Slow cooker Sunday! Crockpot chicken and dumplings!

Happy Sunday night, everyone!  Are you all enjoying the Golden Globes??  I love this stuff - I love seeing who's there, what they're wearing, what movies are nominated (and then get added to the list of movies I have to see in my lifetime)...and I always keep track of how many times I see Leo;)  Husband, I love you more than Leo, don't forget;)

Anyways, today I went to a wonderful baby shower for a dear friend, and while I was gone, I had the crockpot a-going with what I hoped would be a wonderful dinner of chicken and dumplings that we would enjoy when I got home.  Got home, smelled amazing, and all I had to do was add the Pillsbury uncooked biscuits in the crockpot and they were supposed to magically cook in there and make the dumplings.  That went horribly horribly....horribly wrong.  They didn't cook a bit.  The husband says they did and he liked it...I say the other parts of, around the gooey dough, were great, but the dough, uh no.  This is really the first debacle I've had in our kitchen, so I guess that's pretty good.  Of course, I'm disappointed in how it turned out and that I didn't think about the recipe I was following ahead of time and realize that the dough probably wasn't going to cook in the water, but, what can you do - you just try to make it better next time:)

I'm going to list what I did and what I used, and I'm hoping some of you will share your snaff-u's but also ways I can fix this recipe, as I don't want to throw it in the trash...but I'm thisssss close....

Crockpot Chicken Dumplings from cooks.com:

What you'll need:

• 1-2 lbs chicken breast - I bought it in thin strips
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 2 cans chicken broth
  
• 1 cup water
• 1 can of potatoes
• 1 can carrots
• 1 cup frozen peas
• 1 cup frozen corn
• seasonings - I used salt, pepper, poultry seasoning, CRP, and garlic powder
• 1 canister Pillsbury grand biscuits, uncooked 

 So simple - place the chicken in the crockpot and add the soup, water, broth, veggies, and seasonings - cook on low for at least 5 hours, or until chicken is cooked thru - for me, it was 5.5 hours.  Easy enough right?

Looks great, right?  Well this part was, even to me.  It really was just glorified chicken pot pie filling, but it was great.  Then I did as the recipe stated and 15 minutes before I wanted to serve it I added the uncooked biscuits as told.  Bad bad bad - they never cooked, just got gooey as I said.  I should've anticipated this would happen, but I didn't, and it was A MESS - according to me.  Again, the husband said he liked it...I ate around the doughy parts and baked some crescent rolls on the side to have with mine, which was great - dipped in the gravy great, etc...overall, the taste of the chicken, veggies, and gravy, was so good, but the biscuit/dumpling part was quite the disaster I think.  Help me!  What should I do next time?  I'm telling you, this recipe is thisss close to going into the trash, or just being used as chicken pot pie filling!!

This is once I mixed the doughy goo-ness biscuity stuff in, thinking that may help...

Well, for now, I'm going to drown my sorrows in birthday cake and keep on the lookout for more Leo sightings ;)  Love you, babe!!

Oh, and here is a picture of me during the birthday weekend - I just wanted to remember what I looked like at 30 later in life:)