Another Week's Worth of Homestead Food Preservation! | Every Bit Counts Finale
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I have watched RuthAnn Zimmerman on homesteading with the Zimmerman‘s use the food meal and she said after you spin the food meal to the right six or seven times you have to spend it backwards to get the seeds to come out of the holes. I saw that you got frustrated with your food meal.
I found you on RUclips a few weeks ago and I had to have surgery on my elbow and I have been watching you nonstop. I love all the goats.😊
Thank you for filming this series! I think there are many people who think they're somehow "doing it wrong" when they have "small harvests" every day or every few days from their gardens. It is a little bit of a misunderstanding about determinate tomatoes, for example; The fruit sets and is ready to harvest within a short window compared to indeterminate tomatoes, but by no means is this over just a one or two week span in my experience. (We've had determinate tomato varieties that put on flushes that lasted several weeks, and rather than the plants being "done", they took a short break and started setting blooms again!) So I guess what I'm saying is that it's super helpful to see how you deal with the abundance in garden, farm, and sales in the season. But also how you sort of stumbled into another facet of garden management and that is realizing what your family may not utilize as much as you thought, since there were so many frozen peppers. BTW - I do wonder if the tomato paste (ground skins in the food processor) could have been made creamier by using your immersion blender once you added the liquid?
Oh I bet you’re right about the immersion blender! It did essentially melt into the the ketchup great! We have had the exact same experience with determinate tomatoes, I want to grow more heatmaster determinites next year for sauce making.
Our tomatoes come in bits and pieces too lol for the last week-10 days ours have started to ripen (hoping for more sunlight for the rest 😒). We keep them in the fridge until there’s enough to make sauce, which takes a few days.
Adding the filming to your preservation work would definitely take more time and energy. That said, A VERY BIG THANK YOU for going the extra mile to bring this to us!! 🙏❤🇺🇸
You bet! Thanks for watching ♥
32:47 So cool to see the froggie! 🐸
Wasn't that neat? The tree frogs have been all over even though it's been pretty dry!
I love your channel because it’s real. Sometimes you can’t get to all the pears in time! Yes, with the nutrient transfer concept-I love it. You’re doing such a great job!
Thanks so much!! ♥
I have totally loved this series. You do such a great job of explaining and suggesting things without making us feel stupid or like we're horrible because we may not being doing certain things. You have given me so many ideas. Thank you!!!
My son loves pear sauce. We have a young pear tree and are anxiously waiting for it to bear fruit. Last year I made ketchup for the first time, but I used grilled tomatoes, because I was doing a big batch of tomatoes for several projects. It ended up tasting like BBQ sauce, which was still good especially for meatloaf. Have a great day.
Grilled tomatoes!! Sounds amazing!
I saw a gentleman who blended his frozen tomatoes (including skin) and poured the juice into a large glass container with a spigot in the bottom (like a tea jar). He let that sit and the water settled to the bottom where he poured it out and went onto jar the tomato paste that was left over. Easy peasy.
That is SO neat!
Hello, I have a NORPRO sauce master food strainer. There are all sorts of similar products available. I love this machine I wash and cut tomatoes into 3-5 piece chunks. Run them through the machine the juice goes into one tray and the skin and seeds go into a separate tray. That is it. I cook down the juice and into the skin and seeds I add some olive oil and Italian spices fresh or store bought. Spread this onto dehydrator tray dry and grind into powder, which is amazing esp if you add some spices. I got rid of my food mill right after I bought this machine. Great video today!! take care, Steven
I will definitely be looking into that! Thank you!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead The screen in the box is perfect for tomatoes and there are other screens available 1 for berries and 1 for salsa these can be found for about $15 each. I have never gotten them as I have not needed them.
Freeze dried fruits are really expensive in the store, too! So good though.
If I’m wearing a hat for the day,it stays on until I finish up what in doing outside or inside. I’m not taking it off because my hair was a mess before I decided to put the hat on. Lol
Your so inspiring Heather you work so hard on your little Homestead and able to show everyone what you do and I'm very proud of you have to say my friend and I would always love to see more and more of what you do on your homestead and just know that I'm here to support you on RUclips. Thank you for sharing till next time, God Bless.
Loved this every bit counts series, Heather. Lots of ideas of how items are preserved and also used. Your pasta dinner looked yummy! I love pears, so I bet I would love the pearsauce. You mentioned using items to replace other things, and applesauce is a good replacement for oil too in some baked goods. I bet the pearsauce could do the same thing in some tasty sweet baked items. Really like how you made your own tomato paste using the leftover skins from making sauce. That's the essence of 'every bit counts' to me! Seeing the kids helping and also preserving their own, is so precious. You can tell they really enjoy it and that will be something they have with them as adults too. 💚🫑🍐🫑💚
OH I should put the pear sauce in the coffee cake!! Great idea!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Yes, It was a blessing to see the children in on the processing. (:
I’ve really enjoyed seeing all of your preserving through the month! I recently made sauce with meat and it turned out soooo yummy! I still have lots of tomatoes coming in so maybe I’ll try some ketchup. I thought it was a much longer process so didn’t want to try it until seeing this video. Thanks for sharing!!
I love ms wages packets. I’m surprised there’s nobody else making easy canning recipe packets like that!
I have found a new favorite channel ! And believe me I watch plenty. I love how down to earth you are. Watching the other channels where everything looks perfect in their kitchen, or work area, or greenhouse, really has made me hold off on making videos in my own garden and kitchen. This is not meant as an insult AT ALL, it is meant for me to show my appreciation how you show how things REALLY look when you're working hard in your gardens and kitchen. My son would ask me, mom why don't you make long videos and I'd say, because my kitchen isn't set up perfect like the other youtubers. Thank you , I learned alot watching this one video !!
I have bags os tomatoes just like that in my freezer, time to get them out and make sauce !
You are so welcome for that! If it had to be perfect there's no way I could do it. I see a clean kitchen as a blank canvas and I swiftly mess it up lol!! ♥
life is messy! If your house is picture perfect you probably aren't really living!
@@maryhysong I totally agree !
I’ve enjoyed this month with you.
I just made pear sauce last week, too! I also made a Salty Caramel Pear Butter from Krystal Schmidt's Freeze Fresh book. Delicious!
OH that sounds lovely!!!
TY for sharing. Really enjoy watching your growing, preserving, and hearing your tips. Hoping to learn to make cheeses this fall/winter when less busy from garden and cleanup. Loved seeing your kids...sweet.
Cheesemaking is so rewarding! I need to make a cheese today.
As always another great video. Mike says when you used the oil filter wrench for the lid that it was ingenious and the best thing he’s learned from watching RUclips in months. ❤❤❤ much love and blessings dear.
That was my husband's idea after I had to keep banging on the lids and denting them to get them open!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead when I saw you do that, I told her to comment, and I went to Amazon!!! lol
I haven't tried freeze dried pears. I bet they'd make a great winter 'crisp' on a cold day!
Yes indeed!!
We love watching you what ever you do. God bless and keep you
I agree that pectin is a pain. I had to use almost a whole jar of it to make kumquat marmalade. But the end result was worth it. The ranch owners had a tree in their yard at their other property and brought me a whole box of them!
Dang that sounds lovely!!
@@SageandStoneHomestead It was so good I would eat it straight from the jar... 😅
Unless your bags of peppers were leaking, the moisture in the basket/bin they were in is condensation. Warm, moist air hits the frozen bags and condenses into water that drips into the basket/bin. It's water from the air. BTW you run the food mill clockwise for several turns then you run it counter clockwise to clean out the seeds. Then return to clockwise.
I tried that and it's like the seeds filed right back into the holes :(
Good Morning. Back again with my coffee and watching lol, I love learning new things that I never knew or just would like to learn.
Hello again! ☕️❤️
I want to eat those dried tomato skins 😂 I can feel the crunch through the screen!
I’ve been making sauce last week and this week because our harvest has been really late. I think I have around 6 8oz containers (we freeze because we don’t have canning equipment yet and plenty of freezer space) and I’m doing more later today 😂
Yay! Better late than never!
Using the mill, 3 cranks forward and 1 crank back to unclog. That also keeps the nut on the bottom from coming loose.
I tried that and the seeds fell right back to the holes when I continued :(
I like to make pear butter with our pears. I just replace apples with pears.....yum!
I loved the video Heather!! The freeze dried pears looked amazing. 😊😊 ALL of it looked amazing actually. Can't wait for the next one... 💜👍💜 Aunt Beth
Love watching all you do you bring alot of joy to my morning coffee ☕❤
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of so many things. Have you ever made tomato chips for the kids?❤❤❤
They eat those little cherry tomatoes dry and it's a lot like a small chip! They love it ♥
Do I garden? No
Do I can or preserve food? No
Are these types of videos my favorite thing to watch? Yes 😀
I don't blame you!! I like to watch makeup tutorials and I don't wear it LOL!! I really like to see how artful people are. I like watching cookie decorating too.
Check out brew bags to get the water out of your tomatoes. Lot less time simmering down and it makes a real thick sauce
I really like a lot of the Mrs. Wages stuff. Not everything is great, but it sure speeds some things up when you just need it done in a hurry lol.
I agree. We didn't love the salsas but the pickling packs are great and we do like the chilli base and now the ketchup! I bought the pizza sauce pack too.
@@SageandStoneHomestead Same!! The salsa is ok, not spicy enough for me lol.
I heard if you do five turns to the right and then one turn the opposite direction. It’ll keep it cleaned out so it doesn’t get clogged. That was from Ruth Ann Zimmerman. She has a RUclips channel too and it’s great.
I couldn’t get it to work by doing that! It’s like the seeds filled the holes back in right away
@@SageandStoneHomestead sorry to hear that but glad you were able to find another way to make it work!!
Looking forward to the bread recipe Ty!
Coming soon!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Me Too.
Awesome video Heather. Thoughts and Prayers.Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings.
Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
An idea to get your pear jam to set...add a couple of granny smiths apples per 8 cups of pear sauce. Y I u still might need a packet of pectin, but you shouldn't need more than that.
just found new recently and I love your videos! Thank you so much for all the knowledge. I also enjoy your positive attitude and ability to roll over the bumps along the way.
Thank you so much!! I’m glad you’re here ❤️
When I use my food mill, I put fewer tomatoes in it, and when the holes get clogged, turn the handle backwards and scrape it out and discard that. Still kind of slow
Great tip! I think I want to get one of the ones that looks sortof like a meat grinder that spits out the skins and seeds and leaves a nice pulp behind
Thank you for answering a question I asked my Heather about the pears. When you said about the sugars on the outside. I’ve learned several things from this video.
I'm so glad!! ♥
@@SageandStoneHomestead we love your channel, and once we get to our homestead in WV, Heather will be picking your brain about a ton.. Especially goats lol
I'm here! Sometimes comments get lost but you can always email me too if I miss a question of yours!
Glad I found your channel. Enjoying watching your videos. I love gleaning new ideas.
Welcome!!
Heather thank you so much for this video! So encouraging and so informative and it is such a joy to watch your videos and let my brain explode with so much that can be done even more so than what I'm doing now lol. Does that make sense? Going to try and get myself a food mill. Eventually we'll be heading up North with my sister and brother-in-law and will be living off-grid and that will come in handy. Along with a hand grinder for dried corn. I already have a grinder for meat....
I'm sure you mentioned this in another video but what is that little Contraption you use to remove the air from the jars?? I already placed an order for my food mill LOL
That's so exciting!!
Oh! I look forward to seeing your video with the lunch meat maker. I've seen a couple, and I'm interested in getting one. So the more videos I see on it, the better!
I'm making some today to test out the process but I'm excited to show it too!!
cottage cheese and pineapple is my fave, yumm xxx
I am so glad I found your channel. The information that you share is so invaluable.❤❤
Thank you! I am glad you're here ♥
Yeah you did the Mrs wages ketchup. I’m glad you enjoyed the taste. I’ve made homemade ketchup before but the fam didn’t particularly care for the flavor. I have a packet of Mrs wages ready to go. I think I will slowly add t to my store bought ketchup to integrate the fam into it.
Very inspirational, great job on all of your hard work. I love how you store all of your food and I would love to try making homemade ketchup in the future too. Great share, love this.
Thank you for this series. I enjoyed every bit of it !
And thank you for answering my question about your organisation 😍
I saw through this series that you had quite a lot of equipment for preserving. Do you think you could make a video this winter when you have more time with a recap of what you use ?
Yea that's a great idea!
That was a great little series ☺️❤️
I absolutely love your videos Heather!!!
Thank you so much!!
Sometimes life is overwhelming! And sometimes all we can do is what we can do and that might not be perfect but it is what it is. You probably could sort the pears and cut out the bad spots and make more pearsauce; I like mine with nutmeg and ginger whereas I put cinnamon in applesauce. I'd love to have a freeze drier but I have no space in my house to put something that big. lol. Yep the milk just keeps coming and coming and coming 😂 I used to do a lot of canning and drying but now I live all by myself so my garden goals have changed from trying to can up as much as possible for a family to can I eat fresh from the garden every day/ With a few things preserved like pickles, some convenience items like jars of broth for soup base and such and of course meat and cheese in the freezer. Since I sell at the farmers market I rarely have enough tomatoes to preserve and mostly just eat up the bug damaged ones before they go bad.
Oh I LOVE nutmeg!!
Love your videos Heather!!
Thank you so much!!
Awesome discount for Epic! I think you may have just swayed me!😂
I wouldn’t steer you wrong!! ❤️
Funny about the hat. I did notice it, but just because it's from Ryan Hall! :D
It’s one of my favorites!
@30:00 u can definitely let a couple of people in ( like one family ) and tell them to pick whatever amount of cherry tomatoes they want for 30 minutes. For 15 or 20 dollars
I bet u will find someone local who will take advantage of this amazing deal ❤ and since they are only one family it will be easy to check whenever they are there and done
Our kids are doing it though? The farm is theirs first for sure. We don't farm for profit we farm to feed our family and the volunteer tomatoes are bonus food. It's important to come to grips with things going back to the land not being wasted. The tomatoes that fall feed the earthworms and benefit our farm. Alternatively we could use the $15 to buy fertilizer or spend the time toting manure around but why when the tomatoes are taking care of things themselves? Letting systems like this play out saves a ton of effort and makes other projects manageable without burnout.
Heb deze video nu pas gekeken. Wat een werk! Echt super knap van je. Leuk en leerzaam om te zien. ❤
Ontzettend bedankt! Altijd leuk om je hier te "zien"!
I only use low sugar pectin now, for any level of sugar. It’s the only one that always sets for me.
I'll have to try that! Thanks!
You have a great RUclips channel I’ve been enjoying it so much! Do you have a video of you making the pear sauce? I would love to see how that’s done! 😊
No I don't! I decided to not film it this time but I may next year when pears are in season again, hopefully our trees will have some fruit next year!
We go through A LOT of bell peppers and onions in my house. What you freeze dried, id use up probably in two months. Being from Louisiana we cook many things that we put bell peppers in its so crazy how much we use of that. I heard you mention in prior videos that you have a lot of tomatoes stored up from “”heat master” variety…I am growing those now what size are they supposed to be in full size? Mine are just starting to put on fruit and they aren’t very big at all. Thanks God Bless
They are not huge. They are about 8 to 10 oz fruits!
@@SageandStoneHomestead Thanks
Thank you, I can barely get things done never mind filming and editing it. What type of roaster do you use? I didn’t see it in your Amazon store.
This one was sent to me by a friend, it's from Hamilton Beach and I think it's the 22 quart I believe :)
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I’m dying to know what the Amish folk made of the freeze dried pears! Did they taste them while you were there?
They were super busy that night but the store owner tried it and his face puckered!! The flavor is quite shocking if you are not expecting it. It's a good punch of flavor!!
when using the food mill for anything that has skins and seeds you have to spin it in the opposite direction when the whole starts getting clogged and it will scape it clean
I did that and when I resumed the other direction the seeds went right back into the holes
Every six or eight turns around with the tomato stuff in it, turn it backwards a couple of turns to scrape up the seeds off the bottom. That should release it enough so that you can go forward again. You have to keep doing it throughout though.
It didn't work for me. I did that and they slipped right back into the holes when I resumed the correct direction. Very fussy!
You haven't gone backwards to scrap seed and sklns from the bottom and then go forward five times then backwards
This did not work for me well enough to keep doing it. The seeds filed right back into the holes on the first pass
People really complain about you wearing a hat in YOUR house?
Not really a complaint I guess but people do ask!
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