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                                                         Photograph by: Kate E.

                                                          Photograph by: Kate E.

Dragonfly Haiku

Dance, O dragonflies,
In your world
of the setting sun.

~(poet unknown) 

Chicken & Dumplings

Makes 6 servings

Ingredients: 5 boneless medium-sized chicken breasts, 4 large carrots, 6 large celery sticks, 12 oz. of egg noodles, 1 head of broccoli, 2 tablespoons Better Than Bouillon: Chicken, 1/4 diced yellow onion, 1/2 garlic clove, 1 tsp thyme, salt & pepper to taste

Drizzle olive oil in large pot add diced onion, garlic and thyme. Cut chicken into strips about 1.5 inches long, then add them to the oil and onions with the lid on. While your chicken is cooking you want to slice your vegetables. Slice your carrots and celery, then cut your broccoli into 3/4 in. size without the stems. Now you will add all the vegetables except the broccoli into the chicken mix. Leave covered for about 7 minutes. While it is covered you can make your dumplings.

Dumplings: You will need 4.5 tablespoons shortening, 2.25 cups of all-purpose flour, 3 tsp baking powder, 3/4 tablespoon salt, 1 cup milk

Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Then cut in your shortening; you will know when your shortening is cut in enough when the consistency is like sticky damp sand. Mix in your milk so that when you pick it up, it doesn’t fall apart.

Set aside the dumpling bowl, pour in enough water to just cover the tops of your vegetables and chicken in your pot. Then add the broccoli and egg noodles. Put in 2 tablespoons of Better Then Bouillon: Chicken; drop dumplings on top by the spoonful until the dumplings are gone and cover the top of the pot. Cover for 10 minutes, then uncover for 10 minutes. Enjoy!

Poem

Sonnet 18

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

– William Shakespeare