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A classic and filling barley soup with kielbasa sausage! Comfort food at its best!

But YA KNOW WHAT???

Oktoberfest might be over in Germany, but it is still very much alive in my heart (and in some bars in NYC)! So I decided I was going to share another classic German recipe: Graupensuppe, or Barley Soup in German, which I made with veggies, barley, bacon and, of course, sausage! ?

My husband went CRAZY over this soup. 

I originally planned on freezing half of it, just because we (mostly me!) get sick of eating the same leftovers after a while, but then I noticed 2/3 of the soup was already gone. 

As I told you earlier last week, Tim and I were both feeling a bit under the weather. All we wanted to do was snuggle in bed with a bowl of comfort food, watching silly TV shows.

I mean… that’s usually all we want to do even when we’re not sick. Yep, I have no shame in admitting we are a lazy couple and we would trade any night out for good homemade food + Netflix + my fluffy doggy warming up our feet. ?➕?➕?=?

But anyways… I gathered all my (low) energy and went to the kitchen to make us this delicious soup. I considered using my slow cooker, but we needed the soup IMMEDIATELY, so no time to wait for it to simmer for 8 hours. Gladly, my part in this soup making business was only some browning and sautéing. The rest was the work of God, or science, or my amazing dutch oven. Whatever you want to believe!  

40 minutes simmering on the stove and our soup was ready. Only my childhood years, where comfort food magically appeared in front of me every time I was sick, could be better! (Thanks, grandma!)

But guys, please don’t think I’m foolish. I know damn well why Tim loved this soup so much. 

The Hillshire Farm® Polska Kielbasa.

I mean, he would be happy with just eating the straight out of the packaging. I can’t tell you how many times we had “fights” because he ate the sausage I bought thinking of a recipe. Good thing I have a Walmart just down the hill and I can send him for some more whenever that happens. 

Thankfully, I now got into the habit of just buying more than what I need. Especially now with the colder weather, there’s no recipe that wouldn’t benefit with the addition of this delicious sausage.

If I’m short on time, or forgot to think of dinner (mostly because I spent all day working on a dessert for the blog, for example), I just slice the Hillshire Farm Polska Kielbasa and sauté with onions until everything is perfectly browned. Then we use it for sandwiches or we eat it with rice! Along with a bottle of cold beer, of course. This post is Oktoberfest themed, after all! ?

The barley and the sausage really make this soup very filling and a meal on its own. 

If you haven’t had the chance – or the time – to attend an Oktoberfest celebration this year, just make this soup and it’ll be as if you were there in Munich! 

Guten Appetit!