Cornmeal dumplings

You'll love chicken with cornmeal dumplings simmered in a rich chicken stew laced with tomatoes, peppers, celery, and carrots.

Place ham bone in 6 cups water and season with salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste. Bring to boil and simmer for 45 minutes. Remove ham bone and discard. Add green onions,...

How to Make Cornmeal Dumplings. This recipe for Cornmeal Dumplings is taken from Caribbean Cuisine, where these delicious nuggets are used to complement soups and stews. These dumplings are boiled within the dish or on their own and added when ready to serve. We have made this an easy-to-follow recipe that’s also gluten-free.

Most North Carolinians know their way around a pot of collards, but mild, tender, leafy, pale cabbage collards are an heirloom specialty Down East, and not well known statewide.

Cooks on the N.C. coast traditionally add cornmeal dumplings to collard greens but the tasty dollops can also be used to stretch seafood soups, stews and chowders, even when pinching pennies isn't necessary.

Collard Greens with Cornmeal Dumplings

Cornbread dumplings are an old Southern staple that are typically cooked and served with greens. Hot water cornbread is served throughout the Eastern United States and goes by many names. It is variously know as Johnny cake, hokeg, hoe cakes, fried cornbread, or hot water cornbread depending on what part of the country you are in. The reason that I am lumping these two recipes together is because they are really the same stuff, it's just that one is boiled in water and the other is fried in…

Turnips With Mustard Greens and Cornmeal Dumplings are big on flavor as well as packed with plenty of down-home goodness.

Collards with corn meal dumplings is a very traditional dish here in eastern North Carolina.

I drug out the Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven and made a great pot of Black Bean / Pinto Bean Stew. This would have delicious on its own, but the jalapeno and cornmeal dumplings pushed it over the top. A little dollop of sour cream and a spoonful of my home made salsa rounded everything out beautifully. Soaking the beans overnight will speed the cooking process. If you don't want to use dried beans, canned beans will work perfectly. For the stew: 1 ham hock or ham bone 1/2 lb. dried black beans…