Quick tip- don't reduce food in just 1 pot when doing bulk canning. It is worth the extra dishes to divide up the sauce into multiple pots and cook. It greatly reduces time needed to thicken sauce because the the heat distribution works better in small batches.
One thing I made was key sup first last I started out with tons ended up with I believe in saying 3 pints I entered in fair and it took 2nd place as I had no competition OUCH I was at this 2 days half no more was beautiful red but I entered 67entries so I was proud lot hard work the money was not good but year had lots to play but no more of this picked washed cooked swifter jars oh my I stop say God Bless
One thing I made was key sup first last I started out with tons ended up with I believe in saying 3 pints I entered in fair and it took 2nd place as I had no competition OUCH I was at this 2 days half no more was beautiful red but I entered 67entries so I was proud lot hard work the money was not good but year had lots to play but no more of this picked washed cooked swifter jars oh my I stop say God Bless
You have enough energy for 10 people! I love being in the kitchen but at 77 I’m finding it harder and harder. I’m grateful for the no knead bread recipe you posted the other day, I’ve made it twice already. It’s the easiest bread I’ve ever made! Just one little hint for you.. as you cook down tomato sauce or the ketchup for example, you should continually scrape the inner sides of the pot because the tomato concentrates there and adds a great deal of flavor to your product.
I agree with you 100%! Becky is one amazing young lady - hard working, sweet, loves people and loves her garden - my kind of people! I'm 70 and I also love her bread recipe....God bless that sweet family!
YESSSS, I love when you put in little timeskips to the future. It always gets me when someone mentions something to be done later and then forgets to put footage from the process and only shows the final products. I ALWAYS want to see the freeze-dried stuff turn to powder, it makes my brain happy. I think your channel is the only channel where I will sit and watch the entire time, no matter what my schedule looks like. It's my favorite show, better than watching the food network on tv.
I also like a roaster when condensing down tomatoes verses having to watch the stove - and I can let it go overnight. Looks like it will be beautiful ketchup!
Becky, i think using the food mill is the reason the ketchup is so thin. It not only removes the seeds and peels but also removes the pulp so you were left with basically tomato juice. I just blanch and peel and core my tomatoes and cook them in the roaster for nice thick ketchup.
I simmered my ketchup this year for a full 24 hours to thicken! It is so beautifully rich and thick and I honestly loved spreading the work over two days. My house smelled amazing.
I also made ketchup this year, use frozen tomatoes and drained most of the water off before cooking the tomatoes, and still cooked it in my 18 quart toaster for 24 hours. 😅
I simmered my ketchup for 24 hours as well. Made it for the first time and had to let it simmer over a day. I leave it on low overnight and it worked just fine.
One tip for when you can pumpkin or squash, after you have cubed it, blanch it in boiling water for 2 mins. This removes air from the veg, and allows more squash per jar, plus you dont get that thing where the veg all float to the top and liquid sits at the bottom. You can use the blanching liquid to fill your jars.
Precious Becky, here in Scandinavia we often use apples or applesauce to thicken up the ketchup. It also adds both acidity and sweetness to the ketchup. You may try that trick, the next time you make ketchup. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your videos, and I cannot wait to see the next one. You ALWAYS CHEER ME UP, with your POSITIVE SPIRIT ❤ ❤ ❤ LOVE, HUGS, PEACE, GOD BLESS & STAY SAFE ❤ ❤ ❤
Butternut squash was one of my baby's first foods that he absolutely loved. Not sure if anyone else has noticed but it is so completely adorable when one of your Aussies is either guarding you from the door into your kitchen or regularly coming in to check on you. Congratulations on the sale of your previous home. I'm sure leaving your garden for the last time was bittersweet. Take care and God bless.
Wow Becky, you do it all! I was thinking about the reduction problem you were having with your ketchup. Perhaps if you reduce the amount you are trying the process ( you tripled the recipe and used a single pot) so a tripled batch use 3 different pots and you could increase the surface area for evaporation (reduction.) Just a thought. ☺️ So excited to see what other things you have in store for us!
Becky, you can put your tomatoe juice mill at your kitchen sink. Put your pan in the sink to catch your juice. Another bowl in the sink to catch your pulp. Just set your juicer at an angle.
You should do a video on all the cooking/canning/preserving tools you love and use, everything from the canners, stock pots, mixing bowls, mills and processors and utensils etc. I love to see what other people use and slap my forehead and say why didn't I think of that?!?!
Becky works SO HARD! I don’t care how much her house costs. I know I am not able to work as hard as she does and I appreciate all that she is teaching me!
Becky said her stick blender was broken so that's why she is using the blender an she has not brought one yet so dey probably assume she keep saying that bcz she wants someone to buy her one an she can afford it seeing that she bought a house that cost x amount off money. Dey had a cost put up bt I don't rem
Lol! I was literally just thinking that I hope Becky posts a video on canning ketchup and about 10 minutes later this came up! You are my favorite person on RUclips! Thanks!
Me too! I just recently found her channel and I have been mad-binging her videos! And when she mentioned ketchup a few videos back, I was like, yes please!! Also, I just made her lazy bread this morning and cannot wait to cut into it!!!
I love watching you and how much you get done. I’m gonna miss all the videos once the baby is born. I doubt you’ll have the time or the energy for all theses great videos but I’m so happy for you and Josh!
Since Covid i’ve been watching your videos from home while working. I’m here in the city and can only dream of living the life you live (but i love living vicariously through you). I have such a huge respect and appreciation for the planning, work and craft you do! Thank you for sharing your energy and gift to the world, i literally love watching them all! Cheers to homemade ketchup and fries! 😊
Hey Becky! You could brown ground beef and then freeze dry it. Sloppy Joe mix + freeze dried ground beef + a bit of water to rinse out the jar = the ultimate ready to eat meal.
Hey, Becky. You can use the freeze dried powered tomatoes to thicken your ketchup. I'm sure someone had already suggested, but I haven't read through the comments. love your videos!
@@bluesoldierette I realize that everything she was working on in the video is done. In the video she said she would buy paste to thicken next time she made it. I also have a freeze dryer and am suggesting that next time she could use the powder instead of buying tomato paste.
Becky!!! I'M SO EXCITED to share this with you, but freeze dried tomatoes are AMAZE-BALLS in Tomato pie! I had trouble with too much moisture in my tomato pie. It always tasted awesome but was somewhat watery with fresh garden tomatoes. Half and half fresh tomatoes and freeze dried tomatoes is perfect. Or go really light on the rehydration and use all freeze dried tomatoes. You will be able to eat Garden Fresh tasting tomato pie all winter long. #LifeChanging Enjoy!!
See Becky, this is why I need someone like you in my life (even via YT😂) cuz I’m totally with ya in your thoughts about doing multiple things at once! If we are getting everything dirty, might as well do a TON! Thanks for the motivation sis! ❤ y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Pace yourself girl! With everything else you pulled from the last garden harvest, you're gonna be busy! Looking forward to hearing your dreams and plans for the new garden! Maybe Josh, or someone local, can build you some raised beds from Miah's plans at Roots & Refuge!
Becky I have never been so happy to find a channel and a community on RUclips ever! You have no idea how much your content and all your tips have helped me make some really positive changes that have saved me time and money and lowered my stress and I can't tell you how grateful I am because it was something I really needed right at this time. It was serendipitous. I don't get to use that word often enough so there's that too 😬💜💜 Thank you sooo much Becky.
Me too Jill!! I am so excited to see the sketch plan of the garden. I'd love for Becky to take us along on a planning video as she brain dumps all the ideas 😍
I finally bought one of those electric pressure canners today because 98% of the time the reason I put off pressure canning is because I don’t have 3/4 hours to sit and babysit it
Hi Becky, it maybe too early to think about, but in the future canning the squash or veggies like that will make wonderful homemade baby food. We loved it.
This was a GAME CHANGER for my ketchup this year. I first cooked (until soft) the tomatoes, ran them through the tomato press and then through a fine mesh strainer. It was so thick I had to add a bit of liquid back! Took me a few years but I finally made the best ketchup ever 😊
Thank you so so so much for this one!!! I have 200 volunteer tomato plants this year and trying to deal with what to do with all of these tomatoes! First-year doing this, you are extremely helpful to me!
A nice trick for getting out ALL the tomato paste is open the top of the can, flip it over, open the bottom of the can, take the top lid off and push the bottom lid through! You'll get all the paste without scraping with a knife 🙂
Girl, you have inspired me to just go for it in terms of expanding my garden and starting to can. I bought a cheap dehydrator off eBay and now I have my own dehydrated herbs. I’ve had some gardening successes and some gardening fails and even a groundhog situation to figure out, but the lesson learned in all your videos is to just go for it so I do!
To keep mole, voles, groundhogs out of your garden is to get the pinwheels that kids love and place them a few steps apart. It vibrates the ground and they hate it.
Fy Nyth - a tiny house channel where she & husband have moved to new bare land. She had a problem with a ground burrowing pest in her old garden and did the same in her new in case they were also there. She put a mesh wire hardware cloth down beneath the raised bed. The plant roots could go thru, but it was fine enough that the animal couldn't get up beyond it to the actual carrots and other plant parts. It was easy to see how it worked in the videos where she tore up the old garden and moved the mesh and cement blocks to the new location and set up again there. For this, you do have to use some sort of raised bed above the mesh and surrounded by something the animal can't burrow through. She used cement blocks around the bed area and it was deep enough for carrots and other things. Good luck!
Martha Stewart ain't got nothing on Becky!! I'm serious she's such a natural in front of the camera. I love canning. Becky just makes everything look so easy and she's so calm. You could definitely have your own TV cooking show. But we are so glad to have you on RUclips. See you in part 2
It’s ok to be exhausted! I’ve canned so much this season and at the end of the day I am just super exhausted! Let’s not forget that you’re growing a tiny human at the same time! Thanks for sharing your canning videos! I may try ketchup next year!
Hey Becky, I just wanted to tell you that you videos are so comforting to me. I'm kinda ill right now, but I'm all cosy on my parents couch watching your videos and it makes me feel a little better. So thank you! Hugs from Germany :)
Hi Becky, just wanted to thank you for all the work you put in making these videos! Your recipes and tips are being used here in Finland as well. I also got over my everything-is-ruined -mood when I lost my very first harvest this year when I saw you talking about how it doesn't have to be perfect just make it better. Got me fired up to fix my garden for next year and keep learning instead of giving up. Cheers from North Karelia!
Hey Becky! Try opening both ends of the tomato paste cans. Then you can push everything out one end with a spoon (or just shake the can till the paste falls out!) Every last bit of tomato paste comes out and no need to scrape! 😁
Becky, I think the problem with the ketchup reducing was because you doubled the recipe. When you boil any liquid the reduction comes from the surface of the kettle where the steam bubbles form. In order to reduce by half in 45 minutes, you needed to use 2 large pots. By adding paste you actually were changing ratio of liquid to acid and adding cost to the ketchup. It might’ve thickened faster by adding more sugar.
I'm 70 years young, and I can honestly say I have never had this soup. It looks delicious, Right now I don't have a crockpot because mine finally gave out. I believe I hi it about 15- 20 years, it's hard to replace her. Nothing can touch the old girl ( lol ). I'll give it a try on top of the stove. Thank you for being here to help us threw. Have a blessed evening, take care.
I have a few tricks to getting Ketchup thicker. I also thought that reducing it was a waste. But I love thick ketchup. I freeze my tomatoes for ketchup, because when they thaw a lot of the juice separates from them. And I run them through the food mill before cooking. And I did add tomato paste to mine too! When my wooden spoon stands up alone in my ketchup it is ready for canning!
I use an electric roaster to reduce my large tomato projects and let it simmer all night on low being careful that it doesn't burn. Also, I made a delicious butternut "pumpkin" pie from my canned squash, but you have to let it drain in a colander over a bowl to remove a lot of the liquid. You should probably do that for any dish you make with your canned squash.
Yay!!! I am so happy to see this video! I love how positive you are and your grateful outlook! I love what you said about looking and acting from a mindset of abundance and not fear of scarcity! That really spoke to me. You remind me of my grandma, the most kind person I’ve ever known.
You do what you can. Anything you don’t get done will be there tomorrow. You don’t want to burn your self out or get sick from over doing it. Your doing great. Love, 💕 your kitchen.
Becky if you use the freeze dried tomato pulp along with some typ of spicy pepper, added while you’re cooking rice it make some really really great Spanish rice without having to use tomato sauce.
how do you not cry when you chop onions? 😭 always amazes me hahaha I don't have a garden, I don't cook that much and I don't can either, but I love watching your videos, you're truly inspiring Becky, thanks for being you and sharing your love and passion with us, it's been a real pleasure watching you and Josh work through all the recent changes in your life and I can't wait to see your family get bigger and see how the new garden is going to turn out ❤️
I’m a recent subscriber and I’m enjoying your channel a lot. I do not grow fresh veggies, since I’m retired and moved into 8th floor condo, but I do have a small hack that might be useful to you. To peel a whole garlic bulb quickly, cut whole bulb in half crosswise, so each clove gets cut at same time. Flip both halves over on board, cut side down, lay blade of chef knife flat on bulb half and give it a whack with your palm. Pick up bulb half and clove halves should fall right out. If that don’t work for you-you are holding your head in wrong position. 😂.
Yet another very productive day preserving! I’m wondering, if a person has dried tomato powder, could it be used for thickening ketchup like you would a soup? You do a great job troubleshooting the things that come up to the benefit of those watching. For that, I’m so grateful that you share it all.
@@chrystallangille1667 awesome, thank you. May I ask, do you make the powder using a dehydrator or freeze dryer? I’ve heard mixed opinions about dehydrating it. I only have a dehydrator and I’m still figuring it out. I had a different one many years ago but it got dropped and broke so the hubby got rid of it.
I don't know if anybody has commented about this, but you can get an attachment for your kitchen aid to strain your tomatoes. The same attachment can be used to grind meat with a few alterations. I use it to make sandwich spread.
You can use dried tomato powder (skins) to make paste - just add water to powder to get consistence knowing the powder may take a bit to rehydrate well. It works really well!
I was going to ask about using the freee dried powder. Seems it would thicken w/o the unpleasant texture. Save the powder for the next ketchup day? Oh, wait.
@@tinarogge7024 I thought that would be the case but wasn't sure. I throw mine in to stuff to thicken but haven't ever made katsup and just didn't know. Seems logical.
Glad you posted a video. We are on the tail end Ian hurricane! Hope we will get power back soon. Love your videos. I hope my carrot and lettuce will servive this heavy rain.
I love your channel. You have such energy. I wish I had learned all of this when I was younger. I started in my 50' now in my 60's. After working hard preserving to rid my food of chemicals, l love finally relaxing with a cup of coffee and your videos. Always full of great ideas. I don't get as much done as you but it's okay, it's not a race. Love you, stay blessed and go easy and take care of yourself and baby! Prayers always.
Fantastic job! I’ve been there before… Where you are with the liquidy tomato base for the ketchup. What I’ve learned is that if I plan to use the food mill rather than removing the skins ahead of time, I really cannot cook the tomatoes down too much at all or what ends up happening is when it goes through the food mill, the tomato meat is too soft, and the food mill works more like a juicer than something that leaves you with a thicker tomato product.
It makes me so happy to watch your videos. You are awesome. I purchased the Presto Digital Electric Canner and at 72 years young, I am taking up canning.
You can freeze tomatoes for use in recipes like ketchup. Then you drain off the liquid and make a huge shortcut to simmering down the pulp. Also, I re-watched the video, and I think that you may have added 2 extra cups of the vinegar. (?) Also, you could probably have boiled a smaller amount of the ketchup base at a time, which would have made the process of reduction perhaps go a bit more quickly. Everything looks delish. And that Sloppy Joe mixture is the bomb!
Hi Becky, I’m a neighbor to the south (Eugene area). With paste tomatoes you are supposed to use the pulp because it doesn’t have many seeds. I would second the recommendation of freezing and partially thawing. I use a turkey baster to pull off the extra water and the skins slide off easily. A blender will take care of any seeds you have left.
Hi Becky. Have you considered purchasing a large commercial stainless steel kitchen trolley for moving and/or using your heavy or bulky things? Putting a large bucket on it for running the food mill into for example, and shifting large pots of boiling stuff. Or taking into pantry and loading up with all the items/ingredients at once. Bonus use.. after baby is born allows you to stop what you're doing quickly to attend to them. I also use it for moving things in from car/garage, take it from room to room when house cleaning with assortment of baskets or containers of cleaning items and room to remove dirty or misplaced items. Bonus bonus use.. your child can sit on the bottom "shelf" while you are drifting around the house too 😃 Easy to wipe down and roll away for storing somewhere out of the way
Hi Becky!!! You such an amazing person! I feel like you could be my sister! Such an inspiration! I’ve been canning and preserving a lot more from my little garden ❤
Hi Becky, minor tip for you, if you put your lid on your pot with it partially vented/open, it will help with bubbling splash. It will also help things come to a boil faster. If you do it that way, you will have to adjust your heat, because it will cook hotter. All that open bubbling tomato sauce has me cringing, hot tomatoes splash will scald you.
tomato power is my favorite thing ever! putting it in sauces to thicken things up is awesome and putting it on grilled cheese instead of slices of tomatoes has to be my favorite way to use it. tastes like fresh tomatoes, and doesn't get soggy!
Oh sweet Becky, I have canned every day this week. But still doesn’t add up to all you’ve canned in a week. I am exhausted! Oh to be young again. I absolutely love your videos! I wish I started canning when I was younger. Such an amazing skill. I always look forward to spring to get my garden going. Then look forward to winter to enjoy the fruits of my labor. But as a canner, every season is canning season. Much love and blessings.💗🙏
can you do a tour of the shelves downstairs and in the pantry once you are done the season? excited for an updated peek at the bounty all processed, packed, and gleaming in your new setup xp
Hi Becky and all the friends. Enjoy and learn so much from you and all the friends advice in comments section. We have lots of loadshedding in South Africa, so now I download when we do have power, to watch when we're in darkness.
I have been waiting all day for a video. I could certainly spend the day with you, you seem so fun. Thank you for giving us such knowledge and you make everything look so easy.
Becky, the Butternut squash will make excellent Baby food! It’s one of the first foods baby’s eat. If you freeze dry it ( even if you already canned it) you can take about 1/4 cup of the powder & rehydrate it to make a meal, when your baby starts eating vegetables. I think freeze dried vegetables would be an excellent idea as you can take a 1/4 cup in a plastic container with you anywhere you go & not worry about breaking a jar…or having strange ingredients from grocery store baby food….even if they do say organic blah blah…
Yes, and they love it! Both my kids started on solids with squash, so much cheaper than buying the baby food at the store and you know exactly what’s in it -no preservatives, stabilizers, coloring, and loads of sugar like the commercial stuff.
Hi Becky! I made ketchup this year too! My recipe used thermflo. It is a canning thickener, you can also use clear gel. They are the only canning safe thickeners (except tomato paste of course). My ketchup came came out so great😊 and you don’t have to boil it down as much. I only cooked mine down for an hour.
Hi Becky! Regarding the electric tomato press you were talking about, you should look up the Kitchenaid strainer accessory. I used to use a manual tomato press, until I realized I had bought that attachment as part of a three attachments set. It works like a charm!
Becky I think you should make a “taste face” compilation 😂 your face when you taste things you make is the cutest! I think that would be so fun to see!
Hahaha I was literally just thinking something similar the other day. I love to see her facial expressions when she taste things. Like your mark of Approval after all the hard work. 💖💖
Was excited to try your catchup recipe. I didn’t Iike the ball recipe. I had to half the recipe as I only had 12 pounds of tomatoes out of the garden. I cut the tomatoes in half and squeezed out as much seeds and juice before weighing them. Thought I could save time cooking them down. After sieving and seasoning, cooked them till evening and then poured them into my crockpot and put them on warm overnight. Turn the crockpot on high the next morning and boy did it do the job. I have to say nutmeg and cloves did the trick. After it was cooked down, I tasted it thought it needed another half a cup of vinegar. Ended up with 12 half pints. I don’t know what Portland ketchup tastes like but this recipe is now my favorite. Will be doing another batch when more tomatoes ripen. Thank you for writing out your recipe and showing me you could taste along the way and adjust the seasonings. Been canning forever, can’t believe I never thought of this. Oh I used tomato powder that I freeze dried last year instead of tomato paste, work great.
Ditto. Now I have a craving. I actually looked at my veg and pantry and have the makings for homemade Sloppy Joe's so that is what I am going to make tomorrow. I already made pasta tonight, otherwise, I may have pivoted. Her Sloppy Joe's sauce looked so good it made me want a scratch and sniff laptop. Haha.
@@paigedevine5586 it is everything Becky made but then you add ground beef to it and serve it on a bun. There is a brand called Manwitch that is Sloppy Joe’s in a can that you add cooked ground beef to. It’s pretty good but I’m sure it doesn’t come close to as good as homemade, especially the way Becky made it!
@@paigedevine5586 It's an American "ragu" that, instead of being added to pasta or rice or potatoes, is cooked until thickened and served over a hearty bun as a very messy sandwich. Like many sauces--you can buy it canned or jarred and have a m'eh experience--or you can make it from scratch for a really wonderful meal. I personally like to make it from scratch, load it up with fresh veg like Becky, and cook it for hours just like I do my Bolognese...just very different flavor profile. :) And it freezes just great.
I made beautiful ketchup this year! Cheater tip: When the tomatoes are stewing down push a sieve down into the tomatoes and use a ladel to remove the juice that comes up, save that juice to drink, it's awesome! Then when it's all cooked and ready to can I used my emersion blender to whip it smooth. It turned out EXACTLY the consistency of hienz. PS, don't omit the cloves and I added a couple tablespoons of fish sauce to increase the umami!
If you dehydrate or freeze dry the skin and seeds from those tomatoes you can add that to thicken all your recipes. It saves 12-24 hours of reducing and thickening your sauces. Oops- I spoke too soon.
@@pennynickels5216 lol, hence the nickname "beluga lentils"!... and the face that they're asking the most expensive and harder to find on the shelf. The most nutritious of all the lentils as well...k, stop me b4 I start geeking out about lentils!
Hi Becky, have you ever tried or considered just storing your butternut pumpkins in a cool dark dry space. You have to leave some of the stalk on. Ours keep for about 12 months. It would save all of that preserving. 😊💜
Just a thought; when I do my Roma tomatoes, I cook mine overnight in my 18 qt roaster oven. It adds flavor and thickens the sauce. I enjoy your channel.
I use my roaster pan anytime I want to thicken sauces also. I put mine on 250 degrees and let it go. I haven’t had any problem with burning and it requires minimal interaction.
I never wanted an electric pressure canner until I started watching your videos. I've always been an old-school stove top pressure canner. Now, I am definitely going to get one. ASAP!
I love your videos! I didn't even realize this video was 40 minutes long until it ended. The time flew by! lol You are such a positive inspiration! Thank you for your videos. I very much enjoy them :) PS. Can't wait for part 2 of the ketchup adventure!
I get so many ideas for cooking, storing, freezing and meal prep from your videos, or even just managing kitchen chaos or time management during big size meal preps, Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge with us. Love your videos.
Another amazing video! You are so amazing! You have such a great work ethic and get so many things done all at once! Keep up the great work, and congrats on the new house!
I worked like her in my younger years now I’m 61 I slowed down but still I’m a worker, Cooking my favorite thing I do in my life! My children enjoy my cooking, I been cooking since I was 11 had too!! I enjoy watching new ways of cooking never to late to learn something new!
Love the videos. The reason you needed to add tomato paste to your ketchup, when you juiced your tomatoes you removed the pulp that would allow your sauce to thicken. I agree with a previous poster …cook the tomatoes and dip juice off. It will reduce cooking time and you can preserve the juice for drinking or soups. Also I get why the juicer…mainly to remove skin and seeds. You may just want to use the immersion blender or the one you used with the black pepper to smooth all that out.
Thank you Becky for this great video! 10 hours editing is a crazy days work alone plus making more videos! I am staying tuned to how it turns out! I want to buy a jar so bad from you so I can taste this ketchup! “We love ketchup”
Oooohhhhhh!!! Just like when you get into a good movie or tv show with that “to be continued”. I was saying “Nooooooooooo!!!!!” Lol cant wait for stage 2 when you are feeling up to it
The PUR jars are great. I have bought a lot of them, no problems with them. I am going to try to make ketchup too. Looks so yummy. The sloppy joe base sounds yummy too. I have another recipe for that, so maybe i will try to can some.
Just a hint. I have seen a video of how Italian guys do Roma tomatoes for tomato paste. They squeeze all the seeds out of them that way it’s not so watery. Maybe try that next time 🤷♀️. I’ve been waiting for my pears to ripen so I can make pear elderberry jam. I think that’s what I’ll be doing tomorrow. 👍
I canned 13 pints of ketchup, I used the recipe from Living Traditions Homestead, it is awesome! Tastes so good! Looking forward to seeing what you do on your new homestead in the coming months.
Quick tip- don't reduce food in just 1 pot when doing bulk canning. It is worth the extra dishes to divide up the sauce into multiple pots and cook. It greatly reduces time needed to thicken sauce because the the heat distribution works better in small batches.
Such a great tip, thank you for sharing!
Another thing I've learned is to use my widest pots to reduce--more surface area for evaporation.
One thing I made was key sup first last I started out with tons ended up with I believe in saying 3 pints I entered in fair and it took 2nd place as I had no competition OUCH I was at this 2 days half no more was beautiful red but I entered 67entries so I was proud lot hard work the money was not good but year had lots to play but no more of this picked washed cooked swifter jars oh my I stop say God Bless
One thing I made was key sup first last I started out with tons ended up with I believe in saying 3 pints I entered in fair and it took 2nd place as I had no competition OUCH I was at this 2 days half no more was beautiful red but I entered 67entries so I was proud lot hard work the money was not good but year had lots to play but no more of this picked washed cooked swifter jars oh my I stop say God Bless
I did take 66 Blue ribbons grand for best display of canned vegetables 🤪
You have enough energy for 10 people! I love being in the kitchen but at 77 I’m finding it harder and harder. I’m grateful for the no knead bread recipe you posted the other day, I’ve made it twice already. It’s the easiest bread I’ve ever made! Just one little hint for you.. as you cook down tomato sauce or the ketchup for example, you should continually scrape the inner sides of the pot because the tomato concentrates there and adds a great deal of flavor to your product.
I saved that video. I’m going to make on my next stretch off work. Hospital hours are crazy, lol. Blessings
I've got a batch of dough on the counter now to bake in the morning lol
I agree with you 100%! Becky is one amazing young lady - hard working, sweet, loves people and loves her garden - my kind of people! I'm 70 and I also love her bread recipe....God bless that sweet family!
YESSSS, I love when you put in little timeskips to the future. It always gets me when someone mentions something to be done later and then forgets to put footage from the process and only shows the final products. I ALWAYS want to see the freeze-dried stuff turn to powder, it makes my brain happy. I think your channel is the only channel where I will sit and watch the entire time, no matter what my schedule looks like. It's my favorite show, better than watching the food network on tv.
I like seeing the whole process even if a little clip or fast motion!
Here, here! 🍻
Same!❤
I also like a roaster when condensing down tomatoes verses having to watch the stove - and I can let it go overnight. Looks like it will be beautiful ketchup!
For anyone wanting a full proof way of cutting onions without crying, the trick is to not get emotionally attached to them.
haha
Becky, i think using the food mill is the reason the ketchup is so thin. It not only removes the seeds and peels but also removes the pulp so you were left with basically tomato juice. I just blanch and peel and core my tomatoes and cook them in the roaster for nice thick ketchup.
I simmered my ketchup this year for a full 24 hours to thicken! It is so beautifully rich and thick and I honestly loved spreading the work over two days. My house smelled amazing.
good to know! ketchup is on my to do list
I also made ketchup this year, use frozen tomatoes and drained most of the water off before cooking the tomatoes, and still cooked it in my 18 quart toaster for 24 hours. 😅
I did same with my pasta gravy. Richer flavor.
My home uses bottled propane,so that is using too much gas for me. Soooo, I cook mine down in second hand crockpots
I simmered my ketchup for 24 hours as well. Made it for the first time and had to let it simmer over a day. I leave it on low overnight and it worked just fine.
One tip for when you can pumpkin or squash, after you have cubed it, blanch it in boiling water for 2 mins. This removes air from the veg, and allows more squash per jar, plus you dont get that thing where the veg all float to the top and liquid sits at the bottom. You can use the blanching liquid to fill your jars.
Precious Becky, here in Scandinavia we often use apples or applesauce to thicken up the ketchup. It also adds both acidity and sweetness to the ketchup. You may try that trick, the next time you make ketchup. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your videos, and
I cannot wait to see the next one. You ALWAYS CHEER ME UP, with your POSITIVE SPIRIT ❤ ❤ ❤ LOVE, HUGS, PEACE, GOD BLESS & STAY SAFE ❤ ❤ ❤
What a great idea!
We do it too in czech republic :D at first glance i have even thought that those white onions in thumbnail are peeled apples for the ketchup 😂😂😂
I bet that adds a delicious flavor
Judith Michelson thank you for another way to use apple sauce 😊❤
I frequently use apple sauce instead of oil. sounds like adding to ketchup will work great. thanks for the info.
Butternut squash was one of my baby's first foods that he absolutely loved. Not sure if anyone else has noticed but it is so completely adorable when one of your Aussies is either guarding you from the door into your kitchen or regularly coming in to check on you. Congratulations on the sale of your previous home. I'm sure leaving your garden for the last time was bittersweet. Take care and God bless.
Wow Becky, you do it all! I was thinking about the reduction problem you were having with your ketchup. Perhaps if you reduce the amount you are trying the process ( you tripled the recipe and used a single pot) so a tripled batch use 3 different pots and you could increase the surface area for evaporation (reduction.) Just a thought. ☺️ So excited to see what other things you have in store for us!
@@cynthiafisher9907 great idea!
Thought the same about 3 pots or an electric roaster or some slow cookers, but I've not made ketchup in a slow cooker.
Agreed. Increase surface area is needed to increase evaporation.
@@frances4309 I use slow cookers to save on gas
What I was thinking using more pots!
Becky, you can put your tomatoe juice mill at your kitchen sink. Put your pan in the sink to catch your juice. Another bowl in the sink to catch your pulp. Just set your juicer at an angle.
You and Jamerill Stewart are my favorite channels. Every time I get notification of a new video for either of you brings me great joy.
Yes and Amen. 😄
I keep searching YT for more ladies like them two but sadly haven't found anyone as good. 😍
That 1876 garden is wonderful
You should do a video on all the cooking/canning/preserving tools you love and use, everything from the canners, stock pots, mixing bowls, mills and processors and utensils etc. I love to see what other people use and slap my forehead and say why didn't I think of that?!?!
You were made for this, your video are therapeutic and inspirational, may God give you strength and ability to keep going.
Becky works SO HARD! I don’t care how much her house costs. I know I am not able to work as hard as she does and I appreciate all that she is teaching me!
Why did you mention what her house costs lol
@@steph0xGx because someone early in the chats brought it up.
@@clariseism yea I saw it to but I think she removed those comments
@@Shamilla4724 what did the comments say?
Becky said her stick blender was broken so that's why she is using the blender an she has not brought one yet so dey probably assume she keep saying that bcz she wants someone to buy her one an she can afford it seeing that she bought a house that cost x amount off money. Dey had a cost put up bt I don't rem
Lol! I was literally just thinking that I hope Becky posts a video on canning ketchup and about 10 minutes later this came up! You are my favorite person on RUclips! Thanks!
Me too! I just recently found her channel and I have been mad-binging her videos! And when she mentioned ketchup a few videos back, I was like, yes please!! Also, I just made her lazy bread this morning and cannot wait to cut into it!!!
Agreed. Becky is my YT fave! 🥰
I watch her often more then once, then the WhipperHoller videos!
I love watching you and how much you get done. I’m gonna miss all the videos once the baby is born. I doubt you’ll have the time or the energy for all theses great videos but I’m so happy for you and Josh!
Since Covid i’ve been watching your videos from home while working. I’m here in the city and can only dream of living the life you live (but i love living vicariously through you). I have such a huge respect and appreciation for the planning, work and craft you do! Thank you for sharing your energy and gift to the world, i literally love watching them all! Cheers to homemade ketchup and fries! 😊
Well said!!!!
Me too
Hey Becky! You could brown ground beef and then freeze dry it. Sloppy Joe mix + freeze dried ground beef + a bit of water to rinse out the jar = the ultimate ready to eat meal.
Hey, Becky. You can use the freeze dried powered tomatoes to thicken your ketchup. I'm sure someone had already suggested, but I haven't read through the comments. love your videos!
Brilliant! 🤦♀️
But her freeze dried tomatoes weren’t done until after. It was days later when she filmed that finished product.
@@bluesoldierette I realize that everything she was working on in the video is done. In the video she said she would buy paste to thicken next time she made it. I also have a freeze dryer and am suggesting that next time she could use the powder instead of buying tomato paste.
I was praying someone suggested this ~ thank you!! :D
Becky!!! I'M SO EXCITED to share this with you, but freeze dried tomatoes are AMAZE-BALLS in Tomato pie! I had trouble with too much moisture in my tomato pie. It always tasted awesome but was somewhat watery with fresh garden tomatoes. Half and half fresh tomatoes and freeze dried tomatoes is perfect. Or go really light on the rehydration and use all freeze dried tomatoes. You will be able to eat Garden Fresh tasting tomato pie all winter long. #LifeChanging Enjoy!!
I love how the dogs show up immediately when Becky opens the tomato paste jars. They certainly know the sound of a can opening.
See Becky, this is why I need someone like you in my life (even via YT😂) cuz I’m totally with ya in your thoughts about doing multiple things at once! If we are getting everything dirty, might as well do a TON! Thanks for the motivation sis! ❤ y’all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hi Becky. My mom used to process 100 qts of tomato sauce a year. My dad would use his drill on the crank area and it would go so much faster.
😄😄😄 that's a DELIGHTFUL idea 😄
Pace yourself girl! With everything else you pulled from the last garden harvest, you're gonna be busy! Looking forward to hearing your dreams and plans for the new garden! Maybe Josh, or someone local, can build you some raised beds from Miah's plans at Roots & Refuge!
I'd love to see your basement pantry now that you've done all this canning. I'll bet your food storage looks AMAZING!
Becky I have never been so happy to find a channel and a community on RUclips ever! You have no idea how much your content and all your tips have helped me make some really positive changes that have saved me time and money and lowered my stress and I can't tell you how grateful I am because it was something I really needed right at this time. It was serendipitous. I don't get to use that word often enough so there's that too 😬💜💜 Thank you sooo much Becky.
I can't wait to see the new garden all mapped out for spring. You're amazing!
Me too Jill!! I am so excited to see the sketch plan of the garden. I'd love for Becky to take us along on a planning video as she brain dumps all the ideas 😍
I finally bought one of those electric pressure canners today because 98% of the time the reason I put off pressure canning is because I don’t have 3/4 hours to sit and babysit it
Hi Becky, it maybe too early to think about, but in the future canning the squash or veggies like that will make wonderful homemade baby food. We loved it.
This was a GAME CHANGER for my ketchup this year. I first cooked (until soft) the tomatoes, ran them through the tomato press and then through a fine mesh strainer. It was so thick I had to add a bit of liquid back! Took me a few years but I finally made the best ketchup ever 😊
Thank you so so so much for this one!!! I have 200 volunteer tomato plants this year and trying to deal with what to do with all of these tomatoes! First-year doing this, you are extremely helpful to me!
A nice trick for getting out ALL the tomato paste is open the top of the can, flip it over, open the bottom of the can, take the top lid off and push the bottom lid through! You'll get all the paste without scraping with a knife 🙂
Girl, you have inspired me to just go for it in terms of expanding my garden and starting to can. I bought a cheap dehydrator off eBay and now I have my own dehydrated herbs. I’ve had some gardening successes and some gardening fails and even a groundhog situation to figure out, but the lesson learned in all your videos is to just go for it so I do!
To keep mole, voles, groundhogs out of your garden is to get the pinwheels that kids love and place them a few steps apart. It vibrates the ground and they hate it.
@@reneeallen3569 I have those and that doesn't work, but thank you
@@reneeallen3569 what & where are those pinwheels?
Fy Nyth - a tiny house channel where she & husband have moved to new bare land. She had a problem with a ground burrowing pest in her old garden and did the same in her new in case they were also there. She put a mesh wire hardware cloth down beneath the raised bed. The plant roots could go thru, but it was fine enough that the animal couldn't get up beyond it to the actual carrots and other plant parts. It was easy to see how it worked in the videos where she tore up the old garden and moved the mesh and cement blocks to the new location and set up again there.
For this, you do have to use some sort of raised bed above the mesh and surrounded by something the animal can't burrow through. She used cement blocks around the bed area and it was deep enough for carrots and other things.
Good luck!
Martha Stewart ain't got nothing on Becky!! I'm serious she's such a natural in front of the camera. I love canning. Becky just makes everything look so easy and she's so calm. You could definitely have your own TV cooking show. But we are so glad to have you on RUclips. See you in part 2
It’s ok to be exhausted! I’ve canned so much this season and at the end of the day I am just super exhausted! Let’s not forget that you’re growing a tiny human at the same time! Thanks for sharing your canning videos! I may try ketchup next year!
I will be excited to see her next year also and with the little farm hand!
@@marytillison8392 I feel like she said in a previous video that she wasn't really going to ahimsa the baby for privacy reasons
Hey Becky,
I just wanted to tell you that you videos are so comforting to me. I'm kinda ill right now, but I'm all cosy on my parents couch watching your videos and it makes me feel a little better. So thank you! Hugs from Germany :)
Hi Becky, just wanted to thank you for all the work you put in making these videos! Your recipes and tips are being used here in Finland as well. I also got over my everything-is-ruined -mood when I lost my very first harvest this year when I saw you talking about how it doesn't have to be perfect just make it better. Got me fired up to fix my garden for next year and keep learning instead of giving up. Cheers from North Karelia!
I hear you. When I think I'm at the point of this isn't coming out, I ask my Italian husband how I could do better. Watching her videos gives me hope.
I don't know about y'all, but I learn a ton of stuff in the comments in most of the videos you leave! So thank you for that!
I dehydrated my tomato peels and then blended them up and added them back to the sauce to thicken it. Worked like a charm
Hey Becky! Try opening both ends of the tomato paste cans. Then you can push everything out one end with a spoon (or just shake the can till the paste falls out!) Every last bit of tomato paste comes out and no need to scrape! 😁
Yes, I was going to say the same thing!
But they were glass jars of tomato paste.
Becky, I think the problem with the ketchup reducing was because you doubled the recipe. When you boil any liquid the reduction comes from the surface of the kettle where the steam bubbles form. In order to reduce by half in 45 minutes, you needed to use 2 large pots. By adding paste you actually were changing ratio of liquid to acid and adding cost to the ketchup. It might’ve thickened faster by adding more sugar.
Yes, she needs more surface area. I think the roaster would have been a better vessel
What a good suggestion! I’ll have to remember that.
I'm 70 years young, and I can honestly say I have never had this soup. It looks delicious, Right now I don't have a crockpot because mine finally gave out. I believe I hi it about 15- 20 years, it's hard to replace her. Nothing can touch the old girl ( lol ). I'll give it a try on top of the stove. Thank you for being here to help us threw. Have a blessed evening, take care.
I have a few tricks to getting Ketchup thicker. I also thought that reducing it was a waste. But I love thick ketchup. I freeze my tomatoes for ketchup, because when they thaw a lot of the juice separates from them. And I run them through the food mill before cooking. And I did add tomato paste to mine too! When my wooden spoon stands up alone in my ketchup it is ready for canning!
Sound advice !
Great idea! She can then get juice and ketchup.
I use an electric roaster to reduce my large tomato projects and let it simmer all night on low being careful that it doesn't burn. Also, I made a delicious butternut "pumpkin" pie from my canned squash, but you have to let it drain in a colander over a bowl to remove a lot of the liquid. You should probably do that for any dish you make with your canned squash.
Yay!!! I am so happy to see this video! I love how positive you are and your grateful outlook! I love what you said about looking and acting from a mindset of abundance and not fear of scarcity! That really spoke to me. You remind me of my grandma, the most kind person I’ve ever known.
You do what you can. Anything you don’t get done will be there tomorrow. You don’t want to burn your self out or get sick from over doing it.
Your doing great.
Love, 💕 your kitchen.
Becky if you use the freeze dried tomato pulp along with some typ of spicy pepper, added while you’re cooking rice it make some really really great Spanish rice without having to use tomato sauce.
Just add it to the water while cooking.
how do you not cry when you chop onions? 😭 always amazes me hahaha
I don't have a garden, I don't cook that much and I don't can either, but I love watching your videos, you're truly inspiring Becky, thanks for being you and sharing your love and passion with us, it's been a real pleasure watching you and Josh work through all the recent changes in your life and I can't wait to see your family get bigger and see how the new garden is going to turn out ❤️
A good thing to try with the pepper corns is put them in a pan and toast them. It give them a good mild smoky flavor
I’m a recent subscriber and I’m enjoying your channel a lot. I do not grow fresh veggies, since I’m retired and moved into 8th floor condo, but I do have a small hack that might be useful to you. To peel a whole garlic bulb quickly, cut whole bulb in half crosswise, so each clove gets cut at same time. Flip both halves over on board, cut side down, lay blade of chef knife flat on bulb half and give it a whack with your palm. Pick up bulb half and clove halves should fall right out. If that don’t work for you-you are holding your head in wrong position. 😂.
Yet another very productive day preserving! I’m wondering, if a person has dried tomato powder, could it be used for thickening ketchup like you would a soup? You do a great job troubleshooting the things that come up to the benefit of those watching. For that, I’m so grateful that you share it all.
I do use the powder for a thickener in ketchup, pasta sauce, and salsa.
@@chrystallangille1667 awesome, thank you. May I ask, do you make the powder using a dehydrator or freeze dryer? I’ve heard mixed opinions about dehydrating it. I only have a dehydrator and I’m still figuring it out. I had a different one many years ago but it got dropped and broke so the hubby got rid of it.
I don't know if anybody has commented about this, but you can get an attachment for your kitchen aid to strain your tomatoes. The same attachment can be used to grind meat with a few alterations. I use it to make sandwich spread.
You can use dried tomato powder (skins) to make paste - just add water to powder to get consistence knowing the powder may take a bit to rehydrate well. It works really well!
I was going to ask about using the freee dried powder. Seems it would thicken w/o the unpleasant texture. Save the powder for the next ketchup day? Oh, wait.
If you add the tomato powder with out rehydrating first it will absorb the water in the ketchup
@@tinarogge7024 I thought that would be the case but wasn't sure. I throw mine in to stuff to thicken but haven't ever made katsup and just didn't know. Seems logical.
@@SuziesCornerInLove LOL
Aahhh, I've been waiting for this!!! I'm so excited!! I LOVE KETCHUP ❤️. IT IS MY FAVORITE condiment.. I'm so excited 😊 🤗!!!
Glad you posted a video. We are on the tail end Ian hurricane! Hope we will get power back soon. Love your videos.
I hope my carrot and lettuce will servive this heavy rain.
be safe!!
I love your channel. You have such energy. I wish I had learned all of this when I was younger. I started in my 50' now in my 60's. After working hard preserving to rid my food of chemicals, l love finally relaxing with a cup of coffee and your videos. Always full of great ideas. I don't get as much done as you but it's okay, it's not a race. Love you, stay blessed and go easy and take care of yourself and baby! Prayers always.
Fantastic job! I’ve been there before… Where you are with the liquidy tomato base for the ketchup. What I’ve learned is that if I plan to use the food mill rather than removing the skins ahead of time, I really cannot cook the tomatoes down too much at all or what ends up happening is when it goes through the food mill, the tomato meat is too soft, and the food mill works more like a juicer than something that leaves you with a thicker tomato product.
Watched this video on a rainy Saturday morning. Thanks for everything I learn from you. I hope you are feeling well.
Becky, The Kitchen Aid has a juicer attachment. It’s essentially a food mill. It even has a sauce setting and it works well!
It makes me so happy to watch your videos. You are awesome. I purchased the Presto Digital Electric Canner and at 72 years young, I am taking up canning.
You can freeze tomatoes for use in recipes like ketchup. Then you drain off the liquid and make a huge shortcut to simmering down the pulp. Also, I re-watched the video, and I think that you may have added 2 extra cups of the vinegar. (?) Also, you could probably have boiled a smaller amount of the ketchup base at a time, which would have made the process of reduction perhaps go a bit more quickly. Everything looks delish. And that Sloppy Joe mixture is the bomb!
I saw that too.
Hi Becky, I’m a neighbor to the south (Eugene area). With paste tomatoes you are supposed to use the pulp because it doesn’t have many seeds. I would second the recommendation of freezing and partially thawing. I use a turkey baster to pull off the extra water and the skins slide off easily. A blender will take care of any seeds you have left.
Everyone watching becky like😶 for her face to light up when tastes anything.
It makes me so happy 😄
Hi Becky. Have you considered purchasing a large commercial stainless steel kitchen trolley for moving and/or using your heavy or bulky things? Putting a large bucket on it for running the food mill into for example, and shifting large pots of boiling stuff. Or taking into pantry and loading up with all the items/ingredients at once. Bonus use.. after baby is born allows you to stop what you're doing quickly to attend to them. I also use it for moving things in from car/garage, take it from room to room when house cleaning with assortment of baskets or containers of cleaning items and room to remove dirty or misplaced items. Bonus bonus use.. your child can sit on the bottom "shelf" while you are drifting around the house too 😃 Easy to wipe down and roll away for storing somewhere out of the way
Hi Becky!!! You such an amazing person! I feel like you could be my sister! Such an inspiration! I’ve been canning and preserving a lot more from my little garden ❤
Hi Becky, minor tip for you, if you put your lid on your pot with it partially vented/open, it will help with bubbling splash. It will also help things come to a boil faster. If you do it that way, you will have to adjust your heat, because it will cook hotter. All that open bubbling tomato sauce has me cringing, hot tomatoes splash will scald you.
tomato power is my favorite thing ever! putting it in sauces to thicken things up is awesome and putting it on grilled cheese instead of slices of tomatoes has to be my favorite way to use it. tastes like fresh tomatoes, and doesn't get soggy!
Oh sweet Becky, I have canned every day this week. But still doesn’t add up to all you’ve canned in a week. I am exhausted! Oh to be young again. I absolutely love your videos! I wish I started canning when I was younger. Such an amazing skill. I always look forward to spring to get my garden going. Then look forward to winter to enjoy the fruits of my labor. But as a canner, every season is canning season. Much love and blessings.💗🙏
can you do a tour of the shelves downstairs and in the pantry once you are done the season? excited for an updated peek at the bounty all processed, packed, and gleaming in your new setup xp
she mentioned doing that after canning season was over...
Hi Becky and all the friends. Enjoy and learn so much from you and all the friends advice in comments section. We have lots of loadshedding in South Africa, so now I download when we do have power, to watch when we're in darkness.
I have been waiting all day for a video. I could certainly spend the day with you, you seem so fun. Thank you for giving us such knowledge and you make everything look so easy.
Becky, the Butternut squash will make excellent Baby food! It’s one of the first foods baby’s eat. If you freeze dry it ( even if you already canned it) you can take about 1/4 cup of the powder & rehydrate it to make a meal, when your baby starts eating vegetables. I think freeze dried vegetables would be an excellent idea as you can take a 1/4 cup in a plastic container with you anywhere you go & not worry about breaking a jar…or having strange ingredients from grocery store baby food….even if they do say organic blah blah…
Yes, and they love it! Both my kids started on solids with squash, so much cheaper than buying the baby food at the store and you know exactly what’s in it -no preservatives, stabilizers, coloring, and loads of sugar like the commercial stuff.
Hi Becky! I made ketchup this year too! My recipe used thermflo. It is a canning thickener, you can also use clear gel. They are the only canning safe thickeners (except tomato paste of course). My ketchup came came out so great😊 and you don’t have to boil it down as much. I only cooked mine down for an hour.
Hi Becky! Regarding the electric tomato press you were talking about, you should look up the Kitchenaid strainer accessory. I used to use a manual tomato press, until I realized I had bought that attachment as part of a three attachments set. It works like a charm!
Becky I think you should make a “taste face” compilation 😂 your face when you taste things you make is the cutest! I think that would be so fun to see!
I know I love her expressions when she’s tasted her hard work 😍
Hahaha I was literally just thinking something similar the other day. I love to see her facial expressions when she taste things. Like your mark of Approval after all the hard work. 💖💖
Was excited to try your catchup recipe. I didn’t
Iike the ball recipe. I had to half the recipe as I only had 12 pounds of tomatoes out of the garden. I cut the tomatoes in half and squeezed out as much seeds and juice before weighing them. Thought I could save time cooking them down. After sieving and seasoning, cooked them till evening and then poured them into my crockpot and put them on warm overnight. Turn the crockpot on high the next morning and boy did it do the job. I have to say nutmeg and cloves did the trick. After it was cooked down, I tasted it thought it needed another half a cup of vinegar. Ended up with 12 half pints. I don’t know what Portland ketchup tastes like but this recipe is now my favorite. Will be doing another batch when more tomatoes ripen. Thank you for writing out your recipe and showing me you could taste along the way and adjust the seasonings. Been canning forever, can’t believe I never thought of this. Oh I used tomato powder that I freeze dried last year instead of tomato paste, work great.
Sloppy Joe’s sound so good right now! I could literally watch you cook for hours, Becky!❤
Ditto. Now I have a craving. I actually looked at my veg and pantry and have the makings for homemade Sloppy Joe's so that is what I am going to make tomorrow. I already made pasta tonight, otherwise, I may have pivoted. Her Sloppy Joe's sauce looked so good it made me want a scratch and sniff laptop. Haha.
I have never eaten a sloppy Joe, not even sure what one is... a Burger?
It is ground burger with sauce eaten on a bun. Becky if you have precooked frozen or canned burger you have a meal in less then 30 minutes ☺️
@@paigedevine5586 it is everything Becky made but then you add ground beef to it and serve it on a bun. There is a brand called Manwitch that is Sloppy Joe’s in a can that you add cooked ground beef to. It’s pretty good but I’m sure it doesn’t come close to as good as homemade, especially the way Becky made it!
@@paigedevine5586 It's an American "ragu" that, instead of being added to pasta or rice or potatoes, is cooked until thickened and served over a hearty bun as a very messy sandwich. Like many sauces--you can buy it canned or jarred and have a m'eh experience--or you can make it from scratch for a really wonderful meal. I personally like to make it from scratch, load it up with fresh veg like Becky, and cook it for hours just like I do my Bolognese...just very different flavor profile. :) And it freezes just great.
Thank you Becky for always sharing your product links!
I made beautiful ketchup this year! Cheater tip: When the tomatoes are stewing down push a sieve down into the tomatoes and use a ladel to remove the juice that comes up, save that juice to drink, it's awesome! Then when it's all cooked and ready to can I used my emersion blender to whip it smooth. It turned out EXACTLY the consistency of hienz. PS, don't omit the cloves and I added a couple tablespoons of fish sauce to increase the umami!
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If you dehydrate or freeze dry the skin and seeds from those tomatoes you can add that to thicken all your recipes. It saves 12-24 hours of reducing and thickening your sauces.
Oops- I spoke too soon.
Pro-tip. You can do a quick vegetarian sloppy Joe by just opening a can or two of lentils and mixing with the sauce, heat it up and you’re done. :)
LOVE that tip! I eat mostly vegetarian and this is not something I right of. What type of lentils?
@@gracef244 Whichever organic kind they have in the can at the grocery store. Lol pretty sure they’re brown lentils.
@@Thriftyknitter2 yes, I had figured. I have an assortment of lentils. Lol. Black are my favorite, lol
@@pennynickels5216 lol, hence the nickname "beluga lentils"!... and the face that they're asking the most expensive and harder to find on the shelf. The most nutritious of all the lentils as well...k, stop me b4 I start geeking out about lentils!
@@pennynickels5216 Amein!🤣
Becky you are such an inspiration. I love all your videos and all the information and techniques that you use. You have taught me so much! Love you
You mentioned that for the Sloppy Joe's you needed 12 cups of chopped onions, but you only put in 6
Hi Becky, have you ever tried or considered just storing your butternut pumpkins in a cool dark dry space. You have to leave some of the stalk on. Ours keep for about 12 months. It would save all of that preserving. 😊💜
Just a thought; when I do my Roma tomatoes, I cook mine overnight in my 18 qt roaster oven. It adds flavor and thickens the sauce. I enjoy your channel.
What temperature do you use?
Do you cook the tomatoes before using a food mill?
I use my roaster pan anytime I want to thicken sauces also. I put mine on 250 degrees and let it go. I haven’t had any problem with burning and it requires minimal interaction.
I never wanted an electric pressure canner until I started watching your videos. I've always been an old-school stove top pressure canner. Now, I am definitely going to get one. ASAP!
I love your videos! I didn't even realize this video was 40 minutes long until it ended. The time flew by! lol
You are such a positive inspiration! Thank you for your videos. I very much enjoy them :)
PS. Can't wait for part 2 of the ketchup adventure!
Girl, I was tired for you! You did an amazing job 👏🏽!!
Yay!!! A Becky video!!! Perfect way to start the day!!!!❤
I get so many ideas for cooking, storing, freezing and meal prep from your videos, or even just managing kitchen chaos or time management during big size meal preps, Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge with us. Love your videos.
Another amazing video! You are so amazing! You have such a great work ethic and get so many things done all at once! Keep up the great work, and congrats on the new house!
I worked like her in my younger years now I’m 61 I slowed down but still
I’m a worker, Cooking my favorite thing I do in my life! My children enjoy my cooking, I been cooking since I was 11 had too!! I enjoy watching new ways of cooking never to late to learn something new!
Love the videos. The reason you needed to add tomato paste to your ketchup, when you juiced your tomatoes you removed the pulp that would allow your sauce to thicken.
I agree with a previous poster …cook the tomatoes and dip juice off. It will reduce cooking time and you can preserve the juice for drinking or soups. Also I get why the juicer…mainly to remove skin and seeds. You may just want to use the immersion blender or the one you used with the black pepper to smooth all that out.
Thank you Becky for this great video! 10 hours editing is a crazy days work alone plus making more videos! I am staying tuned to how it turns out! I want to buy a jar so bad from you so I can taste this ketchup! “We love ketchup”
Oooohhhhhh!!! Just like when you get into a good movie or tv show with that “to be continued”. I was saying “Nooooooooooo!!!!!” Lol cant wait for stage 2 when you are feeling up to it
The PUR jars are great. I have bought a lot of them, no problems with them. I am going to try to make ketchup too. Looks so yummy. The sloppy joe base sounds yummy too. I have another recipe for that, so maybe i will try to can some.
Just a hint. I have seen a video of how Italian guys do Roma tomatoes for tomato paste. They squeeze all the seeds out of them that way it’s not so watery. Maybe try that next time 🤷♀️. I’ve been waiting for my pears to ripen so I can make pear elderberry jam. I think that’s what I’ll be doing tomorrow. 👍
Thank you for sharing this with us today. I was just telling my husband yesterday that I was hoping you were going to be making ketchup soon
I canned 13 pints of ketchup, I used the recipe from Living Traditions Homestead, it is awesome! Tastes so good! Looking forward to seeing what you do on your new homestead in the coming months.