I've made a big pan of vegetable stew this afternoon. I got the recipe online but I misread it: the stew is now completely cooked but the dumplings should have gone in with the sweet potatoes. As it is, they are sitting there raw on a plate. If I reheat the stew and give the dumplings the prescribed 25 minutes, the rest of the stew will be mush. The rescue act will consist of boiling up the dumplings in some of the liquid fished out of the stew before everything gets put back together. Isn't life droll.