I make this soup whenever I start to actually feel like that 3rd jelly roll I ate last night. It's the perfect antidote to any sort of culinary overindulgence. I've already made it twice since New Years. It's warm liquid comfort...savory and zesty from the sausage, mildly sweet thanks to the butternut squash, and oh so satisfyingly chewy because of the pearl barley. It's colors look great on the plate too. The eye wants its part too, after all.

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