Any "like to cook" foodies here?

[ECSNorway]

My parents recently introduced me to farro, which is an "ancient grain" that they use as an alternative to rice. It's similar to barley, and can be found in decent grocery stores. (Wegmans around here carries it, WalMart does not.)

So I had some, and I was musing on what to do with it aside from "serve a heap of it next to meat and veg", and decided on a variant of a barley-mushroom soup I'd once liked.

So I took an onion, chopped it up, and sauteed it in a pan with a few cloves of garlic (also chopped), some salt, and some butter. Once it'd started to get properly going, I took a pint or so of sliced white mushrooms and tossed them in as well, cooked the whole thing for about ten minutes, then added a couple tablespoons' worth of soy sauce.

Once I was satisfied with that, I poured in about 2 cups of beef stock, brought it to a boil, added a cup of farro, stirred it all in, covered, turned down the heat, and left it to simmer about 25 minutes.

And that's really all there was to it. Came out quite tasty, made about 3-4 servings' worth.