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The ADVANCE, November 30, 2022/Page 4A
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Emmalee Milligan
Emmie Lynn
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A Pot of Squash Soup
What a gift.
Malcolm has a
large garden and
brought over some
butternut squash.
He is proud of
those things and
has accumulated a
following of cooks
who think he is the
end-all of things
about squash.
What I think is
going on is that there is no county fair
around here anymore, hasn't been for
years, and he's too old for 4-H, so the
only recognition comes from giving away
squash and rolling around in the adula
tion.
And, truth told, he knows a lot about
squash.
Last year the crop was so rich he
couldn't give it all way. He went to the
home improvement store and bought a
large, yellow, plastic septic tank and had
it buried in the side yard near his garden
to use as a root cellar.
He says spaghetti squash should bake
in a “moderate” oven to make the strings
stand out.
Last week I decided to turn one of
the butternuts into squash soup. I don't
think I've ever had it, but it sounded like
a good idea.
I peeled, seeded and cut up the
squash and tossed it into a skillet with an
onion and carrots, a bit of butter, then
realized I didn't know one thing about
making squash soup.
At that time we were without inter
net access but I could have called “Little
Miss Phillips,” who seems to know every
thing I don't, but I would first have hear
her opinion about men who try to do
things they don't know how to do.
The Kansas Woman said it needed
something like chicken stock, which we
didn't have, so she dumped in a couple of
cans of chicken noodle soup.
The skillet still looked empty, so we
tossed in dehydrated hash brown pota
toes then dumped it all into a blender
and fired it up.
The soup looked good but tasted flat.
“How much sugar did you put in it?” she
asked, because we put sugar in every
thing including biscuits and cornbread.
I had forgotten that as well as the
nutmeg that seemed appropriate.
We kept tasting and adjusting that
slurry trying to turn it into soup for close
to two hours before we decided it could
use more sugar.
After that it was fine.
I was so proud of the result, I called
Malcolm and told him about the squash
soup.
The evening news was over when
there was a knock at the door. I check the
yard before opening the door because,
well, you never know.
I warmed a cup of soup and handed
him a spoon.
He tasted it and said he wanted to
know how we did it, what was in it, how
much.
We had no idea what all was in that
pot.
He dipped the spoon again, licked his
lips and said, “Needs more sugar.”
joenphillips@yahoo.com
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continued from page 1A
Elections takes over in
2023.
In Toombs County,
503 absentee ballots were
issued and 216 returned,
with 669 advance votes cast
as of Monday. Early voting
will continue through Fri
day, December 2.
The participating
counties, which include
most of the state’s major
metropolitan areas and
several rural counties, en
sured that just over half the
state’s population had the
opportunity to vote on Sat
urday.
Neither candidate met
the 50 percent threshold
for an outright win in the
November 8 election, trig
gering a runoff. Warnock
won the Senate seat in a
special runoff election in
January 2021 and is seek
ing a full, six-year term. If
he wins on December 6,
Democrats will occupy 51
seats in the Senate.
Initially, Raffensperger
said counties would be al
lowed to hold Saturday vot
ing in the runoff election,
but he reversed his deci
sion after determining that
a part of Georgia’s election
code barring voting two
days after a holiday banned
Saturday voting under the
new compressed timeline
for a runoff election man
dated by the new law.
Democrats, led by
Warnock’s campaign, sued
the state, arguing that the
policies in question didn’t
apply to runoff elections.
A judge in Fulton County
sided with Warnock, the
state Democratic Party and
the Democratic Senato
rial Campaign Committee
in the case. The state’s Re
publican attorney general,
as well as the state and na
tional Republican parties,
lost their appeals in state
courts.
Then, the decision of
whether to hold Saturday
voting fell to the counties.
All counties in Georgia
are required by the state’s
2021 election law to hold
early voting from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. in the weekdays be
fore a runoff election.
The public debate and
litigation over Saturday
voting is the latest battle
over the state’s election
codes, which were over
hauled by a 2021 voting
law that had a significant
effect on policies concern
ing absentee ballots, runoff
elections, early voting and
election administrative
policy. The 2022 midterms
are the first test of the Elec
tion Integrity Act, also
known as SB 202.
Here are all the Geor
gia counties that offered
early voting on Saturday,
November 26, according
to the Georgia Secretary of
State.
Baker County
Baldwin County
Bartow County
Bibb County
Burke County
Chatham County
Clarke County
Cobb County
Crawford County
DeKalb County
Douglas County
Fulton County
Gilmer County
Gwinnett County
Hancock County
Henry County
Macon County
Mitchell County
Muskogee County
Newton County
Randolph County
Rockdale County
Screven County
Terrell County
Troup County
Walton County
Ware County
For information on
how to vote, visit the Sec
retary of State’s website.
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