Soup

• 7 cups water
• 1 tablespoon thyme
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce, tamari or to taste
• 1 can tomato sauce 16 ounce
• 1 can tomatoes 16 ounce, diced
• 1- 1/2 tablespoons pearl barley
• 1 teaspoon salt and black pepper or to taste
• 7-8 each potatoes medium, peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes
• 1 pound ground meat
• 3-4 each carrots cut in half and in strips
• 1 stalk celery chopped
• 1/2 each onions medium, big pieces
• 2 each winter squash italian, unpeeled sliced
• 1 each sweet red bell peppers cut
• 1 can green beans or corn as desired

1. Brown meat with salt and pepper to taste.
2. Start heating water, add potato, thyme, tomato sauce and diced tomatoes.
3. Drain meat of fat and add to pot.
4. Add barley and bring to boil then throw everything else in and cook until potatoes are tender.
5. Taste for seasoning as you go.
6. Keeps well and tastes better the next day.

water, thyme, soy sauce, tomato sauce, tomatoes, pearl barley, salt, potatoes, ground meat, carrots, celery, onions, winter, sweet red bell peppers, green beans

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/soup-40644 (may not work)