slow cooker chicken and dumplins

my mom's chicken and dumplins is a family favorite. i ask for her to make either that or her homemade lasagna every year for my birthday. i blame her for my obsession with cooking... and for being a chubby child. but, back to the point, if she were to ever show up to a family reunion or holiday without chicken and dumplins, she wouldn't be allowed in. thankfully, she's never been bold enough to dare. i wouldn't want to see what would happen if she did. but i attempted this slow cooker version of mom's classic. admittedly, this is not even in the same ballpark of good as my mom's dumplins. and it will never be. it takes HOURS to make mom's chicken and dumplins. she mades her dumplins from scratch and has many special secrets to her dumplins recipe. BUT these are pretty good. if i had never had my mom's dumplins, i would say these were probably the best i've ever had. but i'm fortunate enough to have a super cook for a mom. after all, her maiden name is cookston. if she wasn't a good cook, it would be a disgrace to the family name.

and as a sidenote, they are dumplins. not dumplings. this is a southern dish, and we say it using southern words. i.e., DUMPLIN. don't correct me on that. because i'm right.

ingredients:
3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
2 cans cream of chicken
1 can chicken broth
1 large chopped onion (i used 1 1/2, but my husband LOVES onion)
1 (16 1/2 oz can) homestyle biscuits
salt and pepper to taste (although i didn't use any)

directions:
1. mix chicken, soup, and onion in crockpot.

2. cook on HIGH for 4 1/2 hours. if you place your chicken in frozen, it may take some extra time. the test is when the chicken is fall apart, fork tender.

2. open up your can of biscuits. i prefer thinner dumplins, so i took each biscuit and flattened it out. if i had a rolling pin, i would have used it and added a little flour to the dough to keep it from sticking, but i didn't have a rolling pin... and i didn't want to be super messy, so i just took each biscuit and flattened it out using my hands.

 i had help...

3. tear each biscuit into pieces. if you flatten out the biscuit, you can usually get around 10-14 pieces per biscuit.

4. throw each piece into the pot. cook for about 1 hour on HIGH. stir often to keep dumplins from sticking.

once it's finished, you're going to have everybody coming to the kitchen, because they'll smell it from a room away. want proof of that? here ya go...

 and the finished product!

not to throw my husband under the bus, but he actually told me he thinks he likes my dumplins better than my mom's. i'm not that naive. he's just trying to rack up good hubs points. and if my mom reads this, he may be in the doghouse with her... but he's in the big house with me, so it all works out fine.

fin.