Becky, you're giving me ife right now. I picked about 50lbs of tomatoes, 40lbs of sugar pumpkins, a bushel of green beans, jalapenos, bell peppers and 100lbs of cucumbers. I am going to be canning roasted marinara, sweet pickle relish, cowboy candy, pumpkin, green beans, and ketchup. I have 3days off starting tomorrow. I cleaned the kitchen today and washed everything I'm going to need for tools. I'm already overwhelmed just by looking at all the buckets of produce. But you... you give me the energy and inspiration to get it done! Sending love.
Yes! Cowboy candy! Do you have a recipe you prefer? I've never made it before and just tasted it for the first time this year. I became instantly addicted!
Miss Becky- my daughter (13yo) just had her 2nd brain surgery in 9 days and we are in the ICU at our local children's hospital. One of our major bonding activities is watching your videos every other day ❤ Thank you for giving her and I a mother/daughter activity in here while she is bored out of her mind! We love you- my family is your family ❤❤😊
Becky, this is not about tomatoes. It’s a big thank you for sharing your corn preservation with us. After watching your video, I called one of my local farmers, who always has incredibly good sweetcorn and ordered six dozen. I picked them up Friday morning. My husband and I got them all cleaned. I parboiled them and put them in an ice water bath and got all the corn off the cob‘s and into freezer bags all in just a few hours. In my head it was going to be too big of a project until I saw how you do it, 🤔👏👏👏so thank you for the encouragement and helping me realize that things are not out of my grasp. Totally enjoy your show and at age 68 I continue to learn and be inspired. 🥳 Not sure if you have done an update on baby acre but I would love to hear how he’s doing. I understand you’re not interested in sharing your baby and I don’t blame you but would love to know what he’s up to at this point and how you are managing with your busy channel and stunning gardens. Thanks for being so real❤️ Sara in Ohio
Becky you would be proud of me, I grew garlic and just sat down and peeled the cloves put them in my processor and froze garlic pucks. You clever girl thank you for all you do and teach us. I guess we are never to old to learn I'm 73.
Becky, I made your garlic pucks, and also pureed 12 lbs of onions. Because onions have so much more water to them, I poured them onto a baking sheet lined with parchment and stuck it in the freezer. Once frozen, I pulled it out and cut the onion sheet into playing card-size squares. Same concept of the garlic and tomato paste, and working like a charm!
Slice the Roma abundance into thick slices, lay on silicone or parchment and roast at 300 with a drizzle of good and thick Balsamic vinegar. Once they are roasted almost dry, lay on cookie sheet and freeze then bag up and store in freezer. Makes DELICIOUS addition to home-made pizza.
Cucumber water is so refreshing. The first time I saw it was when a friend was treating me to a massage. Happy cooking and baking everyone, Debbie Lavigne 😊
You always thank US for joining you but WE all thank YOU for having us in your home. Becky! You need a recipe book stand. I have a very pretty sort of Victorian one that lives permanently on my counter. I prop up my printed out recipes covered in plastic sleeves and random cookbooks I may be using and it is super efficient and easier on the back than trying to keep the book open and looming over it to see what I should be doing next. This comes from an arthritic 72 year old. Bless!
Becky, I am assuming you believe in God. If you do, you probably say to him THANK YOU often. Your garden, food, house, baby, husband, your channel, your income from the gardening channel, your parents, your family, your friends, your dogs etc. You are very blessed!! You work hard and you are definitely are blessed. ❤ May God Continue To Bless You!
Becky, you are a master class in the kitchen. You have accomplished so much this year in your garden and you do a fantastic job managing all of the abundance. I always learn so much from you. Take care.
My presto electric canner came the other day, and my 4 year old has been begging to "do what Becky does" ever since 😂. We got a half bushel of peaches, and I'm planning to can up jam and pie filling tomorrow. The 4 year old has had to verify that Becky would also can peach jam before agreeing to help me with it. It cracks me up how much my kids love to watch Becky with me.
Hi Becky! If you have a larger strainer, you can push it on top of whatever you're cooking down , so that the food sediments are on the bottom of the strainer, and then what's inside the strainer you can just scoop out with your measuring cup. It saves you having to dirty another spatula to separate the food chunks so the liquid can pass through. Hope I explained that right. ❤
Becky, I have the same tomato press. The electric is the way to go. I don’t even boil my tomatoes and they run through great. I usually run thru 3 times to get all juice and pulp. The Roma tomatoes I do boil since they have less water content. You can hear the difference in the motor. Thanks for sharing your process and your house and garden with us all. ❤
2 years ago I had a wonderful tomato harvest. I canned all of it. Last year I had a bad tomato harvest. I was so thankful for the previous years harvest because it carried me through to this year. This year is a wonderful abundant harvest and again I am canning as much as possible. ❤❤❤
Good work, Becky! I enjoy putting on one of your videos while I work on my own chores- it’s like having a friend to work alongside. Your joy and energy have encouraged me to spend more time with my garden and food preservation projects. An idea for your freezer pizza sauce: Bag it in your vacuum sealer bags and press them flat. They thaw very quickly; even more so if you place the bag in a pan of warm water. I freeze meat, applesauce, creamed corn, etc like this all the time. They stack beautifully in the freezer, too.
@@cynthiafisher9907 We make a funnel with a second bag and pour or push the contents through that into the second bag. If the sealing area gets wet, we swipe it dry with a paper towel. Another idea may be that the thickness of the bag makes a difference. We use a thicker mil bag which allows for more material to be melted together.
@@cynthiafisher9907 oh, that sounds like a good idea. Another thing we do is hang the bag down a bit to allow the liquid to settle at the bottom as much as possible. And we run the machine on manual, when we see the air is out and the liquid is just reaching the top we hit the seal button.
You are an absolute MACHINE. Talk about organized and efficient. I just found you channel today and I'm exhausted after an hour of watching bits of three or four videos. I can't believe what you accomplish in a day!!! Totally dumbfounding amazing!
Becky! I love how you did your edit a little different and kept the audio from your filming going while cutting to the different steps that you did through the rest of the night! It was excellent!!!
It is a big responsibility to provide food for your family and friends. It, for me, can sometimes become a little anxiety producing when everything becomes ready at once and you don't have space and you have to find it. So freezing it till I am ready has become my answer sometimes. Thanks Becky for sharing honestly so much. I am nearing the end of things myself, working on onions, apples, and squash right now. I do not have a long term storage place for them all so I have to think it through.
I agree, if this is your main source of food it is completely overwhelming and can cause a lot of anxiety! For Becky, it’s a passion project, they don’t rely on her garden. It’s amazing she just went on this journey and invited us along just a few years ago! Regarding long term storage, would be nice to have a basement or cellar but I repurposed two closets and put heavy duty shelving for my canned items. My coworker is a seasoned canner and he and his family store jars anywhere they can throughout the house.
@@lillypatience I did not realize that about Becky, but for me it is my main source of food. I store jars anywhere and I have also stored in the same fashion you have. It works out but just gets crazy at certain times. But I am thankful when in the winter I do not have to go out. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Becky! You will love your tomato grinder machine. I've been using one for years (thanks to our friends for lending it to us!) Italian family members taught us how to make sauce decades ago! Definitely run seeds & skins thru twice. We run our tomatoes thru machine raw & we do it outside. Just a hint-a 9x13 pyrex pan under the spout for seeds & skins works perfectly. Also, we use a small step stool & food safe pail under juice tray. We do bushels of tomatoes at a time and have it down to a real system now. Never thought to use the machine for apples...may try it this year!
Hi Becky, for the past couple of years I’ve been freezing my tomatoes when I harvest them until I’m ready to process them, if you take the stems off and core them before you put them in the freezer when you take them out frozen and put them under running water the skins slip right off, it’s so fast and easy 😊
Fabio Leonardi - Tomato Mill !!!!! YES YES YES , works like a charm, we absolutely LOVE ours and it moves thru our 100+ lbs annually in a heart beat! Although really heavy to lift (in my opinion) it will be an item to pass down in the family. We run our tomato pulp 3x - amazing amounts of juice and meat that come out on those runs. I then dehydrate the "dry" /dehydrate the pulp and use for tomato paste during the year and use the core's/tops we lopped off before blanching for my veg stock. Waste from 150lbs for us this year was 3 whole roma's, 2 handfuls of skins and that's it! Thank you for sharing this video!
The oster electric roaster manual says specifically to never put water in the roaster body. It’s on page 5 of the manual under the title Important Points.
I have a Nesco and the instructions do not say you should add water in between. That makes me super nervous! It would be better to just lower the temp or stir often.
@@pennyann7709 if the base shorts out, the water could lead to electrocution. I really hope she corrects that suggestion before someone gets hurt and blames her channel. I’d hate to see her held legally liable!
Hi Becky! Fellow PNW-er here. I love watching your processing videos. However, I think you need a tomato core remover! It has been a game changer for me and watching you use a knife on that many tomatoes made me so thankful for mine. I highly recommend it! There are 2 different styles and both are great.
I love your videos, and I also love Living Traditions! Of all the homesteading YouTubing channels that I watch, I only end up using the recipies from your channel and Living Traditions. You have given me so many great ideas to use, and I am really grateful! Thanks for taking the time to film what you do. I know it makes your projects take longer and makes them more cumbersome for you to do, but it benefits all of us so much! Thank you again!
I wish I had a tiny portion of your energy. I could go from dawn to midnight in my 20's, and I did, but now at 60 I think I must have used up my lifetime allotment of energy back then lol. So much work, but what a joy & blessing to have such wonderful food, free of all the yucky stuff in store bought food, put up in your pantry to use all year! You're a joy to watch.
Me too. I started in my 20s and now I'm 67. I just did 24 quarts of stewed tomatoes. I was pooped. I used to do two loads a day and I canned for a month straight. 6 kids. Whew!
Yay!! Canning season 😅 I am doing 10 pounds of cowboy candy, another batch of bruschetta in a jar (LOVE this stuff on cream cheese as a dip 😋) 35 pounds of tomatoes for salsa and a few more jars of spaghetti sauce. Hopefully ALL today! You are a true inspiration. We got this!! Woo hoo!
Ooh bruschetta please share how to safely jar it. I will start jarring just for that. I freeze my gravy always just take out night before and then cook back up an double check seasoning.
Here is a German recipe I grew up with I'd like to share. Another way to use your cucumbers. NOTE: You can slice the cucumbers real thin then dehydrate or freeze dry and use them later to make this salad. Cucumber Dill Salad: 2-3 small or 1 large cucumber(any cucumber will do) 3 tablespoons white vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar, or to taste 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 small red onion, thinly sliced and broken into rings 3 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped, 1 T sour cream (optional, I don't like it in my recipe) INSTRUCTIONS: Rinse and dry & peel the cucumber. IMPORTANT: In a food processor slice them very thinly. Almost see through. Set aside. Make the dressing by placing the vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper in a serving bowl and whisk until the sugar completely dissolves. Add the sliced cucumber, red onion rings, and chopped dill (if using) and then toss well. Marinate for 10-20 min in the refrigerator(I leave it in overnight) toss and serve.
This sound delicious! I bet the recipe could even be stored in a jar using freeze dried onions, dill and cucumbers along with the salt, pepper and sugar, then rehydrate it all with the vinegar and sour cream. Something fun to experiment with!
i have never once in my life canned anything but your videos bring me a lot of comfort and i love also reading the comments about everyone else's projects! when i have a garden i can actually plant in i would love to be able to get into this sort of thing!
Go for it. Processing garden produce is so easy. And pressure canning is also very simple! I have canned for 35+ years. Took me to age 60 to get over my fear of pressure canning and even owning two pressure canners. I had them both for 7 years before I pulled them out of the boxes to can. I felt so stupid for being afraid of poisoning us or explosion. Irrational fears on both scores. Ive been pressure canning for only 5 years but am making up for lost time and I love it. ❤️
Just WOW! 😍 I moved to Florida from Indiana 27 yrs ago and a good tomato is something I miss TERRIBLY! So exciting to see such a bumper crop for you. 👍
I’m a former Science teacher. When you put water under your roaster’s liner, you automatically limited your temperature that your tomatoes could cook to the temperature of boiling water, 212°F, (within a few degrees depending on your altitude). Your temperature can get higher without the water under it but, you are right, they might scorch. The next best thing is turn it to between 250° to 300°, not higher. Stir often. Oh by the way, be very careful that the steam coming up from under your liner doesn’t scald your arms. Steam gets crazy hot, way hotter than the boiling water. Also, if you want to be sure that your tomato product has a low enough pH (high acid) get some litmus paper that tests pH 1-14. Your tomato product needs to be 4.6 pH or lower. If not, add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to achieve that. RoseRed Homestead had a whole video about how to determine if your fruit, tomatoes, or vegetables were high acid or low acid food and showed how to use litmus paper. She is a recently retired Science professor. She uses strict USDA guidelines.
@@erikascantlebury5380 Absolutely.! I guess I should have mentioned that. Sorry. For determining if you can just use hot water bath method, you must have pH at or lower than 4.6. Otherwise pressure can your tomato recipe. For hot water bath, be cautious not to add things that would raise the pH like carrots or such. Follow an approved USDA recipe AND for length of times for pints or quarts to start timing after returning to boil (hot water bath method) or if pressure canning determine your pressure and time needed for your altitude using the book that comes with your pressure canner. (Or Search USDA GUIDELINES for pressure canning.) If you are unsure if its acid level has low enough pH, then , pressure can it to be safe. I hope that helped. GOOD LUCK.
Hey Becky, thought I'd pass along something I've seen on Three River Homestead with Jessica. When canning and straining juices, she uses metal sink drains that fit directly inside the canner funnel! Hopefully that helps! Love all your videos!
I love your energy and your optimism! You inspire me with every video. I canned a bushel of tomatoes the other day, I got 17 pints of real thick tomato sauce.
Becky, I have been watching your channel since pretty much the start, and each year, I learned something new. I am in the process of purchasing a small hobby farm and, I cannot tell you how excited I am to be able to garden and preserve this coming year. You are such an inspiration, and I just want to thank you so much for all of your videos and for sharing your amazing journey with us.
I'm so happy to see you use the red ladle that I sent you back in July 😃. I wasn't sure that you received it. That electric vegetable strainer isn't currently available, your endorsement must've caused it to sell out. There's a Kitchen Aid vegetable strainer attachment that fits on the grinder attachment that works very well. I've used it for juice making for jellies and for tomato sauce making. It works very well. I have on idea if it would handle the amount of tomatoes that you did in one day. You'd probably have to give the mixer a rest between batches to let the motor cool off, but for me it works very well.
When I have loads of frozen tomatoes I pull them out the night before cooking (or a few hours) to let the juice separate out from the tomato as they are thawing. you can set the thawing tomatoes in a colander in a bowl. I use the juice for rice, or like broth. It has good flavor. And then you have a lot less evaporation to deal with to get the tomatoes to sauce (or whatever) consistency.
Thank you for showing the different ways for canning tomato's. I've canned green beans, and working on 20 pounds of tomato's today while working from home. Love how you also showed me how to reserve the juice for tomato juice what a wonderful idea. The scraps are going out to my chickens. My second try at canning is today, keep up and I'll keep watching, I'm thinking of buying two 20 pounds, one for more sauce and the other for my freeze dryer.
If you vacuum seal the sauce in the flat bags you make/buy then you can just pull out a frozen pizza dough & a sauce so they thaw at same time. I don’t have a vacuum sealer, but I freeze my ground beef, chicken, sauces etc., in freezer quart bags, pressing flat & getting air out & I never get freezer burn plus they stack nicely.
That’s a great idea but you would have to freeze the sauce before vacuum sealing otherwise it would pull out all the sauce. But that is certainly doable.
Brings back childhood memories of helping my mother can our food for the winter months. You are correct; there is nothing like fresh home cooked meals. She also canned chicken and beef.
I love using my mill for tomato soup! I run the scraps through a second time too. It makes the best soup. Also for applesauce, I use a steam juicer first then put the apples through the mill. That way you get applesauce and juice. I want to try your pizza sauce this year. What great motivation!!
I only got about 40 lbs. of tomatoes that I processed into sauce last month. I cored and froze mine as we harvested, then slipped the skins off after they thawed. I dehydrated the peels and powdered them in a coffee grinder. Adds an extra tomato-ey flavor to dishes, acts as a thickener, and makes a great instant tomato paste!
Hi from England for two days and another two to follow I too am harvesting tomatoes. So far I have frozen some of the cherry tomatoes because they are ideal for picking out a bag and just throwing them into the dish of the day. Also made Tomato Carpaccio. Homemade passata, Ketchup and paste. Today I did Panzanella. got six meals out of that batch. Tomorrow I am doing Tomato and Rose petal harissa which is delicious. Also Cherry tomato and red wine jam. Also Wine Gummy Tomatoes is an excellent way If you have a huge glut of tomatoes to use up, slowly dehydrate them in a low oven so they’re gummy, gnarly and full of intense flavour. Then transfer to jars, cover with oil and keep to use in pasta dishes, salads, or as part of an antipasti spread
I made tomato sauce from homegrown tomatoes for the first time last year and I have been HOOKED ever since! When I skinned the tomatoes, I saved the skins and fried them up with some fresh chopped garlic + homegrown herbs. I ended up chopping that mixture and adding it back into the sauce I made and OMG the FLAVOR! Highly recommend for anyone curious what to do with tomato skins :D
Yeap from beginning of video, I knew you were overwhelmed. I'm glad the outside walk got you much calmer and centered. It gives me a sense I want run out and help you not to see you spin. You accomplished a lot, awesome job. Your tomatoe harvest is stunning this year. Im glad youre blessing others and in turn it is boessed you. Looking foward to mom and dad video.
My 10 year old granddaughter joined us this morning and after arriving saw that I had a video playing on the tv. She says, “Grammy, can we watch that girl who gardens and cooks and lives down by Oregon?” I asked her if she meant Becky, and she said yes, she is my favorite! So we watched the video together and talked about the different things you were doing. She said, “when the video is done can we can tomatoes?” ☺️ I had to tell her no because I don’t have enough tomatoes right now. She said okay but please tell her when I have enough so she can help! ☺️ She also thinks I need a ‘machine’ like yours as well 😆. Anyway, your reach of inspiration covers all ages! Thanks for sharing your life with us.
Love this so much, watching you while I tackle my tomatoes.. I was starting to panic about how to process them all and I don’t even have a tenth of what you’ve got. Loving the company and inspiration from you. 🙌💕🍅
Re watched this tonight as just ordered and electric tomato mill sauce mill. I planted paste tomatoes and they are coming by the dozens right now. Thank you for ALL you share!!
Hey Becky. I think I'm finally done with tomatoes,lol. But I did can up 28 quarts of pinto with ham yesterday. I worked all day and finally got to go to sleep around 11:30 last night. I cooked my ham bone down and made ham broth today
Becky, this brings back memories of my dear Mother canning her delicious tomatoes! She she made most of the recipes and textures you are cooking and canning. Another thing she canned was tomato juice and/or sauce with yummy delicious fresh corn kernels in it! She said it was for tomato/vegetable soup! And it was delicious with all the other veggies and spices she added when she made veggie soup! I love your channel and I’ve admired your beautiful garden day after day!
Thanks for the inspiration! Just finished canning lemony caponata, stewed tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. Still have a bunch of cherry tomatoes- throwing them in the oven now!! Alas- I have no garden- (not allowed in my development- yes I am moving as soon as I can😊) my CSA is keeping me going though! Always a good day when you post ! Thank you!
Rewatching this is so helpful and inspiring to me! I just had a large processing day yesterday. Used my pressure canner for the first time. You give me confidence to try new things!! Thanks so much for your content Becky!!
I'm going to juice mine for the first time. I got a brand new juicer from a garage sale for FREE! Yep..the lady said she got it free, so she's giving it away to the first person who wants it. That was me!
Hi Becky! I’m new to your channel within the last couple weeks and this is my first comment😊. I batch cook, portion and freeze but I’m not a canner, but I’ve always wants to learn. I love watching your channel and it’s what I’ve been watching at night when my day is done because watching you homestead is so relaxing and inspiring! I wish I knew about this stuff when I was your age. And I have to say - YOUR EYES are sooo animated when you like something!!! You’re adorable! Anyway, I’m glad I found your channel. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Becky, Wow! What a great big tomato preservation day. I absolutely loved this video. You made it look so interesting that I believe everyone watching this video would attempt to do this too. Thank you for bringing this to us and for bringing us into your lovely home. God bless.
Thank you for giving me a jolt to continue processing my garden produce! Usually by this time I'm done but watching you gives me the strength to continue. I grow a large garden to share with family and it gets hard to come up with different ideas when tomatoes are abundant!! I get my love of gardening from my grandpa who always had large gardens and he would give produce to family and friends. I wish I could sometimes ask his advice on issues I have because he would have the answer I needed❤
Oh what a full day of canning! Loved it...was right there with you as you did your tomatoes. They all looked so good and could nearly smell them as you were dipping them up into the jars. Thanks for sharing!!
We just did 100 quarts of tomatoes today. We have the same machine you do. We used a mixture of regular tomatoes along with Roma tomatoes. We quarter the raw tomatoes (no need to core them) & run them through the machine. We then cook them down on the stove bringing them to a rolling boil for 20 minutes. They thicken up nicely. I then put them into quart jars with a tsp of canning salt. They self seal without water bath canning. I’ve done them this way for over 15 years with no issues. Saves a ton of time. I haven’t water bath canned tomatoes in years!
DO NOT PUT WATER IN THE MAIN PART OF YOUR ELECTRIC ROASTER! If you look at your manual it tells you never to put liquid in the the main cooking part ONLY the insert pan!
You are absolutely correct. But I guess she never reads instructions. I watch her videos for inspiration but I would also never follow her canning instructions. I follow the instructions in the Ball canning book or other sources that have been safety tested.
Thank you so much for the local farmer resource that you provided to your viewers. I've checked it out and to my surprise there is a local farm near me. So I'm greatful and appreciative!
I'm about to tackle my tomato tables today, too. I have to make room for today's harvest! I'm looking forward to making enchilada sauce again soon. Thanks for the inspiration!
Becky you are just like an energiser bunny 🥰, girl I do remember having some energy in my life but never like you 🤗. Truly the joy I get from watching your channel is crazy. Lisa my wife asked what I was watching because the smile on my face was huge. So thank you for being you x
Lol I just finished cleaning the sun and dining room and thought I would take a break and here you are! What a treat! This looks like it will be good! Such hard work!!
Becky, thanks for giving me inspiration I love my garden and have no idea how to preserve all my veggies your channel gives me so many choices I’m looking forward to trying the tomato paste one. What a great idea making pucks!
Becky! I hope you see this! Try setting your strainer down into your pot or roaster, press down and then scoop out all of the juice that comes up through the siv. It definitely saves time ❤
Becky , I'm 70 years old and I guess I have just learned from my mama ways. But we always did our tomato like you did by cooking then before we ran the through the mill. But we always just put them back on the stove and heating them back up to boil. Then we just put the juices in the cans and seal the jars and set them aside but the towel over them and they would seal and keep. We never had any trouble with them not ceiling and keeping.
You do a great job however the water in the bottom of roaster is not good advice. My Mother did the same thing but when I was reading through the owner's manual it stated clearly do NOT put water in the bottom of the roaster as that is not the proper way to use the roaster. So I think you should be sure to mention that you should check your owner's manual or the website for your make and model to be sure you are using your roaster correctly to prevent any problems by putting the water in the bottom as you showed to do.
Becky, I don't know if you have done this in the past but you should consider freeze drying or dehydrating tomato slice, then grinding them up into powder. It is THE most handy thing I've ever done.I started doing this a couple years ago when I got sick of canning/processing them the regular way and now it will be an "always' thing when I have enough tomatoes to preserve them this way. LOVE your channel you are an awesome example for young gals , well even us older ones! And I LOVE your dad's channel as well. Keep up the great work!!!
Hi Becky!! You might want to try freeze drying your pizza sauce. Then you wouldn't need to add the acid to have it convenient. You could use water or tomato juice to rehydrate.
Some of the other preppers I’ve been listening to or canning their tomato sauces as well and instead of running it through a food mill which can be a messy process they’re saying blend it use your high speed blender, and if you blend it, it will make it so you don’t have to tear off or peel off the tomato outside and you don’t have to worry about the seeds as well. This is a game changer and I’ve seen a lot of preppers this year doing this approach instead of peeling and deseeding their Tomatoes.
Hello my new inspiration of all things canning and cooking. You make me feel like I’m there with you. I canned my grandmas tomato juice and it’s amazing. Thank you love for all you do and the time you take to share with us. PS. I love making bonket it’s my Dutch heritage like your husbands in southwest michigan. ❤️❤️
BECKY!!! ok, I just placed an order for my HarvestRight freeze dryer, AND then I placed my very first Azure order!! Exciting day over here. All because of your influence and positive teachings on how to preserve food. I feel like I can do this! 😊
Dear Becky, I have a question for you and maybe you can answer it. Here in Europe we predominantly use twist-off jars for cooking jams, jellies, chutneys and sauces. This saves the additional step of preserving using pressure or steam canning. It's a huge time saver, energy saver and therefore money saver. The food to be cooked is poured into the jars while it is boiling hot and immediately sealed airtight with the twist-off lids. When they cool down, a vacuum forms, which makes the contents of the glasses last for years. The jars and lids can be reused for years. Do you know why this isn't common in North America?
I will jump in and answer. The USDA (US Department of Agriculture) which determines what is “safe” in the US, has determined that is not safe to do here. (Weird that it is fine elsewhere, but whatever…)
@@KristenBrink , thank you for answering. It's amazing that we in Europe have not yet become extinct, despite the great danger we put ourselves in every day through this canning method.🤣
You are making me want to can more tomatoes! I already put away over 120 quarts of stewed tomatoes and over 40 pints. My tomato plants are dying out now so I don’t have much more. ❤️🍅❤️
Hi Becky, I was told once, even though that basil is "going to seed" or bolting... pinch that top off and cook with it fresh. It packs a large amount of flavonoids !
2 things about the pizza sauce: 1) I wonder if you took the frozen "base" and added some cream to it, if you could make cream of tomato soup to have with grilled cheese sandwiches in the winter? And 2) don't you normally freeze your pizza dough and have to thaw it anyway? So pulling the pizza sauce out of the freezer at the same time as you pull out the dough to thaw shouldn't be an issue!
Becky, you're giving me ife right now. I picked about 50lbs of tomatoes, 40lbs of sugar pumpkins, a bushel of green beans, jalapenos, bell peppers and 100lbs of cucumbers. I am going to be canning roasted marinara, sweet pickle relish, cowboy candy, pumpkin, green beans, and ketchup. I have 3days off starting tomorrow. I cleaned the kitchen today and washed everything I'm going to need for tools. I'm already overwhelmed just by looking at all the buckets of produce. But you... you give me the energy and inspiration to get it done! Sending love.
Bless you and good luck getting it all done! Took me 3 days to prep and can 2 bushel of green beans!
Wow!
may the force be with you i have all that already and I have about 75 lbs in freezer to deal with
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Yes! Cowboy candy! Do you have a recipe you prefer? I've never made it before and just tasted it for the first time this year. I became instantly addicted!
Miss Becky- my daughter (13yo) just had her 2nd brain surgery in 9 days and we are in the ICU at our local children's hospital. One of our major bonding activities is watching your videos every other day ❤ Thank you for giving her and I a mother/daughter activity in here while she is bored out of her mind! We love you- my family is your family ❤❤😊
I’m the name of Jesus your are going to be well.
I am sorry your going through this. Children are so strong and brave. I wish you well.
Praying for healing and peace for her and your family.
@jelly prayers for your daughter and your family!
Prayers for her complete healing
Becky, this is not about tomatoes. It’s a big thank you for sharing your corn preservation with us. After watching your video, I called one of my local farmers, who always has incredibly good sweetcorn and ordered six dozen. I picked them up Friday morning. My husband and I got them all cleaned. I parboiled them and put them in an ice water bath and got all the corn off the cob‘s and into freezer bags all in just a few hours. In my head it was going to be too big of a project until I saw how you do it, 🤔👏👏👏so thank you for the encouragement and helping me realize that things are not out of my grasp. Totally enjoy your show and at age 68 I continue to learn and be inspired. 🥳 Not sure if you have done an update on baby acre but I would love to hear how he’s doing. I understand you’re not interested in sharing your baby and I don’t blame you but would love to know what he’s up to at this point and how you are managing with your busy channel and stunning gardens. Thanks for being so real❤️ Sara in Ohio
Prayers for your daughter and you and your family my heart and prayers are with you 🙏🙏💕
Aw that is amazing! I'm so proud of you! Thanks for watching it means the world to me. He is great! We love being a little family of three :)
Becky you would be proud of me, I grew garlic and just sat down and peeled the cloves put them in my processor and froze garlic pucks. You clever girl thank you for all you do and teach us. I guess we are never to old to learn I'm 73.
That is amazing! You should be so proud :)
P.S. I processed all the tomatoes I grew. I cook them down in their own juices. I use a food mill. And bag them laid flat and freeze.
@@AcreHomestead Thank you for the 'Vitamix Blender' link!
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TOMATO HACK! Place a bigger strainer right into the sauce and press down. Scoop tomato juice right out of the strainer inside the roaster.
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I was thinking cheesecloth but your way is less messy!
I'm so gonna try this. Thank you for sharing with us
What does this do exactly? Newbie here. Thank you.
Brillant!
Becky, I made your garlic pucks, and also pureed 12 lbs of onions. Because onions have so much more water to them, I poured them onto a baking sheet lined with parchment and stuck it in the freezer. Once frozen, I pulled it out and cut the onion sheet into playing card-size squares. Same concept of the garlic and tomato paste, and working like a charm!
Great idea.
Slice the Roma abundance into thick slices, lay on silicone or parchment and roast at 300 with a drizzle of good and thick Balsamic vinegar. Once they are roasted almost dry, lay on cookie sheet and freeze then bag up and store in freezer. Makes DELICIOUS addition to home-made pizza.
Hi Becky, peeled one inch thick pieces of frozen cucumber make great ice cubes for drinking water, making a very refreshing drink.
Cucumber water is so refreshing. The first time I saw it was when a friend was treating me to a massage. Happy cooking and baking everyone, Debbie Lavigne 😊
And gin&tonic! 😅
Thaw the sauces in refrigerator or microwave. You will keep that fresh taste you worked hard to keep. Keep up the good work!
Becky, you should try freeze drying your pizza sauce and then powder it, then you can have it ready to use in just minutes and you save freezer space.
The powdered freeze-dried pizza sauce would be great to add to popcorn, too! Lots of possibilities then. Great suggestion!
Hi Becky, just wanted to pass on my compliments to Josh for the fantastic job he did in your website!
I will! Thanks so much!
You always thank US for joining you but WE all thank YOU for having us in your home. Becky! You need a recipe book stand. I have a very pretty sort of Victorian one that lives permanently on my counter. I prop up my printed out recipes covered in plastic sleeves and random cookbooks I may be using and it is super efficient and easier on the back than trying to keep the book open and looming over it to see what I should be doing next. This comes from an arthritic 72 year old. Bless!
Becky, I am assuming you believe in God. If you do, you probably say to him THANK YOU often. Your garden, food, house, baby, husband, your channel, your income from the gardening channel, your parents, your family, your friends, your dogs etc. You are very blessed!! You work hard and you are definitely are blessed. ❤ May God Continue To Bless You!
Becky, you are a master class in the kitchen. You have accomplished so much this year in your garden and you do a fantastic job managing all of the abundance. I always learn so much from you. Take care.
Ditto
My presto electric canner came the other day, and my 4 year old has been begging to "do what Becky does" ever since 😂. We got a half bushel of peaches, and I'm planning to can up jam and pie filling tomorrow. The 4 year old has had to verify that Becky would also can peach jam before agreeing to help me with it. It cracks me up how much my kids love to watch Becky with me.
Hi Becky! If you have a larger strainer, you can push it on top of whatever you're cooking down , so that the food sediments are on the bottom of the strainer, and then what's inside the strainer you can just scoop out with your measuring cup. It saves you having to dirty another spatula to separate the food chunks so the liquid can pass through. Hope I explained that right. ❤
EXCELLANT IDEA, THANKS
Great idea!
I was just searching the comments to see if anyone had mentioned this. Great way to get the juice off.
Becky, I have the same tomato press. The electric is the way to go. I don’t even boil my tomatoes and they run through great. I usually run thru 3 times to get all juice and pulp. The Roma tomatoes I do boil since they have less water content. You can hear the difference in the motor. Thanks for sharing your process and your house and garden with us all. ❤
2 years ago I had a wonderful tomato harvest. I canned all of it. Last year I had a bad tomato harvest. I was so thankful for the previous years harvest because it carried me through to this year. This year is a wonderful abundant harvest and again I am canning as much as possible. ❤❤❤
Good work, Becky! I enjoy putting on one of your videos while I work on my own chores- it’s like having a friend to work alongside. Your joy and energy have encouraged me to spend more time with my garden and food preservation projects. An idea for your freezer pizza sauce: Bag it in your vacuum sealer bags and press them flat. They thaw very quickly; even more so if you place the bag in a pan of warm water. I freeze meat, applesauce, creamed corn, etc like this all the time. They stack beautifully in the freezer, too.
@@cynthiafisher9907 We make a funnel with a second bag and pour or push the contents through that into the second bag. If the sealing area gets wet, we swipe it dry with a paper towel. Another idea may be that the thickness of the bag makes a difference. We use a thicker mil bag which allows for more material to be melted together.
@@cynthiafisher9907 oh, that sounds like a good idea. Another thing we do is hang the bag down a bit to allow the liquid to settle at the bottom as much as possible. And we run the machine on manual, when we see the air is out and the liquid is just reaching the top we hit the seal button.
What a beautiful view from your kitchen window! Your part of the country is so lovely.
You are an absolute MACHINE. Talk about organized and efficient. I just found you channel today and I'm exhausted after an hour of watching bits of three or four videos. I can't believe what you accomplish in a day!!! Totally dumbfounding amazing!
Oh Becky! This reminds me of canning without air conditioning many years ago. Hot but so fulfilling to stock my pantry. Great memories. Love and hugs
Becky! I love how you did your edit a little different and kept the audio from your filming going while cutting to the different steps that you did through the rest of the night! It was excellent!!!
It is a big responsibility to provide food for your family and friends. It, for me, can sometimes become a little anxiety producing when everything becomes ready at once and you don't have space and you have to find it. So freezing it till I am ready has become my answer sometimes. Thanks Becky for sharing honestly so much. I am nearing the end of things myself, working on onions, apples, and squash right now. I do not have a long term storage place for them all so I have to think it through.
I agree, if this is your main source of food it is completely overwhelming and can cause a lot of anxiety! For Becky, it’s a passion project, they don’t rely on her garden. It’s amazing she just went on this journey and invited us along just a few years ago! Regarding long term storage, would be nice to have a basement or cellar but I repurposed two closets and put heavy duty shelving for my canned items. My coworker is a seasoned canner and he and his family store jars anywhere they can throughout the house.
@@lillypatience I did not realize that about Becky, but for me it is my main source of food. I store jars anywhere and I have also stored in the same fashion you have. It works out but just gets crazy at certain times. But I am thankful when in the winter I do not have to go out. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Becky! You will love your tomato grinder machine. I've been using one for years (thanks to our friends for lending it to us!) Italian family members taught us how to make sauce decades ago! Definitely run seeds & skins thru twice. We run our tomatoes thru machine raw & we do it outside. Just a hint-a 9x13 pyrex pan under the spout for seeds & skins works perfectly. Also, we use a small step stool & food safe pail under juice tray. We do bushels of tomatoes at a time and have it down to a real system now. Never thought to use the machine for apples...may try it this year!
Hi Becky, for the past couple of years I’ve been freezing my tomatoes when I harvest them until I’m ready to process them, if you take the stems off and core them before you put them in the freezer when you take them out frozen and put them under running water the skins slip right off, it’s so fast and easy 😊
Fabio Leonardi - Tomato Mill !!!!! YES YES YES , works like a charm, we absolutely LOVE ours and it moves thru our 100+ lbs annually in a heart beat! Although really heavy to lift (in my opinion) it will be an item to pass down in the family. We run our tomato pulp 3x - amazing amounts of juice and meat that come out on those runs. I then dehydrate the "dry" /dehydrate the pulp and use for tomato paste during the year and use the core's/tops we lopped off before blanching for my veg stock. Waste from 150lbs for us this year was 3 whole roma's, 2 handfuls of skins and that's it! Thank you for sharing this video!
My Fabio Leonardi arrived today, it’s a beast of a machine.
The oster electric roaster manual says specifically to never put water in the roaster body. It’s on page 5 of the manual under the title Important Points.
Did you see all the steam coming up when she put the tomatoes in? Dangerous steam burn to the face just waiting to happen!
I have a Nesco and the instructions do not say you should add water in between. That makes me super nervous! It would be better to just lower the temp or stir often.
@@pennyann7709 if the base shorts out, the water could lead to electrocution. I really hope she corrects that suggestion before someone gets hurt and blames her channel. I’d hate to see her held legally liable!
@@ElizabethM824 The boiling hot water also overflowed because of the weight of the tomatoes... 2 ways to get burned... yikes!
Hi Becky! Fellow PNW-er here. I love watching your processing videos. However, I think you need a tomato core remover! It has been a game changer for me and watching you use a knife on that many tomatoes made me so thankful for mine. I highly recommend it! There are 2 different styles and both are great.
I love your videos, and I also love Living Traditions! Of all the homesteading YouTubing channels that I watch, I only end up using the recipies from your channel and Living Traditions.
You have given me so many great ideas to use, and I am really grateful! Thanks for taking the time to film what you do. I know it makes your projects take longer and makes them more cumbersome for you to do, but it benefits all of us so much! Thank you again!
I wish I had a tiny portion of your energy. I could go from dawn to midnight in my 20's, and I did, but now at 60 I think I must have used up my lifetime allotment of energy back then lol. So much work, but what a joy & blessing to have such wonderful food, free of all the yucky stuff in store bought food, put up in your pantry to use all year! You're a joy to watch.
Me too. I started in my 20s and now I'm 67. I just did 24 quarts of stewed tomatoes. I was pooped. I used to do two loads a day and I canned for a month straight. 6 kids. Whew!
Yay!! Canning season 😅 I am doing 10 pounds of cowboy candy, another batch of bruschetta in a jar (LOVE this stuff on cream cheese as a dip 😋) 35 pounds of tomatoes for salsa and a few more jars of spaghetti sauce. Hopefully ALL today! You are a true inspiration. We got this!! Woo hoo!
Ooh bruschetta please share how to safely jar it. I will start jarring just for that. I freeze my gravy always just take out night before and then cook back up an double check seasoning.
@@shannonfrey7242same here. I’d love to know how it’s done. Although I guess I could google it
Here is a German recipe I grew up with I'd like to share. Another way to use your cucumbers.
NOTE: You can slice the cucumbers real thin then dehydrate or freeze dry and use them later to make this salad.
Cucumber Dill Salad:
2-3 small or 1 large cucumber(any cucumber will do)
3 tablespoons white vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar, or to taste
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 small red onion, thinly sliced and broken into rings
3 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped,
1 T sour cream (optional, I don't like it in my recipe)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Rinse and dry & peel the cucumber.
IMPORTANT: In a food processor slice them very thinly. Almost see through. Set aside.
Make the dressing by placing the vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper in a serving bowl and whisk until the sugar completely dissolves.
Add the sliced cucumber, red onion rings, and chopped dill (if using) and then toss well.
Marinate for 10-20 min in the refrigerator(I leave it in overnight) toss and serve.
One of the restaurants in my area makes this but then adds shredded crab. It’s so good
This sounds delicious!!! Thank you!
This sound delicious! I bet the recipe could even be stored in a jar using freeze dried onions, dill and cucumbers along with the salt, pepper and sugar, then rehydrate it all with the vinegar and sour cream. Something fun to experiment with!
@@sortathesame8701 That is exactly what I do. Meal in a jar.
That sounds so yummy!
Hi Becky. You could store your cast iron in the broiler drawer underneath the oven. That's what I do 😊
i have never once in my life canned anything but your videos bring me a lot of comfort and i love also reading the comments about everyone else's projects! when i have a garden i can actually plant in i would love to be able to get into this sort of thing!
Go for it. Processing garden produce is so easy. And pressure canning is also very simple! I have canned for 35+ years. Took me to age 60 to get over my fear of pressure canning and even owning two pressure canners. I had them both for 7 years before I pulled them out of the boxes to can. I felt so stupid for being afraid of poisoning us or explosion. Irrational fears on both scores. Ive been pressure canning for only 5 years but am making up for lost time and I love it. ❤️
Just WOW! 😍 I moved to Florida from Indiana 27 yrs ago and a good tomato is something I miss TERRIBLY! So exciting to see such a bumper crop for you. 👍
I’m a former Science teacher. When you put water under your roaster’s liner, you automatically limited your temperature that your tomatoes could cook to the temperature of boiling water, 212°F, (within a few degrees depending on your altitude). Your temperature can get higher without the water under it but, you are right, they might scorch. The next best thing is turn it to between 250° to 300°, not higher. Stir often. Oh by the way, be very careful that the steam coming up from under your liner doesn’t scald your arms. Steam gets crazy hot, way hotter than the boiling water.
Also, if you want to be sure that your tomato product has a low enough pH (high acid) get some litmus paper that tests pH 1-14. Your tomato product needs to be 4.6 pH or lower. If not, add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to achieve that. RoseRed Homestead had a whole video about how to determine if your fruit, tomatoes, or vegetables were high acid or low acid food and showed how to use litmus paper. She is a recently retired Science professor. She uses strict USDA guidelines.
Great advice. Hope Becky sees your comment.
@@articowl2 Thank You
I watched that video as well and it was very informative. I actually purchased the litmus paper, as being a newbie, I’m still cautious and afraid.
I’m very new to canning so wondering, if it’s not acidic enough, can it just be pressure canned? Any help appreciated! 😊
@@erikascantlebury5380 Absolutely.! I guess I should have mentioned that. Sorry. For determining if you can just use hot water bath method, you must have pH at or lower than 4.6. Otherwise pressure can your tomato recipe. For hot water bath, be cautious not to add things that would raise the pH like carrots or such. Follow an approved USDA recipe AND for length of times for pints or quarts to start timing after returning to boil (hot water bath method) or if pressure canning determine your pressure and time needed for your altitude using the book that comes with your pressure canner. (Or Search USDA GUIDELINES for pressure canning.) If you are unsure if its acid level has low enough pH, then , pressure can it to be safe. I hope that helped. GOOD LUCK.
Hey Becky, thought I'd pass along something I've seen on Three River Homestead with Jessica. When canning and straining juices, she uses metal sink drains that fit directly inside the canner funnel! Hopefully that helps! Love all your videos!
Becky truly a labor of love for you an your family . Thank you for sharing .
I don’t have a food mill. But I core and score the bottom of my tomato’s as they come in and freeze them! Once thawed, skin comes off beautifully!
I love your energy and your optimism! You inspire me with every video. I canned a bushel of tomatoes the other day, I got 17 pints of real thick tomato sauce.
Becky, I have been watching your channel since pretty much the start, and each year, I learned something new. I am in the process of purchasing a small hobby farm and, I cannot tell you how excited I am to be able to garden and preserve this coming year. You are such an inspiration, and I just want to thank you so much for all of your videos and for sharing your amazing journey with us.
I'm so happy to see you use the red ladle that I sent you back in July 😃. I wasn't sure that you received it.
That electric vegetable strainer isn't currently available, your endorsement must've caused it to sell out. There's a Kitchen Aid vegetable strainer attachment that fits on the grinder attachment that works very well. I've used it for juice making for jellies and for tomato sauce making. It works very well. I have on idea if it would handle the amount of tomatoes that you did in one day. You'd probably have to give the mixer a rest between batches to let the motor cool off, but for me it works very well.
That’s a lot of work girl. Good job on all of it. I love the tomato paste idea. Happy harvest to you.
I love the expression of Becky‘s face. Every time she taste something almost like the first time she’s ever tasted it. you have inspired me.
When I have loads of frozen tomatoes I pull them out the night before cooking (or a few hours) to let the juice separate out from the tomato as they are thawing. you can set the thawing tomatoes in a colander in a bowl. I use the juice for rice, or like broth. It has good flavor. And then you have a lot less evaporation to deal with to get the tomatoes to sauce (or whatever) consistency.
Thank you for showing the different ways for canning tomato's. I've canned green beans, and working on 20 pounds of tomato's today while working from home. Love how you also showed me how to reserve the juice for tomato juice what a wonderful idea. The scraps are going out to my chickens. My second try at canning is today, keep up and I'll keep watching, I'm thinking of buying two 20 pounds, one for more sauce and the other for my freeze dryer.
If you vacuum seal the sauce in the flat bags you make/buy then you can just pull out a frozen pizza dough & a sauce so they thaw at same time. I don’t have a vacuum sealer, but I freeze my ground beef, chicken, sauces etc., in freezer quart bags, pressing flat & getting air out & I never get freezer burn plus they stack nicely.
That’s a great idea but you would have to freeze the sauce before vacuum sealing otherwise it would pull out all the sauce. But that is certainly doable.
Do that with meals, stack in the kitchen freezer, & when in chest freezer they get 'filed'.😊
Brings back childhood memories of helping my mother can our food for the winter months. You are correct; there is nothing like fresh home cooked meals. She also canned chicken and beef.
I love using my mill for tomato soup! I run the scraps through a second time too. It makes the best soup. Also for applesauce, I use a steam juicer first then put the apples through the mill. That way you get applesauce and juice. I want to try your pizza sauce this year. What great motivation!!
I only got about 40 lbs. of tomatoes that I processed into sauce last month. I cored and froze mine as we harvested, then slipped the skins off after they thawed. I dehydrated the peels and powdered them in a coffee grinder. Adds an extra tomato-ey flavor to dishes, acts as a thickener, and makes a great instant tomato paste!
Hi from England for two days and another two to follow I too am harvesting tomatoes. So far I have frozen some of the cherry tomatoes because they are ideal for picking out a bag and just throwing them into the dish of the day. Also made Tomato Carpaccio. Homemade passata, Ketchup and paste. Today I did Panzanella. got six meals out of that batch. Tomorrow I am doing Tomato and Rose petal harissa which is delicious. Also Cherry tomato and red wine jam.
Also Wine Gummy Tomatoes is an excellent way If you have a huge glut of tomatoes to use up, slowly dehydrate them in a low oven so they’re gummy, gnarly and full of intense flavour. Then transfer to jars, cover with oil and keep to use in pasta dishes, salads, or as part of an antipasti spread
Why are they called wine gummy tomatoes? Can you dehydrate them and king do they keep in the oil? Thanks.
I made tomato sauce from homegrown tomatoes for the first time last year and I have been HOOKED ever since! When I skinned the tomatoes, I saved the skins and fried them up with some fresh chopped garlic + homegrown herbs. I ended up chopping that mixture and adding it back into the sauce I made and OMG the FLAVOR! Highly recommend for anyone curious what to do with tomato skins :D
Yeap from beginning of video, I knew you were overwhelmed. I'm glad the outside walk got you much calmer and centered. It gives me a sense I want run out and help you not to see you spin. You accomplished a lot, awesome job. Your tomatoe harvest is stunning this year. Im glad youre blessing others and in turn it is boessed you. Looking foward to mom and dad video.
My 10 year old granddaughter joined us this morning and after arriving saw that I had a video playing on the tv. She says, “Grammy, can we watch that girl who gardens and cooks and lives down by Oregon?” I asked her if she meant Becky, and she said yes, she is my favorite! So we watched the video together and talked about the different things you were doing. She said, “when the video is done can we can tomatoes?” ☺️ I had to tell her no because I don’t have enough tomatoes right now. She said okay but please tell her when I have enough so she can help! ☺️ She also thinks I need a ‘machine’ like yours as well 😆. Anyway, your reach of inspiration covers all ages! Thanks for sharing your life with us.
Love this so much, watching you while I tackle my tomatoes.. I was starting to panic about how to process them all and I don’t even have a tenth of what you’ve got. Loving the company and inspiration from you. 🙌💕🍅
Re watched this tonight as just ordered and electric tomato mill sauce mill. I planted paste tomatoes and they are coming by the dozens right now. Thank you for ALL you share!!
Hey Becky. I think I'm finally done with tomatoes,lol. But I did can up 28 quarts of pinto with ham yesterday. I worked all day and finally got to go to sleep around 11:30 last night. I cooked my ham bone down and made ham broth today
Becky, this brings back memories of my dear Mother canning her delicious tomatoes! She she made most of the recipes and textures you are cooking and canning. Another thing she canned was tomato juice and/or sauce with yummy delicious fresh corn kernels in it! She said it was for tomato/vegetable soup! And it was delicious with all the other veggies and spices she added when she made veggie soup! I love your channel and I’ve admired your beautiful garden day after day!
Thanks for the inspiration! Just finished canning lemony caponata, stewed tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. Still have a bunch of cherry tomatoes- throwing them in the oven now!! Alas- I have no garden- (not allowed in my development- yes I am moving as soon as I can😊) my CSA is keeping me going though! Always a good day when you post ! Thank you!
Rewatching this is so helpful and inspiring to me! I just had a large processing day yesterday. Used my pressure canner for the first time. You give me confidence to try new things!! Thanks so much for your content Becky!!
I'm going to juice mine for the first time. I got a brand new juicer from a garage sale for FREE! Yep..the lady said she got it free, so she's giving it away to the first person who wants it. That was me!
Hi Becky! I’m new to your channel within the last couple weeks and this is my first comment😊. I batch cook, portion and freeze but I’m not a canner, but I’ve always wants to learn. I love watching your channel and it’s what I’ve been watching at night when my day is done because watching you homestead is so relaxing and inspiring! I wish I knew about this stuff when I was your age. And I have to say - YOUR EYES are sooo animated when you like something!!! You’re adorable! Anyway, I’m glad I found your channel. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Becky, Wow! What a great big tomato preservation day. I absolutely loved this video. You made it look so interesting that I believe everyone watching this video would attempt to do this too. Thank you for bringing this to us and for bringing us into your lovely home. God bless.
Thank you for giving me a jolt to continue processing my garden produce! Usually by this time I'm done but watching you gives me the strength to continue. I grow a large garden to share with family and it gets hard to come up with different ideas when tomatoes are abundant!! I get my love of gardening from my grandpa who always had large gardens and he would give produce to family and friends. I wish I could sometimes ask his advice on issues I have because he would have the answer I needed❤
Watching you and making the tomatoe paste. So much fun. Thank you becky for the tip.
Oh what a full day of canning! Loved it...was right there with you as you did your tomatoes. They all looked so good and could nearly smell them as you were dipping them up into the jars. Thanks for sharing!!
Your views, even at night, are incredible! Now I know how hard my great grandmother worked to put up all that food! Have you ever canned meats?
We just did 100 quarts of tomatoes today. We have the same machine you do. We used a mixture of regular tomatoes along with Roma tomatoes. We quarter the raw tomatoes (no need to core them) & run them through the machine. We then cook them down on the stove bringing them to a rolling boil for 20 minutes. They thicken up nicely. I then put them into quart jars with a tsp of canning salt. They self seal without water bath canning. I’ve done them this way for over 15 years with no issues. Saves a ton of time. I haven’t water bath canned tomatoes in years!
DO NOT PUT WATER IN THE MAIN PART OF YOUR ELECTRIC ROASTER! If you look at your manual it tells you never to put liquid in the the main cooking part ONLY the insert pan!
You are absolutely correct. But I guess she never reads instructions. I watch her videos for inspiration but I would also never follow her canning instructions. I follow the instructions in the Ball canning book or other sources that have been safety tested.
Thank you so much for the local farmer resource that you provided to your viewers. I've checked it out and to my surprise there is a local farm near me. So I'm greatful and appreciative!
I'm about to tackle my tomato tables today, too. I have to make room for today's harvest! I'm looking forward to making enchilada sauce again soon. Thanks for the inspiration!
I am in Germany- no enchilada sauce here !!! Please share your recipe !!!❤
@@krisirolfe4332 Do You Think I Made Enough Homemade Enchilada Sauce? was Becky's video last year. It was tasty!
Oh my! Felt like worked very hard canning and freezing tomato juice and sauce all day!!! Have not done this in years! Thank you, Becky.
Hi Becky, hi friends! Hope you all have a safe weekend!
I made the pizza sauce from Living Traditions Homestead as well. Becky is not joking about how good it is. It is phenomenal!
Becky you are just like an energiser bunny 🥰, girl I do remember having some energy in my life but never like you 🤗. Truly the joy I get from watching your channel is crazy. Lisa my wife asked what I was watching because the smile on my face was huge.
So thank you for being you x
Becky, I always run the peels through twice. It’s amazing what you can still get out of them!
Lol I just finished cleaning the sun and dining room and thought I would take a break and here you are! What a treat! This looks like it will be good! Such hard work!!
Aw I hope you enjoy!
Becky, thanks for giving me inspiration I love my garden and have no idea how to preserve all my veggies your channel gives me so many choices I’m looking forward to trying the tomato paste one. What a great idea making pucks!
What a great day canning! You sue did lots of tomatoes! Kudos to you my friend for all you do in the kitchen and garden! ❤️
she makes the best stuff from her own home garden and is a BOSS at living off the land as much as possible!!
Becky! I hope you see this! Try setting your strainer down into your pot or roaster, press down and then scoop out all of the juice that comes up through the siv. It definitely saves time ❤
Becky , I'm 70 years old and I guess I have just learned from my mama ways. But we always did our tomato like you did by cooking then before we ran the through the mill. But we always just put them back on the stove and heating them back up to boil. Then we just put the juices in the cans and seal the jars and set them aside but the towel over them and they would seal and keep. We never had any trouble with them not ceiling and keeping.
Best tomato year, best zucchini year, girl I think you're having a good harvest year!
Hey Becky! If you freeze tomatoes you can just put them right into the mill :) I process about 3 times and then cook it on the stove!
You do a great job however the water in the bottom of roaster is not good advice. My Mother did the same thing but when I was reading through the owner's manual it stated clearly do NOT put water in the bottom of the roaster as that is not the proper way to use the roaster. So I think you should be sure to mention that you should check your owner's manual or the website for your make and model to be sure you are using your roaster correctly to prevent any problems by putting the water in the bottom as you showed to do.
I have the same pan as she does and just checked the book. No mention of putting water in the roaster. Says not to immerse base in water.
I love this book. I'm still working my way up to canning but I'm ok with freezing food so this book really helped me. Thanks for recommending it.
That roaster is simply gorgeous!!
Just started this video while washing all my tomatoes. Perfect timing! Thank you for the company and encouragement during these crazy canning times🎉
I love how the frozen tomatoes sound like pool/billiard balls!😄
Becky, I don't know if you have done this in the past but you should consider freeze drying or dehydrating tomato slice, then grinding them up into powder. It is THE most handy thing I've ever done.I started doing this a couple years ago when I got sick of canning/processing them the regular way and now it will be an "always' thing when I have enough tomatoes to preserve them this way. LOVE your channel you are an awesome example for young gals , well even us older ones! And I LOVE your dad's channel as well. Keep up the great work!!!
Hi Becky!! You might want to try freeze drying your pizza sauce. Then you wouldn't need to add the acid to have it convenient. You could use water or tomato juice to rehydrate.
Some of the other preppers I’ve been listening to or canning their tomato sauces as well and instead of running it through a food mill which can be a messy process they’re saying blend it use your high speed blender, and if you blend it, it will make it so you don’t have to tear off or peel off the tomato outside and you don’t have to worry about the seeds as well. This is a game changer and I’ve seen a lot of preppers this year doing this approach instead of peeling and deseeding their Tomatoes.
Hello my new inspiration of all things canning and cooking. You make me feel like I’m there with you. I canned my grandmas tomato juice and it’s amazing. Thank you love for all you do and the time you take to share with us. PS. I love making bonket it’s my Dutch heritage like your husbands in southwest michigan. ❤️❤️
BECKY!!!
ok, I just placed an order for my HarvestRight freeze dryer, AND then I placed my very first Azure order!! Exciting day over here. All because of your influence and positive teachings on how to preserve food. I feel like I can do this! 😊
Dear Becky, I have a question for you and maybe you can answer it. Here in Europe we predominantly use twist-off jars for cooking jams, jellies, chutneys and sauces. This saves the additional step of preserving using pressure or steam canning. It's a huge time saver, energy saver and therefore money saver. The food to be cooked is poured into the jars while it is boiling hot and immediately sealed airtight with the twist-off lids. When they cool down, a vacuum forms, which makes the contents of the glasses last for years. The jars and lids can be reused for years. Do you know why this isn't common in North America?
I will jump in and answer. The USDA (US Department of Agriculture) which determines what is “safe” in the US, has determined that is not safe to do here. (Weird that it is fine elsewhere, but whatever…)
@@KristenBrink , thank you for answering. It's amazing that we in Europe have not yet become extinct, despite the great danger we put ourselves in every day through this canning method.🤣
Becky the ball book with the jars of green tomatoes has a roasted tomato paste that is like that just no oil
It’s awesome
You are making me want to can more tomatoes! I already put away over 120 quarts of stewed tomatoes and over 40 pints. My tomato plants are dying out now so I don’t have much more. ❤️🍅❤️
Hi Becky, I was told once, even though that basil is "going to seed" or bolting... pinch that top off and cook with it fresh. It packs a large amount of flavonoids !
2 things about the pizza sauce: 1) I wonder if you took the frozen "base" and added some cream to it, if you could make cream of tomato soup to have with grilled cheese sandwiches in the winter? And 2) don't you normally freeze your pizza dough and have to thaw it anyway? So pulling the pizza sauce out of the freezer at the same time as you pull out the dough to thaw shouldn't be an issue!
Becky, a strawberry spoon works perfectly for taking out tomato cores and little bad spots.