I've been married for almost 40 years and till this day , if I'm baking something for company . I can still make it flop. I use my mother's excuse. She would always say it must be the whether. Don't feel bad. It will get better. Sending my love as always. ❤
Hi Valerie, this is my FAVORITE format of video! I love watching others bake while im in the kitchen and i love voice overs. Please do more like this! Also, a note about confidence in the kitchen, it took about 7 yrs of being in my own kitchen, making mistakes and learning, before i became confident. Im married and in my own kitchen for 10 yrs now and the kitchen is one of my favorite places to be, which is good with 4 growing hungry kids and my husband 😅 you grow into it. One day you will look around and realize that you have become the mom and cook that you aspire to be. The main thing to remember is to not compare yourself to others, your kitchen and food are unique and will become core memories for your family. And learn to laugh at yourself and be thankful for a supportive husband 💕 😊
Dont give up on your baking and cooking skills, Valerie. I was HORRIFIC at both when I first got married as I did not grow up in a household with anyone who enjoyed doing either. It was a WHOLE struggle bus for me for about the first whole decade of marriage until I actually TRULY started enjoying being in the kitchen and knocking out great meals consistently. It is my favorite place to be now. And yes about Gilmore Girls. I was so disappointed the UpTv did not run the Gilmore the Merrier marathon over Thanksgiving week this year. I do have the DVD set and can stream the series elsewhere online, but it had become a tradition for my family to have the series running in the background for the whole week while we took care of chores and getting ready for the holiday, and sitting down to fully focus on scenes or full episodes when we could.
I think we need more videos like this, showing it's okay to make mistakes.... Some of my favorite stories growing up we're of my aunt's starting to cook in the first years of marriage. One aunt added a cup of coffee grounds to a cake that called for a cup of coffee, not realizing they meant brewed coffee. I set the fire alarm off regularly because I left the water boil away... Julie burns water became the joke.❤
I totally understand feeling that way… I’m new in the sourdough world and I’m the same way when my stuff messes up. I tried to make a a sourdough pumpkin shaped loaf and it was awful… I think I over proofed mine bc it was so dense and funky. But as a baker/ cook too I know how much work it takes to make something and ya do feel bad. My advice is it takes time and grace. If people say they don’t have flops they are fibbing.
New subscriber here and I appreciate your realness, Valerie! On Saturday, I baked bread for my family and that kind of flopped for me too. Know you're far from alone in kitchen mishaps! 🤗
Those molasses cookies were picture perfect! Now I want to eat some! With new recipes it’s so hard to decide if you should follow the recipe or go with your instinct. We can’t always get it right 😂 Glad Chip is so supportive of your cooking! My husband is too! Sewing is something I struggle with. Seems like after 15 years I should be better at it, and I can relate to the feeling that by now I really should be more of a pro and I’m the only one who doesn’t get it.
I love you because you are real. I've been married 42 years. I love cooking. I still have flops. It happens to us all. You are a very mature young lady, mom and wife. You are going to go far in the kitchen. Practice, practice. Make those cinnamon rolls again soon. You will do it!
Hi. I do not think anything is wrong with your baking. It looks yummie. And the cinnamon buns did rise in the oven so they are perfect 😂. Thanks for this video i love to spend time with you in the kitchen. You are also looking so confident❤
I laughed out loud when you said that your whole world comes crashing down from a failure in the kitchen. That is so me! I’ve been cooking and baking since I was old enough to hold a spoon and everything comes out really good most of the time, but that one percent of the time that something is a total failure I question my whole ability to bake, and I wonder why my family puts up with my cooking at all.😂
Do you have the Hope's Table cookbook, Valerie? If you do, I recommend trying her cinnamon roll recipe (it's not sourdough, though). I will warn you that it does make a LOT more cinnamon rolls than the recipe says--if I remember right for a half a recipe it makes a 9x13 plus an 8x8. They always turn out perfectly for me--soft and delicious. But the recipe doesn't say to use bread flour, and that's what I use and recommend. Another cinnamon roll tip is to whip the filling till it's light and fluffy before spreading it on (you want to spread it fairly thin). It keeps the filling from melting down to the bottom of the cinnamon roll so much. The caramel frosting that I use is to boil 1/4 c. butter and 1/2 c of brown sugar till sugar is dissolved (it's a little hard to tell). Add maple flavoring (optional), milk, dash of salt and powdered sugar. The milk and powdered sugar I just add until it's the right consistency and a very light tan color. Whisk it together! I also use regular sewing thread to cut my cinnamon rolls. Slide the thread under the roll of dough, cross the ends together and pull them tight. It slices right through and you have a perfect roll without it being smashed by a knife. I hope at least one of these tips is helpful to you. I started off having almost no cooking or baking experience before I was married and now I enjoy it and cinnamon rolls just might be my favorite thing to make!
@@ValerieKeim I should say, it's not always fun for me either. Especially in the summer when I'd WAY rather be outside, but there's something so satisfying about turning out a good meal. But I've had more than my fair share of flops in the kitchen!! Especially with cookies....your cookies turned out beautiful and mine always turn out either too flat or they don't flatten at all or something. Its so frustrating!
@@ValerieKeim I forgot another tip (I hope I don't sound like a know-it-all--I don't feel that way at all, I just have picked up some tips that have really helped me feel more confident in my cinnamon rolls and I like to pass them on because to me a good cinnamon roll is basically love in the form of a pastry!). An instant read thermometer is a must have for cinnamon rolls or bread in general. If it reads 190* your bread should be done! It takes so much of the impossible guess work out deciding if your cinnamon rolls, bread or dinner rolls are done!
I feel the exact same way sometimes🙈 I have to remind myself that we are all talented in different areas!!! Im sure you're really good at other things!!!❤
You’re a young mum. Be kind to yourself. You learn from every flop, by the time your children are getting married your be able to be there to help them because of all that you learnt. Thing that don’t come naturally take just a little longer. I’m sure you didn’t just sit at the piano for the first time and just play a masterpiece. ❤ God bless you 🙏🏻
Dont feel alone, last time I made cinnamon rolls I believe they didn’t turn out bc the recipe said cast iron and I used a metal pan. Im hoping to make more this Christmas so hopefully they turn out
The cinnamon rolls looked fine, but I understand. We all make mistakes, but the recipe WAS at fault. I use my bread maker to make the dough, and then I fill, roll, and bake. You might think about a bread maker if you feel more comfortable baking that way. Pizza dough is easy in a bread maker, too. I enjoy your videos, and I appreciate that everything is not perfect. You find a way to be positive and laugh a bit. Good for Chip, having a good attitude about it all. I hope you enjoy your week!
I think everything looked delicious!! And I really enjoyed this video!! Thanks for the inspo. I'm trying to experiment with sourdough starter. If you don't mind me asking where did you get your green dress? Your dresses in this vid are beautiful!
I loved the video today🤍🤍 How well I related with this🥹🙈 thank you for sharing the real! I’ve been married a little over 4 years and I’m finally starting to feel a little (tiny bit😅) more confident in my cooking😌 my husband has been very patient with me and helped me to learn!! Sometimes it don’t all come natural and being a SAHM you just feel like you’re supposed to be a pro at everything homemaking but sometimes it takes time and patience and grace but we’ll get there one day☺️ I was blessed to grow up with my Mom staying home with us and she is a great cook but she don’t use recipes hardly everrr and she don’t measure anything so it’s hard to learn just from watching her😅🙈 I’ve been wanting to try cinnamon rolls but working with bread dough terrifies me but I hope to try soon🤞🏼☺️
Hello from Australia , you are such a good mummy and wife , and we all have our failures, no matter how old or how long we have been married , you are precious keep practicing hugs from OZ 🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
The cookies look tasty to me too! That is odd that you weren't given a rise time for the rolls. We all go through learning experiences like this in our kitchens and it is okay. I've been through it several times over the years and I've been married 19 years. You are not stupid at all.
We watch Little House, Waltons or Road to Avonlea in the fall/winter… it’s our thing! You would like them~ their much cleaner than Gilmore Girls. I had to stop watching GG, too nasty for me (I was feeling convicted).
I totally agree! I tried watching Gilmore Girls one time, and I was so convicted, I had to turn it off. To be honest, I was so shocked that such a filthy show was so highly praised and promoted on a Mennonite channel. I always thought Mennonites lived so close to the Lord and were so careful about not allowing worldly influences to infiltrate their homes. That is one of the things I have most respected about them and their way of life. If we don't do certain things because of Godly convictions, why would we allow them to be done by others or shown in our homes? Our kids hear and see what is being said and done and insinuated on TV shows, just as much as they would hear and see it if it were being said and done and insinuated in person. There is truly not much of a difference. I mean, where is the distinction between us and the world if we watch and recommend things that the world embraces and the Bible clearly condemns? I have to say, I am pretty disappointed right now.
@@bluegrasssingers3Sometimes people don’t catch racy undertones, nasty jokes, etc. because they haven’t been exposed to those things to actually understand they’re nasty to begin with. I’ve never watched the show Gilmore Girls, but I have rewatched different TV shows from when I was younger and now at 43 I’m just realizing how dirty they really are.
I've been married for almost 40 years and till this day , if I'm baking something for company . I can still make it flop. I use my mother's excuse. She would always say it must be the whether. Don't feel bad. It will get better. Sending my love as always. ❤
I’ll have to use the weather as an excuse 😂
Hi Valerie, this is my FAVORITE format of video! I love watching others bake while im in the kitchen and i love voice overs. Please do more like this! Also, a note about confidence in the kitchen, it took about 7 yrs of being in my own kitchen, making mistakes and learning, before i became confident. Im married and in my own kitchen for 10 yrs now and the kitchen is one of my favorite places to be, which is good with 4 growing hungry kids and my husband 😅 you grow into it. One day you will look around and realize that you have become the mom and cook that you aspire to be. The main thing to remember is to not compare yourself to others, your kitchen and food are unique and will become core memories for your family. And learn to laugh at yourself and be thankful for a supportive husband 💕 😊
I love this so much! My husband really is the best and most supportive!! 😍 thanks so much!
Valerie, you are the most unpretentious Mennonite UA-camr I watch. Thank you for being so real and for being you❤
Awe that’s sweet of you 🥰 thank you!
Dont give up on your baking and cooking skills, Valerie. I was HORRIFIC at both when I first got married as I did not grow up in a household with anyone who enjoyed doing either. It was a WHOLE struggle bus for me for about the first whole decade of marriage until I actually TRULY started enjoying being in the kitchen and knocking out great meals consistently. It is my favorite place to be now.
And yes about Gilmore Girls. I was so disappointed the UpTv did not run the Gilmore the Merrier marathon over Thanksgiving week this year. I do have the DVD set and can stream the series elsewhere online, but it had become a tradition for my family to have the series running in the background for the whole week while we took care of chores and getting ready for the holiday, and sitting down to fully focus on scenes or full episodes when we could.
I love that tradition! But that’s a bummer! Thank you for the encouragement 🥰
That's what I feel this week sewing no look
I think we need more videos like this, showing it's okay to make mistakes.... Some of my favorite stories growing up we're of my aunt's starting to cook in the first years of marriage. One aunt added a cup of coffee grounds to a cake that called for a cup of coffee, not realizing they meant brewed coffee. I set the fire alarm off regularly because I left the water boil away... Julie burns water became the joke.❤
😂😂 I’ve definitely set the fire alarm off as well 🫣
I totally understand feeling that way… I’m new in the sourdough world and I’m the same way when my stuff messes up. I tried to make a a sourdough pumpkin shaped loaf and it was awful… I think I over proofed mine bc it was so dense and funky. But as a baker/ cook too I know how much work it takes to make something and ya do feel bad. My advice is it takes time and grace. If people say they don’t have flops they are fibbing.
I’m glad I’m not the only one this happens to 😝😅
I am 60 years old and still not a good baker. Some things turn out and some things don’t. Hang in there and don’t feel bad.
That makes me feel better! 🙈
New subscriber here and I appreciate your realness, Valerie! On Saturday, I baked bread for my family and that kind of flopped for me too. Know you're far from alone in kitchen mishaps! 🤗
Thanks for subscribing! I’m glad to have you 🥰 hopefully s a time goes on we’ll both have better skills with yeasty things haha
The cookies were amazing! Thank you for sharing them 🤩
I’m glad you liked them! 😍
Those molasses cookies were picture perfect! Now I want to eat some! With new recipes it’s so hard to decide if you should follow the recipe or go with your instinct. We can’t always get it right 😂 Glad Chip is so supportive of your cooking! My husband is too!
Sewing is something I struggle with. Seems like after 15 years I should be better at it, and I can relate to the feeling that by now I really should be more of a pro and I’m the only one who doesn’t get it.
Those things definitely take time!
I love you because you are real. I've been married 42 years. I love cooking. I still have flops. It happens to us all. You are a very mature young lady, mom and wife. You are going to go far in the kitchen. Practice, practice. Make those cinnamon rolls again soon. You will do it!
Aww thank you! 🥹
Hi. I do not think anything is wrong with your baking. It looks yummie. And the cinnamon buns did rise in the oven so they are perfect 😂.
Thanks for this video i love to spend time with you in the kitchen. You are also looking so confident❤
Aww you’re so sweet 🥰 thank you!
I laughed out loud when you said that your whole world comes crashing down from a failure in the kitchen. That is so me! I’ve been cooking and baking since I was old enough to hold a spoon and everything comes out really good most of the time, but that one percent of the time that something is a total failure I question my whole ability to bake, and I wonder why my family puts up with my cooking at all.😂
😂😂
Do you have the Hope's Table cookbook, Valerie? If you do, I recommend trying her cinnamon roll recipe (it's not sourdough, though). I will warn you that it does make a LOT more cinnamon rolls than the recipe says--if I remember right for a half a recipe it makes a 9x13 plus an 8x8. They always turn out perfectly for me--soft and delicious. But the recipe doesn't say to use bread flour, and that's what I use and recommend.
Another cinnamon roll tip is to whip the filling till it's light and fluffy before spreading it on (you want to spread it fairly thin). It keeps the filling from melting down to the bottom of the cinnamon roll so much.
The caramel frosting that I use is to boil 1/4 c. butter and 1/2 c of brown sugar till sugar is dissolved (it's a little hard to tell). Add maple flavoring (optional), milk, dash of salt and powdered sugar. The milk and powdered sugar I just add until it's the right consistency and a very light tan color. Whisk it together!
I also use regular sewing thread to cut my cinnamon rolls. Slide the thread under the roll of dough, cross the ends together and pull them tight. It slices right through and you have a perfect roll without it being smashed by a knife.
I hope at least one of these tips is helpful to you. I started off having almost no cooking or baking experience before I was married and now I enjoy it and cinnamon rolls just might be my favorite thing to make!
I aspire to be like that cause I definitely didn’t have much knowledge when I got married lol I do have that cookbook so I’ll have go try it!
@@ValerieKeim I should say, it's not always fun for me either. Especially in the summer when I'd WAY rather be outside, but there's something so satisfying about turning out a good meal. But I've had more than my fair share of flops in the kitchen!! Especially with cookies....your cookies turned out beautiful and mine always turn out either too flat or they don't flatten at all or something. Its so frustrating!
I’ve definitely had that happen to cookies before too!
@@ValerieKeim I forgot another tip (I hope I don't sound like a know-it-all--I don't feel that way at all, I just have picked up some tips that have really helped me feel more confident in my cinnamon rolls and I like to pass them on because to me a good cinnamon roll is basically love in the form of a pastry!). An instant read thermometer is a must have for cinnamon rolls or bread in general. If it reads 190* your bread should be done! It takes so much of the impossible guess work out deciding if your cinnamon rolls, bread or dinner rolls are done!
I feel the exact same way sometimes🙈 I have to remind myself that we are all talented in different areas!!! Im sure you're really good at other things!!!❤
I have to remind myself of that too! We can’t all be good at everything lol
I loved the vlog, sweet friend!😍
Thank you! ♥️
You’re a young mum. Be kind to yourself. You learn from every flop, by the time your children are getting married your be able to be there to help them because of all that you learnt. Thing that don’t come naturally take just a little longer. I’m sure you didn’t just sit at the piano for the first time and just play a masterpiece. ❤ God bless you 🙏🏻
Very true about the piano 🥰 thanks for being so encouraging! 🥰
Dont feel alone, last time I made cinnamon rolls I believe they didn’t turn out bc the recipe said cast iron and I used a metal pan. Im hoping to make more this Christmas so hopefully they turn out
Let’s not give up! 🥰🤩
The cinnamon rolls looked fine, but I understand. We all make mistakes, but the recipe WAS at fault. I use my bread maker to make the dough, and then I fill, roll, and bake. You might think about a bread maker if you feel more comfortable baking that way. Pizza dough is easy in a bread maker, too. I enjoy your videos, and I appreciate that everything is not perfect. You find a way to be positive and laugh a bit. Good for Chip, having a good attitude about it all. I hope you enjoy your week!
Thanks so much 🥰 that makes me feel better!
I think everything looked delicious!! And I really enjoyed this video!! Thanks for the inspo. I'm trying to experiment with sourdough starter.
If you don't mind me asking where did you get your green dress? Your dresses in this vid are beautiful!
Aww thank you! The green dress is actually from TJMAXX last year 😍
I loved the video today🤍🤍 How well I related with this🥹🙈 thank you for sharing the real! I’ve been married a little over 4 years and I’m finally starting to feel a little (tiny bit😅) more confident in my cooking😌 my husband has been very patient with me and helped me to learn!! Sometimes it don’t all come natural and being a SAHM you just feel like you’re supposed to be a pro at everything homemaking but sometimes it takes time and patience and grace but we’ll get there one day☺️ I was blessed to grow up with my Mom staying home with us and she is a great cook but she don’t use recipes hardly everrr and she don’t measure anything so it’s hard to learn just from watching her😅🙈 I’ve been wanting to try cinnamon rolls but working with bread dough terrifies me but I hope to try soon🤞🏼☺️
Bread dough kind of terrifies me too 😂 it’s nice to know though that other people can relate! 😅
Hello from Australia , you are such a good mummy and wife , and we all have our failures, no matter how old or how long we have been married , you are precious keep practicing hugs from OZ 🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!
Okay now I want to bake 😆😊
The cookies look tasty to me too!
That is odd that you weren't given a rise time for the rolls. We all go through learning experiences like this in our kitchens and it is okay. I've been through it several times over the years and I've been married 19 years. You are not stupid at all.
Thanks for the encouragement! I am glad the cookies were at least good lol
Yes, bless our husbands who eat our over baked desserts in milk. 😊 I’ve definitely had my fails with cinnamon rolls!
Haha it’s so sweet of them 😂😍
I kind of suck in the kitchen... has not stopped me yet😂
Technically it hasn’t stopped me either but I do feel like giving up on it sometimes 😂
We watch Little House, Waltons or Road to Avonlea in the fall/winter… it’s our thing! You would like them~ their much cleaner than Gilmore Girls. I had to stop watching GG, too nasty for me (I was feeling convicted).
I love those shows as well! I grew up watching all of them 😍
I totally agree! I tried watching Gilmore Girls one time, and I was so convicted, I had to turn it off. To be honest, I was so shocked that such a filthy show was so highly praised and promoted on a Mennonite channel. I always thought Mennonites lived so close to the Lord and were so careful about not allowing worldly influences to infiltrate their homes. That is one of the things I have most respected about them and their way of life. If we don't do certain things because of Godly convictions, why would we allow them to be done by others or shown in our homes? Our kids hear and see what is being said and done and insinuated on TV shows, just as much as they would hear and see it if it were being said and done and insinuated in person. There is truly not much of a difference. I mean, where is the distinction between us and the world if we watch and recommend things that the world embraces and the Bible clearly condemns? I have to say, I am pretty disappointed right now.
@@bluegrasssingers3Sometimes people don’t catch racy undertones, nasty jokes, etc. because they haven’t been exposed to those things to actually understand they’re nasty to begin with. I’ve never watched the show Gilmore Girls, but I have rewatched different TV shows from when I was younger and now at 43 I’m just realizing how dirty they really are.
I used to watch Gilmore Girls (the original) but then, when they wrote in the part where the father left the mother, I said, that is it!
BUT… have you had fires in your kitchen due to your own negligence? Until THAT happens, you’re not reeeeally a failure. 🙃
Oh boy 😅 I’ve made the smoke detecter go off but never a fire 😂
If at first you don't succeed try try again
Very true 😌