Hearty, filling, and wholesome mushroom barley soup ? it?s perfect for a cold winter’s day, and really easy to make!

Happy 2018!
I wanted to start the new year with this super comforting soup recipe, for anyone who feels right now like you?ve eaten way too much sugar and are craving wholesome food to nourish your body.
This is basically my answer to those popular detox cleanses where the only thing you?re allowed to consume is green juice or honey water with cayenne pepper. If you do like cleanses, don?t let me stop you; but as I mention in my Chocolate Covered Katie Anorexic post, they?re not something I really believe in, and I prefer to combat that sluggish I?ve-eaten-way-too-many-cookies feeling with balanced meals like this healthy and nourishing mushroom barley soup. It?s also the ideal recipe for this cold weather we?re currently stuck with in the Northeast and everywhere else with temperatures in the single digits (I see you, “feels like -3 degrees”) that makes you want to pull the blankets up and stay in bed. If you must venture out, it can be nice to know there?s a hot bowl of homemade soup waiting for you upon your return.

This is one of my favorite soup recipes, and I?ve been making it for years, sometimes adding beans or lentils, or substituting rice for the barley. The initial push to create a mushroom barley soup recipe came after I was no longer able to buy a version I?d loved in college, from Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York. T...