If you guys like good country food this recipe of my mother’s is great! Note for the lazy: I have a sister that uses canned biscuits instead of making the dough.

Chicken and Dumplings

Put the roasting chicken (hen) in a big pot with lots of water and season it with chicken bouillon. Let it cook until it is tender then take it off the bone and remove the skin. Keep the broth for the dumplings.

Put about 4 to 5 cups self rising flour in a large bowl. Mix some of the hot broth in and be sure you get some of the fat from the broth. Add broth until it is just moist enough to stick together. Roll the dough out using lots of flour until the dough is very thin. Next, cut the dough into strips about 1/2 inch wide.

Make sure the broth is boiling hot then add a can of evaporated milk to the broth. Taste it to see if it needs salt and if it does, add more chicken bouillon in place of salt. While the broth is boiling, drop the dumplings in. Let them boil for a couple of minutes then put on the lid and remove it from the heat and let it sit. If you let them cook they will get tough. I never stir the dumplings because this makes them break so just toss them with a spoon.

Gregory Dawson, a friend of mine for many years and a friend of CodeFab’s, has passed on. Greg was surrounded by friends and family today when he and the doctors decided the time had come. We will all miss him very much.

Greg had a rich and varied life, producing theater, radio and television, as well as the cabaret at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in New York. He was also the creative force and founding partner for the trend setting New York cabaret and restaurant The Ballroom in the 1980’s.

Greg was an artist and sculptor his whole life, with a prodigious and amazingly varied output. He achieved a cult status in the 80’s and 90’s with elaborate tableaux of tiny sculpted wax and clay figurines, many depicting the wild side of New York night life of the era. His recent work has been a joyful explosion of constructivist abstract sculpture and paintings which can be viewed at his website DaWsoNWoRK.

In conjunction with the open source release of the WOiPhoneStore framework for WebObjects at the OpenBase Developer Summit 2007 CodeFab has created a new mailing list for the exchange of developer information about Cocoa and web-based iPhone applications. We encourage anyone interested in this fascinating and rapidly evolving topic to sign up here for iPhone-dev right away!

In conjunction with a presentation given at OpenBase Developer Summit 2007 CodeFab has developed an example WebObjects framework that demonstrates how to construct web-based application user interfaces for display on Apple’s new iPhone web browser. The framework demonstrates some best practices for use of HTML, CSS3, JavaScript and AJAX to create an attractive and responsive interface for your application. This framework can be used as is to add hierarchical product browsing to any existing WebObjects-based store.

Get the source here. Many kudos to author and CodeFab alumnus Scott Lopatin!!

Enjoy!

In conjunction with talks given at WOrld WebObjects Developers Conference 2007 and OpenBase Developer Summit 2007 CodeFab has developed an example WebObjects framework that uses XML web services to implement Google Checkout for processing e-Commerce transactions using Google and their new service based API. This framework can be used as is to add Google Checkout processing to any existing WebObjects-based store.

Get the source here. Many kudos to author and CodeFab alumnus Scott Lopatin!!

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