Soup and other accomplishments

For some time I've been planning to make soup frm some stuff sitting in the freezer.

There was this package of frozen veggies from the food pantry. Carrots (sort of shredded), red beans, garbanzo beans, potatoes and red bell peppers.

The potatoes were diced really small about the size of kernels of corn. The peppers weren't much bigger.

I also had a package of beef (carne asada) that I couldn't think of much else to do with.

So I sliced the beef into smaller pieces. I probably should have spent more time on that as I still had some longer strips after cooking it. Then I tossed it in the crock pot along with the veggies. Set it to run 4 hours on low.

Once the veggies had mostly thawed I could see the frost hadn't amounted to that much fluid, so I add 2 cups of hot water and some beef soup base.

I checked the temp when it finished cooking and it was over 180, so that was good enough.

It was sort of like a *really* thick soup or a thing stew. but that was fine. Tasted great. I had a couple bowls and put the rest away in a microwaveable container. Since I'd used a liner on the crockpot I just had to give it a quick wipe after it cooled.

In a day or two I'm going to make meatloaf. One pound of ground beef and a pound of (ugh) "mechanically seperated chicken". I've found that's about the only way I do anything acceptable with the "chicken".

Meanwhile I'm *slowly* starting to move things around so I can relocate the bed to an "acceptable" spot. Supposedly it blocks the window which is a no-no as we are supposed to use the windows as a fire escape if the hall is blocked.

This is rather silly as I can pretty much dive onto the bed and roll out on the other side next to the window.
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