If you are interested, I could send you some homespun recipes on this kind of thing (I come from a v traditional background where I learned to cook from the ground up like this and use and reuse meat and other things to make other meals, weird considering, but true all the same).

I would totally be interested in that -- generally leftover meat just becomes tomorrow's lunch or dinner in my universe, but interesting things to do with leftover chicken in particular would be welcome. And dumplings, which are alien to me because my mother never makes them.

Doesn't everyone reuse meat or whatever, though? I mean, OK, I don't usually render my own chicken fat any more, but it's not like I didn't grow up that way.