It is literally the second week of June and I am making soup!  Yep, we have some interesting weather here in Northern California and it just screams cozy, soup, and snuggle in.  With that said, I have had this bag of barley sitting in the pantry for a while and have been telling myself to do something with it.  Well today was the day.   After checking out some recipes on-line, I had come up with my easiest version possible and without beef {I am not a red meat eater}, however this recipe did include beef broth. Ingredients Low Sodium Beef Broth Barley Celery Onion Carrots Mushrooms Sea Salt {optional} Fresh Ground Pepper {ALWAYS} EVOO Okay so basically I just used what I had in the house, of course with this type of soup you can create and add whatever. Directions Cook the barley until soft in half water/half beef broth…  Read More…