Yes Crystal, great reminder! peace is the key. And yes! My favorite season, Fall is almost here! I start my decorations right after Labor Day. 😊 I love the colors of the trees, they are especially beautiful here and mountains as far as the eye can see. Enjoy your week ahead 😊
I have 3 teenagers in HS and a 4 year old. To say peace can be hard to come by is an understatement, lol. But we came up with something this school year that has been great. When i pick them up from school we all air our grievances for the day in the car on the way home. Sometimes, that means we sit in the driveway an extra 20 min, but once we cross that threshold, it's over. We dont bring it in our house. I realized that as a family we are tremendously peaceful when we keep the "world" outside our door. The kids get along better and evenings are smoother. Its not a perfect method but giving everyone a moment to vent everything out and then leave it behind has been great for having a more peaceful home.
Another truly inspiring video for today Crystal! Your wisdom on peace was truly uplifting and I so appreciate your sharing it with us. Peace is something that we need to cultivate daily within ourselves, our homes, and those around us. It can be challenging at times, but the Lord always promises to walk with us. With His help, we cannot fail. Fall is definitely my favorite time of year! I love the fall temperatures, the smells and scents, and always fall cooking! Anything I can make with apples and pumpkin are always fun! I even make pumpkin chili!!!! Enjoy your day my friend, and have a very blessed weekend.
Thank you Erin 💞 I so agree.. we need to daily cultivate peace knowing the Lord walks with us.. Love it. I have fun as well with all the apples and pumpkin.. I've been focusing on the apples.. pumpkin is coming soon! 😃 I also make pumpkin chili and it's so good!! Have a blessed weekend too my friend 😊
Good morning Crystal. I’ve had another busy week! Yesterday was spent with visiting family. One of our daughters and her family came to visit. I made a big pot of beef vegetable soup and cornbread muffins. It was delicious. I was able to spend time with 6 of my younger grandchildren. That was such a blessing! Even though loudness and excitement was all through my house, peace was definitely here!! Just appreciating all the blessings God has given me gives me the ultimate peace❤️. Have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Adrienne!! That sounds like a wonderful week!! 💞💞 I know exactly what you mean about the peace of a houseful of noisy and excited grandchildren! It's my favorite time... You have a wonderful weekend too my sweet friend 😊💖
Hello Crystal, Thank you for your beautiful message on peace. We are in such need of it in so many ways. Fall is my favorite season also. I love the colors and the crisp air and baking and the warm cozy feeling that it brings. I live in coastal Delaware and this is the time when the tourists leave and it's local time. We love walking on the beach looking for shells and sea glass and whatever God has placed there for us. The soups that I make are chicken noodle, beef barley and chili (i think it's a soup also) with biscuits and cornbread. I would love for you to share your fall baking recipes. I am always looking for new recipes for dinner and baking. Thank you so much for your beautiful thoughtful videos. I have been staying with my grandchildren and are behind in the videos. But I will catch up! Blessings, Jane
Thank you Jane!! Your walks on the beach sound so lovely!! I love the beach. We're a couple hours away from the Pacific ocean and I always look forward to our trips there. Your soups sound delicious!! I've shared a couple soup recipes in my short videos.. so far!! I have more in the works and will be sharing more in my videos too. Enjoy your time with your grandchildren!! 😊💞💞
Autumn is my favorite, and always has been. I especially love stepping on the crunchy acorns and crisp leaves while I take my morning walks. The summer temps are too much for me, so I'm thankful for the relief in weather. The colors, smells, sounds, the air ... it's all different and wonderful. I baked pumpkin scones the other day and they were DELICIOUS. They froze well, too. Our final attempt to beat the grasshoppers (TERRIBLE this year) and actually grow zucchini is paying off, so zucchini bread is being made today.
Pumpkin scones sound wonderful!! I'll be gearing up for some pumpkin baking soon 😊Everything you describe about fall is so true.. it's a beautiful time of year 💞
We’re actually feeling it where I’m at in Texas! Cool mornings. Only got up to the low 80s the other day. We had a very mild summer for our area so we’re anticipating a pretty fall and winter!
Yay! for cooler temps!! We're having an early fall around here.. not sure what that will mean for the winter! But we shall see 😃 Have a great weekend! 💞
I love fall, winter and spring Not a fan of summer but I love decorating for the holidays especially fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter we are having homemade ground turkey fried potatoes and cabbage for dinner tonight 😋.
Thank you Crystal for another great video! Today, it definitely feels like fall! It has been raining since last night and the temperatures dropped drastically! I am in Europe so last week we've still had heatwave temperatures but today it is so cold that I will be making Italian lentil soup for supper! Haven't done much baking lately because of the heat but two days ago I've tried out a recipe for zucchini chocolate muffins and Wow! They were great! I highly recommend them if you don't know what else to do with the zucchini's! Also, you made me smile when you said that you now try to enjoy each and every season because I just recently decided to do the same!😀
Good morning Esther! Your soup sounds delicious!! Something about those temps dropping that make you want to warm up with a nice hot bowl of homemade soup 💞💞. I have made chocolate zucchini muffins and chocolate zucchini cake.. both are amazing. Nice and moist 😊. Have a wonderful week!!
Good morning, Crystal! Thank you for this perfectly timed video on peace. I needed to hear it! My favorite soups are chicken tortilla, Italian vegetable, and chili...I count it as a soup. 😁 Will you be making any videos of your favorite soups in the weeks ahead? I could always use some more cozy soup recipes! I hope you have a wonderful week! Blessings!
Good morning Debbie! Your soups sound delicious! Yes, I'm sure as I work through my list of soups I'll be filming and sharing 😃I hope you have a wonderful week as well!! 💞
My favorite soup is Stuffed pepper soup and I place in portions and place in freezer. I also make cabbage roll soup as well. My friends husband came up with a chicken soup that is very tasty with black beans rice and quinoa. I enjoy that as well. I can eat soup every day in fall and winter and spring but in 80 degree temps or higher just not appetizing. I don't use a/c.
Loving it Crystal - thank you. Romans 12:18 is one of my 'life' verses - as far as it depends on me I endeavour to live at peace with everyone ... only possible of course with the Prince of Peace to guide us 😊. I have been baking for my grandson's 5th birthday afternoon teaparty - chocolate cake, ginger loaf, fruit scones, flapjacks, sausage rolls, etc. We love soup here in Scotland too - lentil, sweet potato, tomato, minestrone, carrot and coriander, mushroom and thyme, brocolli and tarragon - in fact anything that I can lay hands on - I like to freeze leftover veggies for soups. We also have a local smoked fish, leek and potato soup called Cullen Skink which is amazing! Talking of temperatures we had frost on the roofs this morning, -2.5° c overnight 🥶. Winters coming ..... but with each season comes that season's special blessings as you say. God bless dear friend. Xx
Thank you Des.. Romans 12:18 has also been one of my "life" verses 💞 Your birthday baking for your grandson sounds wonderful!!!! It sounds like it will be a fun birthday tea party! I've never heard of Cullen Skink.. sounds delicious! Your first frost already? Wow.. I'm pretty sure we're still a little way from that.. but who knows, autumn has come early here! Have a wonderful blessed weekend my friend 😊
I'm afraid about the only soup my husband has any interest in is chili. I for one love a good hot and sour soup, but being the only one interested in it, almost never make it. And my kids don't generally like soups, so soups just don't happen much in our house. I might blame the Arizona heat for that, but who knows? :) This week we have a Canadian family member staying with us so the house has been getting spiffed up. Our last house was much better for visitors but we will likely be doing a bit of running around the state to show off the sights, so it will probably be just fine. Besides, the kids are excited to see them AND to have a week off of school work (Fall Break? haha). The visit will probably mute some of the "churn" of the news cycle, which will be nice. But I will probably will only really relax once the visit is over and we are back to our usual routine. ;) Have a great week!
I could totally understand the AZ heat having something to do with not wanting soup! 😃 How fun to have family coming to stay with you! AZ has some beautiful sights to see.. it's become one of my favorite states 🙂And your kids are getting a different type of education for the week!! Have a super fun week 😊💞
Hi Crystal. In one of your short phone videos, you mentioned not using pre-shredded cheese because of that natamycin. What kind of mozzarella cheese do you use? Does it shred easily like cheddar does?
I buy the blocks of mozzarella where I buy the cheddar. And yes it shreds easily like cheddar does. At Costco I've also bought the fresh mozzarella which is really good.. it does not shred but I slice it and use it on pizza.
I am prepping to make Gumbo for the first time tomorrow. I am making a GF version. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Is. 26:3
@@HomemakingontheHomestead the gumbo was a success. I didn’t even tell them I used cassava flour for the white flower and bacon grease instead of butter. I’ll be making it again.
I have never heard of canning cookie dough. The dough would be cooked during the canning process. So that is why I'm not understanding this. I have frozen lots of cookie dough over the years (using my favorite recipes). You can even scoop out the individual cookies on a cookie tray and flash freeze them. After frozen you can put them in a ziplock bag and pull out as many as you want to bake up for easily having fresh cookies. But canning does not seem to me to be something that would work at all. Cookie dough has many ingredients that aren't recommend for canning (butter, flour, etc..).
Thank you for stopping by and sharing a cup of coffee with me! 🥰💞 I appreciate you all so much -Crystal 😊
Yes Crystal, great reminder! peace is the key. And yes! My favorite season, Fall is almost here! I start my decorations right after Labor Day. 😊 I love the colors of the trees, they are especially beautiful here and mountains as far as the eye can see. Enjoy your week ahead 😊
Hi Sheila!! I also love the colors of fall!! They are my favorite. Have a blessed weekend and week ahead my friend 💞
I have 3 teenagers in HS and a 4 year old. To say peace can be hard to come by is an understatement, lol. But we came up with something this school year that has been great. When i pick them up from school we all air our grievances for the day in the car on the way home. Sometimes, that means we sit in the driveway an extra 20 min, but once we cross that threshold, it's over. We dont bring it in our house. I realized that as a family we are tremendously peaceful when we keep the "world" outside our door. The kids get along better and evenings are smoother. Its not a perfect method but giving everyone a moment to vent everything out and then leave it behind has been great for having a more peaceful home.
I really love this idea! An opportunity to talk through anything they want and still keep the home peaceful. Thank you for sharing!! 😊💞
Another truly inspiring video for today Crystal! Your wisdom on peace was truly uplifting and I so appreciate your sharing it with us. Peace is something that we need to cultivate daily within ourselves, our homes, and those around us. It can be challenging at times, but the Lord always promises to walk with us. With His help, we cannot fail. Fall is definitely my favorite time of year! I love the fall temperatures, the smells and scents, and always fall cooking! Anything I can make with apples and pumpkin are always fun! I even make pumpkin chili!!!! Enjoy your day my friend, and have a very blessed weekend.
Thank you Erin 💞 I so agree.. we need to daily cultivate peace knowing the Lord walks with us.. Love it. I have fun as well with all the apples and pumpkin.. I've been focusing on the apples.. pumpkin is coming soon! 😃 I also make pumpkin chili and it's so good!! Have a blessed weekend too my friend 😊
Good morning Crystal. I’ve had another busy week! Yesterday was spent with visiting family. One of our daughters and her family came to visit. I made a big pot of beef vegetable soup and cornbread muffins. It was delicious. I was able to spend time with 6 of my younger grandchildren. That was such a blessing! Even though loudness and excitement was all through my house, peace was definitely here!! Just appreciating all the blessings God has given me gives me the ultimate peace❤️.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Adrienne!! That sounds like a wonderful week!! 💞💞 I know exactly what you mean about the peace of a houseful of noisy and excited grandchildren! It's my favorite time... You have a wonderful weekend too my sweet friend 😊💖
Hello Crystal, Thank you for your beautiful message on peace. We are in such need of it in so many ways. Fall is my favorite season also. I love the colors and the crisp air and baking and the warm cozy feeling that it brings. I live in coastal Delaware and this is the time when the tourists leave and it's local time. We love walking on the beach looking for shells and sea glass and whatever God has placed there for us. The soups that I make are chicken noodle, beef barley and chili (i think it's a soup also) with biscuits and cornbread. I would love for you to share your fall baking recipes. I am always looking for new recipes for dinner and baking. Thank you so much for your beautiful thoughtful videos. I have been staying with my grandchildren and are behind in the videos. But I will catch up! Blessings, Jane
Thank you Jane!! Your walks on the beach sound so lovely!! I love the beach. We're a couple hours away from the Pacific ocean and I always look forward to our trips there. Your soups sound delicious!! I've shared a couple soup recipes in my short videos.. so far!! I have more in the works and will be sharing more in my videos too. Enjoy your time with your grandchildren!! 😊💞💞
Autumn is my favorite, and always has been. I especially love stepping on the crunchy acorns and crisp leaves while I take my morning walks. The summer temps are too much for me, so I'm thankful for the relief in weather. The colors, smells, sounds, the air ... it's all different and wonderful.
I baked pumpkin scones the other day and they were DELICIOUS. They froze well, too.
Our final attempt to beat the grasshoppers (TERRIBLE this year) and actually grow zucchini is paying off, so zucchini bread is being made today.
Pumpkin scones sound wonderful!! I'll be gearing up for some pumpkin baking soon 😊Everything you describe about fall is so true.. it's a beautiful time of year 💞
We’re actually feeling it where I’m at in Texas! Cool mornings. Only got up to the low 80s the other day. We had a very mild summer for our area so we’re anticipating a pretty fall and winter!
Yay! for cooler temps!! We're having an early fall around here.. not sure what that will mean for the winter! But we shall see 😃 Have a great weekend! 💞
I love fall, winter and spring Not a fan of summer but I love decorating for the holidays especially fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter we are having homemade ground turkey fried potatoes and cabbage for dinner tonight 😋.
Hi Tina! Your dinner sounds good!! 😊
Thank you Crystal for another great video! Today, it definitely feels like fall! It has been raining since last night and the temperatures dropped drastically! I am in Europe so last week we've still had heatwave temperatures but today it is so cold that I will be making Italian lentil soup for supper! Haven't done much baking lately because of the heat but two days ago I've tried out a recipe for zucchini chocolate muffins and Wow! They were great! I highly recommend them if you don't know what else to do with the zucchini's! Also, you made me smile when you said that you now try to enjoy each and every season because I just recently decided to do the same!😀
Good morning Esther! Your soup sounds delicious!! Something about those temps dropping that make you want to warm up with a nice hot bowl of homemade soup 💞💞. I have made chocolate zucchini muffins and chocolate zucchini cake.. both are amazing. Nice and moist 😊. Have a wonderful week!!
Good morning, Crystal! Thank you for this perfectly timed video on peace. I needed to hear it! My favorite soups are chicken tortilla, Italian vegetable, and chili...I count it as a soup. 😁 Will you be making any videos of your favorite soups in the weeks ahead? I could always use some more cozy soup recipes! I hope you have a wonderful week! Blessings!
Good morning Debbie! Your soups sound delicious! Yes, I'm sure as I work through my list of soups I'll be filming and sharing 😃I hope you have a wonderful week as well!! 💞
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Hello! And welcome.. thank you for subscribing 💞
Very good video! I find most times I'm not feeling peaceful I notice I may not be trusting God's sovereignty.
That's true... faith and trust have a lot to do with peace 😊
We are having our first September rain here in Southern Indiana and now it looks like Autumn.🙂🍎
How nice!! 💞😊
I enjoy making cabbage soup and good ol’veggie soup with all leftovers from the garden. Just made a big batch of sloppy joes and then a meatloaf!
And, peace! Yes, God gives us the ability to choose our reactions!
Your soups and all your batch cooking sounds fantastic! It's been awhile since I've made meatloaf. I need to put that on my menu soon!!
My favorite soup is Stuffed pepper soup and I place in portions and place in freezer. I also make cabbage roll soup as well. My friends husband came up with a chicken soup that is very tasty with black beans rice and quinoa. I enjoy that as well. I can eat soup every day in fall and winter and spring but in 80 degree temps or higher just not appetizing. I don't use a/c.
Oh yum!! All those soups sound delicious!! 😊
Loving it Crystal - thank you. Romans 12:18 is one of my 'life' verses - as far as it depends on me I endeavour to live at peace with everyone ... only possible of course with the Prince of Peace to guide us 😊. I have been baking for my grandson's 5th birthday afternoon teaparty - chocolate cake, ginger loaf, fruit scones, flapjacks, sausage rolls, etc. We love soup here in Scotland too - lentil, sweet potato, tomato, minestrone, carrot and coriander, mushroom and thyme, brocolli and tarragon - in fact anything that I can lay hands on - I like to freeze leftover veggies for soups. We also have a local smoked fish, leek and potato soup called Cullen Skink which is amazing! Talking of temperatures we had frost on the roofs this morning, -2.5° c overnight 🥶. Winters coming ..... but with each season comes that season's special blessings as you say. God bless dear friend. Xx
Thank you Des.. Romans 12:18 has also been one of my "life" verses 💞 Your birthday baking for your grandson sounds wonderful!!!! It sounds like it will be a fun birthday tea party! I've never heard of Cullen Skink.. sounds delicious! Your first frost already? Wow.. I'm pretty sure we're still a little way from that.. but who knows, autumn has come early here! Have a wonderful blessed weekend my friend 😊
I'm afraid about the only soup my husband has any interest in is chili. I for one love a good hot and sour soup, but being the only one interested in it, almost never make it. And my kids don't generally like soups, so soups just don't happen much in our house. I might blame the Arizona heat for that, but who knows? :)
This week we have a Canadian family member staying with us so the house has been getting spiffed up. Our last house was much better for visitors but we will likely be doing a bit of running around the state to show off the sights, so it will probably be just fine. Besides, the kids are excited to see them AND to have a week off of school work (Fall Break? haha). The visit will probably mute some of the "churn" of the news cycle, which will be nice. But I will probably will only really relax once the visit is over and we are back to our usual routine. ;)
Have a great week!
I could totally understand the AZ heat having something to do with not wanting soup! 😃 How fun to have family coming to stay with you! AZ has some beautiful sights to see.. it's become one of my favorite states 🙂And your kids are getting a different type of education for the week!! Have a super fun week 😊💞
Hi Crystal. In one of your short phone videos, you mentioned not using pre-shredded cheese because of that natamycin. What kind of mozzarella cheese do you use? Does it shred easily like cheddar does?
I buy the blocks of mozzarella where I buy the cheddar. And yes it shreds easily like cheddar does. At Costco I've also bought the fresh mozzarella which is really good.. it does not shred but I slice it and use it on pizza.
@@HomemakingontheHomestead Thank you Crystal.
I looked for the video yesterday and was unable to find it.
Which video were you looking for Vicki?
@@HomemakingontheHomestead Friday video I saw it today but unable to find yesterday.
@@vixxcottage Ok! Good.. glad you found it. 😊
I am prepping to make Gumbo for the first time tomorrow. I am making a GF version.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Is. 26:3
Ohhh.. gumbo sounds delicious! I've never made it. I'd love to hear how it turns out!! Love the Scripture verse 💞Focus on HIM!! Thank you Georgene 😊💖
@@HomemakingontheHomestead the gumbo was a success. I didn’t even tell them I used cassava flour for the white flower and bacon grease instead of butter. I’ll be making it again.
@@gdgirouard That sounds sooo good!! I'm adding gumbo to my soup list! 😄
Do you have a recipe for cookie filling that I cause for canning
I've actually never heard of canning cookie filling 😃
@@HomemakingontheHomestead do you suggest any recipes for something like that
I have never heard of canning cookie dough. The dough would be cooked during the canning process. So that is why I'm not understanding this. I have frozen lots of cookie dough over the years (using my favorite recipes). You can even scoop out the individual cookies on a cookie tray and flash freeze them. After frozen you can put them in a ziplock bag and pull out as many as you want to bake up for easily having fresh cookies. But canning does not seem to me to be something that would work at all. Cookie dough has many ingredients that aren't recommend for canning (butter, flour, etc..).
I am looking for cookie filling that I can use for canning to use later