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Monday, November 3, 2008
Are You Partying on Election Night?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For the past two months, my email box has been inundated with Election Night ideas — from cocktails to recipes for snacks and three-course dinners.
Are you planning or attending and election party? If so, are you dining out or staying in?
Here’s a recipe for a Election Lunch stew developed by Alix Nancy Botsford from Seminole, OK, for the “Fix it and Forget It Big Cookbook.” My favorite part of the recipe is the yield: how can something vary between 6 and 12 servings? Anyway, if you’re looking for something to put on before you go to the polls and have ready by the time you return later that day, this apparently hits the spot.
MAKES: 6-12 SERVINGS PREP. TIME: 30 MINUTES COOKING TIME: 2-4 HOURS IDEAL SLOW COOKER SIZE: 6 QUART
2-3 Tbsp. olive oil 1 large onion, chopped 1 lb. sausage, cut into thin slices, or casings removed and crumbled 1 rib celery, sliced 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 * tsp. dry mustard * cup honey 10-oz. can tomatoes with green chili peppers 1-lb. can of lima or butter beans, drained, with liquid reserved 1-lb. can red kidney beans, drained, with liquid reserved 1-lb can garbanzo beans, drained, with liquid reserved
Brown onion and sausage oil
Combine ingredients in 6-quart slow cooker, or divide between 2 4-quart cookers and stir to combine. Add reserved juice from lima, kidney and garbanzo beans if there’s enough room in the cookers.
Cover. Cook on low 2-4 hours.
Background: The creator mixed up this hearty stew the night before Election Day and took it to the voting site the next morning. She plugged it in, and all day long they could smell the stew cooking. She works at a very sparsely populated, county polling place and ended up giving out the recipe and little water-cup samples to many voters that day.
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