Like to give you a tomato-tip.🍅 Save the skins from the tomatoes and drie them. Then you just chrush them and put them in to a coffegrinder and your' done. Now you have a tomatopowder that will give you a wounderful and richer flavour to your tomatodishes. I just love to do this.👏👏 Mabye this is another job for your daughter.😉 Tomatohugs to you all. / Mia in Sweden.🍅
There's nothing better then going out to your own garden, picking a few whatever, and eating the best thing you ever could put in your mouth. I purposely have my veg garden in the back yard, so I can enjoy the walk getting to it.
I don't often leave comments on YT videos. I subscribe, share, and assume you can feel my love from Texas. But I felt moved to pause the video right in the middle and let you know what a difference you have made in my life just now. I'm disabled and part of that is having limited use of my hands some times. It's unpredictable and worsening, but I'm the kind of person who tries to carry on with things I love to do. Like gardening. But I had to bail on my garden last summer due to unexpected side effects of cancer treatment. I didn't even watch your videos for a few months, which is how I'm just seeing this now. I'm planting again this spring with so much hope in my heart, but I'm forcing myself a little bit because I don't want to have my heart broken again. The technique you shared for coring and scoring your tomatoes to freeze and peel gives me confidence that my family can use what I grow even if I have a bad hand day (or week). Coring and scoring is easy enough that my kids could do it. I've got lots of freezer space and a huge rotation of freezer bags I clean and reuse. You just changed my whole outlook, just in time for the garden planning I'm doing this week. No more fear of being overrun with tomatoes that will get old before they're used, I've got a great trick for getting to them when I can WITHOUT PEELS! I'm going to plant the varieties I want and let'em rip! I can't wait to be canning! When you speak of your heart for sharing gardening, I want you to know that it's working. Thank you.
Ok, I just GOTTA say this: Whenever you write your cookbook - please, please, PLEASE ! use the term "chunked-up tomatoes" !!!!!!! THIS is just ONE of the things I LOVE about how REAL your entire channel is! And Congrats on your FABULOUS Tomato Harvest!!! Talk about a Dream Come True! Oh, and that movie - I TOTALLY LOVE it too!!! Every single time it pops up, I watch it! Seen it at least 7 times now!!! IT NEVER GETS OLD!!!! So yeah, I get it. I just GET all of it ! ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
, what movie I missed this part and I'm thinking tomatoes are you talking about Fried Green Tomatoes I can't think of any other Tomato movie so I don't know maybe I'm on the wrong track clue me in please
@@rebccarae7669 the movie - "Julie and Julia" A REALLY GOOD movie! If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. In this video Jess was talking about it, and her relationship with the movie.
Julie and Julia is one of my top favorite movies! I LOVE when her husband bites into the bruschetta HEAPED with fresh tomatoes!!!!!! Yummmmm❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
My day is not complete until I've watched your video!! You are sooooooo relatable!! You bless me everyday with your outlook and advice!! I keep trying everyday in my garden!!! 💖💖💖💖
My mom used to make a side dish with tomatoes (sometimes canned stewed, but occasionally freshly stewed) with torn up buttered toast. I LOVED it. I found out when I got older that it was a Depression era recipe that was often a main dish during tomato harvest time throughout the summer and fall. Now I have to try making that again and also learn how to make bruschetta.
Jess I love the lines you drop. “NO SABOTEUR!” Can we please get this on a T-shirt for R&R with a chicken at the bottom??? 😂😂❤️ I’m still laughing 10 minutes after
I have a very serious cucumber vs tomato battle happening in my garden but honestly it just makes me smile to see the plants all intertwined that I don't even care if it reduces my harvest
My twin set A cucumbers battle my twin set B cucumbers for who gets to terrorize the tomatoes. I constantly find myself lecturing them as I move them back to the trellis for bullying the tomatoes. 😂
I have to give props to you for all the videos you produce, with wonderful teachings and recipes while having 5 young boys, massive gardens and all your animals. You rock it and inspire me! ♥️
Where on earth do you get time to not only deal with life, and the garden, and THEN to video it all . . . . and THEN TO EVEN READ & respond to COMMENTS?! So much energy. You are ("fearfully") and wonderfully made.
All I can say about the new kitchen, design, colours, style, and just basically everything, is, AWESOME !!! I bet all the wait was more than worth it and then some, I can just imagine you get butterflies in your stomach everytime you walk into that entire glorious space. What a testament of love by Miah and what an incredible friend and human he is to go help Meg and Ben finish off their home ready for their extremely precious new arrival. The power of love never ceases to amaze me. Bravo to all you wonderful, hard working, beautiful people x
For standing out in the garden eating I have a small shaker of tajin seasoning its so yummy! Back when I could eat hot hot i used to use a Cajun seasoning. Tony Chacheres i think is the brand. Has a cute little guy in a chef hat on the label.
@rootsandrefugefarm - so thrilled to know the friends Miah is helping are the HOLLARS!!! Woohoo...what a blessing and huge answer to prayer for them. Everyone has been concerned about how they would get everything done to a reasonable level if Ben worked by himself....and whoosh, here comes Miah to the rescue :D What a gift from both of you at such a pivotal time before their baby arrives.
My mom told me that you can use the basil seed stalks to flavor anything like soup ar salsa and you can pull them out when your done making whatever your making
Chick I love your videos. You are so down to earth, joyful and your videos are so full of wisdom and happiness. Thank you for sharing your experiences with the world. Wishing you and yours all the best!
I love how you pronounce things. I went to culinary school, and I'm from Texas and Arkansas, still can't pronounce half those French or Italian words right. I had a chef tell me once it sounded barbarian coming from my mouth. Oh well, freguuuulllaa, fregolu.... it's all delicious when eaten!
I've only watched that movie once. I'm definitely going to have to check to see if it's on Amazon Prime or Netflix and watch it again. Even if I have to pay to download it, it's worth watching again. I've never made bruschetta, but maybe I'll have to bake some French baguettes just so I can have it without having to leave the house. Now, while you still have cucumbers, you've got to try what I had for dinner last night - a cucumber sandwich. Now, it wasn't just any ordinary cucumber sandwich. I started with homebaked buns, spread both cut sides with a cream cheese, lemon juice, and dill mixture, then layered on fresh cucumbers, onion slices, tomato, lettuce, and grated carrot. I could eat that every day and gain 15 pounds this summer.
I watched this video the day it came out and my tomatoes finally came on quick enough that I could make your bruschetta. After tonight’s dinner I totally get your love for this. This was so amazing, my husband and I probably ate 3/4 of a loaf of bread and a full quart of chunked up tomatoes. I could have eaten just this for dinner and it would have been enough. Thank you so much for bringing this recipe into our lives, I don’t think I’ll be letting our basil plants flower ever again! We’ve been watching for a few years now and you’ve been a wonderful resource for us as we slowly transform our yard into our homestead. I can’t wait for your book! 💜
4:07 Omg Jess, I water my garden by hand, one pitcher at a time, from my kitchen sink. It is time consuming and exhausting. I hope to be able to afford to have new spigots installed, and do a drip system. Even just a hose would be better than what I have now. I'm so glad you told us this. You know what it feels like!
Ke Le: If your kitchen sink is near a window, & you can open that window & lift up the screen, you can feed a garden hose of the correct diameter, through that window. Unscrew the aerator or screen off the end of the kitchen faucet. You can find a hose to fit your faucet by bringing the screen or aerator from home to the hardware department to find a garden hose female end that fits the threads of your kitchen faucet. Next, buy an adjustable spray end with an on/off feature, & attach to the male end of the hose. Put it on off. Best to water early in the day when soil & roots are at their coolest. If soil is warm or hot but you must water, turn on some warm water to mix & slightly warm up the cold tap water, so it won't shock hot plants with cold water. Most likely, you'll need to find a lightweight hose with a narrow diameter to match the sink faucet, or change the kitchen fixture. If hose won't reach garden areas, either buy more hose or fill buckets or large watering cans from the too short hose in the meantime so you won't have to carry it that far - meaning over the entire distance.. Turn the kitchen cold water on full, if AM watering just as sun is rising. Water soil thoroughly, but, not on the flowers or the leaves to prevent mildew. For the same reason, avoid watering late in the day. It's best if leaves & stems have dried off before nightfall, when temps may drop. If it's really hot out, but you must water, you'll want to mix in some hot water so plants aren't shocked by a much colder water on their roots & stems, & again try to water the soil deeply, but don't do what I used to do - thinking the plants would love to be showered well to cool them down. I lost my roses that way. They were a few months old, looking great & blooming. The next day I saw that I'd damaged all the beautiful flowers. Later, due to my evening watering, a ritual I enjoyed as it was so peaceful for me, after my family had enjoyed their supper, so I had that nice time to spend with my new gardens & it felt good to water everything. I'd imagined, by sunrise, they'd all be full of water & bear up under the hot sun. Instead, all my roses were soon covered with powdery mildew - which can kill a plant. Shock is a type of stress & stress in general, makes plants more vulnerable to pests & diseases. Mildew spores are in the soil, so when we water, it's best to water them by drip irrigation, or at least, if limited to a hose or watering can, to try to water so as we're not splashing soil up onto the lower stems & leaves of the plants. Some plants are more vulnerable than others, so it's best to just avoid letting water spray onto their lower leaves. If possible, feed the garden hose in through the open window, close the screen as much as possible, without crimping the hose, & temporarily stuff an old towel or crumpled up newspapers or paper bags to fill in the opened window space where screen is raised up, to keep insects from entering the house through that opening. Then go out & turn the water on, & run it a while test to see if it's extremely hot from lying in the sun. You don't want to scald your plants or your tender feet in flip flops, or your hands. Hopefully you are able to do this, until you can get an outdoor spigot.
Same! I can't connect a hose to the kitchen sink either as it's a square tap. My little garden tripled in size this year and it's taking me over an hour a day to water, so I feel your pain! Getting an outside tap fitted asap now people are working again after lockdown (I'm in the UK). A hose would be a huge luxury right now haha.
@@nenemaria-cornfieldsgarden Then too there's the passive collection of water running off our rooves, which can be channeled into rain collection barrels raised up on cinder blocks. This allows gravity to irrigate our garden beds, but I never got around to do that. I get good ideas then promptly forget them - so good now to be remembering, as we do have droughts. Not as extreme as where my brother lives, in Colorado, which is in a dire situation, year after year. Here in the states not all are allowed to do this - ie: CO. I live in Massachusetts & we usually have a generous amount of precipitation year 'round, so I've yearned for a cistern, but never took that step. complacency on my part, it seems, to lose track of the fact that we may have years of drought again.
I had to do that last year with my 14 tomato plants. Thankfully it rained a lot. This year we finally got a new spigot out back but of course my garden was a complete flop and now I have nothing to water lol. Oh well my kids are loving the hose.
@@MB-vi8zp Well you're in luck - it's a good time now to plant again! Depending on your zone, you may have enough good growing days left to direct sow now & squeeze in a fall harvest. You'll need to protect new seedlings from the fierce sun with shade cloth, & keep them watered, but it might be fun to try again.
Sure is nice of Miah to drive all away across Tennessee and then some just to help the Hollars, they really need it. Its about a full days drive down I-40 and Nashville is always a mess.
John Liberty I live as far in southwestern Virginia as far as you can get, have family just out of Hope AR and Dallas TX; going through Tennessee is the major part of the trip. When my children were little they would continually ask if we were out of TN yet. Also they would groan, “Not ANOTHER Caney Fork River, does it ever end or is it following us.”
I’m in southeastern pa and I’m having to go spray my greenhouse container veggies with cool water mid-day. If I’m out a little late things are wilty. This is on top of watering in the morning and checking before bed. It is HOT and has been for days.
Boy, it's just hot all over... Central Texas (Near Austin) - Humidity - 44% Current temp at 3:30pm - 97° Heat Index - 102° (for those that are lucky enough to not know heat index - that means "it feels like" 101°) My feeling about going outside: It's like opening the oven door... now I'm going back INSIDE!! Bcuz - Thank God for Air Conditioning!!! ♡
@@gardengatesopen when its as hot and humid as we all are feeling, we ALL lose lol no winners here! it finally rained here so that's where part of that came in, but it hit 100 degrees for 3 straight days here and that's super rare for us!
Congrats on the book! I still have a full time job at the moment, and the coring and scoring method is the best! Anything I can save to do on the weekends or days off helps. I started doing this last year when I watched you do it. Thanks for sharing this. Total game changer.
Yummy. I love bruschetta. Learned to make it in 2008 because my daughter wanted it at her wedding. And I had 10 Roma tomato plants that year. So it was the summer of bruschetta.
Hey Jess! This year was my first year gardening and I grew my first tomatoes which were, money makers and just a classic beef steak. I don't really like raw tomatoes but I have been subscribed to your channel for awhile now and watching your beautiful tomatoes ripen and you eating them, made me extremely curious and I was determined to taste a home grown tomato. It's winter now where I live and all I can think about is HOMEGROWN TOMATOES you are so right, store bought tomatoes really taste like disappointment... lolol I can't turn back now, I can never go back to store bought. So I am very much looking forward to october - november so I can start my seeds!
I am happy that I found this channel on RUclips for gardening and homesteading. I life in Northern Nevada and this is my 3rd attempt to garden in the desert. Last year we had terrible wildland fires and excessive heat waves that caused my garden not to do well. I will implement your tips for the tomato plants and pruning them.
Italian recipes vary greatly by region. In our house you have to add garlic to the bruschetta, rubbed on bread and either chopped and added to the tomatoes or add the whole cloves, let sit in the mixture for a bit and then removed so no one get a mouthful of raw garlic. I know some people who dice onion and add that which would be a sin in our family.
Oh my! You'll think I'm a heathen then. I put green olives and fire roasted red sweet peppers in with the onion and garlic lol. Its never the same thing twice🙃🤣
Jess, I preordered your book on Amazon today! Also, have you tasted the thawed juice that comes out of the cored and scored tomatoes? It's really tasty. If I have time for a long simmer, I keep it with the tomatoes. Another use could be to save it and add to the stock when cooking stews, beans, etc. Thirdly, I am glad to see that you grow Carbon tomatoes. Along with Cherokee Purple, Carbon is one of the best slicers I grow. Love and hugs, from another southern gardener in North Carolina.
Speaking as someone who lives fairly close to you, I am so impressed by that tomato harvest in this heat. SO impressed. This was my first year and mine didn’t survive long. I have some propagated ones growing to replace them because I refuse to give up! Thanks for the motivation Jess! #GardenGoals
I love great danes! I have Titus, a harlequine dane. He's almost 4 and high energy but is my garden buddy! He races our horses out to the back pasture.
I have a black dane who is 4 also! Her name is Leia. She was crazy when she was a puppy but now she is a lazy pup. She doesn’t get bothered by anything and is always following me around. Velcro dog
@@ajeldrez777 - There are so many similarities! Titus has been pretty high energy and velcroed to me, I keep waiting for slow down!! He can be out all day but the minute I go out to care for the horses or even act like I'm going out, he's all about being with me! They are awesome dogs!
I had a black dane a couple of years ago named Faulkner. I still miss him so much. My friend called him the "band-aid" because he was stuck on me -- lol.
Watching Khan walk around in the background had me so distracted, then you said "you don't want to eat tomatoes do you?" and it brought tears to my eyes. I lost my tomatoe eating black Great Dane Berrin on May 29th. I so wish I was able to give him one right now. Maybe you should let Khan try one, who knows, maybe he loves tomatoes too. 😪
@@allthenuts9179 I have 2 dogs. My husband and I apopted them from the humane society (1st 1, then another so she had a friend) before we had kids, and they were, & still are- like our children. I couldn't imagine! 😔
Thanks for the tips! I am totally going to try preserving tomatoes this year, so yeah... Just a little nervous. I feel so inspired by your channel and your story. Thanks to you, I now have my own tiny channel on RUclips while I'm in my waiting room of life. ☺🙏
To add to your long list of achievements...Martha Stewart of the South!!! 😁 I mean that with love & gratitude! You make me want to go into the kitchen & start banging pots around, start making new dishes to eat. I'm 60 & there's only sssoo many meals you can cook, at least me before I feel numb to the ritual!!! But little lady you put a spark back into me! All I can say is you're great Jess & I want to be your neighbor or your 2nd Mom!!! With love & Blessings from Tennessee!!! ❤😊🌈🌻
Okay, now I'm going to have to ask if I can adopt you as an adult child. You are just so adorable and I love the way you think and relate to gardening, cooking, canning, eating. Now I'm just dying for that fresh bruschetta!
A 2 year old puppy is a great way to describe a Great Dane. We have a brindled 2 year old female. She is just reaching the point where she doesn't move the furniture when she moves between rooms. It's a good thing we are empty nesters - she is like raising a teenager. Good video!
I love me some bruschetta. I learned how to make and eat it in Italy when we lived there. You can also put a bit of pesto on it and then add the tomatoes and such. Man....... it takes it over the top!!!! Oh and if you have Parmesan sprinkle that on as well. Lol
Your down to earth and smart. And correct! Eat seasonally! It’s wonderful. I love tomatoes too and that’s why I garden. From a Northern California older lady.
I am new to canning stuff and watch your videos all the time. Your tip for freezing the tomatoes instead of blanching them has saved me so much time and saved my tomato harvest from getting too ripe or going rotten. Thank you! Your videos are extremely helpful and I love your passion about it all!
I totally gain my weight during the summer 😂. I take my salt shaker to the garden with me and Always eat the first tomato I pick... quality control I guess 😏
Cathy: Since you enjoy salt, like I do, have you tried Sea salt? It tastes so much better, & is said to be healthier too. I grind up Pink Himalayan, my favorite so far, or Celtic gray in a mortar & pestle, & transfer it to a small, covered plastic container. (Need a new grinder.)
I completely understand the issue of so many tomatoes. I planted 90 plants of them this year and didnt lose one of them. 12 of the plants I have indoors on enclosed sunporch Each plant already has several tomatoes on it already. Outside plants just have flowers at this point. I have a 2400sq ft garden. I have severe arthritis in my feet I was told. The pain is crazy walking....but I love my garden so much that I just keep going on with it. Thanks for the freezing tip. Didnt know about that option (freezing them whole). I absolutely love your videos. I treat them like a tv show. Lol.
Those vegetables on the floor would not be safe from my Yorkie. She LOVES vegetables for her treats and never fails to come let me know it's "carrot bone" time. LOL I hear you on the rain. They always say it's gonna' pour in FL and then nuttin'. Grrrrrr. Right now, we are having an afternoon shower that closely resembles a serious tropical storm. There go my tomatoes again. I made some cherry tomato confit this morning. Delish. Thanks!
Same here. My Ridgebacks always try to get in the "berry garden" and harvest everything. Except the currants, they are probably too fiddley or too sour for them :D
@@Just-Nikki 😊 Carrot bones, bell pepper bones, apple bones. Haha. That's the only treats she gets. 7 German Shepherds? That's a handful. LOL. We had shepherds when we were kids and our Heidi had 12 puppies! Good times. Then I had my sweet "Kojak," the best shepherd ever. Just a big beautiful baby.
How crazy ! My phone was on auto- play and it just randomly played this when I was at work...freaked me out because I recognized your voice!! Congratulations, doll!
Oh yeah I lived in Florida for 5 years... I know you’re not there but your little talk took me right back there...rain is a tease...heat sun one minute and monsoon the next and back to heat and sun the next 😏 After 5 years I’d had it...back to the Northeast and the lovely four seasons for me! Never appreciated snow so much as I do now. Your dogs are beautiful!
The worst was the awful days this time of year when you'd see the thunderheads in the distance and they'd never make it. Or the evenings as a kid when you'd see the lightning or hear thunder and no matter how much your parents said it was heat lightning you were sure a storm was coming but it didn't.
It’s getting to be that way just now here in NY. I live up close to one of the Great Lakes (lake Ontario) but still in the city so all this black top and the sun and then the humidity from 3 minute rainstorms lol and no AC..... oh my goodness, oh well at least I have the saving grace of a very shady backyard. 3 large trees that line the side of my yard and their branches hang out over half of the yard completely. Now I just need to find a way to get rid of the biting flies 🤨🤨🤨
I do that! Cooked in the oven, low and slow, with olive oil and some kosher, pink, or Celtic salt. Even fam members that do not like tomatoes scarf them down!
Y'know I thought the same thing about that butternut squash part from yesterday's video, but decided not to comment due to the audience. Sounds like its a new channel meme now, shirt coming soon?
Hahaha, now Sweet Miah ALWAYS hears and sees the things I don't. Its a bit of a joke around here and Im constantly saying "Yeah I walked right into that one."
God has richly blessed you and in turn, you are blessing us. Thank you for the wonderful tips in this video and for the chuckles you and your Great Dane brought.
I love to speak other languages, it is great exercise for the brain, and my favourite aspect is learning the accent/pronunciation, learning to roll my r's in speaking french was such a challenge, now I'm a pro ;-) Thanks for this, n future I won't be able to say bruschetta without over pronouncing the "broooooo skettttttta" :-)
Years ago when I was in Italy I learnt that! I thought it was neat, but people look at you weird if you say it like that here in North America. So I reverted back to the American pronunciation so people would stop thinking I'm trying to be pretentious lol.
LOVE that you used the same knife to cut the bread as the tomatoes, so glad I am not the only person to do this, just love watching and learning from your videos, Thank you so much from a very nervous newbie gardener and canner
I wish you'd been tracking the yield of those Silver Slicers. I'd dearly like to knw just how much came off those four plants. I obviously didn't see all of it but just what I saw on the videos seemed like 20lbs. Also that bruschetta, I've worked restaurants where that dish, ingredients bought at Green City Market Chicago, total cost per serving maybe $5, sold for $20. No heirlooms just regular red globe tomatoes, not multiple varieties of basil. I'm betting that could go for $50 on the right menu when Covid is over. I know you don't want to commit to supplying a restaurant full time but maybe during a once a year fundraiser for a charity you care about? Find some local chef you like and get him to come in and get some produce, maybe a hen or duck or two, and throw a party. I bet people would drive in from all over and pay whatever for it.
I love my garden! But I’m still learning ... So nice to see and learn from another , it’s like I’m sharing my joy!! Thanks for sharing your passion with others.
You are one "amazing" woman!! When I first found these videos at the beginning of the year, I thought "ho, hum - another talking video." Fast forward a few videos and I find myself so hooked that I can't wait for the next one to come out!! I'm also going through your Do South articles and they are awe inspiring!
I just read your article in "Do South" called "Spring". It was really touching and I like your style. You mentioned in the video that you are working on a book. I can't wait until it's published. Love your garden, love your kitchen! Thanks for the video's, you offer wonderful tips and give me inspiration. God Bless.
Thrilled you shared that bruschetta recipe, I LOVE that movie and have been dying to know what that particular meal was! I can't wait to make it with my garden tomatoes
I have been doing caprese salad almost every day for a month. We have tons of tomatoes and basil coming in and all I have to buy is fresh mozzarella to make an amazing lunch!
Like to give you a tomato-tip.🍅
Save the skins from the tomatoes and drie them. Then you just chrush them and put them in to a coffegrinder and your' done.
Now you have a tomatopowder that will give you a wounderful and richer flavour to your tomatodishes.
I just love to do this.👏👏
Mabye this is another job for your daughter.😉 Tomatohugs to you all.
/ Mia in Sweden.🍅
Mia Bergström Oh wow! What a great tip, thanks!
AMAZING tip, thank you ❣️
What a great tip! Thank you
I am so going to try this. What a fabulous idea.
Mind blown, great tip!
There's nothing better then going out to your own garden, picking a few whatever, and eating the best thing you ever could put in your mouth. I purposely have my veg garden in the back yard, so I can enjoy the walk getting to it.
I love how you get distracted by stuff in your garden and wind up having to try and remember what you went outside for...🤣🥰
yeah - I'm wondering, if the water for the sun chokes is still running :D
i get distracted all the time too! just crackin me up sweetie!
Makes me feel more normal seeing her do it, happens to me every day 😃🤣
I do the same. Its worse when I go to the kitchen only to forget why.
I don't often leave comments on YT videos. I subscribe, share, and assume you can feel my love from Texas. But I felt moved to pause the video right in the middle and let you know what a difference you have made in my life just now. I'm disabled and part of that is having limited use of my hands some times. It's unpredictable and worsening, but I'm the kind of person who tries to carry on with things I love to do. Like gardening. But I had to bail on my garden last summer due to unexpected side effects of cancer treatment. I didn't even watch your videos for a few months, which is how I'm just seeing this now. I'm planting again this spring with so much hope in my heart, but I'm forcing myself a little bit because I don't want to have my heart broken again. The technique you shared for coring and scoring your tomatoes to freeze and peel gives me confidence that my family can use what I grow even if I have a bad hand day (or week). Coring and scoring is easy enough that my kids could do it. I've got lots of freezer space and a huge rotation of freezer bags I clean and reuse. You just changed my whole outlook, just in time for the garden planning I'm doing this week. No more fear of being overrun with tomatoes that will get old before they're used, I've got a great trick for getting to them when I can WITHOUT PEELS! I'm going to plant the varieties I want and let'em rip! I can't wait to be canning! When you speak of your heart for sharing gardening, I want you to know that it's working. Thank you.
Ok, I just GOTTA say this:
Whenever you write your cookbook -
please, please, PLEASE !
use the term
"chunked-up tomatoes" !!!!!!!
THIS is just ONE of the things I LOVE about how REAL your entire channel is!
And Congrats on your FABULOUS Tomato Harvest!!! Talk about a Dream Come True!
Oh, and that movie - I TOTALLY LOVE it too!!!
Every single time it pops up, I watch it!
Seen it at least 7 times now!!!
IT NEVER GETS OLD!!!!
So yeah, I get it.
I just GET all of it !
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
, what movie I missed this part and I'm thinking tomatoes are you talking about Fried Green Tomatoes I can't think of any other Tomato movie so I don't know maybe I'm on the wrong track clue me in please
@@rebccarae7669 the movie -
"Julie and Julia"
A REALLY GOOD movie!
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
In this video Jess was talking about it, and her relationship with the movie.
Julie and Julia is one of my top favorite movies! I LOVE when her husband bites into the bruschetta HEAPED with fresh tomatoes!!!!!! Yummmmm❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I need to watch again, asap. 😁
My day is not complete until I've watched your video!! You are sooooooo relatable!! You bless me everyday with your outlook and advice!! I keep trying everyday in my garden!!! 💖💖💖💖
My mom used to make a side dish with tomatoes (sometimes canned stewed, but occasionally freshly stewed) with torn up buttered toast. I LOVED it. I found out when I got older that it was a Depression era recipe that was often a main dish during tomato harvest time throughout the summer and fall.
Now I have to try making that again and also learn how to make bruschetta.
It is so nice of Jeremiah to go to NC to help out the Hollar family. Your Miah is a good man. Love your videos.
Jess I love the lines you drop. “NO SABOTEUR!” Can we please get this on a T-shirt for R&R with a chicken at the bottom??? 😂😂❤️ I’m still laughing 10 minutes after
Mickayla O That was my favorite line today-made me snort.
@@kirtabets And seconds later she was like "this little chicken is the *worst*" - I was cracking up 😂
I've been canning for years,but putting them in the freezer was a game changer thank you
“Coring and scoring” tomatoes! I’m so thankful u taught me this tip in this video! Beautiful kitchen! I Always appreciate your videos.
I have a very serious cucumber vs tomato battle happening in my garden but honestly it just makes me smile to see the plants all intertwined that I don't even care if it reduces my harvest
My twin set A cucumbers battle my twin set B cucumbers for who gets to terrorize the tomatoes. I constantly find myself lecturing them as I move them back to the trellis for bullying the tomatoes. 😂
I have to give props to you for all the videos you produce, with wonderful teachings and recipes while having 5 young boys, massive gardens and all your animals. You rock it and inspire me! ♥️
Bear is such a good boy😂
Where on earth do you get time to not only deal with life, and the garden, and THEN to video it all . . . . and THEN TO EVEN READ & respond to COMMENTS?! So much energy. You are ("fearfully") and wonderfully made.
All I can say about the new kitchen, design, colours, style, and just basically everything, is, AWESOME !!!
I bet all the wait was more than worth it and then some, I can just imagine you get butterflies in your stomach everytime you walk into that entire glorious space.
What a testament of love by Miah and what an incredible friend and human he is to go help Meg and Ben finish off their home ready for their extremely precious new arrival.
The power of love never ceases to amaze me. Bravo to all you wonderful, hard working, beautiful people x
You’re killing me today🤣 You’re funny!!! 😂🤣
I love it when she calls her animal noises the song of their people!! Cracks me up!!!
I love adding a drizzle of balsamic glaze...my favorite way to eat tomatoes. 2nd is Caprece salad :)
For standing out in the garden eating I have a small shaker of tajin seasoning its so yummy! Back when I could eat hot hot i used to use a Cajun seasoning. Tony Chacheres i think is the brand. Has a cute little guy in a chef hat on the label.
THANK YOU. This first year mountain of tomatoes has been stressing us out. This is just the trick we needed 🙏
@rootsandrefugefarm - so thrilled to know the friends Miah is helping are the HOLLARS!!! Woohoo...what a blessing and huge answer to prayer for them. Everyone has been concerned about how they would get everything done to a reasonable level if Ben worked by himself....and whoosh, here comes Miah to the rescue :D What a gift from both of you at such a pivotal time before their baby arrives.
Nothing beats a fresh tomato in any form! Good ole white bread, sliced tomatoes and mayo! Childhood memories.
My mom told me that you can use the basil seed stalks to flavor anything like soup ar salsa and you can pull them out when your done making whatever your making
Great tip! Thanks!!! ♡
Oh wow- Duh! Yes- thanks for sharing 😎
I like that.
Carole Lyle White I know, right?
Ellen Reilley yeah! Awesome 👏🏼
Chick I love your videos. You are so down to earth, joyful and your videos are so full of wisdom and happiness. Thank you for sharing your experiences with the world. Wishing you and yours all the best!
I love how you pronounce things. I went to culinary school, and I'm from Texas and Arkansas, still can't pronounce half those French or Italian words right. I had a chef tell me once it sounded barbarian coming from my mouth. Oh well, freguuuulllaa, fregolu.... it's all delicious when eaten!
Next T-Shirt? “ Ya Nasty””🤪😆 it caught me soooo off guard! I blurted laughter out so loud,my husband asked if I was ok....
Lol my Dane was a complete jerk until he was about 3. After that, he completely mellowed out, was super obedient, and was a dream to walk.
I've only watched that movie once. I'm definitely going to have to check to see if it's on Amazon Prime or Netflix and watch it again. Even if I have to pay to download it, it's worth watching again. I've never made bruschetta, but maybe I'll have to bake some French baguettes just so I can have it without having to leave the house.
Now, while you still have cucumbers, you've got to try what I had for dinner last night - a cucumber sandwich. Now, it wasn't just any ordinary cucumber sandwich. I started with homebaked buns, spread both cut sides with a cream cheese, lemon juice, and dill mixture, then layered on fresh cucumbers, onion slices, tomato, lettuce, and grated carrot. I could eat that every day and gain 15 pounds this summer.
That sounds SO yummy!!!
As a fellow Arkansan, I felt it in my soul when you said "You nasties!" Like I know I've said that in your exact tone 😂
I like the red in your kitchen it dose give a little pop to it ,looks great thanks for the tip, Mia well done ! ❤️🙏👨🏼🌾🐻🐕🦺2❤️
the voice in my head every time i go to prep vegetables: "just rough chop everything and call it rustic"
Yes! ❤
I call it "homestyle." My family hates when I start out saying we're having "homestyle ___."
Lol literally me
Love your running commentary especially comment about calling ugly food "rustic" This video made my day. Thank you.
"Ugly food....call it rustic"... I LOVE THAT! lol
You have such a pure laugh, it’s honestly infectious. Love all your videos, 1 of the few channels I can watch hours of when I’m doing my daily stuff!
"Chunked-up tomatoes" lmao gotta love Jess and her terms, so real
THANK YOU FOR VALIDATING my mid-summer fluff. I have never met a garden fresh fruit that I didn't love.
We so love Bruschetta! I like to add diced shallots and I mince the garlic right in the tomato, basil, onion mixture yummy
That’s the thing with bruschetta , the skies the limit as long as you have fresh produce.
Never tried with shallots, I must then.
I watched this video the day it came out and my tomatoes finally came on quick enough that I could make your bruschetta. After tonight’s dinner I totally get your love for this. This was so amazing, my husband and I probably ate 3/4 of a loaf of bread and a full quart of chunked up tomatoes. I could have eaten just this for dinner and it would have been enough. Thank you so much for bringing this recipe into our lives, I don’t think I’ll be letting our basil plants flower ever again! We’ve been watching for a few years now and you’ve been a wonderful resource for us as we slowly transform our yard into our homestead. I can’t wait for your book! 💜
Artie looks good. Please show a closer picture when you do the garden tour. Thank you for being such a wonderful teacher. I love your videos.
You are the best Open and honest ❤️🐝
15:37 "If you're not good at making things pretty, just call it rustic." Needs a t-shirt
" get your mind out of the gutter you nasty" got to love you Jess! And yes I agree with you.🤣
4:07 Omg Jess, I water my garden by hand, one pitcher at a time, from my kitchen sink. It is time consuming and exhausting. I hope to be able to afford to have new spigots installed, and do a drip system. Even just a hose would be better than what I have now. I'm so glad you told us this. You know what it feels like!
Ke Le: If your kitchen sink is near a window, & you can open that window & lift up the screen, you can feed a garden hose of the correct diameter, through that window. Unscrew the aerator or screen off the end of the kitchen faucet. You can find a hose to fit your faucet by bringing the screen or aerator from home to the hardware department to find a garden hose female end that fits the threads of your kitchen faucet.
Next, buy an adjustable spray end with an on/off feature, & attach to the male end of the hose. Put it on off. Best to water early in the day when soil & roots are at their coolest. If soil is warm or hot but you must water, turn on some warm water to mix & slightly warm up the cold tap water, so it won't shock hot plants with cold water.
Most likely, you'll need to find a lightweight hose with a narrow diameter to match the sink faucet, or change the kitchen fixture. If hose won't reach garden areas, either buy more hose or fill buckets or large watering cans from the too short hose in the meantime so you won't have to carry it that far - meaning over the entire distance..
Turn the kitchen cold water on full, if AM watering just as sun is rising. Water soil thoroughly, but, not on the flowers or the leaves to prevent mildew. For the same reason, avoid watering late in the day. It's best if leaves & stems have dried off before nightfall, when temps may drop.
If it's really hot out, but you must water, you'll want to mix in some hot water so plants aren't shocked by a much colder water on their roots & stems, & again try to water the soil deeply, but don't do what I used to do - thinking the plants would love to be showered well to cool them down. I lost my roses that way. They were a few months old, looking great & blooming.
The next day I saw that I'd damaged all the beautiful flowers.
Later, due to my evening watering, a ritual I enjoyed as it was so peaceful for me, after my family had enjoyed their supper, so I had that nice time to spend with my new gardens & it felt good to water everything. I'd imagined, by sunrise, they'd all be full of water & bear up under the hot sun. Instead, all my roses were soon covered with powdery mildew - which can kill a plant. Shock is a type of stress & stress in general, makes plants more vulnerable to pests & diseases. Mildew spores are in the soil, so when we water, it's best to water them by drip irrigation, or at least, if limited to a hose or watering can, to try to water so as we're not splashing soil up onto the lower stems & leaves of the plants. Some plants are more vulnerable than others, so it's best to just avoid letting water spray onto their lower leaves.
If possible, feed the garden hose in through the open window, close the screen as much as possible, without crimping the hose, & temporarily stuff an old towel or crumpled up newspapers or paper bags to fill in the opened window space where screen is raised up, to keep insects from entering the house through that opening.
Then go out & turn the water on, & run it a while test to see if it's extremely hot from lying in the sun. You don't want to scald your plants or your tender feet in flip flops, or your hands. Hopefully you are able to do this, until you can get an outdoor spigot.
Same! I can't connect a hose to the kitchen sink either as it's a square tap. My little garden tripled in size this year and it's taking me over an hour a day to water, so I feel your pain! Getting an outside tap fitted asap now people are working again after lockdown (I'm in the UK). A hose would be a huge luxury right now haha.
@@nenemaria-cornfieldsgarden Then too there's the passive collection of water running off our rooves, which can be channeled into rain collection barrels raised up on cinder blocks. This allows gravity to irrigate our garden beds, but I never got around to do that. I get good ideas then promptly forget them - so good now to be remembering, as we do have droughts. Not as extreme as where my brother lives, in Colorado, which is in a dire situation, year after year.
Here in the states not all are allowed to do this - ie: CO. I live in Massachusetts & we usually have a generous amount of precipitation year 'round, so I've yearned for a cistern, but never took that step. complacency on my part, it seems, to lose track of the fact that we may have years of drought again.
I had to do that last year with my 14 tomato plants. Thankfully it rained a lot. This year we finally got a new spigot out back but of course my garden was a complete flop and now I have nothing to water lol. Oh well my kids are loving the hose.
@@MB-vi8zp Well you're in luck - it's a good time now to plant again! Depending on your zone, you may have enough good growing days left to direct sow now & squeeze in a fall harvest.
You'll need to protect new seedlings from the fierce sun with shade cloth, & keep them watered, but it might be fun to try again.
I gotta tell you Jess when you made this I could almost taste it. Such pure food is God’s food. Thanks for all you do.
Sure is nice of Miah to drive all away across Tennessee and then some just to help the Hollars, they really need it. Its about a full days drive down I-40 and Nashville is always a mess.
So true, cant wait to see what all they get accomplished while he is there helping.
John Liberty I live as far in southwestern Virginia as far as you can get, have family just out of Hope AR and Dallas TX; going through Tennessee is the major part of the trip. When my children were little they would continually ask if we were out of TN yet. Also they would groan, “Not ANOTHER Caney Fork River, does it ever end or is it following us.”
The reward of gardening. Oh yes. The thrill in my heart when that first tomato blushes 😍😍😍
Its 102 and 52% humidity right now in south Georgia.. I feel ya ... stay hydrated and safe... brightest blessings to you and all yours
I’m in southeastern pa and I’m having to go spray my greenhouse container veggies with cool water mid-day. If I’m out a little late things are wilty. This is on top of watering in the morning and checking before bed. It is HOT and has been for days.
Boy, it's just hot all over...
Central Texas (Near Austin) -
Humidity - 44%
Current temp at 3:30pm - 97°
Heat Index - 102°
(for those that are lucky enough to not know heat index - that means "it feels like" 101°)
My feeling about going outside:
It's like opening the oven door...
now I'm going back INSIDE!!
Bcuz -
Thank God for Air Conditioning!!! ♡
97 degrees and 81% humidity in Virginia today :( July is so brutal! Hang in there friends!
YIKES! Virginia - 81% humidity!!!
Ok, you're winning!!
(Maybe it IS the humidity... )
Must be like walking thru a hot cloud...
@@gardengatesopen when its as hot and humid as we all are feeling, we ALL lose lol no winners here! it finally rained here so that's where part of that came in, but it hit 100 degrees for 3 straight days here and that's super rare for us!
Ahhh you are the best. You inspired me to plant like 30 tomato plants in my front yard. My wife thinks I'm nuts, but now appreciates gardening.
Congrats on the book! I still have a full time job at the moment, and the coring and scoring method is the best! Anything I can save to do on the weekends or days off helps. I started doing this last year when I watched you do it. Thanks for sharing this. Total game changer.
Yummy. I love bruschetta. Learned to make it in 2008 because my daughter wanted it at her wedding. And I had 10 Roma tomato plants that year. So it was the summer of bruschetta.
Hey Jess! This year was my first year gardening and I grew my first tomatoes which were, money makers and just a classic beef steak. I don't really like raw tomatoes but I have been subscribed to your channel for awhile now and watching your beautiful tomatoes ripen and you eating them, made me extremely curious and I was determined to taste a home grown tomato. It's winter now where I live and all I can think about is HOMEGROWN TOMATOES you are so right, store bought tomatoes really taste like disappointment... lolol I can't turn back now, I can never go back to store bought. So I am very much looking forward to october - november so I can start my seeds!
Freezing tomatoes.....life changing!!! Thank you thank you!! This saved me last year!
Ordered your book! Cant wait for it to come out!🍅💕
There's actually a really good reason for eating foods that are in season. It's nature's way of protecting our immune systems
I am happy that I found this channel on RUclips for gardening and homesteading. I life in Northern Nevada and this is my 3rd attempt to garden in the desert. Last year we had terrible wildland fires and excessive heat waves that caused my garden not to do well. I will implement your tips for the tomato plants and pruning them.
Italian recipes vary greatly by region. In our house you have to add garlic to the bruschetta, rubbed on bread and either chopped and added to the tomatoes or add the whole cloves, let sit in the mixture for a bit and then removed so no one get a mouthful of raw garlic. I know some people who dice onion and add that which would be a sin in our family.
Oh my! You'll think I'm a heathen then. I put green olives and fire roasted red sweet peppers in with the onion and garlic lol. Its never the same thing twice🙃🤣
"I feel like i should help"... you are so funny jess. I felt that. ⚡🌱💚
Jess, I preordered your book on Amazon today!
Also, have you tasted the thawed juice that comes out of the cored and scored tomatoes? It's really tasty. If I have time for a long simmer, I keep it with the tomatoes. Another use could be to save it and add to the stock when cooking stews, beans, etc.
Thirdly, I am glad to see that you grow Carbon tomatoes. Along with Cherokee Purple, Carbon is one of the best slicers I grow. Love and hugs, from another southern gardener in North Carolina.
whats the book title? im new here. need to pre-order! loving this channel and the content, has me fired up for ALLLLL the gardening.
@@es1683 smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0760368724/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I cannot help but smile when watching you! Thank you for adding joy to my day and pep to my step. God bless you and yours. xo
I share the same love of tomatoes as you do. I finally found someone who gets me!
Speaking as someone who lives fairly close to you, I am so impressed by that tomato harvest in this heat. SO impressed. This was my first year and mine didn’t survive long. I have some propagated ones growing to replace them because I refuse to give up! Thanks for the motivation Jess! #GardenGoals
I love great danes! I have Titus, a harlequine dane. He's almost 4 and high energy but is my garden buddy! He races our horses out to the back pasture.
I have a black dane who is 4 also! Her name is Leia. She was crazy when she was a puppy but now she is a lazy pup. She doesn’t get bothered by anything and is always following me around. Velcro dog
@@ajeldrez777 - There are so many similarities! Titus has been pretty high energy and velcroed to me, I keep waiting for slow down!! He can be out all day but the minute I go out to care for the horses or even act like I'm going out, he's all about being with me! They are awesome dogs!
When the Great Danes run they sound like a horse galloping ❣️
I had a black dane a couple of years ago named Faulkner. I still miss him so much. My friend called him the "band-aid" because he was stuck on me -- lol.
Watching Khan walk around in the background had me so distracted, then you said "you don't want to eat tomatoes do you?" and it brought tears to my eyes. I lost my tomatoe eating black Great Dane Berrin on May 29th. I so wish I was able to give him one right now. Maybe you should let Khan try one, who knows, maybe he loves tomatoes too. 😪
He’s actually nabbed a few but spits them out when they burst in his mouth!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm 😊
Sorry for your loss.
@@ElderandOakFarm thank you.
@@allthenuts9179 I have 2 dogs. My husband and I apopted them from the humane society (1st 1, then another so she had a friend) before we had kids, and they were, & still are- like our children. I couldn't imagine! 😔
Thanks for the tips! I am totally going to try preserving tomatoes this year, so yeah... Just a little nervous. I feel so inspired by your channel and your story. Thanks to you, I now have my own tiny channel on RUclips while I'm in my waiting room of life. ☺🙏
To add to your long list of achievements...Martha Stewart of the South!!! 😁 I mean that with love & gratitude! You make me want to go into the kitchen & start banging pots around, start making new dishes to eat. I'm 60 & there's only sssoo many meals you can cook, at least me before I feel numb to the ritual!!! But little lady you put a spark back into me! All I can say is you're great Jess & I want to be your neighbor or your 2nd Mom!!! With love & Blessings from Tennessee!!! ❤😊🌈🌻
Thank you!!!!
Okay, now I'm going to have to ask if I can adopt you as an adult child. You are just so adorable and I love the way you think and relate to gardening, cooking, canning, eating. Now I'm just dying for that fresh bruschetta!
The recipe looks sooooo delicious. I love tomatoes also. I'm excited about my tomato slices to come in. Thanks! - Liz 👍💯🌴🤗🌸😀🌻💯🌴
A 2 year old puppy is a great way to describe a Great Dane. We have a brindled 2 year old female. She is just reaching the point where she doesn't move the furniture when she moves between rooms. It's a good thing we are empty nesters - she is like raising a teenager. Good video!
I love me some bruschetta. I learned how to make and eat it in Italy when we lived there. You can also put a bit of pesto on it and then add the tomatoes and such. Man....... it takes it over the top!!!! Oh and if you have Parmesan sprinkle that on as well. Lol
Sounds great!
Lori Palczer’s Homestead well now I’m hungry 💚
Your down to earth and smart. And correct! Eat seasonally! It’s wonderful. I love tomatoes too and that’s why I garden. From a Northern California older lady.
you HAVE to try Rachel Ray's Balsalmic Reduction on that bruschetta!! IT IS A GAME CHANGER
With some crumbled goats cheese ....... Yummy !
Oooh yes, I've never tried Rachel Ray's brand, but balsamic reduction is a great addition to bruschetta!
I am new to canning stuff and watch your videos all the time. Your tip for freezing the tomatoes instead of blanching them has saved me so much time and saved my tomato harvest from getting too ripe or going rotten. Thank you! Your videos are extremely helpful and I love your passion about it all!
I totally gain my weight during the summer 😂. I take my salt shaker to the garden with me and Always eat the first tomato I pick... quality control I guess 😏
Cathy: Since you enjoy salt, like I do, have you tried Sea salt? It tastes so much better, & is said to be healthier too.
I grind up Pink Himalayan, my favorite so far, or Celtic gray in a mortar & pestle, & transfer it to a small, covered plastic container. (Need a new grinder.)
@@cherylanderson3340 literally all I use. I love near the sea and I get it local
Lol. For me I dont like tomatoes raw and here I am with 90 beautiful tomato plants this year!! Love tomatoes in things....
I completely understand the issue of so many tomatoes. I planted 90 plants of them this year and didnt lose one of them. 12 of the plants I have indoors on enclosed sunporch
Each plant already has several tomatoes on it already. Outside plants just have flowers at this point. I have a 2400sq ft garden. I have severe arthritis in my feet I was told. The pain is crazy walking....but I love my garden so much that I just keep going on with it. Thanks for the freezing tip. Didnt know about that option (freezing them whole). I absolutely love your videos. I treat them like a tv show. Lol.
Those vegetables on the floor would not be safe from my Yorkie. She LOVES vegetables for her treats and never fails to come let me know it's "carrot bone" time. LOL I hear you on the rain. They always say it's gonna' pour in FL and then nuttin'. Grrrrrr. Right now, we are having an afternoon shower that closely resembles a serious tropical storm. There go my tomatoes again. I made some cherry tomato confit this morning. Delish. Thanks!
If you haven’t seen James Pigeoni and his food forest channel, you MUST!
Same here. My Ridgebacks always try to get in the "berry garden" and harvest everything. Except the currants, they are probably too fiddley or too sour for them :D
zsazsa bodine “ carrot bone “ is my favorite thing I’ve read all day 💚 I have 7 German Shepherds and I will be using this term 👍
@@Just-Nikki 😊 Carrot bones, bell pepper bones, apple bones. Haha. That's the only treats she gets. 7 German Shepherds? That's a handful. LOL. We had shepherds when we were kids and our Heidi had 12 puppies! Good times. Then I had my sweet "Kojak," the best shepherd ever. Just a big beautiful baby.
OMG! Julie & Julia is my all time favorite movie. I’ve watched it at least 50 times.
Oh Jess I died laughing 😂 "you nasty" 😂❤️❤️❤️
How crazy ! My phone was on auto- play and it just randomly played this when I was at work...freaked me out because I recognized your voice!! Congratulations, doll!
Only thing I would add is goat cheese. You've got the goats.....
Oh yeah I lived in Florida for 5 years... I know you’re not there but your little talk took me right back there...rain is a tease...heat sun one minute and monsoon the next and back to heat and sun the next 😏 After 5 years I’d had it...back to the Northeast and the lovely four seasons for me! Never appreciated snow so much as I do now. Your dogs are beautiful!
Thats the way it is in Alabama. One minute its hot and next minute its pouring rain 🌧. Then 30 mins later its so hot you can't catch your breath
The worst was the awful days this time of year when you'd see the thunderheads in the distance and they'd never make it. Or the evenings as a kid when you'd see the lightning or hear thunder and no matter how much your parents said it was heat lightning you were sure a storm was coming but it didn't.
It’s getting to be that way just now here in NY. I live up close to one of the Great Lakes (lake Ontario) but still in the city so all this black top and the sun and then the humidity from 3 minute rainstorms lol and no AC..... oh my goodness, oh well at least I have the saving grace of a very shady backyard. 3 large trees that line the side of my yard and their branches hang out over half of the yard completely. Now I just need to find a way to get rid of the biting flies 🤨🤨🤨
I love that you fell in love bruschetta by watching Julie and Julia. Because I did too!
Any tips on storing cherry tomatoes?I’m swimming in them!
Oven-dry them with olive oil & seasonings. Store in the freezer or can them in oil. Tastes like CANDY!!
I do that! Cooked in the oven, low and slow, with olive oil and some kosher, pink, or Celtic salt. Even fam members that do not like tomatoes scarf them down!
Oh and I freeze them in bags. Favorite way to use them is on pizza instead of sauce! So. Good.
If you are going to make tomato sauce, you can throw in the cherry tomatoes with the regular tomatoes when putting them through the mill.
Thank you so.much for the "summer" recipe and the tomato preserving info! I love how down to earth you are💞
Y'know I thought the same thing about that butternut squash part from yesterday's video, but decided not to comment due to the audience.
Sounds like its a new channel meme now, shirt coming soon?
same! when she addressed it in this video I laughed so hard, knowing I wasn't the only one with a mind in the gutter as she says LOL
Hahaha, now Sweet Miah ALWAYS hears and sees the things I don't. Its a bit of a joke around here and Im constantly saying "Yeah I walked right into that one."
God has richly blessed you and in turn, you are blessing us. Thank you for the wonderful tips in this video and for the chuckles you and your Great Dane brought.
Literally my whole life is rustic 😂
Aleasha Miles LOL!!! Mine too 🥰
Girl. Same.
Aleasha Miles it’s a way of Life!!! ❤
OMG, same! Watching them eat that bruschetta was the best part of that movie.
Bruschetta is pronounced broosketta. In Italian, "ch" makes a "k" sound. :-)
I love to speak other languages, it is great exercise for the brain, and my favourite aspect is learning the accent/pronunciation, learning to roll my r's in speaking french was such a challenge, now I'm a pro ;-)
Thanks for this, n future I won't be able to say bruschetta without over pronouncing the "broooooo skettttttta" :-)
I’m gonna second this, though the way Jess said it is pretty much ubiquitous in the states (at least away from the coasts).
@@edelcj Nice to learn that after 25 years, lol. (And it IS great brain-exercise!)
Years ago when I was in Italy I learnt that! I thought it was neat, but people look at you weird if you say it like that here in North America. So I reverted back to the American pronunciation so people would stop thinking I'm trying to be pretentious lol.
Ihave heard fluent Italians all call it different...I wonder if there is dialects...
LOVE that you used the same knife to cut the bread as the tomatoes, so glad I am not the only person to do this, just love watching and learning from your videos,
Thank you so much from a very nervous newbie gardener and canner
I wish you'd been tracking the yield of those Silver Slicers. I'd dearly like to knw just how much came off those four plants. I obviously didn't see all of it but just what I saw on the videos seemed like 20lbs.
Also that bruschetta, I've worked restaurants where that dish, ingredients bought at Green City Market Chicago, total cost per serving maybe $5, sold for $20. No heirlooms just regular red globe tomatoes, not multiple varieties of basil. I'm betting that could go for $50 on the right menu when Covid is over. I know you don't want to commit to supplying a restaurant full time but maybe during a once a year fundraiser for a charity you care about? Find some local chef you like and get him to come in and get some produce, maybe a hen or duck or two, and throw a party. I bet people would drive in from all over and pay whatever for it.
I love my garden!
But I’m still learning ...
So nice to see and learn from another , it’s like I’m sharing my joy!! Thanks for sharing your passion with others.
You are one "amazing" woman!! When I first found these videos at the beginning of the year, I thought "ho, hum - another talking video." Fast forward a few videos and I find myself so hooked that I can't wait for the next one to come out!! I'm also going through your Do South articles and they are awe inspiring!
I just read your article in "Do South" called "Spring". It was really touching and I like your style. You mentioned in the video that you are working on a book. I can't wait until it's published. Love your garden, love your kitchen! Thanks for the video's, you offer wonderful tips and give me inspiration. God Bless.
Yes I agree. When it's suppose to rain and it don't it just goes right around us.
Ya am an absolute Julie and Julia fan. It is my favorite movie of all time and is the reason I truly fell in love with food. You made my mouth water 🤤
I am LOVING all these cooking videos lately ❤️
♥ the way the under-sink curtains turned out. I like to drizzle a little Balsamic vinegar over my Bruschetta. Bless you too!
Thrilled you shared that bruschetta recipe, I LOVE that movie and have been dying to know what that particular meal was! I can't wait to make it with my garden tomatoes
I have been doing caprese salad almost every day for a month. We have tons of tomatoes and basil coming in and all I have to buy is fresh mozzarella to make an amazing lunch!