‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving and I made Mushroom-Barley Soup from The Moosewood Cookbook for dinner. According to a note in the cookbook dated 11 /22 /04 I’d made it before and we’d thought it was “Awesome”, but I couldn’t remember the last time we’d had it.
Well, it did not disappoint! Everybody ate it up and Freddie had two bowls. We had some nice multigrain bread with goat cheese and tomatoes on the side. I didn’t have to beg anyone to eat, probably because there wasn’t anything green on the table (I always feel somewhat guilty when that happens). Anyway, I doubled the amount of barley in the recipe to a full cup and increased the vegetable broth by two cups to accommodate it and make the soup more filling. It worked out well. If you like mushrooms in sherry wine, you will love this. Freddie asked me when I was going to make it again. That’s definitely 4.9 stars.
It has not been a five star cooking week around here. I made a quick spinach and mushroom pizza on whole wheat pizza dough on Monday night and vegetarian (obviously) Italian meatball sandwiches Tuesday night. I am so tired I can’t even remember what I served with them. Must not have been anything too memorable.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we are gathering with family at my Mom’s. I have been charged with making an apple cake, a potato dish and the vegetarian turkey entree, so I will be up in the morning getting all that prepared before we go. Should be fun!
