** Slick:

As far as "Chicken Slick", I have always used Chicken Slick synonymous
with Chicken Pastry... but if there is a difference, please let me know.


Btw, I had some great Chicken Slick, or, ummm... Chicken Pastry, over
thanksgiving.. served with a large amount of black pepper...

Now while some may consider this off-topic - isn't the discussion of
BBQ, pastry, editors, religion, etc much more fun that worrying about
pains in the economy?

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