Slow-cooked beef and barley soup

Name: Slow-cooked beef and barley soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 8 h
Total time: 8 h 20 min
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 9.20 gm olive oil; 500g beef blade steak, trimmed, chopped; 2 carrots, peeled, finely chopped; 2 celery sticks, trimmed, chopped; 1 large brown onion, finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 2 tsp fresh thyme leaves; 500ml (2 cups) beef stock; 375ml (1 1/2 cups) water; 400g can diced tomatoes; 75g (1/3 cup) pearl barley, rinsed, drained; 100g trimmed Tuscan cabbage, shredded; Chopped fresh continental parsley, to serve; Baby parsley sprigs, to serve