I love your root cellar. Just a small tip, from experience, when you’re storing your empty jars in the cellar, put your lids back on loosely and store them upside down. They’ll be easier to wash again before filling next summer, and you’ll have the lids right there, all accounted for, nice and organized.
I'm loving this series! So many people show how they can, not so much the other preservation, and they RARELY show how they use it. That's always the best part for me.
EVERY ASPECT of these videos makes them possibly the most valuable videos I have ever watched. I intend to come back to watch them several times and possibly annually. Hope you eventually put them into their own playlist.
Being able to eat only what you have canned and veggies stored from last season is extremely inspiring. Not that I have any immediate plans to simulate this, I am feeling better about being able to when the time comes....BRAVO
I'll happily join you in your next challenge, as soon as I can figure out how to grow or harvest from the wild Rocky Road ice cream ;) Watching your challenge, I can see a few things that I would make sure to do before *I* could accept such a challenge: 1.) Don't miss caribou season! (Or deer season, elk, or wild boar, if possible all of the above?) 2.) Grow mushrooms! 3.) Expand solar/power collection to insure enough power to light the chicken coop at least 16 hrs a day for more egg production! 4.) Supercharge honeybee hive management to increase harvest-able honey crop! 5.) Start raising rabbits for meat! 6.) Grow a few rows of oats, a row of wheat or 2, and perhaps a row of corn too! 7.) *If the broccoli crop fails, then the challenge is off!* 8.) Need much more garlic! 9.) Grow many more beans for drying! Not sure I'd be up to growing enough beets to make into sugar, 'cause I'm OK with eating beets as beets, & honey production is easier and much less wasted energy & waste by-products. I have to wonder if it would be possible to grow peanuts in a high-tunnel greenhouse???
Great ideas. I personally would look into making sugar from birch trees as it does not raise glycemic index like honey does. Mushrooms are much easier and cheaper to grow than many realize. You can get spores from grocery store mushrooms. I would bet they will find some come Spring and dry them. Definite thumbs up on more egg production. I think they might be the most perfectly nutritious food there is. That they do sourdough is the most clever as it turns out this negates the GMO wheat the most. Probably not the glyphosates but no bromine! Peanuts grown here are very bad as they alternate them with wheat crops and I think they would be very fun to grow. I believe keeping a high tunnel greenhouse warm would be too costly unless they housed all livestock in it for warmth as the Chinese do.
Amen about the broccoli crop.Not sure I could manage without it and cauliflower. While watching these challenge videos, I’ve started researching keeping dairy cows in Alaska and growing mushrooms. 🤣
Btw you actually can use the tops or the leeks just as well as the lighter parts. They simply need to be cooked a little longer since they're a bit rougher
It's wonderful to enjoy the food you grew & harvested + the salmon & the teas. Healthy eating and knowing exactly what's in it sure is a smart way to go. Glad the cellar is working for you.
During this challenge, have you found certain veg you will grow more (or less) of, and any new veg you would like to grow and can this year? Like garlic, beans or corn? I know this is your challenge but I would have considered salt and pepper a given! You are doing so good!
You grew the perfect number of leeks : half for you, half to replant in the spring to get a little bigger for early allium crops and (mostly) for seed.
great update on the 31 day challenge !!!!!!! Nice fish catch . Beautiful plate ups of all the meals. Great creativity and combinations of all your own home grown food. Few folks will appreciate your efforts and honesty through these 31 days. Your proving , just like in homesteads of the past , eating all your own food can be done. Thank you chickens for kicking in a some breakfast protein :) I know you are already thinking about new additions to this years garden plan. Keep up the great work . You folks have come a long way in your lives . The video skills are great . Thanks for your effort to teach and brighten our days with your work.
The creativity of your cooking choices is inspiring. Potatoes; steamed, boiled, fried, mashed, baked. The same veggie but served in so many variations, flavors and textures. You are rockin’ this challenge!
No wonder you both look so healthy and your skin is like porcelain. Everything you eat you have grown, caught, preserved, cooked yourselves. I am still amazed at what you both do, inside and out you are just pure Down to Earth soul's. Adore you both and your pet's. Hug's from Australia xx how about a nice juicy Steak, those delicious sausages you made and COFFEE!
So proud of you guys. You grew the stuff, you canned it and now you're living off it--Way To Go!!! I bet the locals would buy your yummy canned goods and produce.
I love these videos!! Thank you for sharing!! I have followed along for a long while.. and now seeing how you're utilizing the foods you made and preserved is even MORE inspiring - you two are AWESOME!
When it comes to your jars I put the old lid and ring back on after washing. It saves the lip on the jar and keeps the jar alot cleaner and vole poop free.
@K Barnes Me too. I grew up with old timer homesteader grandparents, and they made a point of all empty cups and jars being stored upside down to keep the mice and bugs out.
@K Barnes I always store my empty jars upside down, when possible, too. (Have some stored, on their sides with rims facing outward, in plastic totes. Newspaper, acting as padding between the layers.) Jars can be double stacked, if using cardboard (or similar) between each stack. Like you, I keep rings separate, as well. I store those on a straightened wire clothes hanger. On the end of the wire opposite the hook, I attach an old ring to act as a stopper. Then, just drop the rings over the hook. Hang it anywhere that's convenient. I keep separate hangers for regular and wide mouth rings. During canning season, these hangers are hooked over the curtain rod above my sink. Convenient!! The rest of the time, I hang them in the pantry off from my kitchen.
So proud of you two. You are both looking great. What a way to begin the new year cleansing and eating organic food. Always a nice variety of meals. If we could only smell what you are cooking lol
Alittle tip. Keep the end of the leeks. Have a big whiskel barrel or any other container filled with soil . Repot the ends of the leeks with the roots back in the soil. Keep watering it should grow back. Same with the ends of the onions. If you have potatoees sprouting same there. Endless bounty. Love your garden
U guys are doing amazing! Keep it up! Love the food storage update with the sawdust chips! Amazing you're not having any freezing issues with your jars down there!!!
Hi there! My wife and I lived in Alaska for 8 years plus. 1 year was on a float house and three years on a boat. Alaska is such a wonderful place. This video looks to be fun. We've been there with 4 kids. Love your productions! It reminds us of our time there.
Eric, I know you are missing coffee, but I have a word of caution for you when you imbibe again. Hubby and I are weaning ourselves off in preparation of living in the bush, without it readily available, and whenever we drink it, we get really jittery and hyper. Also, you can get a bit moody once you have it too, so keep that in mind. The jitters suck royally and I just want to make sure you and Arielle are aware in case you "lose patience" aka "get bitchy" with each other. It's probably the coffee. ;-D
Really great combinations of the foods you have to work with. The fish salad looked really appealing to me. I love the way the veggies are different colors than I'm used to and even striped!
LOVE this - you guys are awesome. One suggestion: sauerkraut does not need to be canned or cooked. Try the Russian way (storing raw fermented kraut in a cold-ish place, like a root cellar, loosely covered but not sealed). No heat of canning or cooking gives you way more vitamin C. NO it does not smell (just a little, like kefir) or turn into kimchi, it's a different process, just cabbage, salt, and some good bacteria. Grated carrots ad cranberries if you have any provide for some variety.
It’s time for another pantry challenge guys! Love it when you do these challenges, you inspire me to go through my freezer and use up all my canned food. You guys are still my favourite utubers…. I just need more food content from you guys..lol❤
awesome video. interesting to see the difference in food style and food availability. I subscribed because you guys dont add a bunch of unnecessary fillers in your video. straight to the point. nice cooking guys
Nice catch! That coho was beautiful. And the fries would never have made it back into the oven. I would have stood there and eaten every one of those beauties.
Grow what you like, eat what you grow. I think most of us eat the same meals over and over. So limited variety should not be a draw back But seed planning could start with meal planning. Remember it’s better to plant too much and feed it to the chickens I stead of running out. I admit I’m a little worried about your root cellar temperatures. You might want to add more earth, or straw around the top to better control the temp.
Great to see you enjoy all the goodies you caned in the season. Great example of food independence and how to plan the crops and the recipes according to your menu and diet preferences
Delightful! I am so intrigued to see your root cellar. So much good information shared regarding its set up. Appreciate you sharing the options for keeping the food, once in the kitchen. Your meals are amazingly varied with ingredients ... I don't think the average person would have that variety in storage ... but it is a very good goal to present, as we can all imagine that if put in a situation where all we can eat is what we can produce, variety is the spice of life. 🌷
I think my favorite idea was the syrup/jams in the tea! I have so many jams that I need to use! One of my goals this year is to use all my jars. I have over 500. I have (12) 3'x12' beds and I'm planning to make hugelmounds for berries and such. I also have a lot of fruit trees. We'll see how much I can do by myself. My husband isn't into gardening or canning. I loved seeing how many jars you used!
I remember when we lived in the bush. We had 60+ salmon recipes and got SO tired of salmon. I don't eat it much to this day when I don't have to do so.
Wow, -20, that's damn cold. It's great to see that your root cellar is performing well. I picture your compost pile being a frozen tower of food scraps considering your temps. Haha! I'm really loving the chaga tea. The chaga that we had purchased at a store was just tiny chunks that we added to other tea and you really didn't get the chaga flavor. Making tea with a few nice chunks of the big stuff is so much better. And you were right, it goes a long ways brewing on the wood stove for days and days. We love the taste. Fantastic meals! I really like the loaded baked potato/fries idea.
Root vegetables like carrot, kohlrabi, parsnips, and beets, can be grated into a slaw type of salad. If you have fresh apples left in the cellar, apples bring a bit of sweetness to it. It breaks up the monotony of cooked vegetables a bit. I know you'll have to wait for the oils and vinegars until the end of a challenge (which is already over while I'm watching the videos), but I always have to come up with uses for pickle brine, and this seems like one of the ways to use it up. :)
After eating such healthful, flavor packed, and colorful food, there is no way on earth that you could sit down at McDonalds with a burger and fries and call it supper. Love all your creative meals. Not boring but coffee and bread are the ones you miss? What about salt and pepper? Your herbs seem to be really doing the job. You've got to be happy and proud with your challenge so far.
Beautiful share! Great ideas for cooking with your canned goods. Ya'll are doing great! Beautiful fresh wild Salmon! Thank you for sharing! Take care, stay warm.
I'm laying on my warm bed after smoking the naughty herd while I watch this and I would like to truly recommend you write a cook book. You eat exceptionally healthy with exotic ingredients that most could grow themsleves or find very close alternatives. I'd buy that book. A seed to harvest cook book🤙
You are so dang inspiring on so many levels, We are odd since we love leeks, and eat them in some kind of meal 3-4 days a week. Have a dehydrator and dry gallons of leeks. Might you raise chickens to can this year?
My crowdpleaser is a salmon and leek tart. I prefer puff pastry for crust, but it can be hard to source without all the artificial additives, so I usually just cheat and make a pie crust with large crumbs of butter that flake up enough for this application. A bit like a quiche, but without cheese, because unlike Americans, us native Europeans don't always put cheese on everything. I adore leeks. I am the worst leek farmer yet, my leeks are the size of pencils, but I use perennial Asian bunching onions as substitutes. The big ones are the size of small leeks, and taste similar enough where I can get away with cheating on leeks.
Your determination is admirable. Halfway there and I hope you manage to catch something different for protein. It’s so good that your stored potatoes, carrots and beetroot are doing so well and you have a good grasp of what to grow and store for next year. Roll on morning coffee.
I think, a lot of people dreams about this healthy meals! I also!! I am too weak! Thank you for the suggestion!!! I like your channel!!! Greetings, Hans from Germany
You’re doing great. The meals look delicious. Good to see someone else likes cooked breakfasts too. The root cellar is performing extremely well. It’s hard to believe the fresh veggies are still so fresh. BTW: Just wondering if the change in diet has resulted in any improvements in your general health and wellness? Cheers from Australia. Regards, Jeff. 👍😀🐠🦘🦌🥕🍅
Great idea for the challenge. Really puts you in a place to decide different things to make with what you have and better idea of what to grow and can next summer. 👍👍👍
Yummy food. I admire you being able to survive your challenge without salt that provides flavor to the food. You eat a lot of salmon. Your veggies are so wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
All your food sure looks tasty. I really like the recipes/ combinations you are coming up with :) We have a Leek veggie side- dish here in Germany we enjoy a lot. There is never such a thing as too much leeks with this. If you are at all interested: - clean and cut leeks into rings ( ~ 1.5 to 2 kg of leeks) - Saute in a bit off lard, add some water or broth (not much just so they are not dry) - cook untill done, season to taste. salt, pepper, nutmeg, paprika powder is the usuall go too, but not possible with your challenge, but you guys are very creative - take of heat and bind the whole mass with an egg or two (usually just egg yolk but a whole egg does it too) we go through a lot of leeks with this dish and my familly loves it
Hey guys! Wow, great job yet again! Those soups looked sooo good. It's awesome that in this cold weather, your girls are giving you some eggs. And I'll say it again, those teas look tasty, and your gut is loving you with all that sauerkraut! Take care, and keep these great inovative videos comin'!!! Tiina 😊❤🏠🇨🇦
Turnips and swedes would be a good root veg to swap in for variety this season, and with a different peppery taste. I think you've mentioned elder trees as a source of smoking wood, but no mention of using the blooms for pop/soda and the berries for jam or wine.
Cream of leek and potato soup if no milk use any stock put it through a blender. You can never have too many leeks. If you trench and then hill them next year you get a bigger whiter stalk.
You guys are doing great! Kudos to you! Oh My! I love salmon ... but not for breakfast, lunch and dinner. - Must be more varieties of fish in Alaska!? Can't wait until you put in your orchard, more dessert, jelly and jam options. If I recall correctly, next year you can start letting eggs turn into chickens that you can butcher. ? - Have you considered raising turkeys? Are you considering raising pigs or dairy cows? Do-able? What would it take? Best wishes and good luck with your challenge!
Baking 3 time's more zucchini bread next year. Need to can bean's - both green and dried, and corn, pea's .Add on to the back of the cabin and use a mini table top greenhouse so you can have fresh salad stuff. Interesting dishes. Stay warm and safe. God bless
What’s your plan for breakfast on day 32 ?
Lol, Eggs toast and bacon with hollandaise sauce and a stiff coffee. Lets see if I am right?
Serge Kent Meat and lots of coffee 😀
@@SimpleLivingAlaska ☕😂
more salmon lol
Ribeye, cornbread, and chocolate cake!
I love your root cellar. Just a small tip, from experience, when you’re storing your empty jars in the cellar, put your lids back on loosely and store them upside down. They’ll be easier to wash again before filling next summer, and you’ll have the lids right there, all accounted for, nice and organized.
These videos are so unbelievably educational. Not to mention extremely wholesome. And entertaining as well. The trifecta of perfection.
I am so blown away by your organization and industriousness!
Carrot soup? You can also make mayo with your eggs and a little lard and make a potato salad, onions, carrots, yum
That salmon casserole looks great - it's Alaskan Shepherds Pie!!
Always store jars upside down, it makes cleaning much easier
They take up the same room.
Love seeing y’all “shop” from your own supplies. Thx for sharing your challenge with us.
I'm loving this series! So many people show how they can, not so much the other preservation, and they RARELY show how they use it. That's always the best part for me.
EVERY ASPECT of these videos makes them possibly the most valuable videos I have ever watched. I intend to come back to watch them several times and possibly annually. Hope you eventually put them into their own playlist.
It's nice that both of you like all the same things .
Potato -Leek soup! The best.
With onion yum i love broccoli in it too. God in practically drooling 😂😂😋
Steak fries covered in yummy goodness (ham, cheese, bacon, onions, etc) is called Irish nachos. They are delicious!
Being able to eat only what you have canned and veggies stored from last season is extremely inspiring. Not that I have any immediate plans to simulate this, I am feeling better about being able to when the time comes....BRAVO
I'll happily join you in your next challenge, as soon as I can figure out how to grow or harvest from the wild Rocky Road ice cream ;)
Watching your challenge, I can see a few things that I would make sure to do before *I* could accept such a challenge:
1.) Don't miss caribou season! (Or deer season, elk, or wild boar, if possible all of the above?)
2.) Grow mushrooms!
3.) Expand solar/power collection to insure enough power to light the chicken coop at least 16 hrs a day for more egg production!
4.) Supercharge honeybee hive management to increase harvest-able honey crop!
5.) Start raising rabbits for meat!
6.) Grow a few rows of oats, a row of wheat or 2, and perhaps a row of corn too!
7.) *If the broccoli crop fails, then the challenge is off!*
8.) Need much more garlic!
9.) Grow many more beans for drying!
Not sure I'd be up to growing enough beets to make into sugar, 'cause I'm OK with eating beets as beets, & honey production is easier and much less wasted energy & waste by-products. I have to wonder if it would be possible to grow peanuts in a high-tunnel greenhouse???
Great ideas. I personally would look into making sugar from birch trees as it does not raise glycemic index like honey does. Mushrooms are much easier and cheaper to grow than many realize. You can get spores from grocery store mushrooms. I would bet they will find some come Spring and dry them. Definite thumbs up on more egg production. I think they might be the most perfectly nutritious food there is. That they do sourdough is the most clever as it turns out this negates the GMO wheat the most. Probably not the glyphosates but no bromine! Peanuts grown here are very bad as they alternate them with wheat crops and I think they would be very fun to grow. I believe keeping a high tunnel greenhouse warm would be too costly unless they housed all livestock in it for warmth as the Chinese do.
Amen about the broccoli crop.Not sure I could manage without it and cauliflower. While watching these challenge videos, I’ve started researching keeping dairy cows in Alaska and growing mushrooms. 🤣
Hahahaha!!! About the rocky road ;)
For the coffee, next time grow some dandelion as a crop, leaves for your salads and store the roots for winter coffee.
I love chicory coffee.
I'm getting ready to harvest huge batches of dandelions greens to freeze for this upcoming winter. Lots of vitamins.
Btw you actually can use the tops or the leeks just as well as the lighter parts. They simply need to be cooked a little longer since they're a bit rougher
Im so fascinated by your meals! Congrats on living off of the land! Thats quite an accomplishment:)
I was just thinking how much I wanted you to put cheese on top of something 😂
kateymateymusic1 : amen sister! Lol 😂
Oh me too! Or some tortilla chips to scoop up that yummy looking food with.
Ikr....they need to get a cow in the spring!👍🏻
It's wonderful to enjoy the food you grew & harvested + the salmon & the teas. Healthy eating and knowing exactly what's in it sure is a smart way to go. Glad the cellar is working for you.
During this challenge, have you found certain veg you will grow more (or less) of, and any new veg you would like to grow and can this year? Like garlic, beans or corn? I know this is your challenge but I would have considered salt and pepper a given! You are doing so good!
Every single meal looks amazing!!!
Is it sad I don't want this to ever end but I know all good things have to end. This is my new favorite vlog channel
Doesn't get better than this! Looks amazing!
You grew the perfect number of leeks : half for you, half to replant in the spring to get a little bigger for early allium crops and (mostly) for seed.
You guys are getting SO creative with the meals! Just awesome!!!
great update on the 31 day challenge !!!!!!! Nice fish catch . Beautiful plate ups of all the meals. Great creativity and combinations of all your own home grown food. Few folks will appreciate your efforts and honesty through these 31 days. Your proving , just like in homesteads of the past , eating all your own food can be done. Thank you chickens for kicking in a some breakfast protein :) I know you are already thinking about new additions to this years garden plan. Keep up the great work . You folks have come a long way in your lives . The video skills are great . Thanks for your effort to teach and brighten our days with your work.
This is what I call creative cooking. Love it.
I love watching this series. It’s been a treat to play while teaching in this pandemic.
The creativity of your cooking choices is inspiring. Potatoes; steamed, boiled, fried, mashed, baked. The same veggie but served in so many variations, flavors and textures. You are rockin’ this challenge!
No wonder you both look so healthy and your skin is like porcelain. Everything you eat you have grown, caught, preserved, cooked yourselves. I am still amazed at what you both do, inside and out you are just pure Down to Earth soul's. Adore you both and your pet's. Hug's from Australia xx how about a nice juicy Steak, those delicious sausages you made and COFFEE!
So enjoying your journey! The "no coffee" has to be crazy hard
So proud of you guys. You grew the stuff, you canned it and now you're living off it--Way To Go!!! I bet the locals would buy your yummy canned goods and produce.
I love these videos!! Thank you for sharing!! I have followed along for a long while.. and now seeing how you're utilizing the foods you made and preserved is even MORE inspiring - you two are AWESOME!
When it comes to your jars I put the old lid and ring back on after washing. It saves the lip on the jar and keeps the jar alot cleaner and vole poop free.
How about rust rings? The space they are storing in isn't climate controlled.
@K Barnes Me too. I grew up with old timer homesteader grandparents, and they made a point of all empty cups and jars being stored upside down to keep the mice and bugs out.
@K Barnes I always store my empty jars upside down, when possible, too. (Have some stored, on their sides with rims facing outward, in plastic totes. Newspaper, acting as padding between the layers.) Jars can be double stacked, if using cardboard (or similar) between each stack. Like you, I keep rings separate, as well. I store those on a straightened wire clothes hanger. On the end of the wire opposite the hook, I attach an old ring to act as a stopper. Then, just drop the rings over the hook. Hang it anywhere that's convenient. I keep separate hangers for regular and wide mouth rings. During canning season, these hangers are hooked over the curtain rod above my sink. Convenient!!
The rest of the time, I hang them in the pantry off from my kitchen.
So proud of you two. You are both looking great. What a way to begin the new year cleansing and eating organic food. Always a nice variety of meals. If we could only smell what you are cooking lol
There’s no such thing as growing too much leeks 👍
As someone else said - some of them could be dehydrated. Mind you there are only so many hours in a day in reality.........
Such a problem to have, right? I'm jealous!
Healing Fibers leeks are good to make chicken broth with.
We did this last year and it was such a great experiment. I was ready for some fresh greens by the end, but totally worth it!
Alittle tip. Keep the end of the leeks. Have a big whiskel barrel or any other container filled with soil . Repot the ends of the leeks with the roots back in the soil. Keep watering it should grow back.
Same with the ends of the onions.
If you have potatoees sprouting same there. Endless bounty. Love your garden
U guys are doing amazing! Keep it up! Love the food storage update with the sawdust chips! Amazing you're not having any freezing issues with your jars down there!!!
Hi there! My wife and I lived in Alaska for 8 years plus. 1 year was on a float house and three years on a boat. Alaska is such a wonderful place. This video looks to be fun. We've been there with 4 kids. Love your productions! It reminds us of our time there.
Look at all those cans! You’re my food saving inspiration lol.
Homesteaders keep hundreds. We probably have 300.
Awe shucks, we dont have any cans, only jars . 🙄😄
Eric, I know you are missing coffee, but I have a word of caution for you when you imbibe again. Hubby and I are weaning ourselves off in preparation of living in the bush, without it readily available, and whenever we drink it, we get really jittery and hyper. Also, you can get a bit moody once you have it too, so keep that in mind. The jitters suck royally and I just want to make sure you and Arielle are aware in case you "lose patience" aka "get bitchy" with each other. It's probably the coffee. ;-D
I'm so impressed and inspired by your creativity and diligence in healthy eating! Love all your episodes!
Really great combinations of the foods you have to work with. The fish salad looked really appealing to me. I love the way the veggies are different colors than I'm used to and even striped!
I think it wonderful, 100 years ago, you get what you you put up.
Love what y'all are doing, keep up the great work. Be sure to do your part in populating this country with well raised young people. God bless y'all.
Does anyone else sing “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme” in their head when they add their herbs? 😅
Jacqueline Goede every single time 😂
Isla Carpenter *every single thyme*
@@rowanfernsler9725Always!
LOVE this - you guys are awesome. One suggestion: sauerkraut does not need to be canned or cooked. Try the Russian way (storing raw fermented kraut in a cold-ish place, like a root cellar, loosely covered but not sealed). No heat of canning or cooking gives you way more vitamin C. NO it does not smell (just a little, like kefir) or turn into kimchi, it's a different process, just cabbage, salt, and some good bacteria. Grated carrots ad cranberries if you have any provide for some variety.
the colors of those canned foods are amazing! Looks so good!
It’s time for another pantry challenge guys! Love it when you do these challenges, you inspire me to go through my freezer and use up all my canned food. You guys are still my favourite utubers…. I just need more food content from you guys..lol❤
You guys are all right. You two will accomplish much in your lives...they way you set common goals and work together.
10: 16 fireweed jelly! Wow. Never heard of that. And dried blueberries. Looks very yummy. My kind of dessert. 👍☺
Just a little hint...store your jars upside down,they will keep cleaner that way. All your meals look so yummy!
I'm impressed with your creativity. Good job.
awesome video. interesting to see the difference in food style and food availability. I subscribed because you guys dont add a bunch of unnecessary fillers in your video. straight to the point. nice cooking guys
Nice catch! That coho was beautiful. And the fries would never have made it back into the oven. I would have stood there and eaten every one of those beauties.
Grow what you like, eat what you grow.
I think most of us eat the same meals over and over. So limited variety should not be a draw back
But seed planning could start with meal planning. Remember it’s better to plant too much and feed it to the chickens I stead of running out.
I admit I’m a little worried about your root cellar temperatures. You might want to add more earth, or straw around the top to better control the temp.
Great to see you enjoy all the goodies you caned in the season. Great example of food independence and how to plan the crops and the recipes according to your menu and diet preferences
Your food is so colorful! And always interesting.
Delightful! I am so intrigued to see your root cellar. So much good information shared regarding its set up. Appreciate you sharing the options for keeping the food, once in the kitchen.
Your meals are amazingly varied with ingredients ... I don't think the average person would have that variety in storage ... but it is a very good goal to present, as we can all imagine that if put in a situation where all we can eat is what we can produce, variety is the spice of life. 🌷
I would turn my jars upside down with rings on to keep dust n stuff out mostly.
I think my favorite idea was the syrup/jams in the tea! I have so many jams that I need to use! One of my goals this year is to use all my jars. I have over 500. I have (12) 3'x12' beds and I'm planning to make hugelmounds for berries and such. I also have a lot of fruit trees. We'll see how much I can do by myself. My husband isn't into gardening or canning. I loved seeing how many jars you used!
I remember when we lived in the bush. We had 60+ salmon recipes and got SO tired of salmon. I don't eat it much to this day when I don't have to do so.
The colors of those fresh veggies is spectacular!
Wow, -20, that's damn cold. It's great to see that your root cellar is performing well. I picture your compost pile being a frozen tower of food scraps considering your temps. Haha! I'm really loving the chaga tea. The chaga that we had purchased at a store was just tiny chunks that we added to other tea and you really didn't get the chaga flavor. Making tea with a few nice chunks of the big stuff is so much better. And you were right, it goes a long ways brewing on the wood stove for days and days. We love the taste. Fantastic meals! I really like the loaded baked potato/fries idea.
Almost Homestead glad you guys are enjoying :)
Root vegetables like carrot, kohlrabi, parsnips, and beets, can be grated into a slaw type of salad. If you have fresh apples left in the cellar, apples bring a bit of sweetness to it. It breaks up the monotony of cooked vegetables a bit. I know you'll have to wait for the oils and vinegars until the end of a challenge (which is already over while I'm watching the videos), but I always have to come up with uses for pickle brine, and this seems like one of the ways to use it up. :)
I am amazed at the recipes that you come up with. Looks good.
Bet the chickens would LOVE those roots!
After eating such healthful, flavor packed, and colorful food, there is no way on earth that you could sit down at McDonalds with a burger and fries and call it supper. Love all your creative meals. Not boring but coffee and bread are the ones you miss? What about salt and pepper? Your herbs seem to be really doing the job. You've got to be happy and proud with your challenge so far.
Beautiful share! Great ideas for cooking with your canned goods. Ya'll are doing great! Beautiful fresh wild Salmon! Thank you for sharing! Take care, stay warm.
I'm laying on my warm bed after smoking the naughty herd while I watch this and I would like to truly recommend you write a cook book. You eat exceptionally healthy with exotic ingredients that most could grow themsleves or find very close alternatives. I'd buy that book. A seed to harvest cook book🤙
You can use the roots of the fireweed (roasted) as a coffee substitute.
You are so dang inspiring on so many levels, We are odd since we love leeks, and eat them in some kind of meal 3-4 days a week. Have a dehydrator and dry gallons of leeks. Might you raise chickens to can this year?
I love leeks too! Would adore any recipes you have!
My crowdpleaser is a salmon and leek tart. I prefer puff pastry for crust, but it can be hard to source without all the artificial additives, so I usually just cheat and make a pie crust with large crumbs of butter that flake up enough for this application. A bit like a quiche, but without cheese, because unlike Americans, us native Europeans don't always put cheese on everything.
I adore leeks. I am the worst leek farmer yet, my leeks are the size of pencils, but I use perennial Asian bunching onions as substitutes. The big ones are the size of small leeks, and taste similar enough where I can get away with cheating on leeks.
Leeks are super good in curry as well! Never even had leeks until last year. Have been missing out for many years.
First! Food looks great! Have you noticed anything different about your energy levels, weight loss/gain, sleep patterns, and stuff like that?
Other than being real weak and lethargic you mean?
MrPanzerblitz why would they be weak and lethargic?
Your determination is admirable. Halfway there and I hope you manage to catch something different for protein. It’s so good that your stored potatoes, carrots and beetroot are doing so well and you have a good grasp of what to grow and store for next year. Roll on morning coffee.
I think, a lot of people dreams about this healthy meals! I also!!
I am too weak! Thank you for the suggestion!!! I like your channel!!!
Greetings, Hans from Germany
Those meals look delicious... making me hungry. Awesome job making all that from your land, amazing
This is so inspirational to watch. You guys are great!
You’re doing great. The meals look delicious. Good to see someone else likes cooked breakfasts too. The root cellar is performing extremely well. It’s hard to believe the fresh veggies are still so fresh. BTW: Just wondering if the change in diet has resulted in any improvements in your general health and wellness? Cheers from Australia. Regards, Jeff. 👍😀🐠🦘🦌🥕🍅
Great idea for the challenge. Really puts you in a place to decide different things to make with what you have and better idea of what to grow and can next summer. 👍👍👍
The extra leeks could be dehydrated and enjoyed much longer 🙂
Freeze drying them should be no problem!!
I love this channel! I've been binge watching all of your videos and your food always looks delicious!
Snack- potato chips fry your thinly sliced potatoes in lard and add your seasoning! Hope that helps!
You guys are great. One of my favorites is pickled onions. Super easy to make and stores well. Keep up the great work
Love your channel! It would be nice to hear projects planned for Spring/Summer.
Yummy food. I admire you being able to survive your challenge without salt that provides flavor to the food. You eat a lot of salmon. Your veggies are so wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
The veggies look so good, and you are coming up with some good combinations. My mouth is watering!
Watching on my TV and enjoying your creative food challenge.
All your food sure looks tasty. I really like the recipes/ combinations you are coming up with :)
We have a Leek veggie side- dish here in Germany we enjoy a lot. There is never such a thing as too much leeks with this.
If you are at all interested:
- clean and cut leeks into rings ( ~ 1.5 to 2 kg of leeks)
- Saute in a bit off lard, add some water or broth (not much just so they are not dry)
- cook untill done, season to taste. salt, pepper, nutmeg, paprika powder is the usuall go too, but not possible with your challenge, but you guys are very creative
- take of heat and bind the whole mass with an egg or two (usually just egg yolk but a whole egg does it too)
we go through a lot of leeks with this dish and my familly loves it
You guys are so amazing with the variety you have
What about beans? And rice! Very easy to store and makes lots of meals. Your meals that you have made are wonderful! Great job canning!!!
The food looks really good guys. I would have given in to the coffee by now good job keep up the good work.
I just bought a bag of carrots at the grocery that had more green on them than that. Yours look great!
Hey guys!
Wow, great job yet again! Those soups looked sooo good. It's awesome that in this cold weather, your girls are giving you some eggs. And I'll say it again, those teas look tasty, and your gut is loving you with all that sauerkraut!
Take care, and keep these great inovative videos comin'!!!
Tiina 😊❤🏠🇨🇦
Turnips and swedes would be a good root veg to swap in for variety this season, and with a different peppery taste. I think you've mentioned elder trees as a source of smoking wood, but no mention of using the blooms for pop/soda and the berries for jam or wine.
Its such a bummer to see this knowing it caved in. It was so cool!
Cream of leek and potato soup if no milk use any stock put it through a blender. You can never have too many leeks. If you trench and then hill them next year you get a bigger whiter stalk.
You guys are doing great! Kudos to you!
Oh My! I love salmon ... but not for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Must be more varieties of fish in Alaska!?
Can't wait until you put in your orchard, more dessert, jelly and jam options.
If I recall correctly, next year you can start letting eggs turn into chickens that you can butcher. ?
- Have you considered raising turkeys?
Are you considering raising pigs or dairy cows? Do-able? What would it take?
Best wishes and good luck with your challenge!
All of the things you guys are making looks really tasty and very creative. Giving me ideas.
Baking 3 time's more zucchini bread next year. Need to can bean's - both green and dried, and corn, pea's .Add on to the back of the cabin and use a mini table top greenhouse so you can have fresh salad stuff. Interesting dishes. Stay warm and safe. God bless