Country Lifestyles
Lacey’s Pantry – Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings
Serves: 8-10
Total Time: 4.5 hours
Ingredients
1 Onion
3 Boneless Skinless
Chicken Breasts
1 tsp Oregano
Kosher Salt
Black Pepper
2 cups Chicken Broth
2 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
4 sprigs Thyme
Bay Leaf
1 Stalks Celery
2 Carrots
1 cup Peas, frozen
3 Cloves of Garlic
1 tube Biscuit Dough,
refrigerated
2 tbsp Parsley
1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese
Directions
First, dice up an onion and place it in a crockpot. Lay the three chicken breasts over the top of the onion. Sprinkle the oregano over the top of the chicken along with the preferred amount of salt and black pepper. Next dump the cans of cream of chicken soup and the chicken both over the chicken. Lay the sprigs of thyme and bay leaf on top of you mixture. Cook on high for three hours. When the three hours is up, use tongs to remove each chicken breast and spread them with a fork and knife then spoon the chicken back into the crockpot. Add the chopped carrots and celery and the frozen peas plus the mince garlic cloves. Stir until well incorporated. Next, get the biscuit dough out and cut each biscuit into about five chunks. Arrange on top of crockpot mixture so the dough covers the entire dish. Cook one more hour on high or until the biscuits are no longer doughy. Sprinkle with parsley and Parmesan and serve.
By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
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By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
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By Annette Bridges
Everyone needs a room with a view that makes their heart happy. My honest favorite panorama would be either the mountains or the ocean. I have yet to convince my hubby to make permanent moves to either, although he does enjoy the visits as much as I do.
The location of our house on our ranch does not provide the expansive field of vision of our land that I would enjoy. So, I have created a room decorated and furnished in a way that gives me smiles, giggles, and a wonderful peace-filled feeling when I am hanging out in it. I am in that place right now writing this column. I am in a lounging position with my computer in my lap on the chaise that was once my sweet mama’s. I had it reupholstered this year to give it a fresh look.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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