Hearty soups for cold winter days

Winter isn’t giving up easy this year. Soup season may last through April, and a good thing. A number of Facebook “Welcome to My Kitchen” followers shared yummy soup recipes, and I will never get to try them all before printing in a timely manner. So this week, the recipes are untested, but from known good cooks.

Peggy Salo shared a recipe for Sausage-Bean-Barley Soup. She noted several variations in the instructions, making it easy to adjust to ingredients you have on hand.

Sausage-Bean-Barley Soup

1 link smoked sausage

1-2 yellow onions, medium diced

1 1/2 cups small diced celery

3-4 cloves...