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Slow Cooker Vegetable Barley Soup

1 bunch green onions chopped
1/2 cup red pepper chopped
3 garlic cloves minced
2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 cup carrots chopped
1/2 cup frozen sweet corn
1/2 cup frozen peas
28 oz diced tomatoes
6 cups vegetable broth
1 teaspoon Hungarian paprika
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 cup fresh parsley chopped
1/2 cup pearl barley rinsed and drained

Instructions
Saute 1 bunch of chopped green onions, 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper and 3 cloves of minced garlic in 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
In your slow cooker, add the sautéed vegetables, 1 cup each of fresh chopped carrots, celery, broccoli and zucchini, 1/2 cup each of frozen sweet corn and peas and one 28 oz. can of diced tomatoes.
Pour over 6 cups of good quality vegetable broth and stir it all together.
Add 1 tsp. Hungarian paprika, 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. dried dill weed, 1/4 tsp. pepper and 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley.
Stir it all together and cook on HIGH for 3 hours or LOW for 6 hours.
Rinse 1/2 cup of pearl barley under water and drain. Add the rinsed pearls to your slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 1 additional hour or LOW for 2 additional hours.

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Good morning everyone and welcome to Sunday’s video I’m really excited to share with you what I’m working on and what I’m doing and I have some thoughts for all of You So this is the time of the year where there’s so much noise going on we have a sawmill across the field from us and I am filming this on a Saturday morning but you’re seeing it Sunday so I’m going to try to talk without hearing all of the different Machinery we live right

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In the kitchen we are making some vegetable barley soup and that is for a family meal that’s coming up so I’m just going to put it together and then I will share with you the recipe in the description box below and I’m going to try to make that

As quick as I can so I can go right back outside one thing I have noticed is without having to haul all of my own water anymore you know that was a lot of exercise that I did so these old bones and these old muscles we got to get back into

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Nice is you just throw everything in the crock pot it does call for dry barley and dry barley is the reason why I’m making this soup because I had a lot of barley in my storage so barley is great it’s nutritional and it does add a lot of

Protein and barley can substitute the meat so basically we’re just going to throw everything in the crock pot and this is what we’re doing all right so that’s all we had to do to make this soup but it does call for a half a teaspoon of

Fresh but it does call for a teaspoon of fresh thyme and a teaspoon of fresh parsley Wow Let’s go out in the garden and see if we can find those items all right we’re going to go see if we can find some parsley I think I’ve

Seen some that last it all winter long so let’s go do that and then I have a lot of time I do I have a lot of time up Here hey hey hey hey don’t forget I have a lot of videos if you love Frugal cooking take a look at all of my cheap meal Mondays hey and maybe check out some of these other videos bye guys