While preserving, gardening and anything food related is why we are all here. However, let's talk about how GORGEOUS your hair is! The length, health, and color is amazing! Just beautiful!
I was about to sit down and chop some ingredients for chicken salad and thought “huh, I wonder if there’s a new The Seasonal Homestead video I can watch”. YAY!
You can also put a 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups in a quart jar and some sugar. Add boiling water. Wipe rims and put lids. Can in water bath canner. Let sit at least 3 weeks. Strain out berries and you have juice.
Wow! Tell your children to slow down with the growing! Lol You are a busy woman. I love how you include the children in the things that you do. They acquire your knowledge and improve upon their motor skills to name a couple of things. Some parents feel the kids just get in the way.
Amazing. I know you are done by now with house landscaping but if I can give you any advice I have learned over the years. Make your happy landscaping beds. With a VERY wide birth from house with mulch only then put a sidewalk THEN put your landscaping with bushes and things. Not only to minimize termites that will eat into a rock/brick home THAT HAS WOOD FRAME BUILT INSIDE (learned that the hard way after buying one) but to minimize fire hazards with plants being super close to house but still give the illusion and space of everything you dreamed of. Along with a path you would enjoy every single day.
Loved the kids coming in for an interview style rating. I’d love to see them and you testing recipes and even making a game out of their participation!
I feel like us gardening Mama's forget about our landscaping because we are always thinking about what food we can grow 😂 But the awesome thing is...we can turn our food garden plants into decorative landscaping as well!😊
Just found your channel, love your ideas, and family! This is exactly what America needs, good clean, and informative! Learning and taking taste tests with kids! Brilliant! A new fan here! Love & blessings Caroline
I have found several juicers at our local deseret industries for only a couple of dollars each. I have about four of them. I juice so many things. Grapes. Plums. Rhubarb I make juices or jellies out of them. It makes for such quick work. I swear by them!
Very cool!!! You are the best mom out there, that's for sure. I loved the funny clips you added with Riggs doing his taste test 😂 Living traditions homestead made cucumber chips one year and they used the organic powder Ranch, Italian and Dill salad dressing.packets from Azure. They looked really really good 😋🤤
I love the ideas here, thank you Becky. My hubby is on vacation this week so we watched this together. He loves sweet potatoes and I could tell he wants me to try some of your sweet potato recipes. Have a wonderful day!
I've had the same results with freeze drying most vegetables for snacks. The whole flavor seems to mellow a lot so I've bumped it up. We love freeze dried green beans for a snack. I'll have to try the sweet potatoes now!
So glad to see that your family made it safely through the tornados.❤ Do you ever make Elderberry jelly? I remember as a kid helping my mother make 180 pints one weekend. It’s so good!
I love watching you cook and preserve the bounty you’ve worked so hard for. What great ideas for the sweet potatoes! I wonder if just dehydrating might work for me since I don’t own a freeze dryer? I’m definitely going to use your hint about soaking the sweet potatoes for oven fries too. Regarding following canning rules…I use the same salsa canning recipe you use and every time I make it, it frustrates me to have to process it in half pint jars per the instructions. I’ve seen you process yours in pint jars and wondered if you could share your processing time for pints. I’m referring to the Roasted Tomato Lime Salsa recipe in the ATK book “Foolproof Preserving.” A half pint of salsa is a joke! Love the carved out face on the giant sweet potato! Ingenuity abounds in your household. So cute watching Riggs enjoy those sweet potatoes too.
I think it would work to dehydrate sweet potatoes! I was thinking about testing this soon too. I'm curious if it's similar. Processing time is the same for the pint size salsa jars. I found that out by looking at every salsa recipe in the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. They have it listed that half pint and pint get the same processing time. Only in one recipe of the fifteen listed in the book is it 5 minutes longer processing for the pint size. So if you wanted to do the pint size and be on the safe side you can add an additional 5 minutes. But I've always done the same time and have had no problems.
I waited for the whole day from here in Nepal to see what you have been doing, as if reading your blogs repeatedly is not enough. Would love to see an update on the landscaping.
I buy a bag of freeze dried sweet potato fries from the supermarket, they are delicious and expensive. Your abundant crop of sweet potatoes I am sure will not go to waste now 😊
Love the boxwoods! We have some as well. They are the easiest for maintenance of all our shrubs. They'll look lovely! Can't wait to see the final look of your landscaping! I was super excited to teach myself canning a couple of years ago. Bought a water bath canner and a couple of books I saw you recommend. When I started reading, I realized my glass top stove was not the most ideal, mostly because I don't have a big enough element for the canner. So, I had to put that idea aside for the time being until we possibly get something like your old one for outdoors or when we move to our land where I can get a more suitable stove. I have had to freeze my jams and other recipes for now. I'll be looking at your sweet potato chips recipe to see if I can adapt it. I haven't been very successful growing sweet potatoes, partly probably because of our climate where we live in Canada. I buy organic sweet potatoes often though and use them in recipes. Looking forward to get a freeze dryer in the future when we have space after we move to our land, so for the time being I dehydrate certain things and my youngest has been pestering me to make chips. Thank you for all that you share. Blessings!
Hi i’m from belgium love your videos sorry for my english i think those sweet potatoes will go verry wel in salades like croûtons 😊or on soups love and bless
I have the same mandoline as you showed here in this video but I use it also with a cut resistance glove as a doble protection cause I know a person who sliced her fingers with one of this so please be very careful with it!! Sometimes even with the food holder it can get slippery.
Would be very interested in the list of books you read that helped you learn about the ins and outs of canning! Have you blogged this book list before?
Lovely people ✨an idea about the landscaping around the house: one simple way to make it both very natural and interesting is to use logs and rocks. It's the most ornamental thing you can think of and creates a tiny mystery forest thing even if it's just a few square yards (or 20-30 sqf). You sont believe how effective of an illusion it creates...! The magic happens if the logs have stuff like moss and mushrooms growing on them and the rocks look spectacular when the rain or sunlight hits them. It looks both natural and luxurious, really interesting combo. The problem is of course there will be lots of life in this space so maybe having it right by the house isnt a good idea 🤔but it's so, so inspiring... It would look amazing with like an elder growing there. That space would be great for perennial stuff. Both pollinator plants and strawberries and maybe you can grow mushrooms as well! Standing mushroom with mycel plugs on the shadow side 👍 oh, and if this idea was too woo woo for you: the concept of rotting logs can be transferred to small garden beds! I know you garden on a much larger scale BUT if you have wood to spare you could make small beds and on the north side you implant mushroom mycelium 👍 and anywhere you put down wood chips for mulch - either in paths or by bushes and stuff - you can blend mycelium with it. Nd if you dont eat lots of mushroom yourselves then freeze dry them and/or grow really expensive kinds you can sell 👍
Hi. Thank you for sharing your ideas. I am new to freeze drying and I’m wondering, are you using oxygen absorbers in the jars? If not, how long are you thinking on average are things staying crunchy? Thanks! Beautiful children. ❤
I use a vacuum sealer for the jars, they stay super crunchy if the air is vacuumed out. If you don't vacuum seal and package right away they will still stay crunchy a reasonable amount of time, maybe a month. The problem we run into is my kids often snack and leave lids off accidentally so that's the main reason ours get soft, haha.
I never like the taste or texture of frozen mashed potato when its thawed and heated. I can not put my finger on why the taste changes but to me its not pleasant. Unless its on a cottage pie covered with a little extra butter and a little mozzarella cheese.
I have the same landscaping problem. My house is beautiful but surrounded by weeds. I have no desire to care for vegetation I can't eat ha ha. I tried to start planting edible things near my house so I would want to care for it more.
Do you FD the sweet potatoes without cooking to use them in the future? For an example: to have them for a dish in the future where you will bake them? I’m new to this and I’m trying to learn. Thank you.
I got it from Roots and Harvest. That’s not the brand though … I can’t really remember what the actual brand is since it’s not anywhere on the pot that I recall.
Watching a video is not the same as being there, but I noticed in one clip time stamp 6:35 you tighten the lid (in my opinion) too much. Again its hard to tell on video. Love the taste test on sweet potatoes.
All good. Maybe just the video. I’ve canned thousands of jars with the same technique. Finger tip tight is what is recommended. The trouble usually comes when they’re a little too loose- especially with pressure canning all the jostling loosens the rings. If it was too tight, the lids would’ve buckled. It happened to a friend of mine once.
You can also put a 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups in a quart jar and some sugar. Add boiling water. Wipe rims and put lids. Can in water bath canner. Let sit at least 3 weeks. Strain out berries and you have juice.
I love how you preserve your crops before they go bad. Good call on asking your kids. Kids are always painfully honest.
I never think that I could be so happy about a youtube video!
While preserving, gardening and anything food related is why we are all here. However, let's talk about how GORGEOUS your hair is! The length, health, and color is amazing! Just beautiful!
Aww thanks!! :)
I was about to sit down and chop some ingredients for chicken salad and thought “huh, I wonder if there’s a new The Seasonal Homestead video I can watch”. YAY!
You can also put a 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups in a quart jar and some sugar. Add boiling water. Wipe rims and put lids. Can in water bath canner. Let sit at least 3 weeks. Strain out berries and you have juice.
Yes! That's how we do it too. Super quick and easy
“They taste like nothing”. 😂 As a mom I can totally relate to how painfully honest kids can be.😂
😂 Yep!
Wow! Tell your children to slow down with the growing! Lol
You are a busy woman.
I love how you include the children in the things that you do. They acquire your knowledge and improve upon their motor skills to name a couple of things. Some parents feel the kids just get in the way.
Amazing. I know you are done by now with house landscaping but if I can give you any advice I have learned over the years. Make your happy landscaping beds. With a VERY wide birth from house with mulch only then put a sidewalk THEN put your landscaping with bushes and things. Not only to minimize termites that will eat into a rock/brick home THAT HAS WOOD FRAME BUILT INSIDE (learned that the hard way after buying one) but to minimize fire hazards with plants being super close to house but still give the illusion and space of everything you dreamed of. Along with a path you would enjoy every single day.
I love how honest your kids were during the taste tests! They gave great feedback!
Loved the kids coming in for an interview style rating. I’d love to see them and you testing recipes and even making a game out of their participation!
I am new to freeze drying and am so thankful for veterans like you that share so comprehensively. Your channel is an inspiration.
Great video... thank you! Blessings Kiddo!🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
It’s so peaceful to watch your videos! Riggs is getting so big! And loving your snacks!!
I feel like us gardening Mama's forget about our landscaping because we are always thinking about what food we can grow 😂 But the awesome thing is...we can turn our food garden plants into decorative landscaping as well!😊
It makes me feel better about my neglected landscaping. I can grow a mean garden of food, but have no vision for landscaping.
Your kids are just the best.
We did chips!! We did them plan and cinnamon and we loved them!! Our 1 year old couldn’t get enough.
I want to try them as fries.
I really enjoy all your videos. Thank you for putting out excellent content! Looking forward to garden season with you.
Just found your channel, love your ideas, and family! This is exactly what America needs, good clean, and informative! Learning and taking taste tests with kids! Brilliant! A new fan here! Love & blessings Caroline
Always look forward to any videos you post. ❤❤❤
The taste testing honesty was my favorite part. I have 4 kids who always let me know what’s up with my cooking. 😂😂
I have found several juicers at our local deseret industries for only a couple of dollars each. I have about four of them. I juice so many things. Grapes. Plums. Rhubarb I make juices or jellies out of them. It makes for such quick work. I swear by them!
Awesome video and I know you are happy to have this put to rest. Nothing like homesteading!
Very cool!!! You are the best mom out there, that's for sure. I loved the funny clips you added with Riggs doing his taste test 😂 Living traditions homestead made cucumber chips one year and they used the organic powder Ranch, Italian and Dill salad dressing.packets from Azure. They looked really really good 😋🤤
That sounds yummy! I need to try that!
I love the ideas here, thank you Becky. My hubby is on vacation this week so we watched this together. He loves sweet potatoes and I could tell he wants me to try some of your sweet potato recipes. Have a wonderful day!
You are an Amazing Mom and Woman.💙
A million times thank you for your videos!!! ❤❤❤
Heyy…. Love from India 🇮🇳 !! Stay blessed
I’ve missed you guys! I was so happy to see a video. 😊 Thanks for sharing your life with us.❤
Thanks, I really appreciate when you explain things in depth and why you do certain things and your reasoning behind it.
I'm teaching myself to can also.very beginner here! Excellent advice and info. Thank you ❤
You are such a great Mom!
Love your videos. So inspiring. ❤
Thanks for sharing! I'm always trying to learn to make new healthy snacks!
I've had the same results with freeze drying most vegetables for snacks. The whole flavor seems to mellow a lot so I've bumped it up. We love freeze dried green beans for a snack. I'll have to try the sweet potatoes now!
So glad to see that your family made it safely through the tornados.❤ Do you ever make Elderberry jelly? I remember as a kid helping my mother make 180 pints one weekend. It’s so good!
I never made that but it sounds so good! I’ll have to try it when we harvest elderberries.
A blessed family
never seen bigger sweet potatoes before...blessings
I will need to make some sweet potato chips. Thank you for the idea.
I love watching you cook and preserve the bounty you’ve worked so hard for. What great ideas for the sweet potatoes! I wonder if just dehydrating might work for me since I don’t own a freeze dryer? I’m definitely going to use your hint about soaking the sweet potatoes for oven fries too. Regarding following canning rules…I use the same salsa canning recipe you use and every time I make it, it frustrates me to have to process it in half pint jars per the instructions. I’ve seen you process yours in pint jars and wondered if you could share your processing time for pints. I’m referring to the Roasted Tomato Lime Salsa recipe in the ATK book “Foolproof Preserving.” A half pint of salsa is a joke! Love the carved out face on the giant sweet potato! Ingenuity abounds in your household. So cute watching Riggs enjoy those sweet potatoes too.
I think it would work to dehydrate sweet potatoes! I was thinking about testing this soon too. I'm curious if it's similar. Processing time is the same for the pint size salsa jars. I found that out by looking at every salsa recipe in the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. They have it listed that half pint and pint get the same processing time. Only in one recipe of the fifteen listed in the book is it 5 minutes longer processing for the pint size. So if you wanted to do the pint size and be on the safe side you can add an additional 5 minutes. But I've always done the same time and have had no problems.
Becky, thanks so much for responding to my question!
...and very healthy. Thank you for sharing!
Very interesting video! Sweet potato snacks looked great. I love cranberry, enjoyed hearing your knowledge on the process 👌💯
I waited for the whole day from here in Nepal to see what you have been doing, as if reading your blogs repeatedly is not enough. Would love to see an update on the landscaping.
I buy a bag of freeze dried sweet potato fries from the supermarket, they are delicious and expensive. Your abundant crop of sweet potatoes I am sure will not go to waste now 😊
Those sweet potatoes look really good. 😋😋
Love the boxwoods! We have some as well. They are the easiest for maintenance of all our shrubs. They'll look lovely! Can't wait to see the final look of your landscaping!
I was super excited to teach myself canning a couple of years ago. Bought a water bath canner and a couple of books I saw you recommend. When I started reading, I realized my glass top stove was not the most ideal, mostly because I don't have a big enough element for the canner. So, I had to put that idea aside for the time being until we possibly get something like your old one for outdoors or when we move to our land where I can get a more suitable stove. I have had to freeze my jams and other recipes for now.
I'll be looking at your sweet potato chips recipe to see if I can adapt it. I haven't been very successful growing sweet potatoes, partly probably because of our climate where we live in Canada. I buy organic sweet potatoes often though and use them in recipes. Looking forward to get a freeze dryer in the future when we have space after we move to our land, so for the time being I dehydrate certain things and my youngest has been pestering me to make chips.
Thank you for all that you share. Blessings!
Hi i’m from belgium love your videos sorry for my english i think those sweet potatoes will go verry wel in salades like croûtons 😊or on soups love and bless
I love the terra sweet potato chips !! They also have a beet chip . Yay now I can make them myself ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you !! I think you are amazing!
Can’t wait to try your potato chip recipe, great job.
I hope y'all fared okay in the storm!
This was great. Ty so much.
I wanna test those sweet potato too.
Hi ma'am wow ... nice watching here in the philippines
Thank you for sharing!
That was amazing! I love love this video!
I have the same mandoline as you showed here in this video but I use it also with a cut resistance glove as a doble protection cause I know a person who sliced her fingers with one of this so please be very careful with it!! Sometimes even with the food holder it can get slippery.
I would hit the like so many times! What a great video. Thanks so much!
Try keeping a mallet in your kitchen. I poind it on my knife when trying to cut through squashes, turnips etc.
Would be very interested in the list of books you read that helped you learn about the ins and outs of canning! Have you blogged this book list before?
Hello from Germany😊
Hope u show us the landscape when it's done
I love sweet potato chips
Lovely people ✨an idea about the landscaping around the house: one simple way to make it both very natural and interesting is to use logs and rocks. It's the most ornamental thing you can think of and creates a tiny mystery forest thing even if it's just a few square yards (or 20-30 sqf). You sont believe how effective of an illusion it creates...! The magic happens if the logs have stuff like moss and mushrooms growing on them and the rocks look spectacular when the rain or sunlight hits them. It looks both natural and luxurious, really interesting combo. The problem is of course there will be lots of life in this space so maybe having it right by the house isnt a good idea 🤔but it's so, so inspiring... It would look amazing with like an elder growing there. That space would be great for perennial stuff. Both pollinator plants and strawberries and maybe you can grow mushrooms as well! Standing mushroom with mycel plugs on the shadow side 👍 oh, and if this idea was too woo woo for you: the concept of rotting logs can be transferred to small garden beds! I know you garden on a much larger scale BUT if you have wood to spare you could make small beds and on the north side you implant mushroom mycelium 👍 and anywhere you put down wood chips for mulch - either in paths or by bushes and stuff - you can blend mycelium with it. Nd if you dont eat lots of mushroom yourselves then freeze dry them and/or grow really expensive kinds you can sell 👍
Do you store your freeze dried foods long term in the jars? I purchased a freeze drier in November and I’m so excited to try all the garden goodies.
Hi. Thank you for sharing your ideas. I am new to freeze drying and I’m wondering, are you using oxygen absorbers in the jars? If not, how long are you thinking on average are things staying crunchy? Thanks!
Beautiful children. ❤
I use a vacuum sealer for the jars, they stay super crunchy if the air is vacuumed out. If you don't vacuum seal and package right away they will still stay crunchy a reasonable amount of time, maybe a month. The problem we run into is my kids often snack and leave lids off accidentally so that's the main reason ours get soft, haha.
@@TheSeasonalHomestead thank you. I appreciate your response.
Have you talked about why you went with the electric range instead of gas? I am afraid to can on glass top but it seems like many people do!
Here’s an idea for preserving sweet potatoes. Don’t know if you like mashed sweet potatoes. You could cook and then freeze.
I never like the taste or texture of frozen mashed potato when its thawed and heated. I can not put my finger on why the taste changes but to me its not pleasant. Unless its on a cottage pie covered with a little extra butter and a little mozzarella cheese.
Of course they are not like potato chips because potato chips have lots of nasty things in them and yours do not. Yours are perfect ❤
make a video about How to Canned things
How did you guys do with the recent storms ?
We got very minimal damage thankfully! The tornado and worst of the winds missed us.
Praise God, we live in the Yellville area and it was pretty bad around here. By his grace our food plot was spared
I have the same landscaping problem. My house is beautiful but surrounded by weeds. I have no desire to care for vegetation I can't eat ha ha. I tried to start planting edible things near my house so I would want to care for it more.
Do you FD the sweet potatoes without cooking to use them in the future? For an example: to have them for a dish in the future where you will bake them? I’m new to this and I’m trying to learn. Thank you.
Yes, I believe that would be the better way to do it if you wanted to bake them later. But I haven’t tested it yet.
Clarification. The water soaked then baked and freezes dried were better?
Yes. We soaked, rinsed, baked, then freeze dried. Those were better!
Can you do this soap method for a dehydrator.
I’m not sure but I bet it would be very similar!
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Does the commercial freeze dryer perform the same as your smaller unit?
Maybe you've mentioned it but what brand is the steam juicer you use?
I got it from Roots and Harvest. That’s not the brand though … I can’t really remember what the actual brand is since it’s not anywhere on the pot that I recall.
Those sweet potatoes are huge, what type is that?
Beauregard
Watching a video is not the same as being there, but I noticed in one clip time stamp 6:35 you tighten the lid (in my opinion) too much. Again its hard to tell on video. Love the taste test on sweet potatoes.
All good. Maybe just the video. I’ve canned thousands of jars with the same technique. Finger tip tight is what is recommended. The trouble usually comes when they’re a little too loose- especially with pressure canning all the jostling loosens the rings. If it was too tight, the lids would’ve buckled. It happened to a friend of mine once.
What state do you guys live in? I noticed you had to adjust for altitude.
Arkansas
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You Channel are interesting
Please do more animal videos
Have you ever made cranapple juice? 🧃🥤
You can also put a 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups in a quart jar and some sugar. Add boiling water. Wipe rims and put lids. Can in water bath canner. Let sit at least 3 weeks. Strain out berries and you have juice.