Vegetable, Beef and Barley Soup

3 T olive oil

1 pound beef stew meat

1 package Knorr Veg Soup mix

1/2 onion

2 cloves garlic

vegetables - what ever you have on hand (or mixed frozen veg) I used carrots and peas about 1 cup

1/2 cup barley

2 cups tomato juice

4 cups beef stock

1/2 cup red wine

Heat up olive oil, the saute onion, garlic and beef. I put a little steak spices on it, whatever you have on hand and like the flavor of (I used McCormick Montreal Steak grill mates about 1 t).

Add tomato juice, beef stock, wine. Then add, veg soup mix and everything else. If you are using frozen veg, you should wait until about 30 minutes before you serve it and add the vegetables then. that way it isn't over cooked.

Very good with homemade bread!

Triple Berry Crisp

6 cups triple berries or single berry - I used blueberry, rasberry and blackberry

2 T brown sugar

1 T flour

1 T lemon juice

2/3 cup flour

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup oats (regular oatmeal, not quick)

3/4 t ground cinnamon

4 1/2 T chilled butter, cut into small pieces

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Combine first 4 ingredients, spoon into 11 x 7 dish(I sprayed with pam)

mix flour, brown sugar, oats and cinnamon, cut in butter until resembles coarse meal (food processor works well)

Spread over berry mixture

Bake at 375 for 30 minutes.

8 servings (serve with frozen yogurt)

Calories (without yogurt) 288, fat 8 g, prot 4 g, carb 52 g, fiber 3.8 g, chol 22 mg, iron 1.3mg, sodium 96 mg, calc 77mg

modified from cooking light magazine.