Now you can add grains to your local diet.
I wasn't sure what to do with it, grains in their original forms are still a little new to me. Georgina(?) recommended beef and barley soup, and said there were recipes on the website. The recipe is very basic, just begging to be "souped up." I didn't change it up too much but here are a few things I did:
Browned the meat, I always brown beef and pork before making soup, this seals in the flavor.
Added a couple of bay leaves from my stash from a big pruning job I did last summer. I honestly don't know what bay does, but my Nana put it in all her stews, so there you go.
Carrots and Celery, the original recipe calls for just onion as a vegetable, but you can't have beef stew with out at least carrots.
Well that's all I added, then just dumped it into my rice cooker/crock pot and let it stew (pun intended.)
5 hours later...YUM! So good, the beef is super tender and the barley is really awesome, not mushy and flavorless like you get in most beef and barley soup. It has a lovely earthy flavor, I feel healthier just eating it. On that note, the recipe only calls for 3/4 of a cup of the purple barley, I think I could have doubled that and still have had plenty of broth left.
I look forward to trying some of these other local grains, but for now some glamour shots of my soup.
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