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DEL.ICIO.USAre 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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By mjpuzzlemom
November 3, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this
How much honey?
By Mike D
November 3, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
Since Obama is likely to win, we are going to make a big pot of chitterlings. As they say when in Rome…
By SlimOne
November 3, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Food on election night? Just another reason to overeat.
By diddy
November 3, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
How about roasted PIG.
* Vote Obama on Nov. 5th*
By Orlando
November 3, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
I am making Beef O Bama.
You take a big Ribeye Steak and marinate it in Baya Chipoltle sauce for 1 hour and fire up the grill and cook on both sides for 7 minutes.
By kay
November 3, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this
How about roasting rednecks on a spit.
Go Obama
Vote November 4th
By Michelle
November 3, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
I am seriously in shock over the unbelievable racism here in the South. We are all people or do you not understand that? It’s so elementary. People come in all colors, shapes and sizes. Who cares what color some one is? The vulgarity and ugliness of the blatant racism down here is sad. The South is such a beautiful place. Please don’t muck it up with your hate. Oh, and I am caucasion by the way, not that it matters…
By Michelle
November 3, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
And to add to my comment, I have to note that the people who have decided to post their nasty, hate filled comments cannot even spell correctly. I guess it shows that these people have a serious lack of intelligence and that could be why they view the world as they do. Things to ponder..
By Michelle
November 3, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
Promice?? Thank you so much for proving my point.
By Ty
November 3, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
I totally agree with you Michelle. It is really sad that there are still so many hate filled, insecure people who continue to think that if you are different from them, then you are inferior.
By Matt
November 3, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this
Ty and Michelle, Welcome to the South! The home to many ignorant imbeciles.
By mjpuzzlemom
November 3, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this
Yeah.. but how much honey in the recipe? ROFLOL!
By mjpuzzlemom
November 3, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
Yeah.. but how much honey in the recipe? ROFLOL!
By Meridith Ford
November 4, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
It’s one- half cup of honey and 1 and 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard.
And yeah: let’s leave racism out of the recipe, please.