Yet ANOTHER Pammie Recipe/Menu! I Can Hear You Folks In Georgetown SCREAMING Saboteur!

This goes great along with my drop off the bone "oven-fried"baked chicken, the recipe is ALSO included
ONION SOUP (this will be used to cook the chicken, the dumplings, AND as a side dish, so make SURE you have enough for your serving amounts - I made TWO huge pots for 6 large chicken legs with thighs attached)
Water to taste (some like it spicier than others)
2 packages of Lipton Onion soup (The LARGE ones)
2 large sweet, white onions cut up in rounded slices and then split in two
Boil at a low simmer down until it's dark
Add spices, including pepper and salt (if applicable)

Roil the onion soup in a separate sauce pan with some chicken and/or bacon leavings (NOT the grease, the actual leavings. If you've ever cooked with frozen pan drippings and leavings you WILL KNOW what it is. It's the start of a soup or another batch of chicken.

MUENSTER DUMPLINGS: Pre-heat oven to 475 degrees
Roll large tablespoons of buttermilk biscuit mix with a TINY bit of water or milk into big balls (or dampen them with the soup BEFORE dropping them in)
Drop these into the soup and bring to a heavy boil and then leave to simmer
Take 2 or 3 thin slices of muenster chesse and melt them over the top of the dumplings
When they start to solidify, gently turn them over and add another slice of muenster cheese
Cook them for a total of about 10 - 20 minutes - they have to be watched for doneness
Get a small glass covered baking pan and heat up more of the chicken leavings IN the oven for several minutes (or cook them WITH the chicken for the last 10 minutes)
Transfer the dumplings into the baking pan from the sauce pan and cook for about 10 minutes.
They should be a light to medium brown

DROP OFF THE BONE CHICKEN: Pre-heat oven to 475 degrees
Use a covered, white glass baking dish
Olive oil works, but it causes the chicken to stick to the pan
I prefer a LOW-sugar canola oil, but if you prefer butter, then go ahead (I LOVE it, but it's EXTREMELY fattening)
Arrange chicken in the dish and cover 1/2 the chicken with the canola oil
Add fennel, lemon pepper, fresh, crushed, black pepper, and ladle the oinion
soup over the chicken. It can also be made WITHOUT the onion soup
Cover the baking dish with the glass cover and bake for 20 minutes
Flip the chicken over and put back in the over for another 20 minutes
Take the cover off and bake with out it on one side for 5 minutes
Flip the chicken over and put back in the over for another 5 minutes
When finished, ladle a small amount of the onion soup (WITH THE ONIONS) over the top, or leave plain

Add some broccoli or spinach on the side and/or a salad and a cheesecake with strawberries and kiwi for dessert with a nice glass of milk, soda, water, beer, white or rose wine and you have a full, gourmet versiobof a trailer-park/cow poke kinda meal!