Last night my friends Billie and Larry came over for dinner. I’d been promising Billie that I’d make Chicken & Dumplings for her and decided now that the temperatures were topping 110 it was the perfect time to have a big, hot pot of noodles on the stove all day.

Chicken & Dumplings had come up in a conversation a few times when we were with our mutual friend, Chris. Billie had never heard of the Southern style of dumplings, which are big fat noodles. I understood. Having been a New England girl most of my life the only dumplings I knew were more like biscuits.  It was deprived life. Everyone should know the pleasure of a pot full of Southern Dumplings.

While Billie and Larry were here they taught Recliner Man and I how to play Cribbage. I lost every single hand but I think I did pretty well for a beginner. In the end winning didn’t matter because we had fun. Or maybe it was because we had wine and Coconut Rum punch. Well, either way, it was a fun night.

On their way out Larry summed the night up perfectly. “Good time, good food, good friends!”