Here's What We Preserved from the Homestead This Week! | Every Bit Counts Challenge Week 3
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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I burn a lot of things 🤣🤦🏻♀️…. I TRULY MEAN THIS WITH ALL MY HEART, THANK YOU FOR SHOWING YOUR HOME LIVED IN!!!! 🥰 Our home is lived in, not always “perfect”. It makes me feel like I’m failing when I see videos of people who have very busy lives and their houses are perfectly organized and cleaned. 😩 Thank you for everything you do
Most people don't live like Martha Stewart. You and your family are authentic!
Those people must have help. We all help around the farm but there’s almost no down time so once something is cleaned it gets messed up again fast!! I’ll always do UA-cam this way because I could not do it otherwise. Too much work to put on a fake image haha
Hubby says I worship him, I serve burnt offerings!
That wasn't steam, that was ME licking the screen.
lolllll
Lillies little boy isn’t so little anymore. I love Ferrell hairdo😊
That pumpkin!!!!! Holy cow! That's a beauty ❤
Thank you, I’m so excited for the others!!
Hi Heather. That was a great video, I got a lot out of it.
Thank you. Have a great day.
CONGRATULATIONS!! Your peppers look like a massive success!!! At no time could I ever comment on messing something up that I have tried to cook.😂 It happens to everyone at one time or another. The brisket looked DELICIOUS!! My husband enjoys smoking a brisket from time to time. Thanks for sharing your skills with us! Stay safe!! 🙏❤🇺🇸
The ONLY reason I did a batch of tomatoes from the freezer is because I was running out of space. It ended up being the perfect amount to fill a roaster. ❤
Extra kefir grains are so versatile!
•feed it to your garden
•feed it to your compost
•feed it to your animals (start with small amounts then build just like when you’re starting to drink it.
•put it in smoothies
•pulverize them in frozen treats such as ice cream and popsicles
•share them with friends and family to help them make their own kefir.
I am loving these every bit counts videos. Thank you.
Glad you like them! I do too. Thanks for watching!!
Years ago a friend of mine had us over for dinner and made a roasted red pepper pasta sauce that was amazing! It was from Americas Test Kitchen
Simply AMAZING Heather, great job!! Your content creation, your video and editing skills are top shelf. The 'realness' that you share is so encouraging. I am so proud of you and your family. You are livin your best life little girl. 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
Thanks so much! You’ve been a massive encouragement!
I asked Siri “what to do with extra dairy kefir grains”, and he told me if I thought it was serious to have someone call 911. 😂
LOL NOTED hahahahaha
I am so proud of how far you’ve come with your cheese making. I think I’ve followed you for most of your UA-cam time and your confidence seems to have grown by leaps and bounds. It makes my heart happy to see you excel in all the skills you’re learning. And shame on anyone who would say something because you burned something. I’ve cooked for years and years, even professionally and yet somehow I always burn the garlic bread 🤦♀️. Much love and blessings dear. Thanks for another great video.
You have been here for most of the journey and I appreciate you so much! ❤️
Watching your videos gives me great comfort. I hope one day I can have homestead.
Many hugs! I hope you get your dream sooner rather than later!
I had to rewatch your “foreshadowing” edit 😂, you being real and relatable is why you are my favorite UA-cam channel to watch! Ferals hairdo never gets old to me. Curious what’s in the white buckets in your kitchen?
Flour and sugar!! We buy it in bulk and those are great for storing bulk quantities of those things that are actively being used. :)
@@SageandStoneHomestead That is so smart! Thanks for the reply, I would probably need a 3rd bucket for salt myself 😅
Your peppers turned out amazing!!!!
THANK YOU I am so happy with them. I want to use them soon but for now I just want to look at them lol!
@@SageandStoneHomestead That's how I felt about those dried tomatoes lol
I am a cheesehead (born in Wisconsin) I love how easily you make all three cheeses. 🧀 I live in Germany and it is hard to find Colby or Cojack or Monterey Jack cheese . So I’m going to have to be adventurous and make my own !!!
Great job Heather, just love watching all you do for us all to watch. Thank you for sharing. Till next time, God Bless
Thank you so much!
Absolutely wonderful video, Heather! All the ways to preserve and also enjoy the things that come from your farm, so awesome. The pumpkin looked so yummy, and it made me tear up knowing this was your first one and you were hoping to JUST get one pumpkin way early in the season. Really like the idea of freeze drying yogurt to help extend its shelf life but also the idea of getting the consistency you want. Great tip on that! I'm one who would totally get distracted and burn the things too, lol. I have found I HAVE to set timers on my phone to help me remember (no sense of smell to smell anything burning lol). The roasted red peppers turned out beautifully, the tip about roasting whole and a bit lower - really worked great! Got me craving some 'corned' meat and sauerkraut hahaha - big family and friends meal looked delicious. 💚💚
I tear up thinking about how I KNOW I will cry when all of the pumpkins are revealed one day!! Trying to not count my chickens before they hatch but it looks good out there in the pumpkin patch!!
Omg burnt pumpkin seeds - I DO IT ALL THE TIME!!!! 😅 glad I’m not the only one!!
It seems to be pretty common which makes me feel better too lol!
Homemade corned beef, so good, my family likes this meat: I cooked in the slow cooker with potatoes onion, and cabbage, and it is so delicious.
Amazing food preservation! You are one of the few people I have seen that can do more preservation than we do. I’ve been so busy and I’m not filming! Congrats on the peppers and corned caprine.
Best Pumpkin Bread Ever
Wet:
2 cups pumpkin purée
2 cups white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup water
4 eggs
1 cup oil
1 tablespoon vanilla
Dry:
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp pumpkin spice
*cinnamon cloves ginger nutmeg
3 1/2 cups flour
Optional:
1 cup nuts
1 cup raisins / cranberries
Mix wet with dry ingredients
Pour batter into greased and floured bread loaf pans (2-3) or into Muffin tins 24+
Bake at 350° 55-75 min (muffins less time)
Let cool and eat with butter or whipped cream.
Cream cheese frosting also good !
Freezes great.
Bread can be sliced and used as French toast base with maple syrup.
That squash is gorgeous!!!
Thank you!!
I think the browned peppers are perfect. Taking the skin off will leave the rest with a caramelized flavor.
I went to peel the dark ones and there was nothing really under a lot of the brown. It's like the pepper cooked to nothing!
Oh shoot Heather. I own a book on things to do with kefir. I'm sure there are recipes for the grains too. But I packed it up already. 😣
No worries, google has some ideas!
2 gallon bags work great with salmon or other fish 🎣
Pumpkin seeds are very yummy on pumpkin soup !!
Sounds delectable!
If you don’t have any wrap to cover your bowl with, you can lay a plate over top of the bowl and it will hold the moisture in. I even marinade meat that way.
Great tip! I have a glass lid that fits
Its honestly been quite a while since ive watched your videos and ive missed watching them. Life can get so busy. Im probably going to spend the next few days binge watching them to catch up. Love your channel! ❤
No worries!! This is a busy time of year and stuff happens! Glad to see you back!
Awesome video. I so Love the corned silverside with the sauerkraut. Use to eat a lot when I was a child. Thoughts and Prayers.Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings. Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
It is such an awesome dish!!! Excited to know I can make it at home!
@@SageandStoneHomestead
You did it!!!! I've burned a lot of things...just a minute too long will be WAY too long sometimes!
Yes these got overdone very quickly!
I’m so glad you show your mistakes, as well as, to your successes. It’s part of normal preserving and cooking. I have 3 jars left of read beans starter for red beans and rice that were a big fail. We’ve eaten 3 but can’t make myself serve the other. The taste is fine but the texture is yuck. Lol Can’t wait for your ketchup making with Mrs. Wages. I wanted to try this but I don’t want to waste my tomatoes if I don’t know if it will taste good.Great job on the peppers. Practice makes perfect.
The tomatoes are in the roaster now! :)
I love watching you cuz you keep it real. I bet we all have stuff in our freezer that need to be dealt with. lol I burn seeds every time I try to roast them. I actually gave up on it years ago. Have a great week and thanks for sharing your journey with us.
This is the first time I've burned them and I got it on camera haha
Good morning sweet Heather loved the video ❤❤❤🕊️
Good morning! Thanks so much 💕
Yeah! On the peppers 🌶️!
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Cheese looks wonderful!!!!
Thank you!! ❤️🧀
I'm loving your videos.
I'm so glad! 💕
I loved this video. I liked that it was from different days. Love it. Love it. Love it. ❤❤❤
This has been a fun way to film!!
Heather, I love your videos. I am the exact opposite of you. I am not a homesteader nor garden grower or canner or freezer. I’ve been a nurse for 43 years and days off has often been spent working. But I just wanted to tell you I so enjoy your videos, it opens me up to world I would never get to see. And don’t apologize for the hard parts. The hard parts are what we need to see that shows your soft heart for your animals. What I like to do is find your latest video prop it up on my counter and listen to you while I do my dishes, your voice is very soothing, you explain things well and it shows how your family works together to make your life. Thank you once again for helping people like me have a glimpse into a homesteaders life.
I would have to draw the line at eating goat 😮
It’s more commonly eaten than beef worldwide :) and incredible!! You don’t have to eat it though, truly. It’s a great red meat option and way to manage unwanted bucklings
I don’t like canned sauerkraut from the store, but I do like my hubby’s fermented sauerkraut. All things about the fermented are better - the smell, the taste, and, a big important thing for me is the texture! Crunchy vs slimy.
Yes!!! We really love the fermented stuff too. So much better for you too
Have you ever made kefir cheese? What to do with extra grains...share with others or feed to the chickens is about all I've ever come up with LOL
Oh man! The crunch on that sauerkraut was awesome! I haven't had non canned sauerkraut in so long.
Yes i have and kefir cheese is so lovely and creamy!!
Great video Heather.
Have you fd pumpkin? I'm thinking pumpkin flour for pancakes.
I'll email you my pumpkin bread/muffin recipe. It's what i always get asked to bring to gatherings.
Yes I have freeze dried it but I haven’t actually used any of the FD pumpkin yet!!! I was thinking of spooning it into pumpkin lattes too!! Nearly endless possibilities…
Love your videos! I just recently found your channel and I love everything about it, I have been binge watching videos! Lol ❤
I appreciate it!! Glad you’re here and loving it ❤️
Thank you
I came across your channel about a week ago and im obsessed. You are a literal gem and i love that you dont just do one thing on your channel. The way you communicate things is AH-mazing! Love love love it so much! We're trying to get goats(dairy) for the first time so that's how i came across your videos ❤️ Also just watched your video about the whole keto/carnivore thing and it made me so sad that you had to address your body size and how it doesnt bother your husband because people feel the need to open their mouth about stuff that LITERALLY does not concern them! You handled it with so much grace, and im so glad that you're confident with who you are ❤️ Love your videos girl! Keep doing you 😘
Awe thank you so much!! This comment means the world to me ❤️
@@SageandStoneHomestead❤️ 😊
Oh Heather, just plop a dinner plate or frying pan lid over your bowl of roasted peppers! Save your expensive aluminum foil!
Next time!
Enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your life with us. I looked on the sow right seeds site but did not find the Dutch Fork Pumpkin seed.. Can you please tell me where to purchase them? Thanks
It’s confusing but the company where I found them is called Sow True Seed! Very similar!
Oh, the peppers look so good! Could one dehydrate kefir gains? And then maybe sell them on one's website?
I am not sure!! When I’ve given them away I have done so in milk
Do you cold pack can your goat meat? Can you make goat broth ??
Goat tacos or tamales sound great !!
Yes and yes!! We use a mix of bones from our farm when we make broth and it definitely includes goat! The last time I canned ground goat meat it was cold pack and worked very well :)
Hi Heather.
I have a question for you. When I saw your packed chèvre freezer, I wondered how you would eat everything before it goes bad. So my question is : how do you manage to eat everything you preserve and make sure things are not forgotten somewhere ? If you have already treated the subject, can you redirect me to a video ?
(I hadn't seen the end of the video when I typed my comment, I guess I have my answer 😂😂)
I'm not super organized but truthfully it's not hard to go through some things. A lot of what you see in the door of the freezer is lard from the 3 pigs we had processed. We use lard instead of oil in a lot of recipes to include out bread recipe so it's about 1 of those containers every 10 days that gets used. We started with about 55llbs of lard last fall and this lard should last until we process pigs again :) the peppers I pulled from 2021 are not bad. Just forgotten lol
Every bit counts challenge got me here!!!! Luv luv luv..
Hugs from Germany
Love Colby cheese - it was the name of my daughter’s cow and where my Grandparents lived in Wisconsin.
How do you date your cheese? Sharpie pen on the outside wheel or on the plastic wrap ???
Yes that’s what I do :)
Hi guys have you ever tried to brew cider with your apples?
We don’t have an abundance of apples yet :) the apples on the counter are from the local Amish store and we use those for fresh eating
I tried the yogurt drops for my grandkids but they were very crumbly. If you look at the store bought ones they have a gelatin in them
Good information to know! Our kefir cubes were crumbly as well, I assumed because the starting product was pretty liquidy. I wonder how greek yogurt holds up?
i made tomato jam for my buisness
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Was that one of your pet goats 🐐 yall ate for supper? How do you decide which ones to eat and when? 😳
Pet goats? I don't have pet goats. We have goats as livestock animals and yes that was one we grew here on the dinner table. :) Many of them their destiny is written before they are born. As an example my goat Margie is due to kid at the end of sept. Does will be kept, bucks will all be in the freezer as they are not needed.
Hello heather! That pumpkin looked absolutely beautiful. I had a question. I think next season I want to try my hand at growing pumpkin for more the October season. What would you potentially suggest as a good time to start growing those to be decent hopefully by October. Im really eager to learn more with growing since its not too strenuous for me as a physically disabled person i keep my gardening close by and my daughter loves helping too. any info would be awesome! loved the video!
I have 15 Dutch Fork Pie Pumpkin plants that I started in the middle of may here in Southwestern KY. Some of them are (obviously) turning orange now but there's a lot of green ones on the vines. We are harvesting in August but will have many more to harvest probably right up until the first frost which for us is around Oct 21 because the plants are still putting on blooms, they have fruits of all ages on them. Depending on how long you season is, may could be good timing, maybe through June but after that it's tight. I think you get more fruit if you plant earlier.
I just did a small batch of 11 Sheppard peppers the way my Italian family have always done it. I roasted them on the grill and put them in the freezer for winter. Feel free to watch the short video up on my channel.
Thank you!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead btw I am enjoying the mug that you
Sent me. I just love it. Hugs from
Canada 🇨🇦
@@GardenandGrub I’m so glad you love it!!
I find that when i am multitasking it helps to set a timer for approximately the time i need to check whatever. That way when the timer goes off, it at least makes you think........what was that for???
Great idea!!! That’s literally the only reason this batch of peppers went well lol!!
I’m not sure if I missed it in one of the videos but do you share what seeds you started for fall and winter?
I talked about it in a live but I'll be showing the seedlings and talking about them in the next garden tour :)
Where do you get your containers that you used to freeze the pumpkin?
Our local Amish store has them but you can get them at restaurant supply stores too!
I see you do a lot of freeze drying. Do you ever freeze dry your milk?
I did last year! I almost never have a need to use it since we keep some animals in milk year round so I don't really freeze dry it anymore. I prefer to use excess to make butter and cheese :)
With animals in milk all year that makes sense. Have a good day.
Where did you get your food sealer at? The one I have is a job to use that one looks easier. Do you have a link
I bought it several years ago on amazon and I don't see my exact one on there but this one is close: www.amazon.com/PCS-Sous-Vide-Vacuum-Sealer/dp/B085RVFLWB/ref=sr_1_16?crid=3T5O3K8W344D2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FZ8Ij4BzZLlfPAsXChpIv23M3DYwzBZpSTV4MzXN9FTSxqE_JuxrOAAyGAh2EFLAKTKDu9T5kEhSWgtKe1bVGkfo0MN-xs3Gr37sg5MWqr6OmATOXFwIHD0W59Nl3l_vYAtFXMuzkp0ywCb4shjIeo_7OJJH92g_a89s1A6rkKWzpiaWhg0ZYJYb2sLnAvbOU5sDEpQCalgTdVDd_niP3zHBywCVgAAopKPNgVWUElI.q0h9BTxSclawQqdKyKEXULAsvenQ-zrN2qxGSbp-STY&dib_tag=se&keywords=handheld+vacuum+sealer&qid=1724710629&sprefix=handheld+vaccuum+sealer%2Caps%2C113&sr=8-16
I've always wondered why take off the scins? Aren't you loosing flavor?
I believe it's a texture concern. The skins are great in some applications! I bet the skins could be dehydrated and used as a powder :)
Why can’t you can pumpkin meat/ puree ?
You can! I have some canned already and needed a quick way to put away the purée that day :)
I am a cheesehead (born in Wisconsin) I love how easily you make all three cheeses. 🧀 I live in Germany and it is hard to find Colby or Cojack or Monterey Jack cheese . So I’m going to have to be adventurous and make my own !!!
Best Pumpkin Bread Ever
Wet:
2 cups pumpkin purée
2 cups white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup water
4 eggs
1 cup oil
1 tablespoon vanilla
Dry:
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp pumpkin spice
*cinnamon cloves ginger nutmeg
3 1/2 cups flour
Optional:
1 cup nuts
1 cup raisins / cranberries
Mix wet with dry ingredients
Pour batter into greased and floured bread loaf pans (2-3) or into Muffin tins 24+
Bake at 350° 55-75 min (muffins less time)
Let cool and eat with butter or whipped cream.
Cream cheese frosting also good !
Freezes great.
Bread can be sliced and used as French toast base with maple syrup.
thank you I was just looking for a pumpkin bread recipe this morning! You read my mind!!
Why can’t you can pumpkin meat/ puree ?
You can! I have some canned already and needed a quick way to get the pumpkin taken care of that day :)
I am a cheesehead (born in Wisconsin) I love how easily you make all three cheeses. 🧀 I live in Germany and it is hard to find Colby or Cojack or Monterey Jack cheese . So I’m going to have to be adventurous and make my own !!!
It's a little tedious but actually pretty simple!