Irish Chicken & Dumplings

Let me start off with this:

I've NEVER made anything like this, and I was thinking that because I got off at 5, there'd be plenty of time.

It's 6:30 and I just started the timer. Between Friday traffic and long grocery store lines, it's going to be 8:30 before I eat dinner. Smart one, Misty. But it sounds really delicious!

Ingredients

2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
3 cups water
1 cup chopped celery
2 onions, quartered
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
5 carrots, sliced
1 (10 ounce) package frozen green peas
4 potatoes, quartered
3 cups baking mix
1 1/3 cups milk

Directions

1. In large, heavy pot, combine soup, water, chicken, celery, onion, salt, poultry seasoning, and pepper. Cover and cook over low heat about 1 1/2 hours.
2. Add potatoes and carrots; cover and cook another 30 minutes.
3. Remove chicken from pot, shred it, and return to pot. Add peas and cook only 5 minutes longer.
4. Add dumplings. To make dumplings: Mix baking mix and milk until a soft dough forms. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto BOILING stew. Simmer covered for 10 minutes, then uncover and simmer an additional 10 minutes.


Right now, I'm after step one. Waiting an hour and a half before I can do anything else. Geez! All this work better be worth it!

Spinach & Feta Stuffed Chicken

...wrapped in bacon. I know, amazing, right? Chris LOVED it. And it was really easy and surprisingly cheap. This is another recipe that I got from allrecipes.com except I used the fresh minced Roasted garlic instead of garlic cloves. Thought it would be more delicious. Can we talk about how disgusting it looks in pictures?? It was, in fact, fantastic, though.

Spinach & Feta Stuffed Chicken Wrapped in Bacon





Ingredients:
1.5 lb chicken breast (for us, that was three), butterflied
1 tbs McCormicks' fresh minced Roasted Garlic
1 tbs McCormicks' grinding Italian seasoning
1/3 cup feta
1/2 cup mayo
1 package frozen spinach (10oz)
6 pieces of bacon (2 per chicken breast)

1. Set oven to 375
2. Mix feta, mayo, spinach, roasted garlic, and italian seasoning in a mixing bowl.
3. Butterfly each chicken breast, ensuring that you don't cut right it in half.
4. Spoon feta/spinach mixture into the middle.
5. Wrap bacon around the chicken to keep it all in place.
6. Place in a clear, shallow pan, and place a toothpick in the center just in case.
7. Bake for 60 minutes.

I cheated with the sides- I just did zucchini and squash with some butter and Italian seasoning and did one of those packages of the "Chicken & Broccoli" Rice Sides. Don't judge me- I'm not down to cooking the entire meal by scratch yet. I'll get there.