Typically, when I vacuum seal wetter foods, I put them in the vacuum bag and directly into the freezer. I seal them the next day when the moisture is solid 😊. Works great!
Warms my heart that my daughter is now canning food for her 10 month baby and her husband. She knows the importance of fresh home grown food because she was raised that way. And now days its so important to know where your food comes from and what is in it. Even if you do not have a garden, support your Farmers Markets and local farmers and preserve it.
What I learned about my food saver many many years ago was to fold a piece of paper towel and place in the bags just past sesling area and it keeps the moisture out of the sealed area, works especially well with fish
Hello there, I started preserved red peppers,eggplant and I made strawberry jam, apricots jam and peaches. A lot of work and time. Thank you for inspiration.
I loved it when you said that you do a small amount of preserving everyday. Ive been doing that now and it works great❤ I have been drying herbs, making pickles and freezing blueberries. Quick projects and not overwhelming. Thank you for the advice.
Hi Jessica!! Good Sunday Morning to you! Thank you for all you do. Your videos are such a relaxing time for me. I get "my" time every Sunday, and now, Wednesday!!! Sending love and prayers your way. Your Michigan Fan and Friend Araminta 😊😊❤❤
I am trying to do this challenge also. So far, today being the 8th I have preserved figs two ways, tomatoes 5 ways, Butterbeans frozen, okra canned, carrots canned and frozen banana peppers. 😍
Thank you for sharing. I've been able to preserve something every day this month. Today - green beans and teaching friends from church how to make pickles. It will be a great day!
Good morning Jessica! This week I've preserved spearmint tea x2, made cherry jelly from pits (ala Meg Hollar), made cherry preserves, dried lavender tea, and canned 15 pints of peaches for winter eating. I still have 2 pecks of peaches sitting on the kitchen floor to be preserved. Most of those will be made into pie filling probably tomorrow. Because of your encouragement, even on the days I have zero spoons left, I'm harvesting herbs to dry for winter tea. My garden this year is NOT producing - other than herbs - so I've had to purchase ingredients with which to can. I was glad to see your proportions in making your (instant) beef stew. That is one of the foods my sons truly enjoy, and I typically can all of the stew meat immediately when my cow arrives, making it an easy meal to prepare through the winter. As you worship this morning, I would solicit your prayers, as I'm expecting an ugly confrontation around noon. I've gotten 3.5 hours of sleep, which is not optimal, as lack of rest typically brings on migraine or other health issues.
As Always much Love from Okc ❤ I'm having a 2nd pancreas surgery Aug 11th so I've been canning Alot and dehydrating some things to make space in freezer. I will be in hospital for a month so everyone(hubby& 20yr son) is wanting pizza and burritos for convenience😂 while I'm away. Everyone please keep me in your thoughts and Prayers please and Thanks as well🙏🏽🙏🏽
❤💫 Prayers that your surgery goes very well and you have a quick and complete recovery. January 2012 I had the Whipple procedure due to stage three pancreatic and common bile duct cancers, then followed by chemo. The Lord God Almighty graced me with recovery, survival and gratitude. I live a humbled life as your eyes are wide open after such things. ( the 1% at this time) We are definitely not in control ❤. Love and light, and a big hug to you💫🥰☝️
Any time you deviate from approved/tested canning procedures, I would appreciate if you would state that. I deviate very, very little and want to know up front. Thanks! Yesterday 4 quarts green beans, 20 pints diced and 7 qts diced tomatoes. Incredibly tired, but I have pizza sauce cooking down in the roaster today.
i remember stumbling across this channel when i was down with a flu as well as at the lowest point in my life. i believe watching these vids helped me to regain my interest in collecting wild herbs and, in general, being closer to the nature❤ currently, i'm enjoying my everyday life and using the "every man's right" to pick berries out in the forest as well as herbs for "medical" purposes
An abundant week for you! Thank you for always sharing your knowledge and ideas! We down sized our garden this year due to season of life plus planted very late so our harvest is just getting ready to be ready. We did get an abundant of zucchini this week so I made Mock Pineapple with it. First time making that and it turned out delicious! We purchased our plants from 3 sources this year and have discovered a lot of mix up plants. For example half of the "romas" ended up being cherry tomatoes. I bought jalepenos and cheynne peppers but none of the plants turned out to be that. No idea what hot peppers we ended up with. We've never had this issue before. Happy Sunday and have a blessed week!
My potatoes didn't flower either this year!! And they are completely dieing back! I need to get hubby out there digging😅 but I can't say I've had too much success when it comes to potatoes anyway!!! I also just invested in a new dehydrator because mine kicked the bucket unfortunately so I really can't wait for it to show up so I can start drying some of my herbs!!! ❤ All my love!! Can't wait to see you next time!!!
Another great video Jessica! This week I've done peach preserves and peach butter, dried lots of herbs, froze my onion harvest, started almond extract, and canned chicken broth. Today planning to get tomato sauce, 2 kinds of salsa, and corn on the shelves!
Helpful hints for your spuds and peppers. I have used Patara's at Appalachia's Homestead tomato fertilizer for the last 4 years and have had amazing results in my raised beds. One year, I harvested 60 lbs of Roma tomatoes from one 4x8 raised bed. I spot treat the plants in the holes I transplant in. And top dress the soil once a month during growth. Potatoes are heavy phosphorus feeders. Maybe consider treating your soil with a 0-24-24 fertilizer? Or supplementing the soil in the fall or winter with natural sources. I also mix in Epson salts into the soil. I save all of my egg shells year round, heat them on a cookie tray in the oven at 200° and pulverize in a food processor. Makes a great calcium soil additive. Best of blessings for your garden!🥰
I make my beef stew almost exactly the way you do. I do add a heaping spoonful of tomato paste to each jar. Tomatoes are a natural tenderizer and he's to make the meat more tender. I think you'll find you like it if you want to give it a try. Actually beef stew was the very first thing I ever pressure canned. My husband looked at me with scepticism 🙄 but after trying it he now says he doesn't want beef stew any other way😁💞
Thank you. I am behind, I haven't preserved every day, but I have gotten some meat and broth canned as well as some eggs In the freeze dryer, and a couple dry soup mixes. My garden isn't really producing right now. Gotta get new plants in there and maybe add some compost from my pile. Sadly I think I will have to buy tomatoes again this year, but hopefully my onion harvest will be good! Lol starting a month late sure makes a difference
Good morning. This challenge is so fun fun to watch to see what you can do on a daily basis. Such good ideas. 💜 I am also watching Sara @Living Traditions Homestead. Shes been making salsa and preserving peppers. Her greenhouse garden is amazing. You ladies are so blessed with an abundance in your gardens. God bless you guys. 🙏🏻💜
Just want to say thanks for the inspiration. I’m enjoying finding ways to preserve what I have as well as making future meals easier. This last week I dehydrated zucchini shreds, froze 2 bags of diced tomatoes, made 2 pints of pear sauce, and vacuum sealed 4 batches of dry ingredients for cornbread. (I just remembered - and a pint of dill relish! Really excited about that one!) Not a huge pile, but as you say, better some than none!
Loved watching this video. How many "OMG, you're going to kill everyone in your family, plus pets that ate leftovers" did you get from food police wanna bes because you didn't peel the potatoes? I almost hate to put anything on my Facebook page anymore, because I don't want to hear it 😢
Spent yesterday canning sweet hot peppers (although I didn't have nearly enough) and then decided to make crushed tomatoes. Going to work in my garden this morning. Should be harvesting my last row of potatoes and seeing how many more peppers I have. I really enjoy these videos and reading the comments about preserving. Zucchini was coming in well so I shredded the large ones the other day and will be making zucchini crab cakes (no crab) and chocolate zucchini bread later in the week. Have a wonderful and productive week.
I ❤ mock crab cakes using shredded zucchini!! Put away a ton of freezer bags just for that purpose. A bit of old bay and roumalade, you can't even tell it's not crab
If you look up the recipe for Connie's Zucchini Crab Cakes, you should find a few renditions of it. I have a salt restriction so I have to make a saltless Old Bay Seasoning that I also found online and changed the celery salt to celery seed. It works well for me. I do peel and deseed my zucchini first though as the larger zucchini (the size of my arm)can be rather tough. @@heatherk8931
First time seeing one of your videos. It popped up as a recommendation. Enjoyed and plan on watching more. Must confess the name caught my eye as my husband is from the Three Rivers area of Pittsburgh. Not sure if that is where you are or not. I have him living in the south now out of the cold and snow. Thank you for sharing your harvest and how you preserve it.
My grandchildren all loved mashed potatoes! When they started eating table food and vegetables fork mashed on our plates. My daughter said my grandson would not eat peas. My other daughter thought she could get him to eat them. So she buried A pea in the mashed potatoes Joe ate right away. Well Joe promptly opened his mouth dumping all the potatoes and one pea off his tongue. Again……with the same results! Next time Joe would not eat the spoon of potatoes! Next time we had potatoes we ate a vegetable Joe liked, wax beans! We learned a lesson in trust and always offering food the children could see and pray they would soon come to eat and like even peas. Joe, now married and serving our nation in the Navy still will not eat peas.
I have taken on the your challenge, I dont have a lot to put away some days, but 1 cup of blackberries is better then nothing. Every little bit counts, they will taste really good in the middle of winter
Hi Jessica I still can even now it is only me . When I come home from work and I can just grab what I want off the shelf. Yes old habits are hard to break now my family is grown. Blessings to you and your family❤
Love how organized you are. You are so blessed to have your kids around and raise them at home. Public school is a no, no now days. Be blessed my friend!
As YT cycles your vids, I have missed lots of preparation videos like this. Sure have missed yours!! There is something so satisfying about feeding your family well. ❤
It has been a disappointing year for tomatoes for us. I don't believe I'll have enough to can. The plants didn't grow much. A few didn't even set fruit. Jalapeños are going crazy. I have a couple green peppers--but the plants are beautiful😂 I have only harvested 3 zucchini! Plenty of pattypan squash and big cucumbers, oh my goodness! I didn't get the bug netting over my cabbages, so most are eaten up. There are a few small ones I'll use, though. I dug a few potatoes out, and they're good, but small. The rest are ready to be dug. Laying out my fall/winter garden. My husband and I are going to put up a hoop house, and hopefully a cold frame. Blessings!
Self taught here out of necessity. My oldest son has anaphylactic food allergies, so I had to learn how to feed him safely when we couldn't buy a lot of store-bought food or eat in restaurants anymore.
People that are allergic to chicken eggs can usually do duck eggs and the reason for this is chicken eggs are acidic and duck eggs are alkaline. Love the freeze dryer.
Wow! Very productive few days! Reminds me I need to get some peppers in the freezer. As I recall, you're gluten free? Do you not worry about the little bit in the Worcestershire sauce, or have you managed to find gluten-free Worcestershire? If so, please share. I usually just use tamari, but I miss the twang of Worcestershire. 😄
My food saver is the same with wet foods. I was watching Living tradition homestead and she froze hers before she put them in bags. I am thinking that might work.
Wow, you got a great selection of items put up. I will do the freeze dried long slices of zucchini this week-like that idea. I will be pulling meets from the freezer next week for a canning session. Thanks again for the great inspiration!
I’ve been enjoying all your videos! Thank you for this #everybitcounts challenge! So far I’ve dehydrated plums, mangoes, and pineapple, and also made Orange Cranberry Sauce with frozen cranberries I had in my freezer since the holidays!
Your weekly challenge is so inspiring! I am not able to preserve something everyday but do try to do as much as possible. It's always satisfying. Have another great week!❤
I never know if I’m pronouncing “worcestershire” correctly either. 🙃 I’m joining and documenting with you. Thanks for the invitation and motivation!! This really helped us stock our pantry and freezers last year.
I hesitated buying ForJars because they were a bit more expensive. So I got some from the store. Only about 90% of my lids sealed. I broke down and bought ForJars and my next project saw 100% sealed! I'm hooked!
Thank you for inspiration! This week of the challenge added to the pantry with canning peach skin jelly, banana and jalapeños. tomato sauce. salsa; freezing green peppers, and peach slices (all from our garden).
❤ love your videos! Ive canned vegetable beef, turkey and chicken leftover soups (day 1), but didn't realize you can put bay and parsley in for canning.
Good afternoon my dear friend, you continue to have an abundant and fruitful garden! I love how your children are always involved in whatever you are doing, so sweet! Oh my, Hannah is loving the mashed potatoes - what a doll she is!! Until Wednesday my dear.
Yes, "Wusster-sheer", great job 😅 (the "u" is a short "oo", for example "book"). But I much prefer the endearing American version "Worster-shire" and "War-sesster-shire". I'll be in Worcestershire in a few weeks, visiting family. Thank you for sharing your videos, you are a spiritual encouragement as well as a practical one! God bless you and your family 😊
British person here! It's pronounced wus-ter-shear 😁 shear like shearing a sheep rather than shire We have plenty of places like like, not just Worcester. Leicester is pronounced Les-ter, Towcester is Toe-stir ect We love silent letters and dropping parts of words !
Thanks for your very informative videos, great content. On the subject of Worcestershire Sauce (Worcestershire is a county in England), we all call it Worcester Sauce (pronounced 'Wooster') :)
Thank you for inspiring me and so many! As a result I’m preserving a lot this month from the garden. There are only two of us, but I love sharing the surplus. I like too how you can beef stew. My only question is, have you ever tried a bigger, quality, knife for cutting the meat? My hand was hurting for you! 😊 Well done Jessica and God bless you all!
Hi Jessica, the stew looks so good. I love canning beef stew. I learn so much from you. Your children are beautiful. Hannah wasn't a baby any time. She's grown to fast. Love your sweet family.
i came across you last year at this time and hopped onto the challenge 2 weeks in and stayed with it through the second week in September. Both big and little projects. So far I have gotten multiple canning days of dilly beans and regular beans and pesto and red pasta sauce and dried herbs etc. Also, all my 350 heads of garlic and onions all stored away. You are an encourager Jessica and I appreciate that. Will be pulling those chuck roasts out this week and canning stew!!! Blessings...Cecile
Could you put a silicon sheet over the zucchini and double it and freeze dry more at one time? It might take longer? I was just wondering if it would work?
Good morning Jessica and Family! Thank you for sharing another inspirational video! This week I canned 20 qts and 14 pints of tomato sauce, and did a lot of work cleaning up the yard and garden. I've got another 22 qt stock pot of tomato sauce waiting to be canned today I also picked and processed another bushel of corn, although the chickens got a fair bit of it because after months of drought we've gotten 7 inches of rain in the past two weeks, and some of the corn soured. This coming week I'm hoping to get fall beets planted, as well as dehydrating some of the end of the summer tomatoes, and dehydrating caramelized onions from the garden.
Living in an HOA means having chickens and eggs is not in my current range but it's a dream that I hope comes true soon. These are some really good tips especially as I can garden and can use the other preservation tips.
Just wondering do you like homemade green pepper soup. I can it in qt jars. It's wonderful in the winter, only need to add in some cooked rice when serving it.
Great video I love watching your videos amazing what you get done ,just wondering when you freezer dried your tomatoes for tomatoe paste can you dehydrate it as I don’t have a freeze dryer
I enjoy your preserving videos and try to do some, too. I’m afraid I don’t keep up with your bounty. Impressive. Just noticed the locusts on your tree at the beginning of the latest video. We had a locust tree on the farm when I grew up. Wondering how you use them.
Typically, when I vacuum seal wetter foods, I put them in the vacuum bag and directly into the freezer. I seal them the next day when the moisture is solid 😊. Works great!
Warms my heart that my daughter is now canning food for her 10 month baby and her husband. She knows the importance of fresh home grown food because she was raised that way. And now days its so important to know where your food comes from and what is in it. Even if you do not have a garden, support your Farmers Markets and local farmers and preserve it.
What I learned about my food saver many many years ago was to fold a piece of paper towel and place in the bags just past sesling area and it keeps the moisture out of the sealed area, works especially well with fish
Another beautiful day at your lovely farm. You get soooooo much done in a day, Jessica!
THANK YOU VERY INTERESTING JOHN WAS VERY HAPPY HELPING YOU.X
Thank you Jessica I don’t know if you realize how inspiring you are to us !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️! !
💚 Another busy and fruitful week, Jessica! Hannah is growing so fast..she's loving the mashed potatoes. 💚
Again I have been inspired. I water-bathed jarred tomotoes and tomato juice today. Your videos are a "kick in the butt" to get me going. Best
Hello there, I started preserved red peppers,eggplant and I made strawberry jam, apricots jam and peaches. A lot of work and time. Thank you for inspiration.
I loved it when you said that you do a small amount of preserving everyday. Ive been doing that now and it works great❤ I have been drying herbs, making pickles and freezing blueberries. Quick projects and not overwhelming.
Thank you for the advice.
Hi Jessica!! Good Sunday Morning to you! Thank you for all you do. Your videos are such a relaxing time for me. I get "my" time every Sunday, and now, Wednesday!!! Sending love and prayers your way. Your Michigan Fan and Friend Araminta 😊😊❤❤
I am trying to do this challenge also. So far, today being the 8th I have preserved figs two ways, tomatoes 5 ways, Butterbeans frozen, okra canned, carrots canned and frozen banana peppers. 😍
Thank you for sharing. I've been able to preserve something every day this month. Today - green beans and teaching friends from church how to make pickles. It will be a great day!
Good morning Jessica! This week I've preserved spearmint tea x2, made cherry jelly from pits (ala Meg Hollar), made cherry preserves, dried lavender tea, and canned 15 pints of peaches for winter eating. I still have 2 pecks of peaches sitting on the kitchen floor to be preserved. Most of those will be made into pie filling probably tomorrow. Because of your encouragement, even on the days I have zero spoons left, I'm harvesting herbs to dry for winter tea. My garden this year is NOT producing - other than herbs - so I've had to purchase ingredients with which to can. I was glad to see your proportions in making your (instant) beef stew. That is one of the foods my sons truly enjoy, and I typically can all of the stew meat immediately when my cow arrives, making it an easy meal to prepare through the winter. As you worship this morning, I would solicit your prayers, as I'm expecting an ugly confrontation around noon. I've gotten 3.5 hours of sleep, which is not optimal, as lack of rest typically brings on migraine or other health issues.
I don't have room for corn, I have a sack full that I'm taking time to can. 😊
I hope that you are able to get through your confrontation at noon. Said a couple of prayers for you.
❤️🎚🕊❤️🙏🏼❤️. I hope all is well. Love is always the answer. Blessings ❤❤❤
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I pay a lot for those tiny potatoes! They are called gourmet at my store! Good for you 👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻❤️👍
As Always much Love from Okc ❤ I'm having a 2nd pancreas surgery Aug 11th so I've been canning Alot and dehydrating some things to make space in freezer. I will be in hospital for a month so everyone(hubby& 20yr son) is wanting pizza and burritos for convenience😂 while I'm away. Everyone please keep me in your thoughts and Prayers please and Thanks as well🙏🏽🙏🏽
Love and prayers ❤️🙏🏼❤️🌻
❤💫 Prayers that your surgery goes very well and you have a quick and complete recovery. January 2012 I had the Whipple procedure due to stage three pancreatic and common bile duct cancers, then followed by chemo. The Lord God Almighty graced me with recovery, survival and gratitude. I live a humbled life as your eyes are wide open after such things. ( the 1% at this time) We are definitely not in control ❤. Love and light, and a big hug to you💫🥰☝️
You are in my prayers, good luck with the surgery!
Praying for you
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I used peach peels and seeds to make peach jelly. I also used some leftover peach cider to make jelly. 8 pints in all.
You are so inspiring! Thank you for sharing. And yay for counting peppers.
And yes Jessica, I'm from the UK and you did say Worcestershire sauce properly 🎉🎉🎉
Any time you deviate from approved/tested canning procedures, I would appreciate if you would state that. I deviate very, very little and want to know up front. Thanks!
Yesterday 4 quarts green beans, 20 pints diced and 7 qts diced tomatoes. Incredibly tired, but I have pizza sauce cooking down in the roaster today.
I have been canning tomatoes. It's a lot of work. In the winter months so rewarding.🌻🌻
Brilliant to use a cheese slicer to thinly slice the zucchini! I will try it.
I just saw a bag of 1.5 pounds of little potatoes for $3.45,so you got yourself a great haul!
Hello Miss Jessica.
What a great week of preserving! Thank you for serving us with inspiration and encouragement.
Serving and Preserving!
-K
I lost my dad last week and I'm struggling mentally and physically please pray for me
God bless you 🙏
I lost my Mom May. It's hard. I will pray for you. God bless.
i remember stumbling across this channel when i was down with a flu as well as at the lowest point in my life. i believe watching these vids helped me to regain my interest in collecting wild herbs and, in general, being closer to the nature❤ currently, i'm enjoying my everyday life and using the "every man's right" to pick berries out in the forest as well as herbs for "medical" purposes
Our potatoes did the exact same thing this year. We're probably 4hrs west of you. I wonder if it was also weather related this year!
An abundant week for you! Thank you for always sharing your knowledge and ideas!
We down sized our garden this year due to season of life plus planted very late so our harvest is just getting ready to be ready. We did get an abundant of zucchini this week so I made Mock Pineapple with it. First time making that and it turned out delicious!
We purchased our plants from 3 sources this year and have discovered a lot of mix up plants. For example half of the "romas" ended up being cherry tomatoes. I bought jalepenos and cheynne peppers but none of the plants turned out to be that. No idea what hot peppers we ended up with. We've never had this issue before.
Happy Sunday and have a blessed week!
I think I’m buying seeds from bear creek for autumn and next spring. Hopefully I can get what I ordered and it will be fruitful?❤🕊🎚🇺🇸
My potatoes didn't flower either this year!! And they are completely dieing back! I need to get hubby out there digging😅 but I can't say I've had too much success when it comes to potatoes anyway!!! I also just invested in a new dehydrator because mine kicked the bucket unfortunately so I really can't wait for it to show up so I can start drying some of my herbs!!! ❤
All my love!! Can't wait to see you next time!!!
Another great video Jessica! This week I've done peach preserves and peach butter, dried lots of herbs, froze my onion harvest, started almond extract, and canned chicken broth. Today planning to get tomato sauce, 2 kinds of salsa, and corn on the shelves!
English is not my native language, but I was tought that the sauce is pronounced " w-u-s-t-e-r", you skip the " shire"😎
I didn't know you could can baby potatoes like that. Thank you for the idea. We always have some when we pull potatoes.
Helpful hints for your spuds and peppers. I have used Patara's at Appalachia's Homestead tomato fertilizer for the last 4 years and have had amazing results in my raised beds. One year, I harvested 60 lbs of Roma tomatoes from one 4x8 raised bed. I spot treat the plants in the holes I transplant in. And top dress the soil once a month during growth. Potatoes are heavy phosphorus feeders. Maybe consider treating your soil with a 0-24-24 fertilizer? Or supplementing the soil in the fall or winter with natural sources. I also mix in Epson salts into the soil. I save all of my egg shells year round, heat them on a cookie tray in the oven at 200° and pulverize in a food processor. Makes a great calcium soil additive. Best of blessings for your garden!🥰
I make my beef stew almost exactly the way you do. I do add a heaping spoonful of tomato paste to each jar. Tomatoes are a natural tenderizer and he's to make the meat more tender. I think you'll find you like it if you want to give it a try.
Actually beef stew was the very first thing I ever pressure canned. My husband looked at me with scepticism 🙄 but after trying it he now says he doesn't want beef stew any other way😁💞
Thank you.
I am behind, I haven't preserved every day, but I have gotten some meat and broth canned as well as some eggs In the freeze dryer, and a couple dry soup mixes. My garden isn't really producing right now. Gotta get new plants in there and maybe add some compost from my pile. Sadly I think I will have to buy tomatoes again this year, but hopefully my onion harvest will be good! Lol starting a month late sure makes a difference
haaa! Your "little" harvests would be a pure success in my garden!
Good morning. This challenge is so fun fun to watch to see what you can do on a daily basis. Such good ideas. 💜 I am also watching Sara @Living Traditions Homestead. Shes been making salsa and preserving peppers. Her greenhouse garden is amazing. You ladies are so blessed with an abundance in your gardens. God bless you guys. 🙏🏻💜
Just want to say thanks for the inspiration. I’m enjoying finding ways to preserve what I have as well as making future meals easier. This last week I dehydrated zucchini shreds, froze 2 bags of diced tomatoes, made 2 pints of pear sauce, and vacuum sealed 4 batches of dry ingredients for cornbread. (I just remembered - and a pint of dill relish! Really excited about that one!) Not a huge pile, but as you say, better some than none!
Loved watching this video. How many "OMG, you're going to kill everyone in your family, plus pets that ate leftovers" did you get from food police wanna bes because you didn't peel the potatoes? I almost hate to put anything on my Facebook page anymore, because I don't want to hear it 😢
Hello Jessica! Do you think I could do the zucchini slices for lasagna in the freezer? I do not have a freeze dryer. Thank in advance!
New to your channel and it is wonderful. The freeze dryer is awesome snd so are your little helpers. Thanks.
Spent yesterday canning sweet hot peppers (although I didn't have nearly enough) and then decided to make crushed tomatoes. Going to work in my garden this morning. Should be harvesting my last row of potatoes and seeing how many more peppers I have. I really enjoy these videos and reading the comments about preserving. Zucchini was coming in well so I shredded the large ones the other day and will be making zucchini crab cakes (no crab) and chocolate zucchini bread later in the week. Have a wonderful and productive week.
I ❤ mock crab cakes using shredded zucchini!! Put away a ton of freezer bags just for that purpose. A bit of old bay and roumalade, you can't even tell it's not crab
Oooo! That sounds yummy! I became allergic to crab in my 20s😢, but still would love to try your recipe! I even have Old Bay in my spices ❤
If you look up the recipe for Connie's Zucchini Crab Cakes, you should find a few renditions of it. I have a salt restriction so I have to make a saltless Old Bay Seasoning that I also found online and changed the celery salt to celery seed. It works well for me. I do peel and deseed my zucchini first though as the larger zucchini (the size of my arm)can be rather tough. @@heatherk8931
First time seeing one of your videos. It popped up as a recommendation. Enjoyed and plan on watching more. Must confess the name caught my eye as my husband is from the Three Rivers area of Pittsburgh. Not sure if that is where you are or not. I have him living in the south now out of the cold and snow. Thank you for sharing your harvest and how you preserve it.
My grandchildren all loved mashed potatoes! When they started eating table food and vegetables fork mashed on our plates. My daughter said my grandson would not eat peas. My other daughter thought she could get him to eat them. So she buried A pea in the mashed potatoes Joe ate right away. Well Joe promptly opened his mouth dumping all the potatoes and one pea off his tongue. Again……with the same results! Next time Joe would not eat the spoon of potatoes! Next time we had potatoes we ate a vegetable Joe liked, wax beans! We learned a lesson in trust and always offering food the children could see and pray they would soon come to eat and like even peas. Joe, now married and serving our nation in the Navy still will not eat peas.
I'm 37 and I still won't eat peas it's one of the few I wouldn't eat as a child so my mom didn't force me to eat them.
I have taken on the your challenge, I dont have a lot to put away some days, but 1 cup of blackberries is better then nothing. Every little bit counts, they will taste really good in the middle of winter
Hi Jessica I still can even now it is only me . When I come home from work and I can just grab what I want off the shelf. Yes old habits are hard to break now my family is grown. Blessings to you and your family❤
I thought we had to peel potatoes in order to can them from Ball Blue Book? Bad bacteria on surface even if triple washed?
Love how organized you are. You are so blessed to have your kids around and raise them at home. Public school is a no, no now days. Be blessed my friend!
I always when bell peppers are on sale I will but up some ,slice and freeze them .That way I have them on hand when I need them
As YT cycles your vids, I have missed lots of preparation videos like this. Sure have missed yours!! There is something so satisfying about feeding your family well. ❤
Got 14 jars of canned chicken legs and thighs. Feels so good to look at them as I walk by.
No no Miss Hannah is too little!!!! She isn't, it seems like she should be. She has grown so fast.
Awww!!! I know!! I can’t believe Hannah Bear is ready for real food! 🥰😋❤️
You are so industrious! You are a wonderful mother!
It has been a disappointing year for tomatoes for us. I don't believe I'll have enough to can. The plants didn't grow much. A few didn't even set fruit. Jalapeños are going crazy. I have a couple green peppers--but the plants are beautiful😂 I have only harvested 3 zucchini! Plenty of pattypan squash and big cucumbers, oh my goodness! I didn't get the bug netting over my cabbages, so most are eaten up. There are a few small ones I'll use, though. I dug a few potatoes out, and they're good, but small. The rest are ready to be dug. Laying out my fall/winter garden. My husband and I are going to put up a hoop house, and hopefully a cold frame. Blessings!
Wow, I wonder if this mama is self taught, did she study nutrition, learn from her mama? I'm so impressed!
Self taught here out of necessity. My oldest son has anaphylactic food allergies, so I had to learn how to feed him safely when we couldn't buy a lot of store-bought food or eat in restaurants anymore.
Can you freeze dry eggs without whisking them
People that are allergic to chicken eggs can usually do duck eggs and the reason for this is chicken eggs are acidic and duck eggs are alkaline. Love the freeze dryer.
Wow! Very productive few days! Reminds me I need to get some peppers in the freezer. As I recall, you're gluten free? Do you not worry about the little bit in the Worcestershire sauce, or have you managed to find gluten-free Worcestershire? If so, please share. I usually just use tamari, but I miss the twang of Worcestershire. 😄
I'm so excited my freeze drier will be here this week, just in time. 😊
My food saver is the same with wet foods. I was watching Living tradition homestead and she froze hers before she put them in bags. I am thinking that might work.
If you have a dehydrator but not a freeze dryer, how do you like to do yours?
Wow, you got a great selection of items put up. I will do the freeze dried long slices of zucchini this week-like that idea. I will be pulling meets from the freezer next week for a canning session. Thanks again for the great inspiration!
I'm going to start canning my itty bitty potatoes into stew like you did. I always have beef in the freezer to use up too.
I’ve been enjoying all your videos! Thank you for this #everybitcounts challenge! So far I’ve dehydrated plums, mangoes, and pineapple, and also made Orange Cranberry Sauce with frozen cranberries I had in my freezer since the holidays!
Your weekly challenge is so inspiring! I am not able to preserve something everyday but do try to do as much as possible. It's always satisfying. Have another great week!❤
I never know if I’m pronouncing “worcestershire” correctly either. 🙃 I’m joining and documenting with you. Thanks for the invitation and motivation!! This really helped us stock our pantry and freezers last year.
I hesitated buying ForJars because they were a bit more expensive. So I got some from the store. Only about 90% of my lids sealed. I broke down and bought ForJars and my next project saw 100% sealed! I'm hooked!
They truly are the best lids!
Good Sunday morning.. i have an abundance of Tabasco peppers. I have done hot sauce, pepper flakes. What to do with the others.. ❤❤
Have you tried hot pepper vinegar? That's what I usually do with excess hot peppers.
Thank you for inspiration! This week of the challenge added to the pantry with canning peach skin jelly, banana and jalapeños. tomato sauce. salsa; freezing green peppers, and peach slices (all from our garden).
❤ love your videos! Ive canned vegetable beef, turkey and chicken leftover soups (day 1), but didn't realize you can put bay and parsley in for canning.
To vacuum seal shredded zucchini, shred, put in vacuum seal bags, then FREEZE, then seal.
Good afternoon my dear friend, you continue to have an abundant and fruitful garden! I love how your children are always involved in whatever you are doing, so sweet! Oh my, Hannah is loving the mashed potatoes - what a doll she is!! Until Wednesday my dear.
My potatoes did not flower either, so I guess it's the year of strange gardening. I will dig mine this week, and get them put up. Thank you.
Don't forget to boost your immune system for this busy season. 💕
I canned my first batch of tomatoes. First time canning and I felt so accomplished!
Yes, "Wusster-sheer", great job 😅 (the "u" is a short "oo", for example "book"). But I much prefer the endearing American version "Worster-shire" and "War-sesster-shire". I'll be in Worcestershire in a few weeks, visiting family. Thank you for sharing your videos, you are a spiritual encouragement as well as a practical one! God bless you and your family 😊
I've always been curious... Do chicken eggs and duck eggs have a different taste?
Wow, busy, busy! A productive day for you! I'm canning broth this afternoon. I love watching your videos to see what you're up to!
Hello Jessica's family. You're the best team at all!❤
Another video from one of my favorite channels.have you tried making the zucchini flour for baking?
British person here! It's pronounced wus-ter-shear 😁 shear like shearing a sheep rather than shire
We have plenty of places like like, not just Worcester. Leicester is pronounced Les-ter, Towcester is Toe-stir ect
We love silent letters and dropping parts of words !
Another great week of presentation of your harvest. Thank you for sharing
Thanks for your very informative videos, great content. On the subject of Worcestershire Sauce (Worcestershire is a county in England), we all call it Worcester Sauce (pronounced 'Wooster') :)
Love all your preserving
Thank you for inspiring me and so many! As a result I’m preserving a lot this month from the garden. There are only two of us, but I love sharing the surplus.
I like too how you can beef stew. My only question is, have you ever tried a bigger, quality, knife for cutting the meat? My hand was hurting for you! 😊 Well done Jessica and God bless you all!
Good morning 🌞
Hi Jessica, the stew looks so good. I love canning beef stew. I learn so much from you. Your children are beautiful. Hannah wasn't a baby any time. She's grown to fast. Love your sweet family.
Your baby getting so big😊
How funny! I literally just got done canning my homegrown potatoes that I planted only cause they started sprouting.
i came across you last year at this time and hopped onto the challenge 2 weeks in and stayed with it through the second week in September. Both big and little projects. So far I have gotten multiple canning days of dilly beans and regular beans and pesto and red pasta sauce and dried herbs etc. Also, all my 350 heads of garlic and onions all stored away. You are an encourager Jessica and I appreciate that. Will be pulling those chuck roasts out this week and canning stew!!! Blessings...Cecile
Love your Garden..
I also clean and fresh all my peppers ..my son and daughter in-law bought me a vacuum sealer..I do meat.and veggies
Could you put a silicon sheet over the zucchini and double it and freeze dry more at one time? It might take longer? I was just wondering if it would work?
Good morning Jessica and Family! Thank you for sharing another inspirational video!
This week I canned 20 qts and 14 pints of tomato sauce, and did a lot of work cleaning up the yard and garden. I've got another 22 qt stock pot of tomato sauce waiting to be canned today
I also picked and processed another bushel of corn, although the chickens got a fair bit of it because after months of drought we've gotten 7 inches of rain in the past two weeks, and some of the corn soured.
This coming week I'm hoping to get fall beets planted, as well as dehydrating some of the end of the summer tomatoes, and dehydrating caramelized onions from the garden.
If you add 1 tbsp of sail to each tray of scrambled egg mixture before freeze drying will prevent the eggs from little chunks when rehydrating
Living in an HOA means having chickens and eggs is not in my current range but it's a dream that I hope comes true soon. These are some really good tips especially as I can garden and can use the other preservation tips.
Just wondering do you like homemade green pepper soup. I can it in qt jars. It's wonderful in the winter, only need to add in some cooked rice when serving it.
Great content! Note: not all potatoes flower. 🙂
One piece of advice take a tea towel or a lightly wet paper towel under your cutting board so it doesn't move while cutting items.
Great video I love watching your videos amazing what you get done ,just wondering when you freezer dried your tomatoes for tomatoe paste can you dehydrate it as I don’t have a freeze dryer
I enjoy your preserving videos and try to do some, too. I’m afraid I don’t keep up with your bounty. Impressive.
Just noticed the locusts on your tree at the beginning of the latest video. We had a locust tree on the farm when I grew up. Wondering how you use them.
We have mostly just fed them to the cows.