It was Mrs. Brenda Gantt who taught me the celery trick! She is the sweetest lady and a fantastic cook! She has a TH-cam Channel and two cookbooks and she is a joy to watch.
I use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin, it does make it less chewy. Love your videos Becky. You’ve become a prolific blogger almost daily, your spoiling us 😅❤
I just wanted to tell you that my kids like to go to bed watching your channel. Every night they say "Mama put on the cooking girl" They are four years old. Thank you for your channel I have learned so much.
OMG the look on your face when u plugged the blender in and it had the 'ON' button pushed in and the bread started to grind the look on your face was priceless!😲 I laughed sooo hard to see u with that 'STUNNED LOOK' Sooo glad u r REALITY SHOW!!! U didn't even skip a beat to explain what u were going to do next...but u got a laugh out of it also! I luv to watch your cooking!!👍😂🥳
Thank you for encouraging me to have food in my freezer and pantry. I was sick for all of January (except the last couple of days) and my daughter and I were able to eat without shopping or cooking just heating up meals! I guess this was a different kind of pantry challenge but so worth it. My daughter really is supportive of the meal prep I have been doing. By the way I just turned 69.
An even easier way is to break the end of the celery but not all the way through. Then pull down and all the strings come off with the end piece. Easy!
Becky, I watch the Farming Pastor's wife and she gave you cred for her garlic puffs. I knew immediately that it was your idea she was about to use and then she gave you credit for it! Such a delight!
Becky! I realize this is SO much work for you. I do appreciate it and love watching these in the evenings after work or during my breaks at work. Sending love from Windsor, Ontario
Hello from Amherstburg, Ontario. I’ve just finished my January pantry challenge. I’m not a canner, so was relying on my freezer mostly. I allowed myself $10/week for fresh fruit & veg. Then one bag of milk & a container of yogurt for the month. I went over by about $4, but I needed eggs 🥚 🤷♀️Not too bad considering food prices 🇨🇦
Becky you can store your extra bulk flours in the fridge or freezer to extend the shelf life up to 6 months . It keeps any of the natural oils from the flour (wheat kernel )from going rancid .
Little old Southern lady here. My grandmother showed me how to pull the strings off celery when I was small. Green beans used to have strings. That has been GMO’ed out of them. So, cutting the strings off of green beans and celery was a much sought after kid chore because we got to use a knife. Happy stringing!
You always upload at the perfect times for me (UK, London) as it's always a cosy evening. Your videos and style is just incredibly relaxing, like I'm on call with a friend showing me their new recipes!
I was going to tell her that also. Apartment living, mone of the electric ranges are level I guess. I also think it makes a difference in uneven temperature spots in the oven as well.
Hey Becky. We southern woman are taught to pull the strings from celery when being taught to cook. My Daddy taught me to cook and showed me this trick. It makes eating the celery soo much nicer. ❤
Hi Becky! 👋 You might try hitting the BAKE then START button on your ovens to see what your default setting is.... Mine is 350. So I never have to type in the “3 5 0” just the BAKE, START. (Sometimes I feel like I’m forever pushing buttons on my oven. ) 😂 I accidentally found this out and I know it sounds trivial, but it now saves me just that 1 step.
Great video! I am a home economist in Canada and I enjoy your unique approach to food preparation. You have amazing bread making skills. You have a nice casual style that makes you very relatable and enjoyable to watch. I love your channel.
Me too,she is so cute. i love how her eyes slide to one side and twinkle as a grin forms around her mouth and temples when she tastes her food. It's as if she surprises herself every time . Entertaining fun,educational,inspiring .I'm in the uk and probably will never make these kinds of recipes .I don't use alcohol and don't like capers, I never put salt in my food and rarely use sugar .my sin got a very bad salt stone under his tongue when he was 12 and he sobbed for a week with the pain of it so salt went out of our cooking now if I have food made by other people it tastes incredibly salty. We have similar ingredients in the uk just different cooking methods . What is the difference between broiling and grilling please ? To me a broiler is an older chicken needing longer slower cooking .
Your mashed potatoes looked so good .my friend is French and they heat the milk before adding to the potatoes, I add cold milk to mine . And cheese is very pricey so if I cook with cheese it's usually the main Ingredient as in cauliflower cheese
I’ve read through some of the comments on your video and they really make me smile. You make a lot of people happy Becky with your beautiful smiles and your total enthusiasm for all you do. The world would be a brighter place with a lot more Becky’s in it. Thank you for your special gift xx
This is so funny to me, I have never peeled nor have I thought to peel celery. I seriously thought of the whole stalk as being stringy and fibrous. Who knew!
Would that little Southern Lady happen to be, Mrs. Brenda Gantt? Lol She taught me that Celery Peeling tip! She uses a big old knife to peel it, like a boss!!! Always enjoy watching your content Becky. ❤🇨🇦
I love to watch you cook, you're such a natural! And those little incidents like the blender being turned on when you plugged it in...your reactions are priceless. 😂 I would NOT have gotten it turned off as quickly as you did! I'm so glad you've got water and your pantry challenge was amazing!
I’m preparing several rooms for a painting project and was delighted to watch the seed growing room process. All the content from Becky adds a great deal of value to my hopes and dreams. I always learn so much.
Love your channel...this old girl has learned a lot from you!! Ive been peeling celery for years, but my husband just noticed that I did that this past Thanksgiving. Glad I still have a few tricks up my sleeve after 51 years😊
Had channeled my "inner Becky" and batched cooked a weeks worth of meals on Saturday and Monday in preparation for today's kidney stone surgery. Now I dont have to think about anything but getting healed! Just took my evening pain meds and went to bed. But..all I wanted to do was watch todays Becky video! Best medicine in the world!!❤❤ Awesome video! Thank you, Becky! I can't wait to see the completed seed room!!
Becky that is the only way I will eat celery is to de-string it, I can not stand the strings, I also slice it down the center before chopping to make it smaller pieces. a texture thing with me lol. I need to make bread also, thanks for the reminder.
@@beadwright yes, I add pecans and cranberries or grapes to my chicken salad as well. So yummy! Sorry your freezer door was left open but enjoy the chicken salad.
I am not a homesteader but I do own a pig and cattle farm. Your videos are like my comfort watch and goals as far as cooking and gardening, we appreciate you!
🌸 Thank you for sharing your pantry challenge. I think every canner, dehydrator and freeze dryer family understands the hard work in feeding a family with little fund and lots of hard work. I love your youtube channel!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
Goodness me, Becky * same name ; You make every dish delicious as only you can do~ I think it says alot when a girl and her passion comes together in such a Beautiful way. I'm hoping you continue to follow your plans, passions and blessings, for many years to come! Enjoy :)
Becky, you are so inspiring. I am 75 and pretty bored with cooking, but you have provided the inspiration to try your recipes. My family loves them. Thank you so much.
Becky, you have outdone yourself this time with the pantry challenge and not having water during part of the month, you are a true homesteader who takes what they have, and make a meal out of it, or makes the best out of any given situation, and for that I commend you tremendously, keep up the good work because you were teaching so many people how to take what they have, and make some thing delicious or teaching us how to garden how to manage our homes. Be blessed my dear young friend, along with your husband and your son.
Amazing how fast the last 4 weeks have gone by and you Becky, have made them fun! Thank You for all you have taught this 57 year old granny, you’re quite the inspiration! 💜
My car was in the shop for 4 days, so I was forced to do the pantry challenge for just those 4 DAYS and went stir crazy. You did it for 4 WEEKS! So amazing. BRAVA BRAVA BRAVISSIMA!!❤
I was thinking that it would be super cool to see the list of everything that you used up in the pantry challenge! I don't know if you've kept track or not, but I think it would be really neat to see everything that you've used!!
Love the videos Becky! When the world gets a little too much, you feel like a safe haven. You know what is almost as good? The chickens! I miss seeing the girls. Can’t wait until spring and new chickens. So sweet of you to give the older girls a break and an awesome retirement.
Becky, you made such a great point in one of your videos, several actually, about purchasing high quality really good ingredients, and not purchasing or preserving things unless it's great quality that you excited to use up or eat. I stopped buying store brand all purpose bleached flour and started buying organic unbleached flour. It took me a minute to get over the price difference, and let me tell you the quality of my dinner rolls, cookies, sandwich bread etc IS SO MUCH BETTER!!! I'm a believer. We also started buying grass fed butter and it's night and day to the generic regular old butter. You've opened my eyes to so many things!
I never knew you could peel celery, that’s a game changer. I love stiffed celery sticks but hated the threads that seemed impossible to cut with teeth. Now I can just peel it.
I find celery very bitter and it helps when you peel it so i use a potato peeler. It works surprisingly well. Very glad to see you finally have water! The longest duration i was without was five days. I had a bathtub of water for flushing and a camping porta potty but you don't realize how often you turn a tap during a day until you do and nothing comes out
I’m Australian and lived on a property that caught rain-water in tanks. Over the course of two long, very hot years we ran out of water and had to buy a tanker of water. We were so upset having town-water in our beautiful tanks. You guessed it! Rained unexpectedly for almost three weeks the day after the town-water was pumped into our tanks. It was nice to have long showers again even if the water tasted like chemicals.🦘🇦🇺
When our water lines freeze it is for the entire winter. They froze a lot when my children were young because they would forget and turn the taps off that we let run a drizzle. We would go to my aunts and haul water every few days. Sponge baths only. Glad your water is back on.
Glad your water is back up and running. I love making chicken salad with all you added plus halved grapes and dried cranberries and I sometimes add slivered almonds. Glad you destring your celery. It makes a huge difference 😊
Great work! I am doing a pantry challenge of sorts, and low key failing.😆 I am busy resetting our home and starting seeds, and I just do not want to go grocery shopping. I still have to buy dairy. We're eating canned fruits, and we have lettuce and brassicas from the garden. I even found a frw carrots! Guess I'm not failing. I did go buy ice cream 2 days ago.🤷🏾♀️
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Yes Ms Becki, we Southern gals do destring our Celery and you will really tell the difference!!!
Last week made home made l lkea meatball and they gravy it was lovely found out while world was on lockdown in covid ikea shared there recipe for meatballs and gravy only found out last week have enough to put in freezer for another meal keep us going
Peeling celery makes it so much easier to digest! You are definitely our Wonder Woman and the most incredible worker bee I have ever seen. You have taught me soooooo much and I am so grateful! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hello Becky. I have to tell you: you have inspired me so much ever since I subscribed to your channel. I have made marshmallows and this week White sandwich bread. I made some for my children and their families as well as my husband and myself. I still want to make your ciabatta bread. I love your videos and your inspiring spirit. God Bless you Becky.
Love watching you Becky. Please be careful you don’t shatter your counter when you pound out your chicken. That happened to my friend, try using your bread board. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful gifts. ❤❤❤
HI Becky, These meals all look amazing. Would love to see you sit with your husband and see how he likes the meal and get his input. I've been with you almost since the beginning and have enjoyed them all so much. So, thanks so much for sharing.
i've been freezing mushrooms for a few months now so i just have to grab a handful from the freezer and not have to worry about them going bad. Because of you, i also froze up some carmelized onion pucks into meal-sized portions. Now i just grab the onions and mushrooms from the freezer and half my veg prep is already done.
You are beautyfull, such a nice person and great contentcreator. I love my time i get to spend with you! Thank you for all you do!!❤❤❤❤ just got our allotment a few months ago, today and tomorrow we are shoveling 3m3 compost😅 love from the netherlands
Yay for running water! I always de-string the celery as part of cutting the ends off. You take the tip of the knife and cut the ends only half way through from the inside, then make a lengthwise slit thorough the discard part, then peel it like a banana.
Becky friends and the wandering doggos. When you make bread with 'other' flours (whole wheat pumpernickle rye etc) I find a slow cold rise (in the fridge) works best for taste and texture, usually over night, but it will never rise as much as a white loaf) To find your best personal mix you need to experiment. Since i learned to prepare veggies from julia child I peel whatever I can, Celery, Broccoli, Asparagus, Cauliflower stems. so everything cooks at the same rate. I use all the peelings for soup stock but you do have your Chickens. A bit of wine (any color) would have made the meatballs with the caramelized onions even MORE French. Moving in the Bourgignon galaxy.. Beer would move it to Germany and Eastern Europe. Hugs to everyone Jim Mexico
The only regret I have about years in the kitchen…..there was no TH-cam when I was your age and I had no Becky to influence my life in general. You are the REAL DEAL Becky! I enjoy your videos with coffee breaks. Thank you for your content. ❤️🙋🏻♀️
Becky, I so enjoy your videos, so thank you for sharing! I was actually surprised you didn't peel your celery that was being eaten raw. LOL I grew up learning that if you cook it, you don't need to peel it, but if it's going to be eaten without cooking the strings are unpleasant to eat. On the whole wheat bread - if you add in a half cup of plain applesauce (unsweetened, no cinnamon) the bread will come out more moist and will rise more like white bread. I believe it's because the applesauce contributes to hydration of the flour. Whenever I'm making bread, I "proof" the yeast by mixing it with about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of the warm water in the recipe, a teaspoon of sugar and let it get nice bubbles on the top before adding it to the flour. After just combining it with the dry ingredients and any remaining wet ingredients, allow it to rest about 10 to 15 minutes. Then knead as normal and add flour as kneading, rise as usual. The rest time between mixing and kneading hydrates the flour and helps the gluten awaken so you get that silky dough pretty quickly (at least that's what I've been told).
For my chicken salad, I use celery and red grapes. For the sauce, mayo, lemon juice, and cranberry mustard when I can get it. What takes it over the top is glazed pecans. The acid from the lemon juice breaks down the glaze on the pecans. It's my husband's fave!
A tower garden in your sun room would be amazing and would give you fresh greens all winter! Herbs too. I'm going to make the chicken recipe but plant based. I love the idea of zuc relish.
My mom used to peel the strings off the celery too, I do it if the ribs have a thick string. Becky the bread looks amazing and the comfort meals looked great. Doing pantry challenges helped us notice that we don't need as much as we have stocked and to pay more attention to stuff in the pantry or opened jars in the fridge that should be used up, it's all food we like but don't plan enough around it. Going into February we'll be paying more attention to reducing what we have. Thank you for all the great videos on the 4-week pantry challenge, lots of great ideas.
Hey Becky, I’m guessing you were watching “Cooking with Brenda Grant” when you learned about pulling the strings off of your Celery? I watch Miss Brenda daily. She is such a lovely, God loving lady that shares her years of wisdom not only in the kitchen but also in life. 💕🥰
I'm having to replace my main refrigerator, which makes for the perfect time for a deep clean and purging items. I found several things that have needed to get used up and I thought about you Becky. I placed those things in the front and changed up my menu to make sure I used them. That led to making creamy sun dried tomato chicken and my son was Very happy about that! Lol. Brownie Points for me 😄
My girl! I can’t wait for you to show us what things your growing this summer! I’m in Oregon and I always plant my seeds when I see you are starting yours.
You can get white wholemeal flour. I used to work in a commercial bakery and it was used in the 50/50 bread aimed at kids, so it looked white but had fibre!
I did it. It was my first pantry challenge, and I only spent $12.80 for the whole month. Thank you for all your time and ideas. I'm so excited that I'm already thinking about my next one. 😊
Doing the Pantry Challenge but not giving myself any time frame. Only buying cream for my coffee & minimal fresh veggies & lettuce. Making a “dent” in my Freezer AND my Pantry! 🎉👏🏻 Feels so good to use up what I have on hand.
Have you ever taken baking lessons at the King Arthur Flour place near you? We have one here nearby in Vermont and I have just loved the high quality of the classes there. Sounds like something you would also enjoy!
I add spinach to a lot of things and some people think it's weird but at least it gets a veggie in us. White gravy, pasta sauce, mashed potatoes, and Swedish meatballs are the main things. I started watching you during a pantry challenge and it encouraged me to use things I already had. I really need to do another pantry challenge myself
Hello, i recently saw someone "baking" the flour in the oven before making bread. Has anyone done that and did it make the bread taste different? What a selection of wonderful meals. Thanks again!
When I am making meatballs in a slow cook sauce I put them into the sauce raw and let them cook in the oven slowly. They seem to absorb the flavours from the sauce. The meatballs you made look amazing and I do want to try it. Thank you for the video!
It was Mrs. Brenda Gantt who taught me the celery trick! She is the sweetest lady and a fantastic cook! She has a TH-cam Channel and two cookbooks and she is a joy to watch.
Yep, that’s her!
She is Adorable... so down to earth and loving. - just like you ❤
Just break it in half and it peals right off
I was going to ask if it was Brenda Gantt. I thought it had to be Ms. Brenda! She’s a good soul!
I use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin, it does make it less chewy. Love your videos Becky. You’ve become a prolific blogger almost daily, your spoiling us 😅❤
I just wanted to tell you that my kids like to go to bed watching your channel. Every night they say "Mama put on the cooking girl" They are four years old. Thank you for your channel I have learned so much.
That is so sweet. ❤❤❤
Omg that's adorable 😍
Aw thanks so much for sharing that with me! Tell them I said hi!
Well, I think the channel name should change to “the cooking girl”
@@AcreHomesteadOh my goodness I bet that will make their evening!! A personal "hi" from you. ❤
You did it! Four entire weeks. Water issues and all! Way to go, girl!
OMG the look on your face when u plugged the blender in and it had the 'ON' button pushed in and the bread started to grind the look on your face was priceless!😲 I laughed sooo hard to see u with that 'STUNNED LOOK' Sooo glad u r REALITY SHOW!!! U didn't even skip a beat to explain what u were going to do next...but u got a laugh out of it also! I luv to watch your cooking!!👍😂🥳
Thank you for encouraging me to have food in my freezer and pantry. I was sick for all of January (except the last couple of days) and my daughter and I were able to eat without shopping or cooking just heating up meals! I guess this was a different kind of pantry challenge but so worth it. My daughter really is supportive of the meal prep I have been doing. By the way I just turned 69.
An even easier way is to break the end of the celery but not all the way through. Then pull down and all the strings come off with the end piece. Easy!
That's the way I do it too.
Try tart apples in your chicken salad. We like cranberries too and walnuts or pecans.
@@bettypierce8050 Me, too!
That’s how I do it.
Becky, I watch the Farming Pastor's wife and she gave you cred for her garlic puffs. I knew immediately that it was your idea she was about to use and then she gave you credit for it! Such a delight!
Becky! I realize this is SO much work for you. I do appreciate it and love watching these in the evenings after work or during my breaks at work. Sending love from Windsor, Ontario
Hello from Amherstburg, Ontario.
I’ve just finished my January pantry challenge. I’m not a canner, so was relying on my freezer mostly. I allowed myself $10/week for fresh fruit & veg. Then one bag of milk & a container of yogurt for the month. I went over by about $4, but I needed eggs 🥚 🤷♀️Not too bad considering food prices 🇨🇦
Becky you can store your extra bulk flours in the fridge or freezer to extend the shelf life up to 6 months . It keeps any of the natural oils from the flour (wheat kernel )from going rancid .
Little old Southern lady here. My grandmother showed me how to pull the strings off celery when I was small. Green beans used to have strings. That has been GMO’ed out of them. So, cutting the strings off of green beans and celery was a much sought after kid chore because we got to use a knife. Happy stringing!
I remember stinging beans as a kid!
My grandma also showed me the trick of pulling celery strings!!
We called them string beans
You always upload at the perfect times for me (UK, London) as it's always a cosy evening. Your videos and style is just incredibly relaxing, like I'm on call with a friend showing me their new recipes!
Have Josh adjust the stove legs to level your cooktop. They’re adjustable. ♥️
I was going to tell her that also. Apartment living, mone of the electric ranges are level I guess. I also think it makes a difference in uneven temperature spots in the oven as well.
Hey Becky. We southern woman are taught to pull the strings from celery when being taught to cook. My Daddy taught me to cook and showed me this trick. It makes eating the celery soo much nicer. ❤
The "piccata" in chicken piccata is the lemon. You made chicken parmesan. Try it with the lemon, it will be better.
My favorite is catching glances of puppers in the background. Great recipes!
Hi Becky! 👋 You might try hitting the BAKE then START button on your ovens to see what your default setting is.... Mine is 350. So I never have to type in the “3 5 0” just the BAKE, START. (Sometimes I feel like I’m forever pushing buttons on my oven. ) 😂 I accidentally found this out and I know it sounds trivial, but it now saves me just that 1 step.
What! I need to see if that works! That is amazing if it does
Mine is 350° also.
Mine also. Just hit bake & start😊
Mine too
Same here 😊
Great video! I am a home economist in Canada and I enjoy your unique approach to food preparation. You have amazing bread making skills. You have a nice casual style that makes you very relatable and enjoyable to watch. I love your channel.
As often as you post, I still can't get enough. I'm binging old videos from the last house now lol ♡
Aw thanks so much!
Me too,she is so cute.
i love how her eyes slide to one side and
twinkle as a grin forms around her mouth and temples when she tastes her food. It's as if she surprises herself every time .
Entertaining fun,educational,inspiring .I'm in the uk and probably will never make these kinds of recipes .I don't use alcohol and don't like capers, I never put salt in my food and rarely use sugar .my sin got a very bad salt stone under his tongue when he was 12 and he sobbed for a week with the pain of it so salt went out of our cooking now if I have food made by other people it tastes incredibly salty.
We have similar ingredients in the uk just different cooking methods .
What is the difference between broiling and grilling please ? To me a broiler is an older chicken needing longer slower cooking .
Your mashed potatoes looked so good .my friend is French and they heat the milk before adding to the potatoes, I add cold milk to mine .
And cheese is very pricey so if I cook with cheese it's usually the main Ingredient as in cauliflower cheese
Me too!😂
This has just made my day!!!! I’m sitting down with a coffee and Becky to keep me company… nothing better!!!
Ahhh. A cup of coffee sounds delicious. Think I am gonna make me one. ❤❤
Love watching your podcasts. I am a lady of 74 years of age and I learn something new every time I watch you. Thank you again.
I’ve read through some of the comments on your video and they really make me smile. You make a lot of people happy Becky with your beautiful smiles and your total enthusiasm for all you do. The world would be a brighter place with a lot more Becky’s in it. Thank you for your special gift xx
Absolutely true she is a sweetheart
Aw your words are so kind! Thanks so much for being here and being so sweet
I knew right off the bat you were talking about Brenda Gantt and I concur, she is something and so are you. I love your energy,
This is so funny to me, I have never peeled nor have I thought to peel celery. I seriously thought of the whole stalk as being stringy and fibrous. Who knew!
Right. I know now to peel it 😊
Would that little Southern Lady happen to be, Mrs. Brenda Gantt? Lol
She taught me that Celery Peeling tip!
She uses a big old knife to peel it, like a boss!!!
Always enjoy watching your content Becky. ❤🇨🇦
YES! I couldn't remember her name! Thanks so much
I wonder if I pealed the celery, would it be more appealing to fussy people with texture issues?
@@AcreHomestead 😉
@KentuckyNaNasHeart I'll have to try it. I have a 30-year-old daughter who has texture issues with some foods.
@KentuckyNaNasHeart I'll have to try it. I have a 30-year-old daughter who has texture issues with some foods.
I love to watch you cook, you're such a natural! And those little incidents like the blender being turned on when you plugged it in...your reactions are priceless. 😂 I would NOT have gotten it turned off as quickly as you did! I'm so glad you've got water and your pantry challenge was amazing!
There needs to be a "love" button to push for your videos!!! Thank you for sharing them with us. God bless you always. 🥰🥰🥰
I can’t wait to see the painting happening in the seed growing room with your dad. And I love this recipe menu too.
I am editing that video right now :)
I’m preparing several rooms for a painting project and was delighted to watch the seed growing room process. All the content from Becky adds a great deal of value to my hopes and dreams. I always learn so much.
Love your channel...this old girl has learned a lot from you!! Ive been peeling celery for years, but my husband just noticed that I did that this past Thanksgiving. Glad I still have a few tricks up my sleeve after 51 years😊
I peel celery for say a veggie platter. Makes it easier for guests to eat. But for cooking or fine dice, I haven't peeled it.
It also removes the latex aspect from the celery.
Had channeled my "inner Becky" and batched cooked a weeks worth of meals on Saturday and Monday in preparation for today's kidney stone surgery. Now I dont have to think about anything but getting healed! Just took my evening pain meds and went to bed. But..all I wanted to do was watch todays Becky video! Best medicine in the world!!❤❤ Awesome video! Thank you, Becky! I can't wait to see the completed seed room!!
Becky that is the only way I will eat celery is to de-string it, I can not stand the strings, I also slice it down the center before chopping to make it smaller pieces. a texture thing with me lol. I need to make bread also, thanks for the reminder.
You’re amazing Becky! The fact that you stuck to the pantry challenge when you didn’t have running water is admirable.
Yes! It makes the celery so tender! We call it destringing in my house.
We add pecan pieces and grapes in summer to our chicken salad, fresh dill is good too. My freezer door was left open, so I get to do that.....
@@beadwright yes, I add pecans and cranberries or grapes to my chicken salad as well. So yummy! Sorry your freezer door was left open but enjoy the chicken salad.
I am not a homesteader but I do own a pig and cattle farm. Your videos are like my comfort watch and goals as far as cooking and gardening, we appreciate you!
🌸 Thank you for sharing your pantry challenge. I think every canner, dehydrator and freeze dryer family understands the hard work in feeding a family with little fund and lots of hard work. I love your youtube channel!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
Goodness me, Becky * same name ; You make every dish delicious as only you can do~ I think it says alot when a girl and her passion comes together in such a Beautiful way. I'm hoping you continue to follow your plans, passions and blessings, for many years to come! Enjoy :)
Becky, you are so inspiring. I am 75 and pretty bored with cooking, but you have provided the inspiration to try your recipes. My family loves them. Thank you so much.
I’m 76 and I’m ready to give up cooking too.
Becky, you have outdone yourself this time with the pantry challenge and not having water during part of the month, you are a true homesteader who takes what they have, and make a meal out of it, or makes the best out of any given situation, and for that I commend you tremendously, keep up the good work because you were teaching so many people how to take what they have, and make some thing delicious or teaching us how to garden how to manage our homes. Be blessed my dear young friend, along with your husband and your son.
Amazing how fast the last 4 weeks have gone by and you Becky, have made them fun! Thank You for all you have taught this 57 year old granny, you’re quite the inspiration! 💜
My car was in the shop for 4 days, so I was forced to do the pantry challenge for just those 4 DAYS and went stir crazy. You did it for 4 WEEKS! So amazing. BRAVA BRAVA BRAVISSIMA!!❤
I was thinking that it would be super cool to see the list of everything that you used up in the pantry challenge! I don't know if you've kept track or not, but I think it would be really neat to see everything that you've used!!
Love the videos Becky! When the world gets a little too much, you feel like a safe haven. You know what is almost as good? The chickens! I miss seeing the girls. Can’t wait until spring and new chickens. So sweet of you to give the older girls a break and an awesome retirement.
The stickier the dough the more moist your bread. God Bless Kathy
Becky, you made such a great point in one of your videos, several actually, about purchasing high quality really good ingredients, and not purchasing or preserving things unless it's great quality that you excited to use up or eat. I stopped buying store brand all purpose bleached flour and started buying organic unbleached flour. It took me a minute to get over the price difference, and let me tell you the quality of my dinner rolls, cookies, sandwich bread etc IS SO MUCH BETTER!!! I'm a believer. We also started buying grass fed butter and it's night and day to the generic regular old butter. You've opened my eyes to so many things!
I never knew you could peel celery, that’s a game changer. I love stiffed celery sticks but hated the threads that seemed impossible to cut with teeth. Now I can just peel it.
I find celery very bitter and it helps when you peel it so i use a potato peeler. It works surprisingly well. Very glad to see you finally have water! The longest duration i was without was five days. I had a bathtub of water for flushing and a camping porta potty but you don't realize how often you turn a tap during a day until you do and nothing comes out
I’m Australian and lived on a property that caught rain-water in tanks. Over the course of two long, very hot years we ran out of water and had to buy a tanker of water. We were so upset having town-water in our beautiful tanks. You guessed it! Rained unexpectedly for almost three weeks the day after the town-water was pumped into our tanks. It was nice to have long showers again even if the water tasted like chemicals.🦘🇦🇺
I always use a vegetable peeler, for my celery, makes a world a difference
Me too
Hello Becky!
Yay for water!
It's amazing!
It's the simple things.
When our water lines freeze it is for the entire winter. They froze a lot when my children were young because they would forget and turn the taps off that we let run a drizzle. We would go to my aunts and haul water every few days. Sponge baths only. Glad your water is back on.
Oh gosh that would have been so hard
Glad your water is back up and running. I love making chicken salad with all you added plus halved grapes and dried cranberries and I sometimes add slivered almonds. Glad you destring your celery. It makes a huge difference 😊
That sounds so nice for summer meal when it gets to hot in uk
I've always taken the string off the celery. It's so much easier to eat
Great work! I am doing a pantry challenge of sorts, and low key failing.😆 I am busy resetting our home and starting seeds, and I just do not want to go grocery shopping. I still have to buy dairy. We're eating canned fruits, and we have lettuce and brassicas from the garden. I even found a frw carrots! Guess I'm not failing. I did go buy ice cream 2 days ago.🤷🏾♀️
Yes Ms Becki, we Southern gals do destring our Celery and you will really tell the difference!!!
I think I would make creamed spinach separately. And leave that luscious onion, white wine gravy on it's own with the meatballs, yum!😊❤
Last week made home made l lkea meatball and they gravy it was lovely found out while world was on lockdown in covid ikea shared there recipe for meatballs and gravy only found out last week have enough to put in freezer for another meal keep us going
I love cranberries in my chicken salad but also love dried cherries.
Peeling celery makes it so much easier to digest! You are definitely our Wonder Woman and the most incredible worker bee I have ever seen. You have taught me soooooo much and I am so grateful! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
oh good to know! Josh and i really liked it peeled and thanks so much
Hello Becky. I have to tell you: you have inspired me so much ever since I subscribed to your channel. I have made marshmallows and this week White sandwich bread. I made some for my children and their families as well as my husband and myself. I still want to make your ciabatta bread. I love your videos and your inspiring spirit. God Bless you Becky.
Love watching you Becky. Please be careful you don’t shatter your counter when you pound out your chicken. That happened to my friend, try using your bread board. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful gifts. ❤❤❤
Well done for pantry challenge month Becky! Glad your water is back on. Cant wait to see how the growing room turns out.
Hi Becky.. I just love that with a little one you still manage to get so much done in a day. You’re wonderful and I just love watching your videos. ❤
HI Becky, These meals all look amazing. Would love to see you sit with your husband and see how he likes the meal and get his input. I've been with you almost since the beginning and have enjoyed them all so much. So, thanks so much for sharing.
Hey Becky…just a suggestion….if you use your vegetable peeler, it is much easier to de-string the celery.
Love your channel!
i've been freezing mushrooms for a few months now so i just have to grab a handful from the freezer and not have to worry about them going bad. Because of you, i also froze up some carmelized onion pucks into meal-sized portions. Now i just grab the onions and mushrooms from the freezer and half my veg prep is already done.
You are beautyfull, such a nice person and great contentcreator. I love my time i get to spend with you! Thank you for all you do!!❤❤❤❤ just got our allotment a few months ago, today and tomorrow we are shoveling 3m3 compost😅 love from the netherlands
oh I am so excited for you! Thanks for being here
In Alabama we are so proud of Mrs. Brenda Gantt, we love her!❤
Good job on your month of pantry challenge, the meals you prepared looked delicious!
Yay for running water!
I always de-string the celery as part of cutting the ends off. You take the tip of the knife and cut the ends only half way through from the inside, then make a lengthwise slit thorough the discard part, then peel it like a banana.
Becky friends and the wandering doggos. When you make bread with 'other' flours (whole wheat pumpernickle rye etc) I find a slow cold rise (in the fridge) works best for taste and texture, usually over night, but it will never rise as much as a white loaf) To find your best personal mix you need to experiment.
Since i learned to prepare veggies from julia child I peel whatever I can, Celery, Broccoli, Asparagus, Cauliflower stems. so everything cooks at the same rate. I use all the peelings for soup stock but you do have your Chickens.
A bit of wine (any color) would have made the meatballs with the caramelized onions even MORE French. Moving in the Bourgignon galaxy.. Beer would move it to Germany and Eastern Europe.
Hugs to everyone Jim Mexico
The only regret I have about years in the kitchen…..there was no TH-cam when I was your age and I had no Becky to influence my life in general. You are the REAL DEAL Becky! I enjoy your videos with coffee breaks. Thank you for your content. ❤️🙋🏻♀️
Becky, I so enjoy your videos, so thank you for sharing! I was actually surprised you didn't peel your celery that was being eaten raw. LOL I grew up learning that if you cook it, you don't need to peel it, but if it's going to be eaten without cooking the strings are unpleasant to eat. On the whole wheat bread - if you add in a half cup of plain applesauce (unsweetened, no cinnamon) the bread will come out more moist and will rise more like white bread. I believe it's because the applesauce contributes to hydration of the flour. Whenever I'm making bread, I "proof" the yeast by mixing it with about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of the warm water in the recipe, a teaspoon of sugar and let it get nice bubbles on the top before adding it to the flour. After just combining it with the dry ingredients and any remaining wet ingredients, allow it to rest about 10 to 15 minutes. Then knead as normal and add flour as kneading, rise as usual. The rest time between mixing and kneading hydrates the flour and helps the gluten awaken so you get that silky dough pretty quickly (at least that's what I've been told).
For my chicken salad, I use celery and red grapes. For the sauce, mayo, lemon juice, and cranberry mustard when I can get it. What takes it over the top is glazed pecans. The acid from the lemon juice breaks down the glaze on the pecans. It's my husband's fave!
Cranberry mustard sounds delicious 😋
I’ve always used a vegetable peeler to get the fibers off of the celery.
A tower garden in your sun room would be amazing and would give you fresh greens all winter! Herbs too. I'm going to make the chicken recipe but plant based. I love the idea of zuc relish.
My mom used to peel the strings off the celery too, I do it if the ribs have a thick string. Becky the bread looks amazing and the comfort meals looked great. Doing pantry challenges helped us notice that we don't need as much as we have stocked and to pay more attention to stuff in the pantry or opened jars in the fridge that should be used up, it's all food we like but don't plan enough around it. Going into February we'll be paying more attention to reducing what we have. Thank you for all the great videos on the 4-week pantry challenge, lots of great ideas.
Hey Becky, I’m guessing you were watching “Cooking with Brenda Grant” when you learned about pulling the strings off of your Celery? I watch Miss Brenda daily. She is such a lovely, God loving lady that shares her years of wisdom not only in the kitchen but also in life. 💕🥰
So glad you finally got water again...thank goodness is right. Peeled celery is really the best.
I'm having to replace my main refrigerator, which makes for the perfect time for a deep clean and purging items. I found several things that have needed to get used up and I thought about you Becky. I placed those things in the front and changed up my menu to make sure I used them. That led to making creamy sun dried tomato chicken and my son was Very happy about that! Lol. Brownie Points for me 😄
I put items in front of fridge too- for my husband to see what’s what.
My girl! I can’t wait for you to show us what things your growing this summer! I’m in Oregon and I always plant my seeds when I see you are starting yours.
You can get white wholemeal flour. I used to work in a commercial bakery and it was used in the 50/50 bread aimed at kids, so it looked white but had fibre!
Know the southern lady you referred to and I also started peeling celery and it has a different texture. Love it plus I eat more of it. Win win!
I love watching you come up with meals! You inspire me to try different dinners. Thank you Becky!
Happy to see you dropping a video today! Thanks for the amazing content and recipes!!
Everything looked delicious! Can't wait to see your garden seeding room when it's finished.
I made your gnocci bake over the weekend and my family absolutely loved it. Thank you for keeping us creative.
I ve been doing to the challenge too. I spent a fraction of normal . I also am doing the freezer thing!❤
I normally do half bread flour and half whole wheat flour. Comes out more fluffy. Also you can freeze your flour.
You’re for sure a wiz at whatever u do, love your videos ❤️❤️
You might try apple dices and seedless grapes halved.. i also like to add a few roasted walnuts.
I did it. It was my first pantry challenge, and I only spent $12.80 for the whole month. Thank you for all your time and ideas. I'm so excited that I'm already thinking about my next one. 😊
20:18 I have the same wine opener, and I totally agree. So easy and efficient.
Doing the Pantry Challenge but not giving myself any time frame. Only buying cream for my coffee & minimal fresh veggies & lettuce. Making a “dent” in my Freezer AND my Pantry! 🎉👏🏻 Feels so good to use up what I have on hand.
Have you ever taken baking lessons at the King Arthur Flour place near you? We have one here nearby in Vermont and I have just loved the high quality of the classes there. Sounds like something you would also enjoy!
I add spinach to a lot of things and some people think it's weird but at least it gets a veggie in us. White gravy, pasta sauce, mashed potatoes, and Swedish meatballs are the main things. I started watching you during a pantry challenge and it encouraged me to use things I already had. I really need to do another pantry challenge myself
Hello, i recently saw someone "baking" the flour in the oven before making bread. Has anyone done that and did it make the bread taste different? What a selection of wonderful meals. Thanks again!
Where are the loaf pans from?
Love them! ❤
You did beautiful meals and a great pantry challenge!
I’m from Texas, I was taught to peel the outer parts of celery. We also add red grapes and walnuts. When you’re not pantry challenging, give it a try.
When I am making meatballs in a slow cook sauce I put them into the sauce raw and let them cook in the oven slowly. They seem to absorb the flavours from the sauce. The meatballs you made look amazing and I do want to try it. Thank you for the video!
I do this with lean beef but I like the flavor of 85% beef browned first.
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Has Josh’s palate changed/expanded over time? He certainly gets great meals.
Thank you Becky, for encouraging and inspiring my fam. to hunt up some new recipes ideas!
You can add lemon juice or vinegar to whole wheat bread to make it rise better.
I've not heard tbis before. How much should be added?
1 tbsp for every 2 1/2 cups, it was on my pkg. of whole wheat flour. It helps with the gluten. You can google it.@@charlainehigley8817
So timely! I’ve got to make a bunch of make ahead meals for someone who wife is in the hospital! Thank you!