Re: Chicken and dumplings
 

This is what I grew up on instead of chicken and dumplings.

Chicken bot bie or chicken pot pie (Pennsylvanian Dutch). It is still the meal I ask my mom to make for my birthday. The only thing different in our family from the attached recipe is that we do not put corn in it. I don't remember seeing onion in, either. Or the saffron. According to the article everyone tends to have their own family recipe. My mother used my father's mother's recipe.

(Obviously, I have never cooked it, myself!)

It is the best stuff ever!

http://chezpim.com/cook/pennsylvania-du

Salmon Patties made with flax meal rather than saltines, spinach salad with almonds, tomato chunks, whole black olives, and a couple chunks of extra sharp cheddar cheese

Had supper @LongHorn Steak House with friends.
Bone in Ribeye, salad, vodka, soda, grapefruit juice.

and split pea soup.