The evolution of your homestead is so beautiful to watch! You've said it before and it cannot be understated - just start small, adjust, and grow every season. I've been here since the beginning and that Becky was not growing and grinding her own wheat (as Jamerrill says - hopes and dreams). You've worked up to it and I'm so glad I've been here since the beginning to watch it and be inspired.
@nikkininja85 yes i am so glad i found her channel close to the beginning of her starting. I am 60 and i have learn SO MUCH wish i could have known what i have learned from Becky and a few other homesteaders 30 yrs ago!! But what matters is I AM APPLYING IT HERE AND NOW!
In case you haven’t heard this yet today, you are beautiful. You are valued, genuine, and a favorite part of my day. I’m always grateful when it is a Becky day! You give me such great ideas. Thank you!
My love language is to feed my loved ones. At 64 it's harder but your ideas give me preparation. Helps so much. My daughter has M.S. Anything from Moma is appreciated.
Good luck with the mill. That’s the first one I had and it didn’t last one month. They sent me another after I returned it and that didn’t do well either. So I did NOT get a third one. It was just a headache. All the best to you dear 🙏
Fries! So easy! My 85 year old friend made them often for our family of 6. Her trick was in the afternoon she’d fry them just til almost tender then lay them on her cookie sheet/rack and when we were pulling up she’d fry quickly in small batch until brown. We only waited 15 minutes. In time for me to set her table. Precious memories!! To this day home fries are called “ Miss Helen’s fries 🙂
The double frying is a technique I"ve s eaten called Belgian fries or pommes frites. Shop had options of sauces such as soy sauce, .curry sauce, spiced peanut sauce, seasoned mayonnaise, or ketchup. Most locals chose mayo. Peanut sauce was very rich. Curry was my fav. If I ordered with ketchup, they'd speak English with me.
Instead of buying frozen hash browns, I parboil potatoes for about 7 minutes. Let them cool and then shred them on a box grater. I make a delicious egg bake with eggs, the potatoes, lots of onions and peppers, ground sausage and some red pepper flakes and pepper-jack cheese. Bake 30 minutes. So good!
Thank you so much for explaining how to do this! I also appreciate that you had a link for how to par boil potatoes because I was just about to ask you that. Can I ask what temperature you put the oven on when you do this meal? Thanks!
@@Hope-ot1xy I use 6 large eggs, 1 lb. cooked breakfast sausage. I like hot. 2 med-large par-boiled potatoes, shredded. approximately 1 1/2 cups diced, green and red peppers, and onions. Or, whatever colors you like. Sometimes I even add a jalapeño. And, about 2 cups of shredded pepper jack cheese. (1cup cheese mixed in with all the ingredients, 1 cup of cheese sprinkled on top) bake @ 350, for about 30 minutes, in a 9X13 baking dish.
Rice flour is a phenomenal addition to your cupboards. I don't have a mill because I live in the English countryside and in my village we have a windmill. I get all my flours from them and Judy the farmers wife makes the best flours going and turns them into delicious produce. Once you go the milled flour way your taste buds change. The other bonus is that there is nothing in it but the milled flours. One of my brothers and I were the only ones who didn't get Celiac disease. Nothing like flour from a mill. It's a cheaper way of getting your rice flour plus you can get brown rice flour. Over here in the UK specialist flours on the supermarket shelves are so expensive. I love watching your channel. Such a wealth of information but it's your smile that makes it better.
I have been baking with fresh milled flour for a few years now and the greatest tip I have learned is adding 1Tbsp of lemon juice per 3 cups of fresh milled flour during the "sponge" or the time you are soaking your flour (for yeast recipes.) The bread texture is greatly improved with such a simple step!
Becky, your enthusiasm and energy is unbelievable! Do you have elves helping you that we don't know about? I love everything about you! I love that you grow your own produce and use Organic Valley brand! It is my favorite organic brand. I also have noticed you are a Quince customer - yes, I've spotted some of my faves! ☺ I'm addicted to your channel. You seem to enjoy cooking so much. Your family and neighbors are very lucky to know you. Thank you for all the amazing recipes! Absolutely love everything on your channel!
To check if you griddle is hot enough you sprinkle it with water and if the water skates across but doesn't evaporate immediately it is ready, that's how my Nana taught me to do it works every time.
I just prepped vegetarian chili and vegetable soup for a friend having surgery tomorrow! Becky gave me the confidence to make more than one thing at a time and it went incredibly well! My kitchen skills are growing by leaps and bounds. Thanks Becky! ❤
You have inspired so many people, Myself included, to eat better to try new things, know where our food comes from and so much more. Thank you for sharing your journey with us ❤
Hey Becky, I have a handy trick for you. When you're beans are ready to be shelled put part of them in a old pillow case. Then shake them around really good and it will put out the beans and they will fall to the bottom of the bag, making it easy to clean out the other stuff. It works great.
I saw that on a short Facebook video just this morning, and I was going to mention it here! They said not to beat hard or the beans could split, but it's worth trying.
Lovely work Becky. Love that Josh compliments you on your baking and cooking. He appreciates your efforts. Your wheat grinder is beautiful on your counter. Love the natural look wood.
Love your channel Becky, I found you 3 Months ago. You inspired me to precook for my children’s families. This entails 6 adults and 9 grandchildren. They are very grateful ❤I found your channel as they have had their freezers stocked with burritos, marinaded meats, chicken Taquitos, Mac and cheese, Chicken tetrazzini. I could go on, but you get the gist. From the get go I have made the burritos with homemade hash browns they are so yummy. I’m going to work on homemade bread and waffles this weekend. Many thanks for all you share with us.
I am slowcooking chicken bone broth, freezer prepping onions, bell peppers, carrots, corn, sweet peas & ham for soups, stews & to just have for when needed. I've been busy today, but I love being in the kitchen! 🦋
I LOVE that you're milling now! Yay!! Nice catch dumping the wheat out before you milled it. Can't wait to see all your creations. Make sure you turn off your mill right when you're done milling as well as dumping the grains in right when it's running. You're also saving the nutrient density when you freeze the extra. My homemade sandwich bread is chewy, soft and perfectly delicious. I use hard red, hard white and I love to add some spelt too.
I'm making hungarian goulash this weekend. I've promised myself to make one new meal a week. Thanks Becky for making me go on a food adventure with cooking. I can do this! Last week I made homemade roasted garlic, tomatoe & red pepper soup and cheddar cheese & thyme scones. So good!
Becky sometimes I wish you would adopt me just so I can enjoy your meals, especially the breakfast preps. Just amazing. Josh is a lucky man and I like that he appreciates your efforts. The taste testing you guys do are a wonderful highlight to the vlogs.
Hey Becky, for future reference you can use baking soda/powder and any vegetable oil you’d like and mix it to make a paste and it is a natural goo-be-gone! 9:37
I love when you meal prep. I now have my in law’s living with us and this will help me out. Thanks Becky Lucky ya on the rain. We haven’t had rain for almost two months.
May I recommend something. When you cook your sausage I recommend adding frozen veggies to the meat sooner. If you wait until meat is done and then add your veggies you're over cooking your meat. You could also put veggies in the microwave while still in bags to soften them up some before adding to meat so meat and veggies will be done at the same time.
Goo Gone is my favorite sticky residue remover. Fabulous for anything with a sticker label. ... I reuse jars, soak/scrape the label off and then use Goo Gone for any remaining stickyness.
A little heads up on the flour texture.... I have the exact same mill. I have found that the flour is warm once milled. So let it cool before using it. Also, I get the best flour for soft bread by SIFTING the flour with a normal sifter. It leaves larger pieces that you cannot see well before sifting. Give it a try, you'll appreciate the effort once the bread is made.
I have been watching you forwever but love watching you in the kitchen ... I aslo watch Kiki Meets World and she has mentioned you in so many vidfeos and even prints off her recipes and sticvks them on her cupboardss like you and your momma ... I guess everyone loves you Beckie you are SIMPLY THE BEST
Hi Becky, I really enjoy your posts. You mentioned that you should put French Frys on your list to learn to make. I have been working on that myself for a couple months - my "findings" so far. First, my brother is diabetic so starch is not a friend and russet potatoes are wonderful for this so what I do is great for overall carb reduction but may not be necessary. 1st try - pealed a bunch of potatoes and with the help of a mandolins cut them in the skinny "match stick" fries. I soaked the newly cut fries changing the water several times over night. Next day blanched them for about 30 seconds and canned them using instructions for the chunk potatoes. Even after all that water Changing there was a LOT of starch settled on the bottom of the jar. To cook I carefully removed potatoes from the drained jar. Those small slivers, now cooked were very fragile and the starch on the bottom of the jar didn't want to let go of them. I put the potatoes on dish towels to dry them off as much as I could and air fryer them - wonderful!!!! Outside was crisp and inside a wonderful fluffy texture. With that success I tried freezing. Soaked, blanched, spread on baking sheet to freeze and into a freezer bag for later. Back in the air fryer - very good but the canned was better. I have now frozen several cuts of potatoes, happy with all of them. Yesterday, just before watching your video I canned more fries. This time still using Russets, pealed, sliced in slabs, stacked in slabs and cut them in roughly 3 slices (still thin but about 3x wider thinking they may be easier to handle not as fragile). Soaked changing water, over night, blanched for about 45 28:06 sec then canned. They were a lot easier to jar up and the end product has not left that thick layer of starch in the bottom of the jar, so hopefully enough starch came out to keep my diabetic out of trouble. They look wonderful in the jar, if they are fluffy on the inside like the first try was this will be my go to recipe for frys. The larger fry should be a breeze to dry off before air frying. God bless you and yours, Leona
Becky I make homemade flour tortillas all the time and there's nothing like them. But.....one shortcut I use if I dont have time or if I need a TON of tortillas for batch prepping breakfast burritos is I use the raw flour tortillas from costco. It's basically the raw dough already rolled out and you just cook them on the stove in a pan or on an electric griddle. They are the closest thing to a homemade tortilla you can get. :)
One of my favorite make ahead breakfast for my freezer are egg bakes. I probably do mine differently than a lot of people, though. I only use sausage, egg (and milk), and cheese, plus I add taco seasoning and taco sauce just after I brown my sausage. A taco flavored egg bake, if you will. After I bake it in a 13X9, I let them cool before cutting them into individual squares and throw them in my freezer. That way I can get out however many I need the night before we want them. Yum!
I have loved milling wheat for years! I have the older model of the Nutrimill. Itcis c such ca wonderful mill. I may have to go make a loaf of bread now that I'm watching you! You are delightful and I'm enjoying your channel. You seem to be so knowledgeable about everything and im very impressed with you. I know your parents must be so proud of you!
Becky, I make all of our baked goods from fresh-milled… From our sandwich bread to our desserts, everything is home-mill (I use the Mockmill). It was a bit of a learning curve, but 1 million times worth it because of all of the nutrition that you gain from eating the whole grain, plus all of the wonderful flavors of the grains. A fantastic resource is Sue Becker’s, “The Essential Home-Milled Flour Book”. Can’t wait to watch you evolve in this beautiful skill! ❤
Awesome to see you doing fresh grains. I still call myself a newbie. The taste is amazing and health benefits is a bonus!! I love adding in kumut in with my grains now.
I’m so glad you bought your mill and started using fmf again! One tip that may increase the softness of your bread is after adding approximately 2/3 - 3/4 of the flour to make a soft dough, hold off on adding the yeast. Let the dough sit for at least 30 minutes and “autolyze”. This allows the flour to absorb the liquid and soften the bran so it doesn’t cut up the gluten strands as much. Then sprinkle in the yeast with the rest of the flour and knead it.
I'm sitting in Oklahoma, in the heat STILL, experiencing drought. I'm so jealous of the rain you're getting, because we're going into our 3rd month of dryness. It's absolutely awful! 😢
We haven't had rain here in Southeastern CT in weeks and we've had brush fire warnings. It's been almost TOO warm this week! It's odd seeing our fall foliage in full effect, all leaves yellow orange and red while it's 78° degrees out!!
I live in Southwest Oklahoma and it has been so dry. We had turned off the air conditioner the other day and turned it back on because inside the house was too warm. Oklahoma weather you gotta love it 😊
Yay! Becky I’m so glad you’re using your grain mill! I have that mill too it’s awesome! I’ve switched to only using freshly milled wheat it’s helped our health so much it’s crazy! If you want some good 100% freshly milled recipes check out grains and grit her bread texture and food is amazing! You would love it!
Becky, have you thought about preserving your potato harvest by prepping frozen ‘Potatoes O'Brien’ bags? I know you like to use those as a convenient item! 😊
You’re such a inspiration for so many. I don’t have a vegetable garden but buy produce in large quantities when it is cheap. And than dice and freeze our when i buy ground meat and make meatballs bake 2 and freeze the rest so next time i only have to bake them not make them Noticed that since your last video you gained 3000 subscribers i wonder how long before you will hit 1 million
I saw a guy in Portugal restoring an old homestead of his grandfather’s. He was storing onions after harvest. I saw you laying onions etc on the floor on cardboard. This guy made a wire rectangle and hung it up on hinges on the ceiling in his cellar or outbuilding. He then put the onions through the wire spaces and returned it to the ceiling and hooked it up out of the way. I thought maybe you would want to try this way to give you room where you dry your produce. 😊 I have pictures but don’t know how to send them.
Thank you so much for demonstrating the wheat grinding! I have been waiting about getting a mill like that because I wanted to see one used. You did a great job of showing how it works and its uses.
Becky, this video was fantastic!! Love it when you do these freezer meals. The bread looked amazing, I lived near a bakery and the smell is amazing. Everything looked amazing. Thank you friend. 🎉
My hubs and I grew 180 pounds of potatoes because I love making french fries, hash browns, dry pack canned for potato salads, dice blanch and prefreeze then vacuum seal for a quick add to egg casserole, pot pies, southwestern fried potatoes, soup, etc. as well as dehydrated slices for scalloped or au gratin, then the normal baked potato. Oil usually removes sticky residue.
My grandma used to replace the oil in our waffles and pancake batter with applesauce and small diced chunks of fresh apples. Then she would sprinkle brown sugar on the top of the pancake or waffle before flipping it over/closing the waffle iron. This made a wonderful caramelized crust that was amazing with maple syrup or even just cool whip.
@@lorenstribling6096 I’m sure they would be. And I believe that Becky said she has a pear tree and we know she has blueberries on the property. I hope she does a whole waffle and pancakes series
I make applesauce cinnamon pancakes. Okay, so I use a box mix, you just add water to, then add 1/4 cup applesauce and cinnamon to taste (we always add extra!).
Thank you, Becky !!! I enjoy your videos so much... God bless you and your family !!! I bet your little one is growing up so fast. . He is a very lucky boy to have wonderful parents like Josh and Yourself !!
Becky, how do you do all of this cooking, homesteading, amongst other things and also be a mom?!? My mind is blown by all that you do! You are incredible ❤❤
Love the video and the breakfast items. Josh is so cute with just showing his hand or arm when taste testing. Food always looks good and your instructions are so clear and easy. Thank you
You can actually buy reusable paper towels. So I get one slightly damp then squeeze it out and wrap anything bread related loosely before reheating in the microwave and everything tastes fresh that way. ❤
Have you ever considered growing buckwheat? It's a great fall cover crop and the flour you get is actually gluten free. We used to grow this every fall here in Maine when I was growing up.
Becky, I can easily spend 100 hours watching you cook recipes 🧑🏻🍳 😊 I’ve made almost 20 of your recipes so far and they turn out delicious every time ❤❤❤ you’re my best friend on TH-cam ❤❤❤😊and so much fun to watch cook amazing meals 😊❤😊❤
Becky just put the dry pods (beans) in a old pillow case half way full and just hit it on the ground not too hard to split the beans but enough to shell them out the pods
Becky i had company today & i could'nt hardly wait till they left. My puppy & me (?) Got in our chair kicked back with a cover & turned you on. It was so cozy & relaxing. You are so down to earth, & its ok if you made a mistake. You just say, "i think i'll try it this way.But everything always turns out great. You even add or take away from recipes & t❤urns out good. I hope you read your comments. ❤😊
I find that the best thing to get sticky stuff off of surfaces is orange essential oil. Just a little bit on a clean rag and wipe off the sticky stuff. Then use a little soap to clean the (now un-sticky) surface. Works great getting labels off of glass as well, but then I just put the jar in the dishwasher.
Hi, Becky! I'm so glad you mentioned the beans and wheat because I saw a video the other day and thought of you and meant to message you and didn't! A woman put her dried beans into a pillow case, thrashed them around, poured them out and WA-LA! They were completely shelled! And not only that, but the shells were on top and the beans fell to the bottom, so she had very little picking out of the shells to do. I couldn't believe it actually worked! She said she's been doing it that way for years. Total harvest, shelled in minutes! Now I'm wondering if you could do the same with the wheat... I bet you could! I hope you try it for both! I'm dying to know if it works for the wheat! LOL I've been watching you for a couple years now, I think. You are my favorite TH-camr. I always learn something from you and thoroughly enjoy your videos. Something else I wanted to tell you about before this last garden season and didn't is about a couple peppers that I LOVE and I think you really would too. We seem to have the same taste in hot peppers/sauces. I love jalapenos and serranos and Sriracha. (And if you haven't tried Cholula, you should! Wayyy better than Tabasco!) My top two favorite peppers are Chili de Arbol and Santa Fe peppers. I have not grown Chili de Arbols, but I use the powder a lot and it is my absolute fave. I got some dried ones to make sauce, but I haven't used them yet. They are pretty spicy, and it's a building heat, but they have amazing flavor. They are a small, skinny, red chili. I really think you'd love them. I grew Santa Fe peppers a couple years ago. I found them at Lowe's and they intrigued me, as I'd never even heard of them. They are shorter and fatter than a jalapeno and they are yellow. They also have some good heat, close to a Serrano level, or maybe not quite as hot, but the flavor is absolutely incredible! It was an instant fave. My favorite pepper used to be Serrano, but now it's these two, hands down. Like you, my hubby can't handle heat, but mine can barely handle even the smallest amount of black pepper, so I have to be careful when I cook for him, which is why I love my peppers and hot sauces. I loveeee spicy stuff! LOL (Well, as long as it doesn't melt my face off! 😂) Thank you so much for sharing all the things you do with all of us! I hope you'll try the threshing method and the peppers. It would be nice to give a little back to you! 😊 Many blessings to you and Josh and your family! ♥️
Becky and Cam at The Seasonal Homestead made a DIY thresher for their wheat they grew this year. It's simple and I'm sure Josh already has the tools needed. Great video.
I find you so inspiring and love watching your “kitchen shenanigans” I am not mobile enough to do meal prepping as I used to. Cooking for one is a challenge. I can actually drool over your creations…I could almost smell your fresh bread on this episode. Hugs…🥰
Becky, just an FYI, when taking sticky residue off of things that a sticker has left, I use tape and dab it over the residue and that removes it really well.
I love you breakfast bulk meal cooking days! Next time you make breakfast potatoes, cook your potato with skin on in the microwave for one minute per potato. Let cool, cube up,and fry. Fry in a heavy skillet with liquid fat (lard is the best), no butter, gets too hot. Enough oil to coat the bottom of the pan. Fry on medium low with a lid on. Flip in 4-5 mins, don’t flip the potatoes too much. They will fall apart if you do. Drain grease off cooked potatoes and season.
The potatoes looked perfect for me. I might need to make more breakfast burritos for our freezer but right now I’m focusing on canning this weekend. Burritos in a jar for burrito bowls, more chicken,and more potatoes.
To heat burritos from frozen, this is what I do. Wrap frozen burritos in paper towel and nuke for one minute. I preheat my air fryer at 350° for three minutes. Line air fryer with liner or foil. Spray oil on burritos and air fry for five minutes, flip and fry another four minutes until lightly brown and crispy.
The evolution of your homestead is so beautiful to watch! You've said it before and it cannot be understated - just start small, adjust, and grow every season. I've been here since the beginning and that Becky was not growing and grinding her own wheat (as Jamerrill says - hopes and dreams). You've worked up to it and I'm so glad I've been here since the beginning to watch it and be inspired.
Thank you so much!
@nikkininja85 yes i am so glad i found her channel close to the beginning of her starting. I am 60 and i have learn SO MUCH wish i could have known what i have learned from Becky and a few other homesteaders 30 yrs ago!!
But what matters is I AM APPLYING IT HERE AND NOW!
I’ve been here since the beginning also ❤️🙏❤️🙏☮️
I just hit my mock mill n need to unpack it!
@@lindahernandez8693 you'll love it! I love mine!
My husband is a truck driver and I started fixing and freezing breakfast burritos for him to take. He loves them and it saves a ton of money!
I do breakfast burritos for my husband too!
Your kid is going to have a TON of friends!!!
In case you haven’t heard this yet today, you are beautiful. You are valued, genuine, and a favorite part of my day. I’m always grateful when it is a Becky day! You give me such great ideas. Thank you!
I agree 100%%
100% dead on with that statement!
I agree ❤
My love language is to feed my loved ones.
At 64 it's harder but your ideas give me preparation. Helps so much.
My daughter has M.S.
Anything from Moma is appreciated.
You make me look good in her eyes😅 thank you!
I love when Josh gets so excited about all if your hard work Becky.
What a love match!
Good luck with the mill. That’s the first one I had and it didn’t last one month. They sent me another after I returned it and that didn’t do well either. So I did NOT get a third one. It was just a headache. All the best to you dear 🙏
Josh is so appreciative of of all you do. It's lovely to see what a great team you are.
It's so precious how happy it makes Becky to make Josh happy. 😊 Plus, Josh is so sweet and supportive. Such a wholesome couple. 💛
I've been recommending you channel to anyone who likes gardening and cooking. Such a good.channel.
Fries! So easy! My 85 year old friend made them often for our family of 6. Her trick was in the afternoon she’d fry them just til almost tender then lay them on her cookie sheet/rack and when we were pulling up she’d fry quickly in small batch until brown. We only waited 15 minutes. In time for me to set her table. Precious memories!! To this day home fries are called “ Miss Helen’s fries 🙂
What a great childhood treat...and memory! The double fry is actually the secret to super delicious, tender yet crispy, French fries!
The double frying is a technique I"ve s
eaten called Belgian fries or pommes frites. Shop had options of sauces such as soy sauce, .curry sauce, spiced peanut sauce, seasoned mayonnaise, or ketchup. Most locals chose mayo. Peanut sauce was very rich. Curry was my fav. If I ordered with ketchup, they'd speak English with me.
Instead of buying frozen hash browns,
I parboil potatoes for about 7 minutes. Let them cool and then shred them on a box grater. I make a delicious egg bake with eggs, the potatoes, lots of onions and peppers, ground sausage and some red pepper flakes and pepper-jack cheese. Bake 30 minutes. So good!
Thank you so much for explaining how to do this! I also appreciate that you had a link for how to par boil potatoes because I was just about to ask you that. Can I ask what temperature you put the oven on when you do this meal? Thanks!
@@Hope-ot1xy I use 6 large eggs, 1 lb. cooked breakfast sausage. I like hot. 2 med-large par-boiled potatoes, shredded. approximately 1 1/2 cups diced, green and red peppers, and onions. Or, whatever colors you like. Sometimes I even add a jalapeño. And, about 2 cups of shredded pepper jack cheese. (1cup cheese mixed in with all the ingredients, 1 cup of cheese sprinkled on top) bake @ 350, for about 30 minutes, in a 9X13 baking dish.
@@janetreal896 sounds delicious! Thanks so very much for the recipe! It’s very much appreciated! 😊
I love how Josh encourages you ... nice job Both of you
Rice flour is a phenomenal addition to your cupboards. I don't have a mill because I live in the English countryside and in my village we have a windmill. I get all my flours from them and Judy the farmers wife makes the best flours going and turns them into delicious produce. Once you go the milled flour way your taste buds change. The other bonus is that there is nothing in it but the milled flours. One of my brothers and I were the only ones who didn't get Celiac disease. Nothing like flour from a mill. It's a cheaper way of getting your rice flour plus you can get brown rice flour. Over here in the UK specialist flours on the supermarket shelves are so expensive. I love watching your channel. Such a wealth of information but it's your smile that makes it better.
You’re so lucky!
Yay! I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw you got a new grain mill! So happy to see you trying fresh milled flour again! 😊
More to come!
@@AcreHomestead Yay! I would be honored if you wanted to try one of my Fresh Milled Flour Recipes! 😊
~❤ Kara with Grains In Small Places
I have been baking with fresh milled flour for a few years now and the greatest tip I have learned is adding 1Tbsp of lemon juice per 3 cups of fresh milled flour during the "sponge" or the time you are soaking your flour (for yeast recipes.) The bread texture is greatly improved with such a simple step!
The smile on your face. When Josh liked the bread absolutely priceless. 😊😊😊
0-37 in one second! You are loved, Becky!
Becky, you don’t know how much I look forward to your videos. Thank you for being my inspiration.
Another amazing day with Becky!❤
Becky, your enthusiasm and energy is unbelievable! Do you have elves helping you that we don't know about? I love everything about you! I love that you grow your own produce and use Organic Valley brand! It is my favorite organic brand. I also have noticed you are a Quince customer - yes, I've spotted some of my faves! ☺ I'm addicted to your channel. You seem to enjoy cooking so much. Your family and neighbors are very lucky to know you. Thank you for all the amazing recipes! Absolutely love everything on your channel!
To check if you griddle is hot enough you sprinkle it with water and if the water skates across but doesn't evaporate immediately it is ready, that's how my Nana taught me to do it works every time.
I just prepped vegetarian chili and vegetable soup for a friend having surgery tomorrow! Becky gave me the confidence to make more than one thing at a time and it went incredibly well! My kitchen skills are growing by leaps and bounds. Thanks Becky! ❤
You have inspired so many people, Myself included, to eat better to try new things, know where our food comes from and so much more. Thank you for sharing your journey with us ❤
Agree!
Hey Becky, I have a handy trick for you. When you're beans are ready to be shelled put part of them in a old pillow case. Then shake them around really good and it will put out the beans and they will fall to the bottom of the bag, making it easy to clean out the other stuff. It works great.
I was coming to say the same thing. More Than Farmers has a great recent video showing how to do it titled "breathing a sigh of relief."
I saw that on a short Facebook video just this morning, and I was going to mention it here! They said not to beat hard or the beans could split, but it's worth trying.
I was coming to let you know about what I had saw other people do to shell their dried beans but looks like several people have the same information.
As always, a super interesting video….thank you
Yes I hope she sees this before buying something!
Lovely work Becky. Love that Josh compliments you on your baking and cooking. He appreciates your efforts. Your wheat grinder is beautiful on your counter. Love the natural look wood.
Love your channel Becky, I found you 3 Months ago. You inspired me to precook for my children’s families. This entails 6 adults and 9 grandchildren. They are very grateful ❤I found your channel as they have had their freezers stocked with burritos, marinaded meats, chicken Taquitos, Mac and cheese, Chicken tetrazzini. I could go on, but you get the gist. From the get go I have made the burritos with homemade hash browns they are so yummy. I’m going to work on homemade bread and waffles this weekend. Many thanks for all you share with us.
Diane…do you live nearby and have any extras??? Becky is too far away from me!🤣😂🤣sounds delish!!!!
I am slowcooking chicken bone broth, freezer prepping onions, bell peppers, carrots, corn, sweet peas & ham for soups, stews & to just have for when needed. I've been busy today, but I love being in the kitchen! 🦋
I’m so glad you are diving back in to fresh milled flour. That is the only bread we eat anymore. It is so so good!
You love to cook for your man, and I love that you make everything handmade. What a great wife you are!❤
I LOVE that you're milling now! Yay!! Nice catch dumping the wheat out before you milled it. Can't wait to see all your creations.
Make sure you turn off your mill right when you're done milling as well as dumping the grains in right when it's running.
You're also saving the nutrient density when you freeze the extra.
My homemade sandwich bread is chewy, soft and perfectly delicious. I use hard red, hard white and I love to add some spelt too.
Yes! Thank you!
Love when your dogs are in the kitchen while you cook. So adorable and the food tasting is all part of the process. ❤
I like where you put the mill. It's lovely to look at. It doesn't look like an appliance.
I'm making hungarian goulash this weekend. I've promised myself to make one new meal a week. Thanks Becky for making me go on a food adventure with cooking. I can do this! Last week I made homemade roasted garlic, tomatoe & red pepper soup and cheddar cheese & thyme scones. So good!
Becky sometimes I wish you would adopt me just so I can enjoy your meals, especially the breakfast preps. Just amazing. Josh is a lucky man and I like that he appreciates your efforts. The taste testing you guys do are a wonderful highlight to the vlogs.
Hey Becky, for future reference you can use baking soda/powder and any vegetable oil you’d like and mix it to make a paste and it is a natural goo-be-gone! 9:37
Really? The more ya know!
@@carolynmills513 you can use peanut butter too! Lol
Yummmmmm…… love when she does freezer meals
All looks yummy 🤗
Her homemade bagel breakfast freezer meal was my favorite!
I love when you meal prep. I now have my in law’s living with us and this will help me out. Thanks Becky
Lucky ya on the rain. We haven’t had rain for almost two months.
May I recommend something. When you cook your sausage I recommend adding frozen veggies to the meat sooner. If you wait until meat is done and then add your veggies you're over cooking your meat. You could also put veggies in the microwave while still in bags to soften them up some before adding to meat so meat and veggies will be done at the same time.
Goo Gone is my favorite sticky residue remover. Fabulous for anything with a sticker label. ... I reuse jars, soak/scrape the label off and then use Goo Gone for any remaining stickyness.
Becky, this was so very interesting! That mill is beautiful. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
A little heads up on the flour texture....
I have the exact same mill. I have found that the flour is warm once milled. So let it cool before using it. Also, I get the best flour for soft bread by SIFTING the flour with a normal sifter. It leaves larger pieces that you cannot see well before sifting. Give it a try, you'll appreciate the effort once the bread is made.
I love the less perfectionist and more realistic, rough and ready approach of this channel. Much more relatable! 🎉
I have been watching you forwever but love watching you in the kitchen ... I aslo watch Kiki Meets World and she has mentioned you in so many vidfeos and even prints off her recipes and sticvks them on her cupboardss like you and your momma ... I guess everyone loves you Beckie you are SIMPLY THE BEST
Hi Becky, I really enjoy your posts. You mentioned that you should put French Frys on your list to learn to make. I have been working on that myself for a couple months - my "findings" so far. First, my brother is diabetic so starch is not a friend and russet potatoes are wonderful for this so what I do is great for overall carb reduction but may not be necessary.
1st try - pealed a bunch of potatoes and with the help of a mandolins cut them in the skinny "match stick" fries. I soaked the newly cut fries changing the water several times over night. Next day blanched them for about 30 seconds and canned them using instructions for the chunk potatoes. Even after all that water Changing there was a LOT of starch settled on the bottom of the jar.
To cook I carefully removed potatoes from the drained jar. Those small slivers, now cooked were very fragile and the starch on the bottom of the jar didn't want to let go of them. I put the potatoes on dish towels to dry them off as much as I could and air fryer them - wonderful!!!! Outside was crisp and inside a wonderful fluffy texture.
With that success I tried freezing. Soaked, blanched, spread on baking sheet to freeze and into a freezer bag for later. Back in the air fryer - very good but the canned was better.
I have now frozen several cuts of potatoes, happy with all of them.
Yesterday, just before watching your video I canned more fries. This time still using Russets, pealed, sliced in slabs, stacked in slabs and cut them in roughly 3 slices (still thin but about 3x wider thinking they may be easier to handle not as fragile). Soaked changing water, over night, blanched for about 45 28:06 sec then canned. They were a lot easier to jar up and the end product has not left that thick layer of starch in the bottom of the jar, so hopefully enough starch came out to keep my diabetic out of trouble. They look wonderful in the jar, if they are fluffy on the inside like the first try was this will be my go to recipe for frys. The larger fry should be a breeze to dry off before air frying.
God bless you and yours, Leona
Becky I make homemade flour tortillas all the time and there's nothing like them. But.....one shortcut I use if I dont have time or if I need a TON of tortillas for batch prepping breakfast burritos is I use the raw flour tortillas from costco. It's basically the raw dough already rolled out and you just cook them on the stove in a pan or on an electric griddle. They are the closest thing to a homemade tortilla you can get. :)
You are so very skilled at filming - I feel like I’m sitting in the kitchen with you - with a cold and that is why I can’t smell the yummy baking 😁
I so needed a Becky video today. Thank you.
i hope you know how much your videos help people
One of my favorite make ahead breakfast for my freezer are egg bakes. I probably do mine differently than a lot of people, though. I only use sausage, egg (and milk), and cheese, plus I add taco seasoning and taco sauce just after I brown my sausage. A taco flavored egg bake, if you will. After I bake it in a 13X9, I let them cool before cutting them into individual squares and throw them in my freezer. That way I can get out however many I need the night before we want them. Yum!
I have loved milling wheat for years! I have the older model of the Nutrimill. Itcis c such ca wonderful mill. I may have to go make a loaf of bread now that I'm watching you!
You are delightful and I'm enjoying your channel. You seem to be so knowledgeable about everything and im very impressed with you. I know your parents must be so proud of you!
Becky, I make all of our baked goods from fresh-milled… From our sandwich bread to our desserts, everything is home-mill (I use the Mockmill). It was a bit of a learning curve, but 1 million times worth it because of all of the nutrition that you gain from eating the whole grain, plus all of the wonderful flavors of the grains. A fantastic resource is Sue Becker’s, “The Essential Home-Milled Flour Book”. Can’t wait to watch you evolve in this beautiful skill! ❤
O I was hoping for a video like this. I love them. Thanks Becky❤❤❤
Don’t you just love Becky? She always makes my day. 🩷🩷
Awesome to see you doing fresh grains. I still call myself a newbie. The taste is amazing and health benefits is a bonus!! I love adding in kumut in with my grains now.
I’m so glad you bought your mill and started using fmf again! One tip that may increase the softness of your bread is after adding approximately 2/3 - 3/4 of the flour to make a soft dough, hold off on adding the yeast. Let the dough sit for at least 30 minutes and “autolyze”. This allows the flour to absorb the liquid and soften the bran so it doesn’t cut up the gluten strands as much. Then sprinkle in the yeast with the rest of the flour and knead it.
I'm sitting in Oklahoma, in the heat STILL, experiencing drought. I'm so jealous of the rain you're getting, because we're going into our 3rd month of dryness. It's absolutely awful! 😢
We haven't had rain here in Southeastern CT in weeks and we've had brush fire warnings. It's been almost TOO warm this week! It's odd seeing our fall foliage in full effect, all leaves yellow orange and red while it's 78° degrees out!!
I live in Southwest Oklahoma and it has been so dry. We had turned off the air conditioner the other day and turned it back on because inside the house was too warm. Oklahoma weather you gotta love it 😊
@@rebeccalongoria631 same here in southeast MO. I've been praying for rain.
@Bero22482 I would absolutely love that.
I'm Irish descent, born in winter! 🌦
@@Bero22482 I love it! 😆
Yay! Becky I’m so glad you’re using your grain mill! I have that mill too it’s awesome! I’ve switched to only using freshly milled wheat it’s helped our health so much it’s crazy! If you want some good 100% freshly milled recipes check out grains and grit her bread texture and food is amazing! You would love it!
I never let my homemade bread cool. I’m slicing it while it’s still warm and adding butter. It’s one of my favorite things.
Becky, have you thought about preserving your potato harvest by prepping frozen ‘Potatoes O'Brien’ bags? I know you like to use those as a convenient item! 😊
I even wondered about freeze drying. Just add extra liquid to the casserole.
You’re such a inspiration for so many. I don’t have a vegetable garden but buy produce in large quantities when it is cheap. And than dice and freeze our when i buy ground meat and make meatballs bake 2 and freeze the rest so next time i only have to bake them not make them
Noticed that since your last video you gained 3000 subscribers i wonder how long before you will hit 1 million
I saw a guy in Portugal restoring an old homestead of his grandfather’s. He was storing onions after harvest. I saw you laying onions etc on the floor on cardboard. This guy made a wire rectangle and hung it up on hinges on the ceiling in his cellar or outbuilding. He then put the onions through the wire spaces and returned it to the ceiling and hooked it up out of the way. I thought maybe you would want to try this way to give you room where you dry your produce. 😊 I have pictures but don’t know how to send them.
We got the mockmill and adore it! Grain mills are such a gift💕
Thank you so much for demonstrating the wheat grinding! I have been waiting about getting a mill like that because I wanted to see one used. You did a great job of showing how it works and its uses.
Great investment Becky! 😊 so happy for you
Becky, this video was fantastic!! Love it when you do these freezer meals. The bread looked amazing, I lived near a bakery and the smell is amazing. Everything looked amazing. Thank you friend. 🎉
HI Becky!!!!! Love your channel!!!!
My hubs and I grew 180 pounds of potatoes because I love making french fries, hash browns, dry pack canned for potato salads, dice blanch and prefreeze then vacuum seal for a quick add to egg casserole, pot pies, southwestern fried potatoes, soup, etc. as well as dehydrated slices for scalloped or au gratin, then the normal baked potato. Oil usually removes sticky residue.
Love from the Netherlands ❤
Glad your vacation with your sister was great. Glad you are home and I think I might make some of the breakfast burritos to take to work.
Becky I think that is so cool you milled your own flour that you grew! I just love watching all your vlogs!
Hello from California. Looking forward to this video. Lots of delicious recipes!
My grandma used to replace the oil in our waffles and pancake batter with applesauce and small diced chunks of fresh apples. Then she would sprinkle brown sugar on the top of the pancake or waffle before flipping it over/closing the waffle iron. This made a wonderful caramelized crust that was amazing with maple syrup or even just cool whip.
Apple cinnamon waffles sound amazing!
@@lorenstribling6096 I’m sure they would be. And I believe that Becky said she has a pear tree and we know she has blueberries on the property. I hope she does a whole waffle and pancakes series
@@morticiamoo9886 Waffles, pancakes and bagels. Yummy.
I make applesauce cinnamon pancakes. Okay, so I use a box mix, you just add water to, then add 1/4 cup applesauce and cinnamon to taste (we always add extra!).
@@debbiepickel73 Nothing wrong with a boxed mix you just make it your own!
Thank you, Becky !!! I enjoy your videos so much... God bless you and your family !!! I bet your little one is growing up so fast. . He is a very lucky boy to have wonderful parents like Josh and Yourself !!
Becky, how do you do all of this cooking, homesteading, amongst other things and also be a mom?!? My mind is blown by all that you do! You are incredible ❤❤
She IS!!!
She doesn't cook everyday or each meal. She's found a system which works for them.
Awesome video, they do make a 4 mini waffle maker it sure speeds up the cooking time 😊
Your bread is the best recipe for sandwich bread i have ever made.💞💞
I love your videos! ❤
Thank you so much!!
Hi Becky I know you like the Einkorn wheat flour and I noticed they had organic Einkorn wheat berries on Amazon.
Love the video and the breakfast items. Josh is so cute with just showing his hand or arm when taste testing. Food always looks good and your instructions are so clear and easy. Thank you
You can actually buy reusable paper towels. So I get one slightly damp then squeeze it out and wrap anything bread related loosely before reheating in the microwave and everything tastes fresh that way. ❤
Have you ever considered growing buckwheat? It's a great fall cover crop and the flour you get is actually gluten free. We used to grow this every fall here in Maine when I was growing up.
Is the buckwheat you grow organic? Do they treat the seeds in any manner before you plant them? I would love to grow buckwheat.
Becky, I can easily spend 100 hours watching you cook recipes 🧑🏻🍳 😊 I’ve made almost 20 of your recipes so far and they turn out delicious every time ❤❤❤ you’re my best friend on TH-cam ❤❤❤😊and so much fun to watch cook amazing meals 😊❤😊❤
Becky just put the dry pods (beans) in a old pillow case half way full and just hit it on the ground not too hard to split the beans but enough to shell them out the pods
Yes - Happy you mentioned this👍🏼
Then slowly dump out in front of a fan into a bowl until the hulls have blown away. Pillowcase trick
Becky i had company today & i could'nt hardly wait till they left. My puppy & me (?) Got in our chair kicked back with a cover & turned you on. It was so cozy & relaxing. You are so down to earth, & its ok if you made a mistake. You just say, "i think i'll try it this way.But everything always turns out great. You even add or take away from recipes & t❤urns out good. I hope you read your comments. ❤😊
Hello Friend, we absolutely 😍 love you!!! Thank you Becky for being you 💙
Anyone else waiting for the carrot harvest? Just me? It's like unearthing treasure! 😀
yes! lol
I tried explaining this to my son’s when I was harvesting but they were completely indifferent 🙄
Thank you four honesty!!
When a mistake reconfigure!!
You are very refreshing, again thank you for that🎃
Good Morning Becky! 🩷 Looking forward to new recipes for my kitchen!
The new mill is beautiful and the food looks delicious. Thank you for sharing your day with us.
I find that the best thing to get sticky stuff off of surfaces is orange essential oil. Just a little bit on a clean rag and wipe off the sticky stuff. Then use a little soap to clean the (now un-sticky) surface. Works great getting labels off of glass as well, but then I just put the jar in the dishwasher.
Good morning Becky!
Hi, Becky! I'm so glad you mentioned the beans and wheat because I saw a video the other day and thought of you and meant to message you and didn't! A woman put her dried beans into a pillow case, thrashed them around, poured them out and WA-LA! They were completely shelled! And not only that, but the shells were on top and the beans fell to the bottom, so she had very little picking out of the shells to do. I couldn't believe it actually worked! She said she's been doing it that way for years. Total harvest, shelled in minutes! Now I'm wondering if you could do the same with the wheat... I bet you could! I hope you try it for both! I'm dying to know if it works for the wheat! LOL
I've been watching you for a couple years now, I think. You are my favorite TH-camr. I always learn something from you and thoroughly enjoy your videos. Something else I wanted to tell you about before this last garden season and didn't is about a couple peppers that I LOVE and I think you really would too. We seem to have the same taste in hot peppers/sauces. I love jalapenos and serranos and Sriracha. (And if you haven't tried Cholula, you should! Wayyy better than Tabasco!) My top two favorite peppers are Chili de Arbol and Santa Fe peppers. I have not grown Chili de Arbols, but I use the powder a lot and it is my absolute fave. I got some dried ones to make sauce, but I haven't used them yet. They are pretty spicy, and it's a building heat, but they have amazing flavor. They are a small, skinny, red chili. I really think you'd love them. I grew Santa Fe peppers a couple years ago. I found them at Lowe's and they intrigued me, as I'd never even heard of them. They are shorter and fatter than a jalapeno and they are yellow. They also have some good heat, close to a Serrano level, or maybe not quite as hot, but the flavor is absolutely incredible! It was an instant fave. My favorite pepper used to be Serrano, but now it's these two, hands down. Like you, my hubby can't handle heat, but mine can barely handle even the smallest amount of black pepper, so I have to be careful when I cook for him, which is why I love my peppers and hot sauces. I loveeee spicy stuff! LOL (Well, as long as it doesn't melt my face off! 😂)
Thank you so much for sharing all the things you do with all of us! I hope you'll try the threshing method and the peppers. It would be nice to give a little back to you! 😊 Many blessings to you and Josh and your family! ♥️
LOVE that grain mill. We use it all the time :).
Becky and Cam at The Seasonal Homestead made a DIY thresher for their wheat they grew this year. It's simple and I'm sure Josh already has the tools needed.
Great video.
Recommendation, I would recommend you put your tomatoes in eggs because it asks flavor to the eggs and it makes it really good.
I find you so inspiring and love watching your “kitchen shenanigans” I am not mobile enough to do meal prepping as I used to. Cooking for one is a challenge. I can actually drool over your creations…I could almost smell your fresh bread on this episode. Hugs…🥰
Yay It's Becky❤😊🎉
Becky, just an FYI, when taking sticky residue off of things that a sticker has left, I use tape and dab it over the residue and that removes it really well.
I am loving the rain. Down in California I want some more 😊
I love you breakfast bulk meal cooking days! Next time you make breakfast potatoes, cook your potato with skin on in the microwave for one minute per potato. Let cool, cube up,and fry. Fry in a heavy skillet with liquid fat (lard is the best), no butter, gets too hot. Enough oil to coat the bottom of the pan. Fry on medium low with a lid on. Flip in 4-5 mins, don’t flip the potatoes too much. They will fall apart if you do. Drain grease off cooked potatoes and season.
The potatoes looked perfect for me. I might need to make more breakfast burritos for our freezer but right now I’m focusing on canning this weekend. Burritos in a jar for burrito bowls, more chicken,and more potatoes.
I love how clearly you explain things!
You are so good at what u do. Certainly are an influencer. At retirement now, want to do more in kitchen & garden.
To heat burritos from frozen, this is what I do. Wrap frozen burritos in paper towel and nuke for one minute. I preheat my air fryer at 350° for three minutes. Line air fryer with liner or foil. Spray oil on burritos and air fry for five minutes, flip and fry another four minutes until lightly brown and crispy.