Preserving Summer Vegetables for Winter
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2022
- Canning season is full swing at the cabin. We freeze, ferment and can our garden produce for the long winter ahead.
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The switching of your shirts was a " hold on, wait a minute, moment" Lol. So creative, you two.
I came here to post this! I love the little inside jokes & Easter eggs.
I’m on pain medicine and I wasn’t sure if it was that or What! 😀
I thought I was losing my mind!! They did change shirts!!
Same!! Lmao! Eric just didn’t look right in Arielle’s shirt! No offense Eric. 😜
I know. I thought my eyes were deceiving me. I had to rewind ⏪ twice. 🤣
Love the shirt switch. Did a double take and had to go back to check! Cute😄
Me too thought I was nuts.
Me too! Say what?
Lol same. Watched it twice to make sure what I was seeing was real!
I made my husband watch it 3 times before he caught it :)
I also went back, thought my eyes were messing with me...🤣🤣 then I realized it was Eric and Ariel messing with all of us...just love those two. 😍
The shirt swap was HILARIOUS! I had to rewind and make sure I hadn’t imagined it. Thank you for that little bit of comedy.
I sure wish I could spend a day with you when you’re canning, learning from you hands on and being able to ask questions along the way.
Hahaha so funny! I did the same! I had to go back, I thought my eyes were playing tricks in me. ❤️
…shirts!…
Sammee 😂😂
For scooping out veggies while blanching large amounts, I use noodle baskets in a large boiling pot. Fill basket, they rest on the rim of the pot. in out, in out. Makes it easy.
So smart! I love finding these little helpful tips.
So smart! Just joined and enjoying it.
Always love how roosters call the ladies over when they find treats....always trying to keep the ladies happy.
Gotta make up for the rapin' somehow.
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lol! the shirt switch...🤣 Y'all are adorkable!
Had to go back thought I seen the swap lol
I hit replay too! Lol 😂 loved it.
I'm taking a break from canning, blanching, and freezing to watch you can, blanch and freeze.. haha. Beautiful work, you two! You'll have a lot of food to enjoy throughout the winter months ahead.
Same! 😂🤣
Growing up, my mom would can
between 3000 and 3500 quarts a season.
Including mixed vegetables, tomato soup and juice.
What size family did that feed for the winter?
@@samanthab6337 there were 6 kids and both parents
My Mom did too. A bad year held us over. She died last year and I still have some of her canned goods.
Do you save the cores of the cauliflower? You should "rice" it with your grinder, then you can use it instead of real rice, pasta, and even bread, like for making a pizza. The "rice and pasta" versions only need a quick boil and it's ready to eat with anything you want to put on it. It's good on bruschetta or mashed into a spread with your choice of seasonings.
Very interesting 🙂 we eat/cook the stems on occasion but haven't tried processing the core like you mentioned.
Always a joy watching you guys store up for the winter 🌼
Would you ever consider putting out an ‘Alaskan Homesteader’s cookbook’? The first part being about growing and preserving veg, the second part about hunting, processing meat and meat base recipes like sausage, salmon jerky etc, and then the third part being the recipes you can make will all these things together? Like a Homesteaders Bible?
You two amaze me---you're like the energizer bunny --you just keep going and going and going! I get exhausted just watching you, but I love that you have such awesome gardens, and awesome harvests---you have a wonderful life---lots of hard work, but what an awesome life for two people to share!! God Bless you!! And your chickens love the wonderful "buffet" of what you don't keep!!
I had to back that up a minute to make sure I hadn't imagined that shirt switcheroo! Just love you two!
It's a perfect Sunday now...❤️
I have been binge watching y’all this weekend. Wonderful content. One of the things that I find most endearing about you is the care that you have for your dogs. Thank you for taking me on this amazing journey of yours.
Those turnips are beyond beautiful ❤❤
I had a glut of califlowers one year at university, basically they all came through rather than the usual loss of some of slugs and other creatures. Ended up making enough Piccalilli to keep even family in London supplied for the year (although the mustard and tumeric did stain my hands yellow for about a week)
Wow I love piccalilli ❤️
I was going to suggest piccalilli, one of my favorites
You guys always make it look so easy! We can see you both love to cook, can, BBQ and work with each other. You are also organized and clean. That love shows in all you grow and do. I particularly loved the "dueling knives" while preparing the kimchi! All that loving coming out of that little kitchen! Good job guys!🍷Cheers!
Always glad to see your updates, and how you are doing. You guys almost feel like long lost family. Take care of yourselves until the next post.
Give raw fennel a try. My husband grew up in Naples, Italy, and he DESPISED the braised fennel that was served at his school. His mom used to make the following raw fennel recipe for him and I still make it. Thinly sliced fennel bulb, finely minced garlic, salt, pepper, fresh lemon, olive oil, and fresh parsley. Those are the ingredients, as you know just adjust them for the quantity. Thanks for another great video.
Hi 👋I am sorry if this sounds weird but you wrote such a nice and interesting comment on here and I like it. Obviously you are a positive person. If it’s alright with you I’d love to be friends.
You always make my day when i see you have uploaded another video💕
I'm a chef but Ariel's baking always awes me. I worked 'hot side', and made dinners. As always all the best to everyone. Chef Scott 👩🍳
ever thought I would enjoy watching a couple canning, but I love watching this awesome couple.
You both work great together canning i love you guys. My husband was a restaurant cook for 50yr he is retired now but he still cooks for me every day. Thank you for sharing your videos with us. My husband is a great cook like you both. I grew up on a farm so i know how hard you both work with no day off.
I love watching you two. My favorite are the gardening, harvesting & preserving videos. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.
I learned to make cowboy candy from you two. We love it!
I made a batch of onion jam this week. Onions, balsamic and cider vinegar, brown sugar, cinnamon and cardamom. OH HEAVENS, IS IT GOOD.
Ooh that's on our list next 😀
It's also so good mixed into cornbread!
"It's a frond!" 🤣🤣🤣 Y'all are too cute!
Some good lookin' food for the winter. Great job!
When I was a kid my sister and I would spend a couple of weeks at our grandparents during the summer, one of the memorable things was we would play games at the kitchen table and grandma would slice up raw turnips to munch on, we loved them, my mouth was watering watching all the veggies being chopped up! Thanks 😊
Busy time of the year! You two are working together great! You are about a month away from slowing down and 2 months from total relaxing! Every year your more tuned in as to what is needed and the best way to go about doing it too. You've got a hell of a lot of subscribers rooting for you! Hang in there!
Love how you two keep things light during a tedious day of prepping and canning. The “exchange of the shirts” was hysterical!💕 thank you for brightening up my evening!!
My mom is Korean, and you can make kimchi with any vegetable, not just Napa cabbage. My favorite one is made with radish. You can even make kimchi with green onions as the main ingredient!
I like how Eric says kimchi like it’s a person’s name, Kim Chi 🫢. Another idea for the cauliflower is to rice it up or cut it up small (I use a food processor) to use as rice or to mix with rice to bulk it up with less calories.
Canning always made me feel like an artist. It was a beautiful picture when you finished and stepped back to look at it.
I can't tell how marvelous it is to see you "putting food by". I had a huge larder when I lived in Colorado in the 70's. At the altitude I lived it wasn't possible to have a garden but I made many trips to eastern Colorado and western Colorado to get fruit and veggies. I remember being up at one in the morning still canning because those peaches would not wait! Fantastic food.
You guys are the hardest worker's ever I love how down to earth you two are, as well as being just transparent and real . your my favorite !
Next time you make pickles, use grape leaves in each jar, the tannin is next to none for crispiness. ❤
A fast time today. Everything looks so delicious and beautiful. Thanks again for the visit.
Vegetables, etc, have certain enzymes naturally present. When they're harvested, those enzymes start to break down the tissues, and blanching stops them. Cooking for a short span of time (usually a few minutes at most) breaks down those enzymes, and then chilling the food with cold water / an icewater bath stops the cooking process, leaving your vegetables, etc, ready to be frozen without reducing them to absolute mush, which can happen either from enzymes or from overcooking. Blanching is also strongly recommended for both freeze-drying and regular dehydrating your vegetables. (Enzymes will break down some of the vitamins & nutrients along with the plant tissues; blanching stops the quality of food from deteriorating.)
If you've ever had a really good fresh-tasting but technically frozen pea, the retention of all that delicious flavor is thanks to that blanching process being done within an hour or two of picking those peas.
Hooray! I’ve been hoping you would post a new video! Love your canning and preserving videos.
5 gallons of Kimchi and 51 jars of food. I am completely in awe that it all came from just a few handfuls of tiny seeds. That concept always blows me away.
You can add shredded pears or apples to your kimchi mixture that adds a natural sweetness and ferments really well! Love the diversity you have in your menu! And you’re so cute in the out takes lol it’s so apparent how much you love each other xoxox
When I worked in fast food, we had a dicer that we used in tomatoes and onions. I bet that would work great with zucchini as well :)
It does I have one at home now!!!
That was amazing y'all!
All of that beautiful fresh food prepared for getting you through the Winter!
I love how you work together.
Stay safe and healthy!
I think this young Lady could Can anything !!!!!!!!
I love that you show the truth of preservation of all that lovely food...all the time and hard work involved...thank you for sharing your life
Love how simply you make it look to do all this canning and preserving. It's only me preserving so it is a huge task. I would love to know where you are getting your recipes from. They all look so simple. Thank you for your time in showing us how to prepare all the harvest.
Eating good this winter! I love the harvest and storing up! So much work and technique goes into each individual item also, working as a team really makes it go quicker!
I've always used a thin wire basket when blanching before freezing, makes it very easy: load veg in basket, set basket in boiling water, remove basket from pot(easy drains hot water back into pot), plunge basket into large tub of ice water to shock them, again remove basket & drain/shake over sink, then dump the basket right into freezer bag. Add more ice to ice water tub & load more raw veggies in the basket. I did piles of green beans like this last summer.
I would hate to loss your beautiful ring in gardening, fishing and canning. That is some wonderful veggies you grew.
These are my favorite videos. It's what got me hooked on your channel. Love how the 2 of you work so well in the kitchen together. Reminds me of my mom and Aunt processing all the two huge gardens they each grew. One day we would be at my house and the next at Aunt Helen's. It's how they fed their families. you have beautiful jars for winter enjoyment! Question, does Eric have restaurant experience? Mad chopping skills for you both.
What a beautiful bounty of home grown food!!! You must be so proud and happy to be storing this away for the winter! Some pretty special goodies to look forward to!! Keep at it🤗 Stay safe, be happy!!❤
Wow! that's a lot of canning in 22min and 35 sec. 👍👍 Big grin
The shirt switcheroo was the funniest! I had to rewind a couple of times to make sure my eyes were not deceiving me!😂😂👏👏👏
I love your canning videos! I just did 21 pints of bread and butter pickles yesterday, turmeric stains on my stove and counters. And dried strawberries. Next weekend canning corn.
LOVE how you work together!
Fermented cauliflower is my new favorite. Maybe use one head for that. It's preserved for a short to medium length of time.
I watch out for your videos so was surprised this was posted a day ago and missed it. Drat! I hate that! I like you two, you make everything you do seem so effortless. I guess it is because you are both so in sync, also polite and nice to each other. Stay as sweet as you are ❤❤
wow! it all looks amazing! good eating this winter! great job, well done! great channel guys keep it coming.
I find preserving my summer veg a lot - luckily in my climate I can still grow during winter. Great effort guys!!
Enjoy watching you two work together!
The canning season is in full swing. It’s the kind of time when you can’t remember who had the long sleeve shirt on first. Nice moves.😊
My absolute FAVORITE time of the year are your canning videos!!! I could watch them over and over!! Such a plentiful bounty too!! I’m so happy y’all got some cowboy candy this year!!! I know you missed it last summer not making any!! Do you ever grate any of you zucchini and make bread with it?? It’s AMAZING and such a good bread!! For a change you can add chocolate chips to it and just little things. Very yummy!!!
I hope you do lots of cooking videos over winter with all the fun stuff you have stored. :) Have you ever pickled your cauliflower?
I think she said she may try next year, she wasn’t sure what to do yet (Gardiniera? Please!)
@@MyNest20 I pickle cauliflower, and add a few onions. I do it on a brine with some sugar in it. I put then in raw, so they stay crisp. I don't have the yellow ones. Add some spices to the jar.
I love pickled cauliflower!!
My husband took a canning lid and ring from regular and wide mouth jars. He put a hole in the center and I feed all my rings over the string around 150 per rope. They just hang in my pantry behind my aprons! I also broke my jar lids down into bins of 150. I grab a rope, a box, and my canning pots! Then I’m off to can until my hearts content!
Happy canning!
I just put up some dragonfruit, vanilla, lemon zest jelly! It’s AMAZING on cheese boards!
the shirt switch was great! my daughter got a kick out of it when I showed her. :)
Check out English piccalilli recipes for your cauliflower.
It is a sweet mustard pickle and is popular winter relish in the UK.
I always love the seeing fruits of your labor from summer to winter! Truly a great homestead
I love how there's a real life Eric and Arielle on youtube.
Wow I have not watched your videos in a while and I am still so impressed with you two! And man the abundance that the land gives yous wow!
I was oohing and ahhing at how productive you two are and my husband suggested we drop off our toddler with you and see how productive you are for the day lol. So if you’d like a two year old to kick things up a notch in a future kitchen video, let me know and he’s yours for the day! Sending love from Fairbanks!
I love when you guys harvest and can! Everything you make looks so delicious! Those turnips are huge😲 I was wondering if you like (or ever make) zucchini bread? It's so good! 👍🤙
The outtakes cracked me up. Lots of lovely food. Great work! God bless!
The switching of the shirts cracked us up!! Had to go back to watch!! You weren't even smiling!! 🤣😂🤣😂
Have you guys ever thought of making cucumber kimchee with some of the cucumbers? It's one my favourites. You can make kimchee with green onions and radishes too. Also love them.
I second this! Cucumber kimchi is really good. Sometimes I chop my cabbage after its salt water bath but before processing and I mix small pieces of cucumber, green onion, and shredded carrot into the mix. I really like the taste and mouthfeel of the result.
I was doing this on a smaller scale most of the week. It's been 85+ degrees and canning is rough when it's that hot and there's no air conditioning! I love how all the cans look though! Just salsa and maybe one more set of jam left to go.
It's a frond.
Many people do canning outside. Worth a shot, if you can get the stuff to do it on.
So fun watching u both working together! Lucky u to have each other to work with!!
So funny, laughing about the "frond" of dill. On a play on words, "fond" is the lovely brown bits left in the pan after browning things like onions.
“I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.” - Dorothy L. Sayers, English crime writer and poet, 1893-1957. - Love watching the cycle of your veggies, from birth to canning.
One of my favorite quotes.
She is one of my favorite authors. I adore Lord Peter Whimsy and Bunter.
AMAZING! The Sun has blessed your garden with tremendous growth. Here, not so. But I LOVE that you make the fooods that you enjoy eating. So sustainable. Really wish I could do the same but so far, no. I did prepare many one cup soup portions preparing for a surgery but that did not happen so I'm eating those one at a time. I hope by winter I'll have to start again making up soups.
I wish you the very best, hoping you'll go fishing for those last holdouts. Are you in line for a moose this year? or even a wild pig? Do you have access to reindeer? I hope you do.
i love the little bloopers you throw in. LOVE IT!
My favorite video type!! Canning and preserving!!! ❤️❤️❤️
That kimchi looks absolute bomb. Looking forward to seeing the end product. Do you think you'll jar them once the ferment is done?
Yes we will jar them;)
Any update on storage? Where will you store all the canned food without the root cellar?
We have no root cellar. No basement. No climate controlled storage and we live in the southern US where it is warm and humid. We keep dry goods (grain and dehydrated food) and some canned food in a shed and the rest of the canned items, especially meat, in our RV under the bed and in cabinets.
We know it isn't ideal but it's what we have. Folks didn't have climate control a few generations ago and they managed so hopefully we do as well.
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That may change, but, for now, you are the only one seeing fit to pull this discussion into a negative place. Everyone else is seeking information, sharing ideas, expressing gratitude or otherwise being positive.
I hope you find happiness, dear.
Canning is big job and fun to do with families and friends.
my favorite is always the bloopers at the end 💛💛💛
With all the cabbage you have, do you make kimchi?
If you watch the whole video you could find your answer. 17:22
They make it in the video
Grated apple and pear in your kimchi is amazing!
Hope you guys have at least half the fun you have on camera. You seem like a wonderful couple.
Impressive synchronization! You work very well together. Thanks for sharing.
Your cool season crops are exceptional quality. It is amazing how much you can grow in Alaska. You also make a good sized batch of Kimchi.
LOL @ the shirt swap cuts! Thanks for sharing your life with us!
I haven’t canned in two years; this year making cowboy candy and sauerkraut. And putting several gallons of berries in the freezer.
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Happy chicks!! Love to hear the clucking!! Look like healthy babes!!
All the produce so fresh, large, pretty! Those onions look good, can almost smell them,makes me want one to eat right now!! I'm sure your cozy cabin smells divine!! I love pickles & relish!!
22:11 "Fond" 😆 💛 You guys are the best!!!
I had to watch the part where you guys switched shirts twice. I needed to make sure that I (my mind and eyes) was still intact. You two almost had me there for a moment. 😅😆😁
Quite the process you have there!! I love harvesting and processing all the garden goodys!!
You have such beautiful veggies! So large, clean, and fabulous!
You still amaze me with all the work that goes into preserving your garden! Enjoy the fruits of your labour!
I shouted "yayyyyy" when I saw the new video hahaha
Thank you. Always inspiring. Maybe next one elaborate about exposing them to cold water for them to seal.
You’ll live till a hundred no pollution fresh veggies fresh eggs that chicken with the colourful feathers is a beautiful bird unbelievable-35 that is cold