Chicken and Dumplings

This is comfort food at is best!!! Easy and filling, this is the perfect meal for todays snow storm!! Enjoy!!!

A family pack of chicken thighs or drumsticks
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1tbl of poultry seasoning
3 chicken bouillion cubes
4 cups of self-rising flour
1/4 cup of shortening
tbl of bacon fat (optional)
1/4 tsp of red pepper
1 1/3 cup of milk
Four potatoes
Two carrots chopped

In a big stock pot, cover the chicken with water, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Bring to a gentle boil until the chicken is done. Take the chicken out of the pot and set aside to cool. While the chicken is cooling, skim the fat off the top of the broth left from the chickens broiling.

Skin and bone the chicken. then coursely chop the chicken. Add the chicken, bouillion cubes, salt, pepper, carrots and potatoes to the pot and return it to a simmer.

Combine the flour and poultry seasoning. Cut in the shortening and the bacon drippings (again this is optional) until the mixture is crumbly. Add milk, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened.

Turn the dough out on a floured surface and roll out 1/4 inch strips. Drop the dough into the pot of boil broth a few at a time, stirring gently. Turn the heat down and simmer for 25 minutes .