Seeing as how I was given a ton of meat, my fridge and freezer are now
stuffed full. Although, I don't like cooking meat that has been frozen, I
will. Won't get into the whole story but was given the meat by someone who
has lost his home due to a fire so for the time being, I will cook for him.
But this meant that I needed to use up what I already had. So...

Tonight's soup contains three cooked hamburger patties, two beef tamales,
some leftover Mexican rice, one carrot, dried celery (was out of fresh)
small can of peas, small can of corn, leftover green beans, an onion,
parsley, salt, pepper and tomato juice. Larger things were cut down or
crumbled to about the size of the peas and corn. The tamales broke down and
provided nice thickening and flavor as the beef was spicy.

Of course I will never be able to recreate this again. But that's the beauty
of soup. Each batch seems better than the rest.

"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> Seeing as how I was given a ton of meat, my fridge and freezer are now
> stuffed full. Although, I don't like cooking meat that has been frozen, I
> will. Won't get into the whole story but was given the meat by someone who
> has lost his home due to a fire so for the time being, I will cook for
> him. But this meant that I needed to use up what I already had. So...
>
> Tonight's soup contains three cooked hamburger patties, two beef tamales,
> some leftover Mexican rice, one carrot, dried celery (was out of fresh)
> small can of peas, small can of corn, leftover green beans, an onion,
> parsley, salt, pepper and tomato juice. Larger things were cut down or
> crumbled to about the size of the peas and corn. The tamales broke down
> and provided nice thickening and flavor as the beef was spicy.
>
> Of course I will never be able to recreate this again. But that's the
> beauty of soup. Each batch seems better than the rest.

True, some of the best soups come from things like that.

Cheri