Chicken and dumplings is a blanket in a bowl — the kind of dinner that ends an argument with the weather. It is also a long, steamy simmer, and a long simmer is exactly where a dose goes to die: heat, time, and a big pot of broth dilute the count and strip the terpenes. So the pot stays clean from the first onion to the last dumpling, and the dose rides in at the table, folded into a spoonful of herb butter that melts into each bowl. Cook it clean, finish it counted.
🧈 Decarb & Infusion (The Chicken & Dumplings Batch)
- Decarb: 7g ground flower, spread thin on a lined sheet, 240°F (115°C) for 40 minutes, until fragrant and golden. Cool completely before handling.
- Infusion method: Stovetop butter — decarbed flower + 1 cup unsalted butter, 180–200°F for 2 hours, never simmering. Strain through cheesecloth, press gently. Yield: ~1 cup finished dosed butter.
- Storage: Refrigerate airtight up to 3 weeks, freeze up to 6 months. Label it dosed and dated.
- Dosing math for this batch: 1 tablespoon dosed butter ≈ 72mg THC, 1 teaspoon ≈ 24mg. This recipe doses 2 teaspoons total (≈ 48mg) across 4 bowls — about 12mg per bowl.
🥘 The Recipe: Infused Chicken & Dumplings (4 bowls, ~12mg each)
- Build the pot clean: In a heavy pot, sweat 1 diced onion, 2 carrots, and 2 celery stalks in 1 tablespoon plain butter. Add 6 cups chicken stock, 1 pound boneless chicken thighs, 1 bay leaf, and a few thyme sprigs. Simmer gently 25 minutes until the chicken shreds easily. Nothing dosed has touched this pot.
- Make the dumplings clean: Whisk 1½ cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and ½ teaspoon salt. Cut in 3 tablespoons cold plain butter, then stir in ¾ cup milk just until a shaggy dough forms. Drop tablespoon-sized dumplings onto the simmering broth, cover, and cook 12 minutes without lifting the lid — no peeking, or they go gummy.
- Finish the broth clean: Lift out the chicken, shred it, and return it to the pot. Stir in ½ cup cream and a squeeze of lemon. Taste for salt. The whole pot is still clean, and that is the point: anyone at the table can eat from it.
- Dose it bowl by bowl: Ladle into bowls. Into each dosed bowl, stir exactly ½ teaspoon dosed butter (≈ 12mg) plus a pinch of chopped parsley, letting the heat of the broth melt it in. Undosed bowls get plain butter instead, same parsley, same ceremony — nobody's bowl looks like the odd one out.
- Serve it counted: Announce it: ~12mg per dosed bowl. Seconds come from the clean pot, and a second dosed bowl is a second dose — say so before anyone reaches for the ladle.
🧬 Terpene Pairing
- Primary terpenes: Myrcene (the earthy, savory base that loves chicken and thyme), pinene (the piney lift from the parsley and bay), and beta-caryophyllene (warm pepper that sits right in the broth).
- How to use it: Comfort food wants a grounded, herbal strain — nothing loud, nothing citrus-sharp. The broth is the star; the strain is the bass line underneath it.
- What to avoid: Dosing the simmering pot. A 25-minute simmer plus a covered dumpling steam is a terpene bonfire — cook clean, dose the bowl, every time.
🌱 Strain Suggestions
- OG Kush — Myrcene, caryophyllene. Earthy and grounded; the broth's natural partner.
- Jack Herer — Pinene, myrcene. Herbal and clear; the thyme's best friend.
- Northern Lights — Myrcene, pinene. Soft and savory; disappears into comfort food exactly the way it should.
📏 Dosage
- Per serving: ~12mg THC per dosed bowl (½ teaspoon dosed butter per bowl, 4 bowls).
- The seconds rule: The pot is clean, so seconds are safe — but a second dosed bowl doubles the count. Keep the dosed butter dish separate and measured, never a free-pour.
- Onset: 30–90 minutes for most people. The butter and cream fat carries absorption well, so let it work before judging it.
Start with one serving. Wait 90 minutes before even thinking about a second. For adults 21+ only. Consume responsibly and in accordance with local laws.
🥘 Chef Smoke's Dumpling Rule: "The lid stays down, the pot stays clean, and the butter does the counting at the table."
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