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Mixed Bean Soup with Cornmeal Dumplings

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Let's see...eight months since my last post. Maybe I'm not so good at blogging. Hansome says I'm good at cooking. So how about a food post? We were given a large crockpot as a wedding gift. I used it about eight years before the smoke escaped. I replaced it with a huge oval one, but I kept the recipe book that accompanied the first one. I like it because it seems to have been written by someone who knew how to cook--and was a native English speaker. I have made several of the recipes in it, and there are still more on my "that looks good" list. I don't mind sharing this recipe with you because it is my adaptation of one so I don't think I'm infringing on any copyright. Mixed Bean Soup with Cornmeal Dumplings 1 can each black beans, red kidney beans, and garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained 1 can petite diced tomatoes 1/2 onion (sliced & frozen last week) 1/3 of a two pound bag frozen mixed veggies 4 huge cloves of garlic, minced One pa