With the snow approaching at lightning speed, I had a lot on my to-do list today.  The hubs requested that I make the home improvement stop for Ice Melt and Fire Starters and also the Liquor store to up his supply of Makers Mark.  With that done, I had my own list to attend to, which was mainly going to the dreaded grocery store.  Whenever the forecast calls for snow, there’s a mad dash to clean out the grocery stores of bread, milk, eggs, water…You get it.  I needed to get there before it was all gone.  I decided that chicken pastry was going to be one of the things that I was going to make.

Growing up with a southern mom means that I was very familiar with the process of making pastry from scratch and rolling it out on the table, boiling a whole chicken, and putting a lot of TLC into it, but alas, I’m from a different generation that is often looking for speed.  Today, I bought a rotisserie chicken, organic chicken broth, and my latest find…dried pastry in the noodle section.  After gobbling my bowl up tonight, I didn’t feel I was really missing anything.  (Well, nothing will ever beat moms) Anyway, I’m still really happy with the results.  If you are feeling the need for some fast comfort food that you can make at home, look no further than this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 rotisserie chicken
• 2-32 ounce boxes of chicken broth
• 1/2 box of McLib’s Dried Southern Dumplings
• 1/2 Yellow Onion-diced
• 3 large garlic cloves minced
• 1 tbsp. butter
• 1 tbsp. olive oil
• Salt & Pepper

Directions:

Add olive oil and butter to a large stock pot and heat until  glistening.  Add diced onion and cook for about two minutes on high until softened.  Add garlic and continue to cook for another minute until fragrant.  Slowly pour in the chicken broth and heat to simmering.  In the meantime, remove the chicken meat off of the store-bought chicken and chop white and dark meat up.  Add chicken to the pot with salt and pepper to taste.  You have just made chicken and pastry that tastes like homemade in about ten minutes.  I hope you like it.  I’ll be hitting the treadmill though.  eeek.  It’s not a diet recipe.