I just discovered your channel and blog yesterday and I have been absorbing every video. We moved to our little farm almost four years ago but we had to start completely from scratch. The former owners only raised a single beef steer every two years. We've put in permanent beds for berries and started an orchard, plus the kitchen garden. Seeing your homestead is inspiring for what may be possible on our own place, though we are vegetarians and likely won't raise any animals. Your place is wonderful but I am SO thankful to find a homesteading couple who also homeschools their children! We only have four children but most of the other videos and homesteading websites I have found either don't have children at all or they have a single preschool-aged child that they are "homeschooling". (Not dissing that, I've been there and it's still a handful, but not the same as juggling multiple school-aged children tackling serious subjects). Thanks so much for taking time from your busy days to make these videos and maintain your website!
You are freakin AMAZING! Your like a walking encyclopedia on self sufficiency! Thankyou for sharing a little of your beautiful life. I can’t imagine how you know so much about all this. I feel like I could study a lifetime and not know as much as you. You are my hero! Don’t ever change!
Who built your pantry shelves? They are beautifully done!!! I'd love to know how the shelves are supported at the back and sides as I don't see any supports visible.
So enjoyed you pantry tour. Love the idea of having the kids making pies! Time for more cherry pie. My family is loving my convenient canned meats--thanks for your inspiration and instruction. Truly blessed to find your channel.
You made this video 3 years ago. I'm wondering if you have shared your recipe for loaded baked potato soup? I have searched all your videos .. but maybe I missed it. I recently saw your video about auto-immune diseases and healing through the right foods. I just want to stock my pantry the way you do and it's super overwhelming, I am not sure where to start (I'm sure you have a video on that too I should search for;) but I'm determined for my child to do this right however I start. So. Thank you for all of your videos and shared information.
Looking forward to next summer's harvest (both your and mine). I put up a lot of soups (both veggie, meat, fish base, and cream soup mixes) which came in handy this past week when I was hospitalize for 4 days after dental surgery. Keep up the good work.
Amazing. I am from Italy, we also put everything into jars by tradition. And yes, the green tomatoes jam is something we do! (especially in the North of Italy, where i live) I suggest to eat it with aged cheese and toasted bread. I made it a few years ago when i had tons of leftover green tomatoes from my garden, and i still have a few jars. But I have a suggestion to improve your pantry: you should put some labels on the jars to remember when you made it and what it is. I usually put one or two labels per batch (because labeling every jar is useless and crazy) but at least by doing this I'm sure that I know when that batch was made and i can tell someone else to go and pick that specific stuff without error because it is written on it. Usually i label the first jar on the front row of the shelf and i keep the labeled one for last to use. Anyway, thanks for the things you show, and have a good life darling! Your husband is a lucky guy :)
Love your videos! just found you recently. I'm curious, do you do all your preserving? You are so organized with so many children! God bless you both as you share your wealth of knowledge!
I'd love to know how you make the elderberry vinegar. My husband is a huge elderberry fan but it's hard to find any where I'm from, so I love seeing different recipes for it.
We put up all kinds of food also....venison chunked and ground....veggies..jellies n jams. My granny did a lot more ! They only shopped for flour , sugar n such ! I enjoyed this, glad I ran ran across you ! I subscried.
Great pantry! I always have people ask me why I don't keep the rings on my pressure and water bath canned foods too...I always say "you either have a proper seal or you don't". lol❤😉
You can teach yourself if you by the Ball Bluebook of preserving. There are hundreds of recipes and lots of great information in the front of the book on all the basics you need to know. You can also go to the Ball website called freshpreserving.com
Beef suet is commonly used in Britain to make fabulous steamed puddings both savoury and sweet versions. My favourites are steak and kidney pudding and jam rolypoly pudding. They’re not pies but an all round crust in a pudding basin or rolled up in floured cotton cloth- the pudding is then usually steamed or , in some versions, baked. Do you make anything similar in USA?
Pear butter is my most favorite fruit product.😋 I like my morels the naughty way fried, and for years struggled to find a way to freeze them. I finally got it worked out. Prebread them and freeze them in individual layers on parchment not touching their neighbor, then consolidate into a more manageable container in the freezer. Straight from the freezer into the hot oil, if they thaw it becomes a clumped mess, so oil must be up to temperature. Don't overload and cool the oil too much if skillet frying.
outstanding video. I don't use rings either for the exact reasoning you gave in the video. I love the way your cupboards are arranged. mine aren't quiet as deep as yours, but I wish they were. God Bless You
Thanks for the tour. We have been trying to build ours up. We do a lot of salsa..and some meats, mainly chicken and ground beef. The Sloppy Joe mis sounds great, we will have to look into it. Thanks again!!!
Hmm some of those sound delicious, so reminds me when I was a child. We had a huge orchard and my mom made the best apricot jams and we canned almost everything. We had so many apricots we ended up making the dried rolls of apricot, spread the pulp on sheets of plastic (what you cover school books with) on the kitchen table we took outside, so they could sun-dry. Great snacks for hungry kids
I love your channel! So much useful information and I can not wait to start on my canning pantry! You definitely inspired some huge goals and dreams for me. Thank you so much!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! For showing us your pantry goodies. For being so generous with your time and knowledge. And for setting it straight about why not to store canned foods with the rings on. I have been called names for sharing that same information by people who have "been doing it this for a long time and never had a problem". Luck is not a good reason to keep doing it wrong.
Im sorry I know this is an old video, but, how do you wrap up your pie dough that you freeze? I absolutely love this idea! Im teaching my kids to cook and bake and this would be awesome for them.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I am currently watching the breasmaking series you just put out. I can’t comment on there for some reason. But I am learning so much! Thank you again! Warmly KarolAnn Clopton
Can you tell us how to get tallow and how to prepare it for lotion, candles and soap?! Grat vid by the way! I love your channel! It inspires me to go back and live like the old days 💪.
I read many times from canning experts that pressure canning meat products in cans is the safest so companies selling these products by our laws have to b done in cans to sell them. Also have been told many times that if u do not keep the ring on the jar after canning it to store it, u never ever pick the jar up by its top as this can cause seals to break and u could b standing in a very big mess. Really enjoy your videos. Always enjoy seeing your pantry too. Who says u can't teach an old dog new tricks. Keep it up.
You can safely pressure can meats in canning jars. This is for your personal use, not to be sold. Just buy a Ball Bluebook of preserving for recipes and instructions.
@@wendydriggs1539In Canada, stores r not allowed to sell meat and meat products in anything but cans for food safety regulations. Many people still use jars but have been advised to do so by pressure canning only because of the countless food poisoning problems the hospitals and medical centres ran into. Better to b safe than sorry.
Anyone who owns a PRESSURE canner can safely can meats in glass canning jars. It is safe and easy. All you need are Mason jars, pressure canner and a canning book published by Ball or Kerr. Follow the directions for food safety.
It is not recommended to store the jars with the rings on them. They are only needed long enough for the jars to seal. Storing with the rings on leaves sticky food particles under the ring which attracts insects. It also makes the rings rust faster.
@@wendydriggs1539 I didn't say u had to leave the rings on, just not to pick up the full jar by the top as the seal can release and everything falls and can make a big mess.
Just found your channel and do enjoy it. As a youngster in the 1940's my mom canned every year and our basement was full of goodies. Today my wife and can each fall. But.....I am surprised...no tomatoes ( we do at least 100 jars every fall), green beans, pickled beets ( a favorite), corn relish, asparagus, or beans? We also can chicken which is, as you say, ugly but delicious.
With your lard, I have always kept it in the freezer. Is yours canned, shelf stable? This may be a silly question but never thought about keeping on shelf and would be great for it to not take up freezer space
My spice cabinet is a total nightmare. I even bought two spice organizers and now I have multiple levels of chaos LOL. I'd really like to buy spices in bulk and put it in Mason jars for better organization and visual appeal. Any tips or advice on this is greatly appreciated. 🥰
Wait, did you make the elderberry wine vinegar from those tiny blue elderberries? The ones growing wild around here are probably less than a quarter inch in diameter. It would take forever to pick enough to do anything with them.
I’ve been storing tallow in the freezer. I had one go bad on the counter. No issues with lard going bad on the counter though. How long does the tallow last on the shelf?
Love this, Carolyn! Can hardly wait for your series (although I think I'm repeating myself). I do have a question, though. I've had problems with canning ground meats. I've found that canning alters the taste in an unpleasant way. Wondering if you have a way to prevent this, or ingredients that would help. Stew meat or meat chunks don't seem to do this.
I have par-cooked mine, drained and then added water and garlic then canned. I honestly don’t do a lot of it though. The taco meat I did eat wasn’t bad. Do you add spices to it then can it? It could be that. Some spices I’ve heard don’t preserve well when pressure canned.
There will be a bad taste when canned at too high a pressure or for too long a period of time. I ALWAYS WRITE DOWN time started at pressure so know what time I finish and don't need to use a possibly faulty timer.
Can you post the chicken recipe with lemon in the description below video please? Love the video btw. Looking forward to the recipes. I always hear people talking about Apple cider vinegar. First hearing about elderberry. Thanks again!
Do you have recommendations for cleaning the morels? Last time we harvested some they were so full of dirt and grit stuck in every crevice that we couldn’t eat them.
One of the best channels for information on foods and preserving IMO.
Thank you, Carolyn. A beautiful and well stocked pantry. 😃
I'd love to know your system for keeping an inventory of what is used and things getting older and need to be used. I love your pantry!
Wow this women is worth a Million in Gold..awesome !!! Thank you for sharing..
It's so comforting to watch her videos.
You are amazing!! Love your homesteading !!
I just discovered your channel and blog yesterday and I have been absorbing every video. We moved to our little farm almost four years ago but we had to start completely from scratch. The former owners only raised a single beef steer every two years. We've put in permanent beds for berries and started an orchard, plus the kitchen garden. Seeing your homestead is inspiring for what may be possible on our own place, though we are vegetarians and likely won't raise any animals. Your place is wonderful but I am SO thankful to find a homesteading couple who also homeschools their children! We only have four children but most of the other videos and homesteading websites I have found either don't have children at all or they have a single preschool-aged child that they are "homeschooling". (Not dissing that, I've been there and it's still a handful, but not the same as juggling multiple school-aged children tackling serious subjects). Thanks so much for taking time from your busy days to make these videos and maintain your website!
So many nuggets of wisdom here. Who would think of canning fruit in apple juice? Great idea. Thanks so much.
That is what commercial fruits are often canned in. White grape juice is another.
You are freakin AMAZING! Your like a walking encyclopedia on self sufficiency! Thankyou for sharing a little of your beautiful life. I can’t imagine how you know so much about all this. I feel like I could study a lifetime and not know as much as you. You are my hero! Don’t ever change!
A well stocked pantry. That's the kind of thing that happens when a person's idea of excitement is working towards a vision.
Who built your pantry shelves? They are beautifully done!!! I'd love to know how the shelves are supported at the back and sides as I don't see any supports visible.
So thankful to have found your channel! You should write a book with all of your canning recipes and tips! You are such a gifted teacher.
I have pantry envy. Wonderful pantry. God bless.
So enjoyed you pantry tour. Love the idea of having the kids making pies! Time for more cherry pie. My family is loving my convenient canned meats--thanks for your inspiration and instruction. Truly blessed to find your channel.
That all looks so amazing! So many great ideas, too! Thank you for sharing so much with us.
You made this video 3 years ago. I'm wondering if you have shared your recipe for loaded baked potato soup? I have searched all your videos .. but maybe I missed it.
I recently saw your video about auto-immune diseases and healing through the right foods. I just want to stock my pantry the way you do and it's super overwhelming, I am not sure where to start (I'm sure you have a video on that too I should search for;) but I'm determined for my child to do this right however I start. So. Thank you for all of your videos and shared information.
Looking forward to next summer's harvest (both your and mine). I put up a lot of soups (both veggie, meat, fish base, and cream soup mixes) which came in handy this past week when I was hospitalize for 4 days after dental surgery. Keep up the good work.
Oh what I would give to go shopping in your pantry, instead of the grocery store... great video!
I'm an old country cook, thank you so very much. Best site I've seen
Loved the tour Carolyn! Looking forward to the class!
Amazing. I am from Italy, we also put everything into jars by tradition. And yes, the green tomatoes jam is something we do! (especially in the North of Italy, where i live) I suggest to eat it with aged cheese and toasted bread. I made it a few years ago when i had tons of leftover green tomatoes from my garden, and i still have a few jars.
But I have a suggestion to improve your pantry: you should put some labels on the jars to remember when you made it and what it is. I usually put one or two labels per batch (because labeling every jar is useless and crazy) but at least by doing this I'm sure that I know when that batch was made and i can tell someone else to go and pick that specific stuff without error because it is written on it.
Usually i label the first jar on the front row of the shelf and i keep the labeled one for last to use.
Anyway, thanks for the things you show, and have a good life darling! Your husband is a lucky guy :)
Love your videos! just found you recently. I'm curious, do you do all your preserving? You are so organized with so many children! God bless you both as you share your wealth of knowledge!
for beginners you should have stated do not stack your jars on top of each other at all. i learned that the hard way lol
Thanks for the tour, and the tips! It's cool to see what's possible :) Also ty for reminding me about Dandelion Tea!
Thank you for sharing your jewels....just Love putting food in jars.🌻
I'd love to know how you make the elderberry vinegar. My husband is a huge elderberry fan but it's hard to find any where I'm from, so I love seeing different recipes for it.
Wonderful panty tour, thank you! Sign me up for the preservation class this summer- you're a great teacher and I love your recipes!
Great program.
We put up all kinds of food also....venison chunked and ground....veggies..jellies n jams. My granny did a lot more ! They only shopped for flour , sugar n such ! I enjoyed this, glad I ran ran across you ! I subscried.
Good on you for mentioning the Take the Ring Off rule.
Thanks for showing what's on the shelves. I love to can and some of the things you shared I hadn't tried yet but will be this year..
Absolutely adore your channel and Facebook page. So very very helpful
Thank you Carolyn. I Love what you are doing with the chanel, feels fresch and new. #goingtoanotherlevel
After canning chicken or other meats I place the jars in a brown sandwich/lunch bag befor putting them on the shelves...so delicious.
This is such a fun tour of your pantry Carolyn, I live in Idaho and would love to meet you one day!
this was a wonderful presenetation....a lot of good info that I gleaned from it...thank you...
Great pantry! I always have people ask me why I don't keep the rings on my pressure and water bath canned foods too...I always say "you either have a proper seal or you don't". lol❤😉
Awesome :) I love seeing the different types of things in peoples pantries :)
Carolyn how did you learn to preserve food? Thanks for your videos
You can teach yourself if you by the Ball Bluebook of preserving. There are hundreds of recipes and lots of great information in the front of the book on all the basics you need to know. You can also go to the Ball website called freshpreserving.com
Beef suet is commonly used in Britain to make fabulous steamed puddings both savoury and sweet versions. My favourites are steak and kidney pudding and jam rolypoly pudding. They’re not pies but an all round crust in a pudding basin or rolled up in floured cotton cloth- the pudding is then usually steamed or , in some versions, baked.
Do you make anything similar in USA?
Pear butter is my most favorite fruit product.😋 I like my morels the naughty way fried, and for years struggled to find a way to freeze them. I finally got it worked out. Prebread them and freeze them in individual layers on parchment not touching their neighbor, then consolidate into a more manageable container in the freezer. Straight from the freezer into the hot oil, if they thaw it becomes a clumped mess, so oil must be up to temperature. Don't overload and cool the oil too much if skillet frying.
I love this video, this has inspired me to give canning a try. I'll look for your canning class.
Thank you! You share so much knowledge in these videos!
outstanding video. I don't use rings either for the exact reasoning you gave in the video. I love the way your cupboards are arranged. mine aren't quiet as deep as yours, but I wish they were. God Bless You
Thank you, this gave me more ideas for next year! I want your elderberry vinegar! Lol
Thanks for the tour. We have been trying to build ours up. We do a lot of salsa..and some meats, mainly chicken and ground beef. The Sloppy Joe mis sounds great, we will have to look into it. Thanks again!!!
A thing of beauty!!! TY
You make amazing videos and each tim I have a question you answer it. Thank you for making these videos available!
I can my fruit with apple juice too- and when the fruit is all eaten, you have a nice apple juice nectar to drink!
Are your classes going to be online? So excited 👏👏👏
Hmm some of those sound delicious, so reminds me when I was a child. We had a huge orchard and my mom made the best apricot jams and we canned almost everything. We had so many apricots we ended up making the dried rolls of apricot, spread the pulp on sheets of plastic (what you cover school books with) on the kitchen table we took outside, so they could sun-dry. Great snacks for hungry kids
Love this!!!
Love your channel! Thanks for all the information you share. So very helpful.
I love your channel! So much useful information and I can not wait to start on my canning pantry! You definitely inspired some huge goals and dreams for me. Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful pantry with us! You are an inspiration! God bless ❤️
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
For showing us your pantry goodies.
For being so generous with your time and knowledge.
And for setting it straight about why not to store canned foods with the rings on.
I have been called names for sharing that same information by people who have "been doing it this for a long time and never had a problem". Luck is not a good reason to keep doing it wrong.
What?! I waited the whole video to hear what's in the lager bottles! Lol
Im sorry I know this is an old video, but, how do you wrap up your pie dough that you freeze? I absolutely love this idea! Im teaching my kids to cook and bake and this would be awesome for them.
A lovely pantry indeed!! Thanks for sharing! ~~Leslie
Absolutely love your channel! So interesting. Have you ever thought of selling your jams and preserves? Those sound really delicious :)
Looking so good with all the matching jars 😍 But I’m curious! How du you dry the squash?? I would really like to try it
Sooo excited to have found you!!👏👏👏
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I am currently watching the breasmaking series you just put out. I can’t comment on there for some reason. But I am learning so much! Thank you again!
Warmly
KarolAnn Clopton
Can you tell us how to get tallow and how to prepare it for lotion, candles and soap?! Grat vid by the way! I love your channel! It inspires me to go back and live like the old days 💪.
Thanks for your tips.
I love canning corned beef and pork loins. Two of our favorites
I read many times from canning experts that pressure canning meat products in cans is the safest so companies selling these products by our laws have to b done in cans to sell them.
Also have been told many times that if u do not keep the ring on the jar after canning it to store it, u never ever pick the jar up by its top as this can cause seals to break and u could b standing in a very big mess.
Really enjoy your videos. Always enjoy seeing your pantry too. Who says u can't teach an old dog new tricks. Keep it up.
You can safely pressure can meats in canning jars. This is for your personal use, not to be sold. Just buy a Ball Bluebook of preserving for recipes and instructions.
@@wendydriggs1539In Canada, stores r not allowed to sell meat and meat products in anything but cans for food safety regulations. Many people still use jars but have been advised to do so by pressure canning only because of the countless food poisoning problems the hospitals and medical centres ran into. Better to b safe than sorry.
Anyone who owns a PRESSURE canner can safely can meats in glass canning jars. It is safe and easy. All you need are Mason jars, pressure canner and a canning book published by Ball or Kerr. Follow the directions for food safety.
It is not recommended to store the jars with the rings on them. They are only needed long enough for the jars to seal. Storing with the rings on leaves sticky food particles under the ring which attracts insects. It also makes the rings rust faster.
@@wendydriggs1539 I didn't say u had to leave the rings on, just not to pick up the full jar by the top as the seal can release and everything falls and can make a big mess.
Just found your channel. Love it!
She loves being in the kitchen as much as me. Love her hair
I really miss the farm and my huge pantry.
Need to watch. I've been wondering what's in the dark beverage jars on the left shelf in every shot of pantry chat!
Hard cider
I would love to see how you make the hard cider please!
i know a lot about this (my grandfather was a dairy farmer and had a MASSIVE garden)
Just found your channel and do enjoy it. As a youngster in the 1940's my mom canned every year and our basement was full of goodies. Today my wife and can each fall. But.....I am surprised...no tomatoes ( we do at least 100 jars every fall), green beans, pickled beets ( a favorite), corn relish, asparagus, or beans? We also can chicken which is, as you say, ugly but delicious.
Nice! I must have missed the long narrow necked bottles bottom left shelves. Did you make root beer?
She said all of that is hard cider
Would love a soap instruction video!!
With your lard, I have always kept it in the freezer. Is yours canned, shelf stable? This may be a silly question but never thought about keeping on shelf and would be great for it to not take up freezer space
Hi from Alabama! A friend gave me a jar of pear butter sooo good!
My spice cabinet is a total nightmare. I even bought two spice organizers and now I have multiple levels of chaos LOL. I'd really like to buy spices in bulk and put it in Mason jars for better organization and visual appeal. Any tips or advice on this is greatly appreciated. 🥰
Baby Root I’ve done it! It looks so much better! I used jelly jars for a lot of them. It just calms my mind when I look at it.
@@Ristina81 I'm sure it does! Mine is a hot mess 😫 Do you have a pic of how it looks? Thanks so much.
Baby Root I can take picture but not sure how to post it.
I put mine in glass jars and vacuum seal and store away from heat & light.
@@Ristina81 sorry, I didn't realize that. I'm sure its lovely. I'm going to make it a project to get them in jars.
Thank you! Enjoyed this episode.
Wow! You are amazing!
Will you put together a recipe book? That would be amazing!
Everything sounds so delicious!
How do you can your potatoes 🥔 :)
Do you Water bath? Or can you? Dry can? Thanks for all the wonderful videos 💗🌺 love them
Thanks ☺️
Thanks to God for leading Ron Wyatt 💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏
Wait, did you make the elderberry wine vinegar from those tiny blue elderberries? The ones growing wild around here are probably less than a quarter inch in diameter. It would take forever to pick enough to do anything with them.
I’ve been storing tallow in the freezer. I had one go bad on the counter. No issues with lard going bad on the counter though. How long does the tallow last on the shelf?
Love this, Carolyn! Can hardly wait for your series (although I think I'm repeating myself). I do have a question, though. I've had problems with canning ground meats. I've found that canning alters the taste in an unpleasant way. Wondering if you have a way to prevent this, or ingredients that would help. Stew meat or meat chunks don't seem to do this.
I have par-cooked mine, drained and then added water and garlic then canned. I honestly don’t do a lot of it though. The taco meat I did eat wasn’t bad. Do you add spices to it then can it? It could be that. Some spices I’ve heard don’t preserve well when pressure canned.
Thank you. I'll try that.
There will be a bad taste when canned at too high a pressure or for too long a period of time. I ALWAYS WRITE DOWN time started at pressure so know what time I finish and don't need to use a possibly faulty timer.
have to find your lemon recipe, I have 4 huge lemon trees loaded this winter
Love the pantry!
No canned tomatoes? I’m SO impressed!💖🦩
Can you post the chicken recipe with lemon in the description below video please? Love the video btw. Looking forward to the recipes. I always hear people talking about Apple cider vinegar. First hearing about elderberry. Thanks again!
I'd love to see a video on that jam Long method
Do you have recommendations for cleaning the morels? Last time we harvested some they were so full of dirt and grit stuck in every crevice that we couldn’t eat them.
Can I be your neighbor? LOL. So much to learn from you.
How do you know when they expire? Is each one different ? And do you add when label? Learning about the longevity, Thanks
Check out our video on this: homesteadingfamily.com/how-long-is-canned-food-good-for/
I have left over onions from the garden that I would like to can. What seasonings or brine do you use when you can onions?
Love your pantry
Please - did you ever share the potato soup recipe? Thank you!
I was curious , now I know. Do you have a recipe for your jalapeno - pine apple jam ? Sounds appealing !
Thank you for sharing :) it is very inspirational.
How long would this pantry (if you weren't to add to it) last a family your size?
Seriously? GREAT GRANDMA JEANNIE remembers her mother making this; and she's still living? How amazing! Who's great Grandma is this?