If you have a well stocked pantry, you can make whatever you want.

Stuffed pepper soup with barley instead of rice

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I’m thinking a tomato sauce base? What kind of seasoning?

@FauxPseudo barley soup, bell pepper added along with whatever other vegetables I have. Onions and garlic, whatever was on sale. Frozen ones when I have them, but we don't have a lot of freezer space. Whatever frozen protein is currently there-chicken, beef chunks when on sale.

That's....a lot....of barley, though. Like...I made the mistake of using a bag of barley once. I have now learned to...not do that.

For a tomato based sauce I’d use basil, oregano and garlic, pinch of sugar and a little heavy on black pepper. For a chicken stock based broth I’d go sausage and salt and pepper for flavor and seasoning

Fennel seed with the cooked barley would somewhat mimic Italian sausage if this is a vegetarian application.

I like that idea. Fennel seed doesn’t get enough respect.

Move the barley, I need to scan the end grain to see where the QR code goes.

When I bought the bag I assumed it would probably take 8 meals to use the whole thing. I could use that whole bag making a gallon of beer. But for meals that’s a lot of barley.

@FauxPseudo Yea, I would say eight meals would do it. Maybe four, cause I'm cooking for three people who are willing to eat it as leftovers somewhat.

You could use that as a base for a porketta styled soup

Rosemary, sage, and fennel. A winning combo. I’d stick to just pork belly and nix the loin for the sake of fat content and texture.

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If it were ground I’d try sandwiches with slices of bell pepper added after making some barley bread with molasses and honey:

3 cups flour
1 cups water
1 or 2 tsp salt
1.5 tsp active or instant yeast (from a brown glass jar works best)
1 Tbsp Honey
1 Tbsp Molasses
Add ground barley to taste preference, adjust water

Rise for 2 to 3 hours, knead at least once in the middle and again before shaping on a pan with parchment paper and a thin layer of oil that you can roll your final shaped bread for a thin coating; for the final half hour of the rise
Bake 405F for 30 to 40 minutes, place wet cloth overtop for 15 minutes after removing from oven

but it’s not ground. TF does somebody make with whole barley? Gonna have to search for medieval peasant recipes.

In theory I could grind it in my spice grinder but it would take a while to get three cups.

It’s used in a lot of soups. You could make beer and use the spent grains in cookies or muffins.

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Idk, I’m feeling lazy, risotto?

Saute some mushrooms, bell pepper, onion, then fermented bean paste in the instantpot, throw the barely and broth in, cook high pressure like 10 minutes, throw mix of milk+parm in to thicken, if I didn’t use fermented bean paste earlier, maybe miso paste with the mix, stir as it cools and thickens.