My admiration for you both just keeps growing. Your work ethic, your willingness to reuse, repurpose, and be consistantly aware of our earth and its needs, and as you say, give back, is such a wonderful way of life. To share these parts of your philosophy is such a gift to everyone, and I thank you for it.
My favorite TH-cam channel, it's just so pure and real. Never any crazy music or funky edits. You guys are great. Thanks for bringing us with you with everything you do!
There or! Hurricane Harvey brought (In Texas) out the3 best after the hurricane, water was 84: inside my daughters and son-in-laws house. People bringind ice, water, food, and just helping out total straingers.
Be the change you want to see. If you want a sense of community, get out and meet your neighbors, volunteer, help someone who is elderly or a single parent. It can happen anywhere.
It doesn’t seem to matter what issues come your way, you always have positive attitudes and smiles on your faces! I think that’s why all other Alaskan videos can’t compare to yours!
You are such a joy to visit...that's what it feels like to this senor girl still in emergency stay home order in North Bay Ontario. Only recommended to go out for groceries or meds! So you can see how special it is when we get one of your videos. Thank you so much.
In the winters of 1977 and 1978 when we had that much snow on the ground, the Army Core of Engineers came in to clear our roads. We also had Helicopters rescuing people and taking them to shelters here in SW Ohio. Never want to go through that again. You guys need a pole barn or shead to store all of your vehicles and snow removal equipment in. Wow, what a job ya'll had😲😨🥶😰 Have a blessed day, stay safe and healthy 🙏🥰👍👌🙏🦅🔔🗽🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
We LOVE you guys. I am close to 74 an love what you have done on the homestead. I wish we were younger to keep doing what we really want to do with our lives. We just retired so these golden years are just starting. Again Love you guys.
For someone that has never seen snow that blows me away,just watching what you have to do on a daily basis,wow.keep it it up.love watching.o and I live in Queensland Australia
I love watching you guys. I live in Wasilla and it great to see people living like you guys do. I have started using some of the tips and tricks you guys share. Not everyone understands what it is like to live up here. You guys definitely show what Alaska living is like unlike the other fake shows like history channel and discovery channel shows people.
I live in Homer, and it's exactly like that. It's so refreshing and, especially compared to the kilcher's show. I live just a few miles from them, basically in town. They are wonderful people, just get portrayed as people they aren't.
@@nathanasimpson one of the Kilchers saved my uncle’s life back in the late 60’s - might have been Otto. Anyway we try to watch their show but it has moved on from what it was in the beginning.
This much snow is aggrivating. I just cant deal .... I would just stay inside and do nothing. You guys should have a clip of doing nothing but chill and cozy up with your pups 🥰
You guys are soooo disciplined. If I had driven to the nearest big town I would have got a heck of a lot more than ziplock bags. I would have shopped and shopped! 🤣
If anything, that tells a lot about the price of gas in the states. Anywhere else in the world you'd be damn sure to make that trip worth more than 20 bucks worth of ziplock bags.
Arielle and Eric, thank you so much for sharing your egg pickling video a few days ago. I’d never made them, but there’s a sale at our local restaurant supply store, so why not? I tasted the dill brine I’d made (Claussen dill pickle juice, diced dill pickles, minced garlic [whatever they’d used] as well as additional mustard seeds as well as Gaujillo chilis). I’ve waterbath-canned the jars and dated them for 3 weeks out. ‘Feels like a future Christmas present to myself. 😉 Thank you for sharing your moose carcass breakdown as well as your shelter. MUCH better than the usual “Costco tent”. Thank you so much for sharing yourselves and your life’s journey. Bless you both!
Seeing you guys work as a unit I can see all of your tasks completely accomplished. I truly enjoy your videos. Be careful you two, keeping looking out for each other.
I’m new to your channel, but I long to find someone who wants to live like this with me! So happy for you both and keep on doing what you’re doing ! Oh and the doggy time is the best!
Could be wind, but it looks as though you have some significant heat loss going on around the center area of the ridge line on your roof. Just thought I'd mention it, used to work in plumbing and heating. At :01 second mark.
Sometimes, when I get done processing a baby moose and clearing a ton of snow, I like to sit down and leaf my way though the Burgess Spring 2021 Garden Catalog. Another awesome video, love them dogs!!!
Bravo! As always, you guys delivered a beautiful video. So many people try to hard to do a video and fail miserably. You guys are 100% natural. All that snow would of made me cry!!! I'm done with snow too!!! Love the dogs going through the new snow. God bless and keep safe and warm!
Looking at all the snow and cold plus unexpected snowstorms... when are you going to build a sauna? You've got enough wood to fire it up and enough snow to cool of in most of the time of the year.. I'd think you would really benefit from a good sauna!
Yeah you guys have gotten some late snow storms this year. I guess it’s making up for last years weak sauce winter. It’s spring here in Oklahoma and already 70’s trying to add garden boxes to my garden and I’m already sunburnt this week!
“Do you want to build a Snowman? It looks lovely but I can see it’s difficult to manage. Your opening shots immediately brought memories to me...... of Christmas cakes my mother used to make at home...... Royal icing, white and shining like your snow and with little frosted fir trees for decoration. Mum used to take orders for her cakes and one of my jobs was to do the soaking with brandy or whisky:). She could never make enough of those cakes and I remember the dining table covered with beautiful cakes ready for collection.
I just started watching your videos for a few weeks & I am thoroughly enjoying them. I am a 67 yr. old now home bound woman who's only outlet has been writing stories for fanfiction & TH-cam videos. I am also a big fan of My Self Reliance with Shawn James who got me very interested in these types of videos. I also wrote a story for fanfiction called 'LIFE' about a young woman making a home in Alaska right outside of Fairbanks. I only wish I could have discovered this type of life style when I was a tons younger as I would have made it my life making a home as you all are now living. I appreciate your sharing your lives with me as it is my outlet out of this house. Thanks muches.......Jamie Crabtree-Messenger.......Chattanooga, Tennessee
What a great video! You two are living a beautiful life, and you work so hard!! You produce such interesting, well edited videos. The chickens are gorgeous, the dogs and kitty are precious, and you two are like a well-oiled machine when you’re working together. What a fascinating view of life in Alaska you share with people like me who will never live that life. May God always bless you and keep you safe. ❤️🙏🏼 Thank you for sharing your joy with so many!! 😘👍
Man, here I am putting in some spring crop outdoors and you all are still getting snow! Alaska is beautiful, but I would be going crazy not having my hands in the dirt by now! I wish you an amazing gardening season and excellent video!
I grew up in Alaska and lived in Wasilla for a bit! These videos are so nostalgic for me, when he pulled out the snow blower I smiled at the memory of snow blowing my drive way
What a score of a bounty for you and those good boys! Those will be some very happy dogs over the next few months' time. Lookin' forward to seeing the pix you end up getting. As soon as it warms up a bit, the scent will travel well.
I've been watching your videos completely out of order but this is what I have hoped for since I can remeber. I've always had chickens we live pickling eggs!!! I live the life you lead and congrats on learning every single step of the way.
"I hope she doesn't get stuck again." ... "Yep, she got stuck again." This made me laugh so hard! Thank you for sharing your life with us, as a Uni student in a city, it brings me a lot of peace !
I love you guys when it comes to survival you 2 knock it out the park 👍🏽👍🏽awesome couple I’m sure you have your challenges but all you show is living a peaceful life .Living your Best Life 🌹❤️❤️❤️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@@gracieshepardtothemax1743 If you're going to put cocoa powder into chili, you MUST--and I cannot stress this enough--YOU MUST simmer it for a MINIMUM of 2 HOURS. Sorry for the shouting, but at about the 2 hour mark, some sort of culinary alchemy takes place, and the chili will go from meh to HOLYDEARGAWD OMNOMNOMN NOMNOM!!! Anything less than 2 hours of simmering & stirring and it will NOT taste like it was worth the effort. I usually simmer mine between 2.5 and 3 hours (but no more than 3 hours, since that requires adding in too much water to keep it from burning). The original recipe comes from the cookbook "Well Fed" by Melissa Jouwan, p. 73, but the variation I make omits stewed tomato chunks in favor of tomato paste (as that is the kind I tend to have on hand)... 2T ghee (or clarified butter) 2 medium onions, diced (about 2 cups) 4 cloves of garlic, minced (about 4tsp) 2 pounds of ground beef (or chicken/turkey) 1tsp dried oregano leaves 2T chili powder 2T ground cumin 2T unsweetened cocoa powder (I tend to add double, aka 1/4 cup) 1tsp ground allspice 1tsp salt 2 cans (6oz each) tomato paste 1 can (14.5oz or 1.75c) beef broth (or chicken/turkey broth) 2.5c water Heat a large deep pot over medium heat, and add the ghee. When the ghee is melted, add onions, stirring with a wooden spoon, until the onions are translucent (about 7 minutes). Add the garlic and as soon as it’s fragrant (about 30 seconds), crumble the ground meat into the pan, mixing with the wooden spoon to combine. Continue to cook the meat, stirring often, until it is no longer pink. In a small bowl, crush the oregano to release its flavor, add the chili powder, cumin, cocoa, allspice, and salt. Combine with a fork, then add to the pot, stirring vigorously/like you mean it. Add tomato paste and stir until combined, about 2 minutes. Add the broth and water to the pot, and stir well. Bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat so the chili gently simmers. Simmer uncovered (but put on a mesh splatter screen!!) for at LEAST 2 hours. Do NOT skimp on the simmering time!!
We live in interior Alaska. Tough winter for moose...they were eating the aspen bark towards the end trying to survive. The Winter of 2020-21 had a total snowfall of 91.3 inches, which was the highest winter snowfall since 1992-93. We had the snowiest February to April period on record, 54 inches and far above the normal of 16 inches. The snow on the ground in Fairbanks reached its greatest depth at 40 inches on April 4, which was the deepest snow depth in Fairbanks since 1993. We have a shelter logic for 5 winters and just knock the snow off after every snowstorm, they are awesome.
Yay, sharing that baby carcass is wonderful, like the natives,every part will be consumed. Nice snow mobile trip, that snow is DEEEEEEP! Venus cat trap.pretty cute!!❗️
Haha yeah. Don't you love it when the plow comes by and builds a fort in front of your driveway. I know that makes me laugh, esp when in the midst of shovelling Snow rake is 💯
Eric great product Men's Knit Cuffed Beanie and the gloves. Thank you for the link. Now really wondering about the boots. You have this boots all winter along must be good. Thank you Pete
I went to the Willow Winter Carnival way back 50 plus years ago. Fifty below zero and miserable cold! I couldn't wait to get back to Wasilla and Palmer where it was only 30 below. Beautiful country though. Well, all of Alaska is beautiful in its own way. I finally moved back to SE where I was born and to the rain which suits my web feet better.
Nice dump of snow. So jealous right now. Nice of the grader operator to plug your driveway. $9.50 to fill a 20# bottle in Alberta. So much fun in that snow. Pin it and drive it like a rental. Standing up driving helps. Now to see the camera photos. Cant wait to see what shows up. Thanks for the video
although your video is very interesting cover in snow that looks beautiful , I’m feeling very lucky right now from where I live we have beautiful weather all year round
Every one of your videos makes me hungry 🤤 Y’all are always cooking such delicious looking foods!! Thanks so much for making such amazing, entertaining, and educating videos. I love getting watch each one!! You both look like you’d be amazing folks to be neighbors and friends with 💜 Please keep it up!!
Greetings you awesome, hard working couple. While I understand that waking up to that much more work for the day may not be appealing, it must give you a great sense of security knowing how all your hard work (growing, canning and preserving food) and chopping wood for times like these really pays off! What an amazing life you two have built for yourselves there. Thanks so much for sharing the videos with us.
I love watching every single video of you. It's so interesting and I learned a lot thanks to you. Greatings from France 🇫🇷 😊 In French "moose" is called "élan"
One last comment. My Arctic Cat Bearcat is not a deep snow machine at all. Heavy as hell too. Once i up-graded my front skis to a wider paddle it made a world of difference. Your machine will ride on top of the snow and not sink down or dive off as much. Easier to handle as well. The back will still sink down , but your front end will be up.
I am addicted to you both.You are so natural in your everyday activities. Please do more! I am learning to be more patience watching you get stuck (haha}. You are making many more trails than you are trying to.
"Give back to the earth" is not a phrase I hear often anymore.. Thank you for reminding us
Definitely
And then get back to each other🥰
A true partnership is when you can dump a carcass together and still snuggle ☺
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LOLzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Love this comment 💪🏽💙
A friend will help you move.
A *true* friend will help you move a body!!
Hahahaha the best comment in a long time
My admiration for you both just keeps growing. Your work ethic, your willingness to reuse, repurpose, and be consistantly aware of our earth and its needs, and as you say, give back, is such a wonderful way of life. To share these parts of your philosophy is such a gift to everyone, and I thank you for it.
My favorite TH-cam channel, it's just so pure and real. Never any crazy music or funky edits. You guys are great. Thanks for bringing us with you with everything you do!
You two are so humble,so real!! You use such wisdom! God bless & keep you!
And no unnecessary drama. Just regular day (Alaska style) to day life with a couple of hard working people.
took me a bit to get used to this channel but now it's one of my favorites, maybe because they are getting really good at documenting their adventure!
@@vernareed2692 you
When I see a Simple Living Alaska video.. my heart warms and I know I will experience happiness for a while.
Bo is so adorable, I just want to hug him.
And Bandit!! They’re both so precious. Really different in energy level, but two sweethearts!
@@martylaughery9138 Yes Bandit is hilarious, he reminds me of a cartoon dog.
I love the tight sense of community in Alaska and how everyone is helping each other with what they can. Wish more places would be like that
There or! Hurricane Harvey brought (In Texas) out the3 best after the hurricane, water was 84: inside my daughters and son-in-laws house. People bringind ice, water, food, and just helping out total straingers.
It's because there's no diversity and people feel a sense of community
Be the change you want to see. If you want a sense of community, get out and meet your neighbors, volunteer, help someone who is elderly or a single parent. It can happen anywhere.
It doesn’t seem to matter what issues come your way, you always have positive attitudes and smiles on your faces! I think that’s why all other Alaskan videos can’t compare to yours!
You are such a joy to visit...that's what it feels like to this senor girl still in emergency stay home order in North Bay Ontario. Only recommended to go out for groceries or meds! So you can see how special it is when we get one of your videos. Thank you so much.
I agree.
These two are one of the best couples on TH-cam, and the BEST of life in Alaska channels!! ❤️😘👍
@@martylaughery9138 Yes Indeed.
North bay my home town . Say hi to lake nippissing and the whole west Ferris area, especially Campbell ave for me . Be well all.
@@gurugossip7450 Gladly. :)
In the winters of 1977 and 1978 when we had that much snow on the ground, the Army Core of Engineers came in to clear our roads. We also had Helicopters rescuing people and taking them to shelters here in SW Ohio. Never want to go through that again.
You guys need a pole barn or shead to store all of your vehicles and snow removal equipment in. Wow, what a job ya'll had😲😨🥶😰
Have a blessed day, stay safe and healthy 🙏🥰👍👌🙏🦅🔔🗽🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
We LOVE you guys. I am close to 74 an love what you have done on the homestead. I wish we were younger to keep doing what we really want to do with our lives. We just retired so these golden years are just starting. Again Love you guys.
Bandit is like "ya it snowed!" Beau on the other hand is like "oh it snowed ugh!"
I've definitely got that Bo energy.
For someone that has never seen snow that blows me away,just watching what you have to do on a daily basis,wow.keep it it up.love watching.o and I live in Queensland Australia
I love watching you guys. I live in Wasilla and it great to see people living like you guys do. I have started using some of the tips and tricks you guys share. Not everyone understands what it is like to live up here. You guys definitely show what Alaska living is like unlike the other fake shows like history channel and discovery channel shows people.
I live in Homer, and it's exactly like that. It's so refreshing and, especially compared to the kilcher's show. I live just a few miles from them, basically in town. They are wonderful people, just get portrayed as people they aren't.
I couldn't do it but it's like a wonderful dream watching them (but then again I am over 70).
K
@@nathanasimpson one of the Kilchers saved my uncle’s life back in the late 60’s - might have been Otto. Anyway we try to watch their show but it has moved on from what it was in the beginning.
I lived in Michigan, done all except the moose.
This much snow is aggrivating. I just cant deal .... I would just stay inside and do nothing. You guys should have a clip of doing nothing but chill and cozy up with your pups 🥰
The cat eating the fly was too cute. Kinda threw their head back like they were taking a vitamin.
It was zero degrees two days ago in Palmer. This Alaska winter is taking its sweet time this year
In this episode, Eric & Arielle show how easily they can hide a body (even in four feet of snow)!
😂 my thoughts exactly!
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LOL... dang man... had me chuckling good
Lol epic
better idea would be to take it to canada. RCMP can't solve any murders here
Beau, doesn’t like to play outside. Every time your in the yard in the winter he’s AOWL. He’s like I’ll watch the house n wood stove 😂
You've done a good job with the baby moose. Nothing wasted. Wish you and your friendly neighbours a great year in beautiful Alaska.
You guys are soooo disciplined. If I had driven to the nearest big town I would have got a heck of a lot more than ziplock bags. I would have shopped and shopped! 🤣
I'm with you!! I can't imagine driving that far on those roads to buy 75 Zip Locks 😳 😆😆
If anything, that tells a lot about the price of gas in the states. Anywhere else in the world you'd be damn sure to make that trip worth more than 20 bucks worth of ziplock bags.
@@Bramble20322 Wasilla gas prices are around $2.89 right now.
When you all have to pay $1.80 a litre then you can complain.... (3.78 litres in a gallon- $1.80 x 3.78 = $6.80) (in Australia 🇦🇺)
@@kateymateymusic1 ...and just a touch dearer in New Zealand!!
Arielle and Eric, thank you so much for sharing your egg pickling video a few days ago. I’d never made them, but there’s a sale at our local restaurant supply store, so why not? I tasted the dill brine I’d made (Claussen dill pickle juice, diced dill pickles, minced garlic [whatever they’d used] as well as additional mustard seeds as well as Gaujillo chilis). I’ve waterbath-canned the jars and dated them for 3 weeks out. ‘Feels like a future Christmas present to myself. 😉 Thank you for sharing your moose carcass breakdown as well as your shelter. MUCH better than the usual “Costco tent”. Thank you so much for sharing yourselves and your life’s journey. Bless you both!
Always amazed that you have to keep lighting your wood stove. When I lived there, we kept the fire going all day and night.
I thought they do that
We tend to let it go out or our cabin gets too hot
@@SimpleLivingAlaska that's some great insulation
Love your videos... Can't wait for garden season 😍
Seeing you guys work as a unit I can see all of your tasks completely accomplished.
I truly enjoy your videos. Be careful you two, keeping looking out for each other.
I just love how well you two work together.
I’m new to your channel, but I long to find someone who wants to live like this with me! So happy for you both and keep on doing what you’re doing ! Oh and the doggy time is the best!
Living in Alaska is a full body workout!
I'm impressed with how well behaved your dogs seem when there's fresh food around. That moose meat will be a nice change from fish for the lads.
Despite everything, awesome attitude! Great score with that moose! Glad to see Beau! 🐶 😊
I appreciate and enjoy the beauty and real life of how you choose to live.
Could be wind, but it looks as though you have some significant heat loss going on around the center area of the ridge line on your roof. Just thought I'd mention it, used to work in plumbing and heating. At :01 second mark.
Wow ,that’s a lot of snow. Love from a snowless part of the UK. 🇬🇧
Sometimes, when I get done processing a baby moose and clearing a ton of snow, I like to sit down and leaf my way though the Burgess Spring 2021 Garden Catalog. Another awesome video, love them dogs!!!
Bravo! As always, you guys delivered a beautiful video. So many people try to hard to do a video and fail miserably. You guys are 100% natural. All that snow would of made me cry!!! I'm done with snow too!!! Love the dogs going through the new snow. God bless and keep safe and warm!
Looking at all the snow and cold plus unexpected snowstorms... when are you going to build a sauna? You've got enough wood to fire it up and enough snow to cool of in most of the time of the year.. I'd think you would really benefit from a good sauna!
I love how many homemade food recipes they share with their viewers! That chili looks sooo freaking awesome and yummy
Omg,Ariel,I keep going back and watching all the intros.,you r great lady,keep them coming pleass,please, Eric's drone coverage is awesome,ty so much
Yeah you guys have gotten some late snow storms this year. I guess it’s making up for last years weak sauce winter. It’s spring here in Oklahoma and already 70’s trying to add garden boxes to my garden and I’m already sunburnt this week!
It's been 80 some days!
I love your videos! I wish you could post more often, theyre so relaxing and really help my night time anxiety before bed (: ❤️ GREAT JOB
“Do you want to build a Snowman? It looks lovely but I can see it’s difficult to manage. Your opening shots immediately brought memories to me...... of Christmas cakes my mother used to make at home...... Royal icing, white and shining like your snow and with little frosted fir trees for decoration. Mum used to take orders for her cakes and one of my jobs was to do the soaking with brandy or whisky:). She could never make enough of those cakes and I remember the dining table covered with beautiful cakes ready for collection.
Christine Auld the cakes sound so good! So pretty! Love the picture you painted with the description!!
I love the random cold and snowy bout last week and now it’s darn near 50°! Late snowstorm, that’s for sure.
I just started watching your videos for a few weeks & I am thoroughly enjoying them. I am a 67 yr. old now home bound woman who's only outlet has been writing stories for fanfiction & TH-cam videos. I am also a big fan of My Self Reliance with Shawn James who got me very interested in these types of videos. I also wrote a story for fanfiction called 'LIFE' about a young woman making a home in Alaska right outside of Fairbanks. I only wish I could have discovered this type of life style when I was a tons younger as I would have made it my life making a home as you all are now living.
I appreciate your sharing your lives with me as it is my outlet out of this house.
Thanks muches.......Jamie Crabtree-Messenger.......Chattanooga, Tennessee
What a great video! You two are living a beautiful life, and you work so hard!! You produce such interesting, well edited videos. The chickens are gorgeous, the dogs and kitty are precious, and you two are like a well-oiled machine when you’re working together. What a fascinating view of life in Alaska you share with people like me who will never live that life. May God always bless you and keep you safe. ❤️🙏🏼 Thank you for sharing your joy with so many!! 😘👍
Well said!
Love how you both communicate with each other so well! Great score on the moose.
Wow what a job. Well done ✅ with the baby moose awww bless his heart 💜
That's one thing I don't miss about Alaska, driving on the snow and ice covered roads.
Man, here I am putting in some spring crop outdoors and you all are still getting snow! Alaska is beautiful, but I would be going crazy not having my hands in the dirt by now! I wish you an amazing gardening season and excellent video!
I love it when you guys make your own bread. Everything you cook makes me so hungry
Isn't it great when you can do life together with your best friend?
I grew up in Alaska and lived in Wasilla for a bit! These videos are so nostalgic for me, when he pulled out the snow blower I smiled at the memory of snow blowing my drive way
Why move away?
@@MrJonrocker I really like it there and I can see myself retiring in AK but it’s wasn’t the best career movie for me to stay
@@Hinshawlizzy Understood. After bouncing around the world, I cant picture myself living anyplace else.
Puppies are so cute in the snow. Enjoy you all. Lv an Prayers. We are 3.35 here for gas,2.57.9 for oil an not sure on propane.
What a score of a bounty for you and those good boys! Those will be some very happy dogs over the next few months' time. Lookin' forward to seeing the pix you end up getting. As soon as it warms up a bit, the scent will travel well.
I love how you guy live …that’s a dream ,so peacefully 🤗to watch …Blessings 👋
You guys are hardy stock! I don’t even leave the house if there’s more than 3” of snow on the ground. Great video!
You two deserve tje blessing for your dogs, you do amazing things!
I've been watching your videos completely out of order but this is what I have hoped for since I can remeber. I've always had chickens we live pickling eggs!!! I live the life you lead and congrats on learning every single step of the way.
Love how you show the ups and downs...!
the dogs seem amazed by all the manipulations and efforts of human beings and at the same time supportive :-D
"I hope she doesn't get stuck again."
...
"Yep, she got stuck again."
This made me laugh so hard! Thank you for sharing your life with us, as a Uni student in a city, it brings me a lot of peace !
Oh my gosh! Those corn muffins and Chilli must taste ausum after being out in that cold snow all day!😋! Spring is just around the corner!
I love you guys when it comes to survival you 2 knock it out the park 👍🏽👍🏽awesome couple I’m sure you have your challenges but all you show is living a peaceful life .Living your Best Life 🌹❤️❤️❤️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
You handle every bounty with such grace and care
Your hard workers that's why I love alaska and it's people your tough. Thanks for saving the moose meat .
Add some instant coffee or some leftover coffee to your chili. Makes a big difference.
I'm going to try this. Thanks
Me, too! Thanks!
I will add cocoa too!
@@gracieshepardtothemax1743 beer
@@gracieshepardtothemax1743 If you're going to put cocoa powder into chili, you MUST--and I cannot stress this enough--YOU MUST simmer it for a MINIMUM of 2 HOURS. Sorry for the shouting, but at about the 2 hour mark, some sort of culinary alchemy takes place, and the chili will go from meh to HOLYDEARGAWD OMNOMNOMN NOMNOM!!! Anything less than 2 hours of simmering & stirring and it will NOT taste like it was worth the effort. I usually simmer mine between 2.5 and 3 hours (but no more than 3 hours, since that requires adding in too much water to keep it from burning).
The original recipe comes from the cookbook "Well Fed" by Melissa Jouwan, p. 73, but the variation I make omits stewed tomato chunks in favor of tomato paste (as that is the kind I tend to have on hand)...
2T ghee (or clarified butter)
2 medium onions, diced (about 2 cups)
4 cloves of garlic, minced (about 4tsp)
2 pounds of ground beef (or chicken/turkey)
1tsp dried oregano leaves
2T chili powder
2T ground cumin
2T unsweetened cocoa powder (I tend to add double, aka 1/4 cup)
1tsp ground allspice
1tsp salt
2 cans (6oz each) tomato paste
1 can (14.5oz or 1.75c) beef broth (or chicken/turkey broth)
2.5c water
Heat a large deep pot over medium heat, and add the ghee. When the ghee is melted, add onions, stirring with a wooden spoon, until the onions are translucent (about 7 minutes). Add the garlic and as soon as it’s fragrant (about 30 seconds), crumble the ground meat into the pan, mixing with the wooden spoon to combine. Continue to cook the meat, stirring often, until it is no longer pink.
In a small bowl, crush the oregano to release its flavor, add the chili powder, cumin, cocoa, allspice, and salt. Combine with a fork, then add to the pot, stirring vigorously/like you mean it. Add tomato paste and stir until combined, about 2 minutes.
Add the broth and water to the pot, and stir well. Bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat so the chili gently simmers. Simmer uncovered (but put on a mesh splatter screen!!) for at LEAST 2 hours. Do NOT skimp on the simmering time!!
U guys r so cool… so informative.. cudos 4your lifestyle and I love that u take your babies with u everywhere
Omg you guys, this was a fiasco! And I loved every single minute of it! SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
That drone footage tho!
We live in interior Alaska. Tough winter for moose...they were eating the aspen bark towards the end trying to survive.
The Winter of 2020-21 had a total snowfall of 91.3 inches, which was the highest winter snowfall since 1992-93.
We had the snowiest February to April period on record, 54 inches and far above the normal of 16 inches.
The snow on the ground in Fairbanks reached its greatest depth at 40 inches on April 4, which was the deepest snow depth in Fairbanks since 1993.
We have a shelter logic for 5 winters and just knock the snow off after every snowstorm, they are awesome.
Wow, you know you've gotten a lot of snow when you need a snow blower to get your snow blower out!!
Haha 👍😂
Now that’s a lot of snow!!
You guys have that down to a science! Great job!
Love these videos!! It’s what they give back to Mother Earth and real living.
Yay, sharing that baby carcass is wonderful, like the natives,every part will be consumed. Nice snow mobile trip, that snow is DEEEEEEP! Venus cat trap.pretty cute!!❗️
The most wonderful couple on earth !
You guys have some amazing kit. You certainly need it, love watching your exploits.
Haha yeah. Don't you love it when the plow comes by and builds a fort in front of your driveway. I know that makes me laugh, esp when in the midst of shovelling
Snow rake is 💯
Eric great product Men's Knit Cuffed Beanie and the gloves. Thank you for the link. Now really wondering about the boots. You have this boots all winter along must be good. Thank you
Pete
I went to the Willow Winter Carnival way back 50 plus years ago. Fifty below zero and miserable cold! I couldn't wait to get back to Wasilla and Palmer where it was only 30 below. Beautiful country though. Well, all of Alaska is beautiful in its own way. I finally moved back to SE where I was born and to the rain which suits my web feet better.
You guys are so amazing !!!!! Working so hard for food ! Everything is homemade !!!!
Share with us your chillie receipe !It looks so good !
Nice dump of snow. So jealous right now. Nice of the grader operator to plug your driveway. $9.50 to fill a 20# bottle in Alberta. So much fun in that snow. Pin it and drive it like a rental. Standing up driving helps. Now to see the camera photos. Cant wait to see what shows up. Thanks for the video
If you were to have children what an inheritance they would have! God bless you two 🕊
although your video is very interesting cover in snow that looks beautiful , I’m feeling very lucky right now from where I live we have beautiful weather all year round
Please make a Q&A video. I'm intrigued to learn about your background, how you ended up there and about the challenges you had at the beginning.
Every one of your videos makes me hungry 🤤 Y’all are always cooking such delicious looking foods!! Thanks so much for making such amazing, entertaining, and educating videos. I love getting watch each one!! You both look like you’d be amazing folks to be neighbors and friends with 💜 Please keep it up!!
Greetings you awesome, hard working couple. While I understand that waking up to that much more work for the day may not be appealing, it must give you a great sense of security knowing how all your hard work (growing, canning and preserving food) and chopping wood for times like these really pays off! What an amazing life you two have built for yourselves there. Thanks so much for sharing the videos with us.
I love watching every single video of you. It's so interesting and I learned a lot thanks to you.
Greatings from France 🇫🇷 😊 In French "moose" is called "élan"
What about “orignal”?
Love your videos. A story in each episode.
OMG SO MUCH BEAUTIFUL SNOW I AM GLAD IT DOESN'T SNOW HERE LIKE THAT LOL LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS YOU ARE SO ADORABLE COUPLE
One last comment. My Arctic Cat Bearcat is not a deep snow machine at all. Heavy as hell too. Once i up-graded my front skis to a wider paddle it made a world of difference. Your machine will ride on top of the snow and not sink down or dive off as much. Easier to handle as well. The back will still sink down , but your front end will be up.
Nice, a new video!
What a beautiful winter day and thank you for sharing your life with us
Who else get's excited when a new video is uploaded! ❤
Thanks for another great video. Look forward to the next one as always. 😊
The smirk when Eric got the snowblower going the first time 😂 First things first, get access to the outhouse 👍 Edit: 12:10 min
I am addicted to you both.You are so natural in your everyday activities. Please do more! I am learning to be more patience watching you get stuck (haha}. You are making many more trails than you are trying to.
Love all your videos! Yous are such a lovely hardworking couple ❤
You guys are real pioneers!😃👍
Heck yeah! Get that path out to the outhouse!!! That Chilli does wonders! Lol!
Always happy to watch your videos!! Thank you!! 🇺🇸
I am glad to see I am not the only one who uses a broom to de-snow the vehicle...