Here’s my St. Patrick’s Day cooking story.
I am no one’s idea of a cook, but when I was having a St. Patrick’s Day party, I decided to make a beef and barley stew in the crock pot.
No one told me how much barley expands. Did you ever see the movie “The Blob”?
The portion that survived in the crock pot was quite tasty.
That’s funny. So far I only do one recipe - a soup - involving barley, and I do it in a saucepan. But I’ll remember your experience if I ever crock-pot it ;-)
-JT
LOL. I wondered about that the first time I tried a barley soup recipe and it read to use 1/4 cup barley. I thought “that can’t be right” so I doubled it. It wasn’t quite the experience you describe, but we did have a good amount of barley in the soup!!