Chicken “Cobbler”

While the natural recipe to put here would be chicken and dumplings, in which a soft, biscuit-like dough is dropped directly onto the simmering chicken stew and then steamed until done, I like the version in my first slow cooker book so much I don’t even want to change it. But I think this cobbler is even better. The stew is a classic flour-thickened and cold-weather-vegetable-heavy affair, and the topping—though you don’t even have to put it on top—is a contrasting fluffy, crusty cheddar b