Quote of the day:

My favorite poem is the one that starts “Thirty days hath September” because it actually tells you something.
—Groucho Marx

This is really a soup but there’s so much chicken in it, that it works well as a main course.

Make some dough out of flour, salt, pepper, baking powder, milk, and melted butter.

Brown some chicken thighs, then add chicken broth, water, celery, and onion. 

Knead the dough and roll it out to a one eighth inch thickness. Then slice it with a pizza cutter into one inch wide strips, then diagonally to make diamond shapes. You’re actually supposed to roll it out into a square shape, but I didn’t have the patience to keep shaping it into a square, and I didn’t quit get down to an eighth of an inch.

Remove the onion, celery, and chicken from the liquid, then bring the liquid to a boil and add the diamonds. Reduce heat and cover. Meanwhile, discard the onion and celery. Then remove the chicken skin and discard that as well. Use a couple forks to shred the meat off the bones.

Toss the chicken back into the liquid with the diamonds to heat it, and then you have chicken and pastry.

It tasted yummy, but I have to admit that I forgot to mix the dry flour, salt, and baking powder before adding the milk and melted butter, so the baking powder wasn’t distributed evenly throughout the dough. So the diamonds didn’t puff up like they were supposed to. Oh, well, maybe next time.