Happy New Year! It’s me back from Penney Lane Kitchen. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s. One of my resolutions for our family is to cut our eating out to once a week. I love to cook, but honestly with two small kiddos this mama has a few takeout places on speed dial and we eat out 2-3 times per week which is way more than my waistline and checkbook would like. One great way to save on the takeout bill is to plan meals with intentional leftovers. That is a recipe that makes enough that you can include leftovers in your meal plan for the week. Soup almost automatically lends itself to leftovers and bonus when it’s in the slow cooker like this totally awesome Beef Barley Soup.
Ingredients:
1 pound lean beef stew
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 cups pearl onion (can use regular onions)
2 1/2 tablespoons Worsteshire sauce
5 cups beef broth
2 cup frozen mixed vegetables
1 cup barley (can use less if you prefer)
Instructions:
Season beef with salt and pepper and brown.
Place in slow cooker with onions, Worsteshire sauce, and beef broth.
Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
After 6 hours stir in mixed vegetables and barley and cook on low for another 2 hours and serve.
Whatever your resolutions are I hope you have a great year and look forward to sharing more easy, delicious recipes with you here this year and I hope you will stop by to see what’s cooking at Penney Lane Kitchen.
One recipe that’s going crazy on Pinterest right now is these Caramel Kiss Cookies.
This recipe was modified from one in the cookbook “The Slow Cooker Bible”
This looks wonderful!! I’m really in need of some good, hearty (but healthy) soup recipes. It’s a hard month because you want to detox from all the bad food you ate over the holidays (or was that just me?!) but you don’t want to eat salads when it’s so chilly outside! Oh, and totally hear you on the leftovers! I almost always make twice as much as we need when I cook so that we can have lunches and one extra dinner done in a snap later in the week. Happy New Year!
That looks fantastic! Thanks for linking up to the #RealFoodRecipes Roundup!
The caramel cookies look amazing 🙂 thanks for sharing at Creative Monday…
Winter is definitely soup season! Thanks for the recipe 🙂
I’ve never been a big soup fan, but strangely enough, I’ve recently started craving it! Especially those wonderfully warm, toasty recipes that cook all day in the crock pot. Can’t wait to give this one a try!
Yummy!! Perfect weather for some warm soup!! Hey I would love for you to share your stuff on my new link party that started today! Its called My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday! Here is the link http://www.cookinandcraftin.com/my-2-favorite-things-link-party-1/
We rarely eat out, but it is so nice when you can. This soup looks very heartwarming for the cold days. Thanks for sharing on Weekend Bites
Perfect for this time of year! I love hearty soups that can be made in the slow cooker!
Mmm. This looks and sounds delicious. Perfect for cold weather. I love that you used a slow cooker.
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This looks great especially this time of year. I will be giving it a try.
I filed this recipe when it originally posted to make another day. Well, I made it last night and it was a hit. It was so good. Perfect for a cool night.
I have never tried beef and barley soup before! The fact that this is made in the crock pot makes it so appealing! I need to keep this in mind for this fall! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Throwback Thursday!
This looks fab!!!! Way to bring it! 🙂 Thank you for linking up to Creative K Kids’ Tasty Tuesdays Linky Party. I have pinned both your links to our Tasty Tuesday’s Pinterest Board
Your soup looks really good. I might have to try this soon. PInned & shared. Thanks for joining the party!
I love a crock pot full of soup – this one looks like a winner!
Beef and Barley Soup is my husband’s favorite. Your recipe looks so easy I will have to give it a try. Thanks for sharing on the Creative K. Kids Tasty Tuesdays Linky Party. We hope you will join us next week.
Perfectly simple and perfectly delish, this is one of my very favorite soups. I;m going to have to try your version!! Thanks for bringing this by to our Throwback Thursday Link Party – I’ll be pinning this to our board, too, and Happy New Year!
This looks just great, I really love hulled barley it warms you up from inside and keep me full all day 🙂 And such a great, easy recipe. Will be trying this for sure!
Jealous over this. It’s really really nice.Thanks for sharing.
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