Barley Beef Soup

I love this soup.  I chopped up a couple of rib eye steaks for this but lesser cuts of beef will work fine.  Start some coarsely chopped onions simmering in beef broth, add the barley.  I like to add plenty, give yourself enough time to see how much what you’ve added actually amounts to if … Continue reading Barley Beef Soup

Barley Beef Soup

And red bell peppers, and roasted garlic, and red wine and tomatoes!  This recipe has it all, and more. Started out with Mrs J suggesting soup and fresh bread this morning.  Sounded like a good plan so I started the bread in the machine.  It makes the best loaf for slicing big slabs to go … Continue reading Barley Beef Soup

Beef & Barley Stew

I stretched out the beef stew by adding barley and this is the result of not measuring. It may be my new favorite beef stew, at least for today. I topped it with a generous dose of Cholula hot sauce.

Beef and Barley

Leftover soup that I added some leftover steak and more broth. I’ve been trying Knorr’s broth concentrates and I’m loving them. I added a squirt of the beef variety plus some water to these leftovers and they perked right up. Kroger sells them in smallish bottles but they can be bought online in larger sizes. … Continue reading Beef and Barley

Beef & Barley

Slow simmered cubes of rib eye beef with Bob’s Red Mill barley. I used a broth I made a while back and froze. It has some dried mushrooms in it that I had forgotten and was perplexed for a minute when mushroom slices turned up in the soup. The faint red tinge is from a … Continue reading Beef & Barley

Beef & Barley

This is one of my top 5 soups/stews.  I found a t-bone steak that had survived the Big Grind of the otherwise inedible grass fed beef.  I will say that the tenderloin side of the steak looked to be plenty tender.