What's for Dinner?

I found this recipe on Homesick Texan's recipe blog , then read it later yesterday on Let's Dish's blog . They were both making standard Tex-Mex chicken and dumplings, but today is cold and misty, and I need to use the crock-pot. So I'm converting it and hoping for the best =). ' UPDATE: The chicken and soupy part was fab- my dumplings didn't turn out so well. I'll add pics though and you can maybe see where I went wrong!? Tex-Mex chicken and dumplings For the chicken: 2.5 lbs chicken breast (or 1 whole chicken, about 4 lbs... I dislike deboning!) 16 cups of water (1 gallon) 1 onion 9 cloves of garlic, divided 2 carrots, peeled and cut into quarters 4 celery stalks, cut into quarters 2 bay leaves 1 stem of cilantro (optional) plus 1/4 cup of cilantro, chopped 1 can of Ro-Tel 2 jalapenos, sliced 1/4 cup cilantro Juice of one lime 1/2 cup of cream Salt, black pepper, cayenne and cumin to taste For the cornmeal dumplings: 1 cup cornmeal 1/4 cup all-pu

So AceBall spent a few years tweaking his chocolate chip cookie recipe, until he felt it was "the perfect cookie". I can't complain- I eat 'em hot, I eat 'em cold (the day after is THE BEST !) and pretty much any time of the day or night. I have been using the tollhouse pan cookie recipe straight off their site, but it always tastes too salty for some reason!? So I decided to use B's recipe and and see if it was any better. It was! Here it is, the ingredients are the same whether making traditional or pan cookies, just the baking instructions change a little so after you get it all mixed up you have to decide which kind you want ;o). Ingredients: 2 ¼  c. flour ½ tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda 2 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 1 c. butter 1 c. brown sugar ½ c. sugar 2 c. chocolate chips B creams together butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla in the Bosch (note the extra vanilla- we kind of love it here, so we use extra in most recipes!). Then mix in dry ingredien