Beefcake

I like to use meat as a spice. Recently I bought three pounds of chuck on sale. I shaped the meat into muffin-sized blobs and froze them. The other night when we came home unexpectedly late from the dentist I had no idea of what to make for supper. I assembled a quick soup: frozen peas, frozen corn, one large can of crushed tomatoes, a pound of cooked chick peas with their liquid I had simmered that day, and a frozen beefcake that thawed out as I heated it all up. I added beef stock, Cholula hot sauce and Adobo and it was an excellent soup.