Rutter Kitchen-Vegetable Beef Barley Soup and rolls

This soup was such a nice easy recipe to make and we really liked that.  I did the prep work for the recipe, like getting everything chopped and measured and set out ready to put in the pot.  I also cooked up the ground beef and drained and rinsed it like we like it and then cooked the onions with it.  Ashley then put everything together and then kept an eye on it while it simmered.  We added 1/8th tsp. of the red pepper flakes and think that next time we'll add 1/4th tsp. instead as we would like a bit more heat.  We had time for it to simmer for about an hour before we were ready to eat.  We put in what the recipe called for and we chose the barley to use.  We added the barley as stated 1/2 an hour before eating.  I didn't have time to get all the ingredients for the crescent rolls and to make them ahead as we had a busy week, so we will cook and post about them another time.  We chose the Rosemary rolls from the Pioneer Woman's last cookbook instead and they tasted great!  We really liked the soup and the rolls and will be cooking both recipes again.  Hope that you have a chance to try these recipes out :)

 Soup assembled and ready to cook.

Ready to eat :)