Homestead Freezer Tour and a Surprise Gift | Two Deep Freezes and a Stand Up Freezer
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Today I'm showing you my freezers so you can see what they look like in May verses what they will be looking like in August. I will show you another freezer tour video after the big harvest is done so you can see how full they get Lord Willing!
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Pro tip for your deep freezers, get a small white board and dry erase markers and keep an inventory of what you have on hand. You can use hash marks for multiples and erase one whenever you use it. You can even switch marker colors every so often so you know what is the oldest. Helps avoid forgetting about an item buried at the bottom, and let’s you know what you have without digging around. Also, beef tongue taste exactly like pot roast, and it makes awesome tacos! Look up lengua tacos, that’s how it is spelled in Spanish.
It does have an unmistakable texture though! It definitely tastes like beef and is quite wonderful when prepared well.
Take pictures of your white
Boards with your phone. To refer to of what you have when shopping or when you want to cook something
Great idea ~ my freezer is white so I just use dry erase markers on it directly! Stays put until I erase it 💕
I use the dry erase board tip. I buy the ones that are magnetic and have one on each freezer and my fridge.
That is an awesome inventory tip idea! Thanks
A newbie here but love your channel. It’s wonderful to see a young person take charge of their food production
Thanks so much! I’m happy you are here :)
You really need a backup generator. It would be a tragedy to lose all that food during an extended power outage.
This lady is right. It is highly likely a power outage is iminent, given the political climate and severe drought. CA power lines burned to a crisp last year and half the state was literally without power in some cases, for weeks.
I might add an alarm to mine. I accidentally did not shut the door of my freezer tight (I'm thinking something on top was in the way and I didn't realize it) and it was open overnight. Everything thawed, but luckily I caught it in time to preserve several things (frozen chicken breast I canned, frozen hamburger I fried and refroze, and we ate the steaks with friends) I lost 2 1/2 bags of food though.
Those chest freezers keep child air in since cold air sinks. I'm from an area that would lose power a few weeks every winter and the chest freezers don't need generators to work! :)
I was thinking the same and wondering which generators are best. Are there any good solar generators?
@@lisatangen4213 It all depends on your budget. For portable generators I recommend Honda. Add up the watts of the things you want to run on the generator plus extra to prevent overload. A reliable Honda generator dealer can help you.
I'm not a big meat person, but I remember my mom boiling cow tongue and then slicing it wafer thin for her sandwich..She loved it. She was raised on a farm early 1900's.
Omg cow tongue is delicious! Season with salt. Cook it in your crock pot over night with 1 tbsp of chopped garlic. Delicious with corn tortillas and salsa. Your husband wouldn’t even think it is cow
Chest freezers last a lifetime in my experience. My grandparents have to replace their stand up freezer every couple of years but I’ve had my chest freezer for over a decade now 😍 It’s survived moves and everything.
Our stand up freezer has lasted longer than that. We have a temp sensor hooked to a cell phone alert so we know if the temp starts rising...good thing because the door doesnt always close right. I love our chest freezers but hubby thinks they're hard to find things in so I individual freezer meals, frozen veggies, and hunks of meat rotated into our upright so he's more willing to throw something into the Instant Pot or microwave as it's easy to find.
My parents bought us a huge chest freezer after we had our first baby. Freezer and baby are now 26 years old :)
Just found your channel. I am so glad to see the younger generation going "old school", how very cool.
Thanks :) I love it
Me too !
Everything is so likeable about you, a nice, grateful, happy woman! So grateful I found your channel ❤
I love seeing what people have in their freezers, pantry! What an amazing blessing with the jars!🙌🏻🙌🏻
I like watching them too :) I'm so grateful to have the jars! they will be used!
I absolutely adore the fact that you know where and how your food is grown and processed. I am impressed that you buy local (I too like to support our local farmers). Really enjoyed this!
thank you so much!!
The dogs would love the beef tongue ☺🕊🧡🐶🐶🧡🕊
When I have too many cherry tomatoes I lay them out on baking sheet and splash with a little olive oil and seasonings and roast until soft and caramelized. I freeze them in small baggies and use with pasta, eggs. pizza, lots of things.
Having three freezers is essential for people who are growing their own food or buying in bulk. I bought a large catering freezer and it's great to have the freedom of knowing that if I make stuff or have extras, that I have room.
If you want to maintain the crunch of bell peppers, just cook them from frozen.
I dice up 3 different colors with spring onions & red onions and freeze them. I like to add it to my eggs in the morning & still enjoy the crunch up to 3 months. They’ve never lasted beyond that time so I don’t know if the texture changes further down the road.
I love the house tour.... neat laundry room, clothes folded and a mask hanging in the garage for the dogs (LOL)!!! You are so organized and neat. Love it. I so loved this video ALOT. thank you.
New subscriber here! You can cook that beef tongue in a crockpot. Season with salt and pepper, garlic add a couple of cups of water or chicken or beef stock. Add an onion. Just cook it overnight. In the morning take off the outer skin. Chop the beef or use a couple of forks to separate the beef. Season to taste, make a Pico salsa with corn tortillas. These will be some great beef tacos! Rich and delish! I hope you will try it!
I'm going to! I'm going to make tacos and do a live and try it! I'm scared....
@@AcreHomestead You'll be ok. I hope you like them.
PS. I like it with corn tortillas the best.
Cow tongue is good . Put it in a crockpot on low overnight with a tiny bit of water, salt, black pepper. Drain in the morning. Peel skin off and chop it up. Make tacos with corn tortillas some salsa cilantro and onion .. yummy
You have to try beef tongue tacos. Cut the tongue into about 6 pieces, cook in pot with water, orange slices, bay leaf, black pepper, oregano, salt for an hour. Remove the skin of the tongue, then return meat back to pot and cook until it sheds like pulled pork. Yum
Beef tongue is very expensive. You can cook the beef tongue in the pressure cooker. Remove the skin after it's done and it's all meat. You can make corn tortilla tacos and add pico de gallo, it's very good. In Mexican cooking we really enjoy that part because it's all meat.
I really love your videos! I overthink things a lot and get so overwhelmed. You make it look like, “it’s okay! Just do it!” I wish I could work as quick as you. Haha! Lots of good information.
I do a very similar thing with the peppers. When I package them for the freezer though, I put them in snack size bags and then put those snack bags in the gallon bag. This allows me to only pull a small portion out to thaw and use rather than having to break off or thaw out a whole block. Great job on the food processing! I wish I had been that organized and productive at your age :)
Wow thank you so much! I love that idea! I am trying to find the balance between reducing my plastic consumption and keeping things good....
Plastic mallet. It makes breaking off a hunk easy and less plastic as a ton fits in a gallon bag.
I chop up peppers, spread them on a cookie sheet in the freezer to firm up, then put them in a gallon bag. I use them in my daily 8 vegetable salad and they taste great. I do this with anything I don't want to clump into a frozen mass, berries, roasted cherry tomatoes etc..
I've used the snack bags (u can get reusable ones) specifically for roasted hot peppers and then add them all to a gallon freezer bag. Pull one out when needed. I also use the tray method for freezing berries then adding frozen berries to quart ziplock. I will rinse and reuse the berry bags. Freeze meatballs the same way, but I don't reuse those bags.
If you put them in snack bags, can't they be refused so you don't use so much plastic?
Cow’s tongue is yummy. It tastes like tender beef. Being German we normally eat it with horseradish on the side. Makes great cold tongue sandwiches, too.
If you find lamb too gamey, I reccomend you try eating it cold from the fridge. I feel the same when I try to eat it hot but is so good on a sandwich or even a cutlet straight from the fridge.
I wish I was as smart as you, when I was your age about preserving! Good job! 😊
Oh thanks :) there are lots of things I don’t know
@@AcreHomestead but you are learning fast! By sharing both good and bad you're helping others avoid pitfalls!
I just wish i had your energy lol
With much respect from the UK
Karen x
Soup bones are great for beef and gravy over rice or egg noodles too. We almost never use ours for soup, we cook them down and make pulled beef sandwiches or beef and gravy.
I always make broth to make gravys from roux, no Instant broth for me!
Please, please, please try the beef tongue. I guarantee you will like it. Once you pressure it, let it cool just enough to peel the skin off. You can slice it like roast, so good. If it's the look of it, once you skin and slice it you can't tell it from roast. It is so much more tender than any roast you ever had.
Be adventurous!
You have the best channel, happy i found you.
Wow, thanks! That is so sweet to say!
I agree!😎
I put an ad on Craigslist asking for free canning jobs and I was overwhelmed! The only thing I had to buy was these 12 half gallons.
Beef tounge is my favorite. It has been so difficult to get a hold of for me this year. I really hope I can find at least one for christmas. Please try it, before you feed it to your chickens (or dogs). You can eat it for dinner, or just slice it really thin and use it in a sandwich.
Love it too, so yummy ❤️
What a great gifting of Mason jars
cow tongue is good meat for tacos too! my favorite way is steamed for a long while shred add raw onions cilantro lime squeeze on a warm yellow corn tortilla
Here n Tx. Beef Tongue Tacos r $2.00 r more. Cook it nthe crockpot, when done, peel the outer tuff layer &eat the nside meat. Slice &dice the tuff outer layer ofthe tongue &give it 2ur dogs. Save the Beefy Broth &boil beans.
Great idea!
Thanks for that!
I had two turkeys in my freezer and I thawed them and roasted them both at the same time in an electric roaster. I sliced them and froze them in small portions covered in gravy and we have been enjoying them. I also put the carcasses right back into the roaster, covered with water and cooked them for 24 hours and canned the nice broth. I can chicken breasts and beef chunks about every three months. Cutting meat off the bone to can is not super fun.
In my culture we eat everything from the cow, the liver, kidneys, tongue, brain, stomach, lungs and intestines👏 very delicious
Becky, in Texas we slow cook cow tongue and make barbacoa. You add 1/4 cup of water just for the steam, s&p the tongue and wrap in foil. Slow cook it overnight and simply remove the skin and shred the meat. serve it in corn tortillas with pico de gallo.
Thank you for the tour. We purchased a second freezer but now, we realized we need a third freezer for fruits, vegetables, and breads
Great video! Woo Hoo! Free jars and lids!
I just love you videos my friend watching them all !!! You are such a beautiful person inside and out!!! GOD bless you!!!!! Jade777
I am glad I am not the only one who has as many refrigerate and freezers. I am loving your channel!
Yay! Thank you!
Love everything you do !!!. Great organization and ideas
If you've ever been to a Korean barbecue place they actually can offer cow tongue add a little salt and pepper it's so good. If you slice it very thinly and cook it similarly you may like it that's how I would eat it.
Cow tongue is delicious! I remember my grandmother boiling it in well-seasoned water. When cooked through, you let it cool and peel off the thick outer skin. Then she just sliced the tongue into slices, crosswise. She made sandwiches with hers
Thanks for the tips! I'm going to make it
I’m going to second the comment from Leslie. Tongue is so delicious, please try it. We make it the same way. You can eat it hot with boiled potatoes or later cold cut on bread. Both ways are good with some horse radish.
Greetings from Germany! Susann
What a blessing!
I preserve my celery the same way you do your peppers. I tend to chop up a bunch of celery, use what I need for that day. And then put the rest in the freezer. It freezes well and is great to use in Chili's and stews in the future.
Our garden is crazy but god has blessed use us this year tons of peppers. Tons of paste tomatoes ever try jet star o my gosh so good huge but sweet.i got a dehydrator this year. Love it.i grew a ton on borage. Tons ofred amaranth and 350 ears of sweet corn so good. We till a small garden and it growing wilf watermelon squash.okra cucumbers and canteloupe. .also we have chickend. I put up 2 elderberry an 2 blueberry bush.
Just a tip for lamb. Mix ground lamb and ground beef. Turn into a gyro meatloaf. Slice and use for gyros
wow.lots of jars.No more buying...
I recommend using the cow younger in tacos. Cow tongue tacos are the best.
U are good working with food to go in the freezer. Thanks
You can just boil the cow tongue (add it to a broth- duo purpose) then just slice it up and dip it with soy sauce
Cow tongue is delicious! I wasn't sure neither first time. But if you cook it for few hours, and then peel the skin is just like normal beef meat. I cooked with bay leaves, cinnamon, salt, pepper and a whole onion. And then I will make a sauce, or used for tacos, rice bowls... etc.
Beef tongue is amazing!! Thaw it, score the skin. I make a big X at the tip and score the rest. I put in crock pot with beef stock, garlic, onion, salt and pepper, tomatoes. If I plan to do lengua tacos, I add cumin, coriander, chili powder. Cook 8 to 10 hours on low. Pull out the tongue and peel off skin. Dice or slice and pop back in slow cooker. You can also do just like pot roast. My kids ask for it, now!!
I'm going to cook it! I'm scared tho....Thanks for the recipe!!
You can also shred it if you cook it long enough. It's so good! Just make sure you add a little water to it so it doesn't get tough
Back bacon is also a great cut. Think tenderloin with side attached
Your home is amazing!
Oh good organize and cleaned awesomely 😎
Becky!!!! What aren’t we enjoying with your videos, you are a God sent, God bless you🙏🏼🤗🥰😘
Thank you!
You can pressure cook the tongue, peel it, slice it thinly and then cook the slices in some spiced butter in a pan (thyme, crushed garlic, red and black pepper, whatever you like). It goes very well with red wine :)
Delicious !
maybe you can do a video explaining how long things will stay good for in the freezer?
That’s a great idea!
Cow tongue is excellant. Cook, peel, slice to sandwiches, add a little mustard, yum. Or, peel, use like a roast, very good! I don't have any luck freezing potatoes.
I'm going to cook it! so many people say its amazing. I think I'll do a live about it
Cow tough is really good. Cut it really really thin and BBQ it. It is a premium meat when you go to Korean BBQ.
💙 freezer tours 🥶
The million dollar question is how do you eliminate freezer burn!? Definitely happy to hear your ideas.
Yes love your vides
Great video!
Great job young lady. You are truly an inspiration
I make Turkey meatballs I can in chicken broth make gravy pour over rice or pasta also soup and sandwiches with cranberry sauce
You have some much loved and happy chickens. 🌸
All those canning jars😲😲😲 what a blessing!
Great job Becky!
Free canning jars! What a blessing!!
Hi, I'm from Australia and lamb is a staple. I wonder if your lamb is true lamb or hogget (older sheep) since young lamb to me is sweet and isn't gamie. But something like goat is definately gamie to me.
that is something to look into! thanks for the tip.
I absolutely looove lamb. But it is also eaten a lot more here in South Africa. Also love yummy game-y meats.
Lamb is also really common in Germany and I agree, true lamb should not be gamey, it’s a sign that it’s too old.
With 110 temp right now
What came to mind is Having a generator for power outages
It would be sad and expensive to lose all that great work done
We need to look into one!!
You would really find a dehydrator helpful. Dehydrate the peppers. Your chickens would eat a the dehydrated kale and greens you could make through the winter.
I love my dehydrator! I want a second one :)
That is a blessing!
thank you
It really surprised me that Josh did not like soups. He seems to eat a wide variety of food. And soup is so versatile.
I like how you have similar items together in boxes! Nice way to organize and move around in there!
I was just going through some of your older videos and I know this is an old video, but...two things I want to mention beef tongue makes great tacos and it is the most tender meat and delicious. Also, lamb...I understand what you mean about the gaminess, but I find I only like lamb on the grill. It has a whole different flavor in the oven. It does take a bit to prep though to get it ready for the grill, but you are totally missing out if you don't try grilling it. Yum! I love your videos they are so full of information. Thanks!
Thanks for the tour & congratulations on the free jars!
Thanks! I’m so excited!
You are so organized.. I love it!!!!
And what gift could be more appreciated than jars👍👍👍💜
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I have the same bag of pecans in my freezer. I could eat soup everyday! Tongue is delicious but you need to boil it to be able to peel it you've got to take the outer layer off. It makes great sandwiches sliced thin. I lived in the UK so we ate beef tongue and ox tongue which was called lunch and tongue. It's really good and you could look for recipes for New York deli sandwiches because they you make a lot of tongues sandwiches. I grew up on leg of lamb and it was made every year for my brother's birthday as well. I love it! I have lived around the world in eight countries and expanded my palate and my mind greatly. :-)
I don't what you did with the cow tongue you spoke of in this video but in the future try sous vide. We tried cow tongue for the first time 2 years ago just after my brother-in-law died from covid. He had always talked about eating "tongue 'n cheek" for one of our family dinners and had gotten the meat for our Thanksgiving dinner that year. It was wonderfully tender and flavorful. It was also a great way to remember him on that first holiday that he was not with us. Hope you try it sometime!!
Beef tongue is delicious, you can boil it first then remove the skin because it's tough and shredded the meat. Use it with a green sauce, tacos or what ever you want.
You can dry freeze the raw liver, like the eggs you did in one of your videos. You can use a 1/4 teaspoon of the liver powder in your smoothie or even give it to your dogs with their meal. Has a lot of vitamins, I do buy it for my old dog and she love it.
I soak my lamb and game meat such as deer in a saltwater brine for about 30 minutes to an hour depending on how it weighs then rinse throughally under running water
When we buy a lot of meat or process a deer we put the meat in a freezer bag and then wrap it in either freezer paper or jumbo brown lunch bags. Helps keep it from freezer burn.
Cow Tongue do you boil it then peel the outer skin off then slice it and it is good for sandwiches, it is very delicious.
Great freezer tour video. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you too!
We use the same butcher! Lol I just found your channel yesterday, what a small world. Love the content!
I grow peppers in Canada. I start them on a heat mat in a warm room (65- 85°) , in March. In your area, I would recommend planting them out in the garden, after they have been hardened off for a week. Usually they have 6 to 8 mature leaves when they are ready to plant out. I companion plant to keep them healthy. Good luck. I love almond milk. Brightest Blessings
Becky I think you got a sheep not lamb lamb is the most delicious herei in SA it's a favorite.
There is no such thing as almond milk milk comes from mammals
Edward Zarnowski, my apologies if the term almond 'milk' bothers you. It is only referred to as a ' milk because it is a substitute for mammals milk, which we should not be drinking anyway, and it does look sort of milk-like.
Great videos, your home is beautiful, and I love your energy. Makes me want to get up and do stuff, thnx!!!
I need to make up freezer meals, right now working on turkeys, then cranberries
I just started watching your channel today. God bless you.....your channel will help so many, including me! Totally hooked!
Beef tongue tacos are amazing and a great way to try tongue for the first time. Thaw, then cook for a few hours in the crock pot with water and spices. Peel the taste buds off and shred the meat. Then warm the meat with all your favorite seasonings.
i just love your show and you are my hero...I am a bit older and had given up on canning and freezing and you have inspired me. I am going to watch all of your episodes!!! I am now going to go back to freezing in the fall and canning again. Thank you!!!
Cow tongue it’s sooooo good! I dont know how to cook it, but in colombia we eat it somewhat regularly, it’s buttery smooth!
love tours of pantries freezers etc .
Me too!
Wow, you are so very interesting young lady, thank you for sharing.
Just learned last night that zucchini can be shreaded and dehydrated than powdered for a type of flour to add to breads and muffins if you have a lot of extra zuch to figure out a way to store it.
Great tip!
We use beef stock in our spaghetti sauce (and in any stew I make, if the recipe calls for water, I use stock), and I also use beef or chicken stock in my sweet and sour sauce.
Great tour. Also some wonderful ideas from your followers.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just love your videos! You really stay busy !! Lucky you to receive such a wonderful gift, all those jars! Yes indeed that was a blessing!!
Thank you so much! I am so happy to have them! I always need more jars!