“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds - you will reap all of the days golden grains. Eat more green - you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little - and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.” Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Omg when you squeezed your fists like 3 times at the end of the video because you were so excited about what you made! That made my heart so happy haha!
Right and I become a complete ass if at Walmart and use bathroom and see a nasty woman try to walk out without washing hands yep I call her out and tell her get back in and wash her damn hands. Hubby says I embarrass him 🤷♀️
When my husband and I were first married we had to go away over lunchtime, so I made my husband a sandwich for the road. I ran to the garden and grabbed some lettuce and quickly rinsed them off. I looked the leaves over quickly but not thoroughly. My husband was happily munching on his sandwich and suddenly stopped eating and pulled something out of his mouth. It was a slug. He said it didn't taste bad but he thought the ham was awfully gristley and chewy. I was mortified for about 3 seconds but then I thought it was hilarious. I still do. Good thing he has a good sense of humour and is forgiving.
I love Roots and Refuge, and this has to be my favorite video so far. Sure, I love anything pickled, but you covering the concept of real food is super important. Thanks and happy gardening :)
Why are people afraid of bugs and dirt? Were they never children? Did they never run barefoot chasing lightning bugs? Did they never catch crawfish in a creek or play with a turtle or a frog? I thank God I was a child of.the 50s and 60s in Texas.
I love picking blackberries. I’ve eaten a beetle before from those when I got in a rush to eat them before getting home and cleaning them. Not the funnest thing in the world. So that’s why I just spend a little time going through my foraged and home grown food to keep the bugs away.
I still soak store bought veggies.. LOL I feel better eating the dirt and bugs from the garden than the random stuff you could possibly have on store bought food.
Don’t even tell people about the process packaged meat goes through lol! Washed with chlorine or ammonia to get the E. coli off of the flesh (from the saws that cut through the hides caked with feces)
@@queenizzy01 That is one main important fact why I eat a whole food, plant based diet. I cannot have animals where I live to raise even if I wanted to.
I always recommend parents of young children plant potatoes. You can plant store bought, so it's nothing fancy, but I always thought harvesting them was like digging for treasure! My daughter used to love being asked to go dig potatoes for dinner. She got very good at plunging her hands into the garden and pulling out treasures. Then packing the dirt back for the next "dig".
I love old cook books and have a ton of them. I find them in thrift stores. I am in the process of reading The Complete Book of Pickles and Relishes. There are a ton of recipes.....18 recipes for Dill Pickles alone and 64 recipes for relishes and so much more. I will be reading this one for awhile.
Omg me too! Especially old canning cookbooks. They did things so much differently back then. There are things I want to make from them that nobody but me would want to eat lol. I find it fascinating tho.
My dad is a farmer in ND. I was complaining about having a bug on my produce. He said, "would you rather be eating beautiful chemical laden produce or chemical free produce that you have to pick a bug or two off of?"
I was waiting to see if you were going to make a video on it. After reading a couple comments about people not wanting to eat bugs on your post of you soaking the cauliflower. Blows my mind how much people don’t know about how food grows.
Another suggestion for "Real food comes Dirty" is the chalkboard! Great video Jess, you have quickly become one of my favorite RUclipsr channels and a big inspiration. Thank you for the great content, blessings to you and your family! As a NYC resident your videos have been a huge escape for me during this COVID time!
Oh yum! That's a favorite of mine! I have to wait for my mouth to heal up better as all hot stuff about makes me faint right now but its gonna be better some day and I want to ferment some of these.
I sprayed aphids off of my kale and then sautéed it for breakfast. I would rather deal with pests and eat nutrient dense food that to buy the pretty stuff from the store that has lost 90% of its nutrients.
Looks yummy - love pickled stuff. I will have to try this. I had a dog that loved carrots and potato peelings. A favorite dish of ours is a Hobo dish. We take whatever types of fresh veggies and put in (cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, asparagus, onions, garlic, turnips, zucchini, cabbage, etc) and add kielbasa or sausage with butter and some olive oil. You just can’t go wrong with homegrown veggies.
Now I really hope I get some cauliflower (I probably won't but I try every spring anyway). I just washed the ants off of the best most tender lettuce I have ever eaten. Homegrown is just better and I totally agree I don't want to eat anything a bug finds disgusting I just want to beat them to it 😀
Do you have the cookbook, "The Gentleman's Companion Volume I Being An Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the World With Knife, Fork and Spoon" by Charles H. Baker? It was originally published in the 1930s and was recipes he'd collected all over the world. Great travel stories too. Volume II was mixed drinks. You can find it pretty reasonably online. It has everything from a cuban avocado salad, to a recipe for cooking hippo.
Haha. My daughter,14yrs. has always done the same thing with a blanket. Everyday she comes out wrapped in her favorite soft blanket. Hot or cold. Glad to know she’s not a big weirdo. Lol
I love that you keep your eggs on the counter too! That was the one thing that I still feel weird about a year later... leaving my eggs on the counter! :)
@@janehutchinson9860 here in the uk most people don't put their eggs in the fridge as they don't need it if just washed and shells in tact, but our eggs are nearly all brown like Jess has there. not white like i understand you get from a us store, my understanding is in the us the way they commercially clean the eggs makes the shells thinner.
@@joannelambert2635 Here in the US the store bought eggs are pasteurized, so they have to be refrigerated afterwards. The eggs are usually white because most poultry farms use the white leghorn breed (good layers and don't require as much food as heavy breeds). White leghorns lay white eggs. Some use brown egglayers like sexlinks or Rhode Island Reds. Those are usually marketed as organic cage free even though the color of the eggs are dependent on the breed of chicken. Personally, I prefer to raise my own chickens and have a variety of colored eggs without the pasteurization and added chemicals.
Your point with Organic vegetables at the grocery store is so true! I was pursuing a biology degree and we learned "organic" food is a myth as something can be sprayed/added to the food after the harvest and have it still be considered organic, and its mainly advertised as such for the price tag. Growing your own food is the only true way to know what is happening to it during the process. Thank you so much for everything you share with us! I would like to have a small farm of my own someday and this is very inspirational and motivating for me :)
This was a great video as alway. I was glad you mentioned you were a bit weirded out in the beginning too. I had a had full of lettuce yesterday I told the hubs "this had frog poo or frog eggs on it" so here we go. Lol I washed it and we ate it. When we first moved on to our land I cooked on my washer with an electric wok and a crock pot for two years. I am sure your kitchen will be done very quickly. Fyi you can make rice crispy treats in a wok!🤣
I'm continually blessed by you, Jess! After a long hot,sweaty shift at work, I came home to take sanctuary in my garden, sit down with an ice coffee, and listen to this girl who is rooted in her love of the beauty and abundance that God has blessed her with! Your humor, candor, and practicality continue to bring joy to me! I'm going to try the recipe too...but I'm going to keep my eye out for stow aways!😄
Kentucky zone 6 b get yourself a low tunnel you can grow brassica all winter that way you can be eatting your own veg while putitng your summer things out
Yum! I love pickled veggies, especially cauliflower. I can't wait until my garden starts coming in. It can be hard for this Northerner watching you get crops so early.
I’m so new to all this and so far from a homesteader 😂😂 but my kajari melon seeds came in the mail today and I haven’t been this excited about something in a while. Thank you I look forward to your videos daily
It kinda makes me happy to find a bug in my produce, because I know the farmer isnt totally obliterated it with some type of pesticide, if I am weird so be it!
Alma Kelly Cook for you,your worth it. I’m a widow ..children grown and families of their own-and love to cook just half some recipes or freeze - cook once eat twice ( or more)🦋🙏🏻
I feel so validated on my nerves from eating real food😂😂 my dad had a garden we would eat from and I remember big puff worms in the corn ears that would just gross me out. Then when my parents got divorced, my mom didnt grow anything and I never got to face my fear. But now I'm growing my own food and slowly but surely learning to work with nature!!
When I married my husband who is Hispanic he introduced me too pickled carrots with peppers and now they make my mouth water just looking at them. So. Good!! I need to try and pickle them myself.
Hey thanks for being real. You are a real master gardener. I'm going to keep watching. Thank you for posting all the videos you have your super. Oh and thank you
I have a big collection of cookbooks. I have probably had hundreds of them over the years. I scaled way back in recent years and donated all of the abundance to the local library. Agreed about the bug-enticing produce. I’ve had insects in my lettuce and such before. It’s real food. I don’t usually peel my carrots either. Just a good scrubbing with a stiff brush :)
Another note about slugs - don't let dogs eat them and don't let them have veggies that could have them on it. Last year my dog Ronan got a condition called lungworm, where a parasite enters the body and can cause some serious issues reminiscent of pneumonia. It was terrifying to watch him go through that and he had to be medicated for 2 months to rid his body of the parasite. And yeah, I accidentally threw a little garden spider in our stir-fry yesterday because I failed to wash my spinach 😂 Lesson learned!
In 1973 I got my favorite cookbook as a wedding present. It is called The Cattle Country Cook Book, Basic Recipes from East of the Cascades by Nancy Strope. I am still using it! As far as I know it is still in print. God bless you and your family. I love your videos.
Aren't those old cookbooks great? I taught myself to cook using the Farm Journal's Country Cookbook (1959). It had all the basic things, and a section on cooking for fifty people, lol. Now I'm going to try to find the one you mentioned - sounds like it's right up my alley!
My Walmart use to sell the 3 pack 🍅 and each 🍅 had its own section. That always weird me out,b/c how do you make that many tomatoes to fit in that perfectly whole.
I just requested that book from my library! Hopefully they're allowed to open soon, because now I'm even more excited to look through it. I'm wanting to do a lot more quick pickles and marinated veggies this year, so I'm on the lookout for recipes.
And just think of all the waste they have with all the blemished produce to be able to get all that perfect presentational produce!! So sad....hope they help the locals!
I don't know why, but it never dawned on me that I could eat onions straight out of the garden. I saw a complicated curing video years ago, and it scared me away from growing onions. I guess I need to revisit the idea.
If u come to SandyEggo some day...we have authentic Mexican Food..Taco Stands every block ;) this pickles goodness is given away with every order...u just load up!! It's definitely ADDICTING ;)
I'd even soak farmers market vegetables( supposedly clean) before I has a garden really intensively. My granmother only really ever used salt water, maybe a drop of dish soap if the produce was really dirty.I will never forgret having a couple of mt tiny Sunday school babies (age 3 and 4 atthe time think thy had done a magic trick when I had them pull carrots out of the church's garden bed!Wish I had filmed that!😊Lovely recipe. Thank you for sharing!Blessings!~Hope
No-pahl-EE-toe....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your pronunciation...& your up-front honesty that it is the Arkansan version. Will have to make a batch of those pickles...they look yummy
Nothing like growing and preparing your own food. Thank you for taking about REAL food and it’s blemishes. I work at a farm gate that deals mainly in oversized and undersized and unwanted produce because it’s not deemed perfect enough for market sale. The amount of good food thrown away because of its look is just so heartbreaking. Your message will reach many, thank you 🙌🏼 xx Cathi xx
Oh my goodness, jess!I just relized that is a gryphon on your right arm!In 5th and 6th grade, our school mascot was th Gryphons- and being a J.K. ROling fan, how could Inot love that gorgeous ink?💖To me, home preserved food gems look more precious and beautiful than stone gems to me.God's grden treasure!
my favorite cookbooks are Farm Journal cookbooks, my favorite is my copy of the book my Mom used on the farm when I was a teenager 1959 Farm Journal Country Cookbook FIRST EDITION vintage by Nell Nichols. but the one you can fine on sale is Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook, Farm Cookbook, Recipe Book, Revised Enlarged Edition, 1972 but for a some one with garden the Farm journal's, America's best vegetable recipes cookbook is a good one
Hey, Jess. Those onions are beautiful. What variety are they? I am trying BAKER CREEK's "Globo" for the first time this year, but our growing season is enough behind yours that all I have right now are little, whisky, stems... Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 5/29/2020.
i absolutely LOVE that you started talking about the rewiring. its so true and real. retrain the brain lol REAL FOOD HAS BUGS AND DIRT and aint always pretty
Lol I totaly am.right there with you girl!!! Been growing food so long now the stuff in the grocery store with it's perfect shapes and colors now look fake and unappealing to me. HOWEVER next time you buy produce from the store do the salt water trick. You'll be surprised what still crawls out
Jess for slugs & snails put a container or saucer of beer out in your garden ( where ever they are) I have done this for years & have never had a problem here in sub-tropical Brisbane Australia, Jess I totally agree when it comes to supermarket perfect food- Thank Goodness we are lucky enough to grow & eat our own produce that is not sprayed or treated with terrible things, Unfortunately I cannot grow cauliflower so I do have to buy from my organic store. Loved this video. Cheers Denise - Australia- YOU ARE THE REASON I GROW FOOD because of your motivation. !!!!!!!!
K I gotta say it. Another one for a t-shirt! Real food has dirt. Or dirt & bugs. Something like that.... K I'm gonna start a t-shirt line and I'm gonna just watch your vids for inspiration for my prints...I'll give you credit of course... 😏😂 haha kidding. I've got no 'follow through'. And I'm too busy gardening. I loved this video! Makes folding diapers much more enjoyable! 😳😂
I had to laugh when you talked about getting your first eggs. My neice got chickens and when she got her first eggs she sent me a picture, then asked if it was ok to eat them. Your veggies look delicious!
I absolutely love how Sweet Mia is SOOOOOO supportive of everything you do 🥰 its the "Are you so impressed?" "I am." "I knew you would be." that just melted my heart completely. He has so much gentle confidence in you. I just love you guys together so much.
Prestine looking store bought produce makes me take pause, too. However, so do bugs on my homegrown food. It speaks volumes to me about what may be happening in my garden. I use soil regeneration/biological practices for high nutrition/plant health. The high levels of sugars in healthy plants actually repel insects. I haven't had an infestation or crop wiped out for years. My garden is 100% pesticide-free + no synthetics anything 😁 It is possible to grow great food without all the bugs. Does my garden have bugs? Yes. Beneficials need to eat, too lol. Do bugs infest my crops? No. I happily eat and share my pristine garden food 🥰 It is very possible.
THANK YOU! Salt water rinse is a great idea. WA is slug country for sure...They're horrible. Beer traps? LOL! I've been there done that along with using yeast with sugar and water...I'd have to have hundreds of traps out to get them.
Hey Miah... I grew this...lol.. Miah didnt build, fill ,top, put in drip irrigation... I think. WE. grew this is in order. Lol. Oh no you didnt just take all the glory did you Jess???? Lol. Crazy gurrl
Love it! Dec. 28th is my daughter's b- day. Her name is "Isis". People tend to get nervous saying her name. Except for the bellydance community. They absolutely love her name. I look forward to seeing the new kitchen. Too bad you didn't over winter your peppers. I did, and they are producing like crazy right now. Pepper plants can last as long as 2 years before dying. They turn massive like tomato plants can be. Thank you for sharing.
I'd rather have dirty veggies any day... Grocery store food too many chemical exposure... Loving your hair n ALL the smiles!! Stay safe n blessed guys💖🙏
Speaking of cookbooks - check out “In Pursuit of Flavor” by Edna Lewis. She was a truly amazing chef! I love that she focused on cooking things in season and made her own mayonnaise. That’s what’s up ☺️💛
Good morning from Maryland! Jess and Miah: you are both such an inspiration to me. What a blessing you are to me. You remind me so very much of myself when I was young and raising our 5 children. I grew everything that we ate, made all our clothing, rugs, curtains, blankets, etc. For me it was just what we did! There was no homesteading movement. Lol Hubby and I are both pastors and teachers. There nothing better than tending to God’s garden and His children. Such a blessing for the two of you to share with your children! We recently bought a log cabin and several acres of good Maryland ground. Devotions are finished, My large garden is growing abundantly and my chickens are laying profusely. I’m currently knitting hubby a blanket, relaxing while watching my favorite RUclips channel: Roots and Refuge. Ever hear of them. 😆 May God’s blessings continue to shine on your family, friends, neighbors and fans! Rhonda
There is a food truck that make gyros in Colorado Springs. They put the same pickle veggies in the gyros... It’s mind blowing delicious ... I crave this gyro for months during deployments. It’s the FIRST thing I eat every time I get back home. I’m not joking
Jess, you are such a Sweety. I love your love for your family & garden. It's such a joy to watch your videos. And yes, I've thought that very same thing when I go into the grocery stores---"what the heck did they put into this crop to make it so big and with no blemish!" Cant wait to try that pickled veggie recipe. Thank you. God bless you & your family.😊🙏💕
Quick pickled veg with Brussels sprouts is amazing too! I normally do sliced jalapeños, carrots, cauliflower, onions, Brussels sprouts, and cucumbers, along with cilantro, mustard seeds, uhmmm what else lol.. peppercorns.. red pepper flakes.. then my brine i do water, honey, a little salt and apple cider vinegar, bring to a boil, cool slightly, then add to the jars. I pretty much put whatever i have in the jar/bring
"Real food is dirty! "Could be your next t shirt. Loved the fast forward with you and Ben talking normal, obviously your editing skills are advancing! Do you soak everything out of the garden in salt water? You said you soaked the black berries, should I be soaking my strawberries? Thanks love your videos!!💗
“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water.
Lay your bed where the cat sleeps.
Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm.
Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit.
Plant the tree where the mole digs.
Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself.
Dig your fountain where the birds hide from heat.
Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds - you will reap all of the days golden grains.
Eat more green - you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest.
Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water.
Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear.
Be quiet a lot, speak little - and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.”
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
harbor71 so beautiful, thank you for sharing
Love this!
Beautiful!!
Beautiful! 👍🏻❤️
great advice poem! But as for the snakes--no! lol they are cold blooded and maybe it is better to live up the hill from where they like to stay
Real food comes dirty! That is a T-shirt for sure! lol
I second that!
I'd buy one.
Yesssss!! Love it!
Me too!!
Yes. N I'll buy one.. ♥
Omg when you squeezed your fists like 3 times at the end of the video because you were so excited about what you made! That made my heart so happy haha!
AGREE!!!
It grosses me out more thinking of all the people that have handled the food in the grocery store, than having bugs on my food from the garden.
Me too!
If you ever worked in Produce you would never want to buy it again
Prairie Plantgirl I genuinely gag when I see produce with fingernail indentions 🤢 fingernails have so many germs, no thanks!
Right and I become a complete ass if at Walmart and use bathroom and see a nasty woman try to walk out without washing hands yep I call her out and tell her get back in and wash her damn hands. Hubby says I embarrass him 🤷♀️
YEEEEESSSSS!!!
I pulled more than I need... I think I got a bit carrot away 😆
I say the same thing to my husband when I use our yields "BABE I GREW THIS" "THAT DELICIOUS THING YOU'RE EATING. YEAH I GREW THAT"
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I do as well! Every single time, I opened a jar that I have canned or pull something from the freezer...I say, this came from my garden ❤️
Me too!
I announce to my family every single thing that I grew at pretty much every meal. 😋
Mackenzie Holtog that would also be me 🙋🏻♀️ every single day 😋
When my husband and I were first married we had to go away over lunchtime, so I made my husband a sandwich for the road. I ran to the garden and grabbed some lettuce and quickly rinsed them off. I looked the leaves over quickly but not thoroughly. My husband was happily munching on his sandwich and suddenly stopped eating and pulled something out of his mouth. It was a slug. He said it didn't taste bad but he thought the ham was awfully gristley and chewy. I was mortified for about 3 seconds but then I thought it was hilarious. I still do. Good thing he has a good sense of humour and is forgiving.
“If the bugs don’t wanna eat it, i don’t wanna eat it.” Preach, Jess!!!!!!!!
I love Roots and Refuge, and this has to be my favorite video so far. Sure, I love anything pickled, but you covering the concept of real food is super important. Thanks and happy gardening :)
Research "Pickled Green Beans. We love with good meat.
“I don’t know if you’ll find this in the commissary..” spoken like a veteran ❤️
As always, Thanks for sharing!
I caught that too. Even an ex-military wife catches a few golden nuggets.
It will eternally be a commissary for us! 😉
Thank u for ur service jess husband
Why are people afraid of bugs and dirt? Were they never children? Did they never run barefoot chasing lightning bugs? Did they never catch crawfish in a creek or play with a turtle or a frog? I thank God I was a child of.the 50s and 60s in Texas.
Amen!!!
Child of the 90s and 00s. Did the same. Not scared of bugs, but I don’t care to eat them either.
I love picking blackberries. I’ve eaten a beetle before from those when I got in a rush to eat them before getting home and cleaning them. Not the funnest thing in the world. So that’s why I just spend a little time going through my foraged and home grown food to keep the bugs away.
I still soak store bought veggies.. LOL I feel better eating the dirt and bugs from the garden than the random stuff you could possibly have on store bought food.
lol
Don’t even tell people about the process packaged meat goes through lol! Washed with chlorine or ammonia to get the E. coli off of the flesh (from the saws that cut through the hides caked with feces)
@@queenizzy01 That is one main important fact why I eat a whole food, plant based diet. I cannot have animals where I live to raise even if I wanted to.
What do you use to wash your produce?😊
“Underground food, such a mystery!” Another chapter title.
Love that as well!!
I also like “where did I put that beet?”
I always recommend parents of young children plant potatoes. You can plant store bought, so it's nothing fancy, but I always thought harvesting them was like digging for treasure! My daughter used to love being asked to go dig potatoes for dinner. She got very good at plunging her hands into the garden and pulling out treasures. Then packing the dirt back for the next "dig".
I love old cook books and have a ton of them. I find them in thrift stores. I am in the process of reading The Complete Book of Pickles and Relishes. There are a ton of recipes.....18 recipes for Dill Pickles alone and 64 recipes for relishes and so much more. I will be reading this one for awhile.
Omg me too! Especially old canning cookbooks. They did things so much differently back then. There are things I want to make from them that nobody but me would want to eat lol. I find it fascinating tho.
I love the cookbooks from church groups, school clubs, etc. And old cookbooks with handwritten notes!!!
Dawn Shafto Cover I have all my grandma’s old church cookbooks and I refer to them often. I enjoy it as well
Honestly I'm loving all the kitchen content. You could put up a video of your favorite way to make toast and i would watch it.😂
Hahah right?!?!
Me too Noelle!!!
LOL, true....
Dogs roll in stinky stuff to cover up their scent as a way to disguise themselves from predators.
My dad is a farmer in ND. I was complaining about having a bug on my produce. He said, "would you rather be eating beautiful chemical laden produce or chemical free produce that you have to pick a bug or two off of?"
I was waiting to see if you were going to make a video on it. After reading a couple comments about people not wanting to eat bugs on your post of you soaking the cauliflower. Blows my mind how much people don’t know about how food grows.
Right?! Same here!
Another suggestion for "Real food comes Dirty" is the chalkboard! Great video Jess, you have quickly become one of my favorite RUclipsr channels and a big inspiration. Thank you for the great content, blessings to you and your family! As a NYC resident your videos have been a huge escape for me during this COVID time!
I have always used coffee grounds and smashed eggshells around the bed edges to keep slugs and snails away. Definitely need it this year.
Insects just have no manners! They need to put in their share of the work and expense if they are going to help themselves 😂
Agreed!!!
I just made a half gallon of Mexican pickled carrots with jalapenos and onions. It is so good!!! I might try adding cauliflower next time.
Oh yum! That's a favorite of mine! I have to wait for my mouth to heal up better as all hot stuff about makes me faint right now but its gonna be better some day and I want to ferment some of these.
Yum! Do you have a recipe link to share?
Try that it’s delicious 😋
9:44 I laughed outloud. “ nobody wants to eat slugs, I mean, I just can’t talk for everybody...l don’t want to eat slugs”.
Golden 💚💚💚
I sprayed aphids off of my kale and then sautéed it for breakfast. I would rather deal with pests and eat nutrient dense food that to buy the pretty stuff from the store that has lost 90% of its nutrients.
Bear promised himself he'd never eat another carrot after disappointing the kids.
Super cute🐕
Bear is alwyse with her like my dog remy. I love anmnials i cant weight for my garden to get. Going
Garden grocery run. I. LOVE. THAT!
Looks yummy - love pickled stuff. I will have to try this.
I had a dog that loved carrots and potato peelings.
A favorite dish of ours is a Hobo dish. We take whatever types of fresh veggies and put in (cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, asparagus, onions, garlic, turnips, zucchini, cabbage, etc) and add kielbasa or sausage with butter and some olive oil. You just can’t go wrong with homegrown veggies.
Now I really hope I get some cauliflower (I probably won't but I try every spring anyway). I just washed the ants off of the best most tender lettuce I have ever eaten. Homegrown is just better and I totally agree I don't want to eat anything a bug finds disgusting I just want to beat them to it 😀
Do you have the cookbook, "The Gentleman's Companion Volume I Being An Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the World With Knife, Fork and Spoon" by Charles H. Baker? It was originally published in the 1930s and was recipes he'd collected all over the world. Great travel stories too. Volume II was mixed drinks. You can find it pretty reasonably online. It has everything from a cuban avocado salad, to a recipe for cooking hippo.
This military spouse loves that Mia mentioned the commissary!! In Italy the commissary is our link to the US. We will be headed back soon.
FUNky Moose Blessings 🦋
I’m in Italy too!
@@molli9230 Yay! We've been here 5 years...time to head home. I hope you have the chance to travel soon!
My teenager boy is just the same with his blanket. Haha!
Haha. My daughter,14yrs. has always done the same thing with a blanket. Everyday she comes out wrapped in her favorite soft blanket. Hot or cold. Glad to know she’s not a big weirdo. Lol
mine does it too. still at 19. i think they prefer to be called weirdos now though...
As an adult I still do this sometimes 😂
“Real Food Comes Dirty” sounds great for a tshirt!
Matthew Ingram ha! Great minds think alike!
Love it!
I love that you keep your eggs on the counter too! That was the one thing that I still feel weird about a year later... leaving my eggs on the counter! :)
Eggs on the counter is so picturesque too.
They don’t need refrigeration?
@@janehutchinson9860 here in the uk most people don't put their eggs in the fridge as they don't need it if just washed and shells in tact, but our eggs are nearly all brown like Jess has there. not white like i understand you get from a us store, my understanding is in the us the way they commercially clean the eggs makes the shells thinner.
@@joannelambert2635 Here in the US the store bought eggs are pasteurized, so they have to be refrigerated afterwards. The eggs are usually white because most poultry farms use the white leghorn breed (good layers and don't require as much food as heavy breeds). White leghorns lay white eggs. Some use brown egglayers like sexlinks or Rhode Island Reds. Those are usually marketed as organic cage free even though the color of the eggs are dependent on the breed of chicken. Personally, I prefer to raise my own chickens and have a variety of colored eggs without the pasteurization and added chemicals.
You should make a tee shirt that says “real food comes dirty” ❤️
Very true, just shows you how many chemicals that was used for the produce in the big stores. Nothing like home grown.
And if you look at all the perfect food in stores imagine how much imperfect food was thrown away because they don't sell it.
Your point with Organic vegetables at the grocery store is so true! I was pursuing a biology degree and we learned "organic" food is a myth as something can be sprayed/added to the food after the harvest and have it still be considered organic, and its mainly advertised as such for the price tag. Growing your own food is the only true way to know what is happening to it during the process. Thank you so much for everything you share with us! I would like to have a small farm of my own someday and this is very inspirational and motivating for me :)
I love that awkward hands “yay!” gesture in the end, haha! I totally felt that
This was a great video as alway. I was glad you mentioned you were a bit weirded out in the beginning too. I had a had full of lettuce yesterday I told the hubs "this had frog poo or frog eggs on it" so here we go.
Lol I washed it and we ate it.
When we first moved on to our land I cooked on my washer with an electric wok and a crock pot for two years. I am sure your kitchen will be done very quickly. Fyi you can make rice crispy treats in a wok!🤣
I'm continually blessed by you, Jess! After a long hot,sweaty shift at work, I came home to take sanctuary in my garden, sit down with an ice coffee, and listen to this girl who is rooted in her love of the beauty and abundance that God has blessed her with! Your humor, candor, and practicality continue to bring joy to me! I'm going to try the recipe too...but I'm going to keep my eye out for stow aways!😄
Wow, that looks amazing!!! Can't wait to start getting food from our garden! Here(Michigan) mine is just seedlings for now!
Was out planting beans and tomatoes and cucumbers etc this past week. Mother nature been giving us Michigan folks a hard time this year! Lol
Kentucky zone 6 b get yourself a low tunnel you can grow brassica all winter that way you can be eatting your own veg while putitng your summer things out
Oh my goodness, Jeremiah's Spock cookie jar is awesome! Thank you for the recipe and pest tips, Jessica!
Yum! I love pickled veggies, especially cauliflower. I can't wait until my garden starts coming in. It can be hard for this Northerner watching you get crops so early.
I’m so new to all this and so far from a homesteader 😂😂 but my kajari melon seeds came in the mail today and I haven’t been this excited about something in a while. Thank you I look forward to your videos daily
It kinda makes me happy to find a bug in my produce, because I know the farmer isnt totally obliterated it with some type of pesticide, if I am weird so be it!
Finally! Someone else who uses the carrot skin, too!! 🥕
My kids don’t know what it is like to have a carrot with out the skin. That’s the good stuff!
I think I saw your Spock cookie jar on your countertop. Live long and prosper.
I love how you talked about the slugs! Lol I have them everywhere this year. I'm in NWA.
I miss having a family to cook for.
Alma Kelly Cook for you,your worth it. I’m a widow ..children grown and families of their own-and love to cook just half some recipes or freeze - cook once eat twice ( or more)🦋🙏🏻
The words 'slug' and 'pickle' shouldn't happen in the same sentence.
I feel so validated on my nerves from eating real food😂😂 my dad had a garden we would eat from and I remember big puff worms in the corn ears that would just gross me out. Then when my parents got divorced, my mom didnt grow anything and I never got to face my fear. But now I'm growing my own food and slowly but surely learning to work with nature!!
Some of my best memories come from being in the garden with my mom or grand mother as a child
When I married my husband who is Hispanic he introduced me too pickled carrots with peppers and now they make my mouth water just looking at them. So. Good!! I need to try and pickle them myself.
Hey thanks for being real. You are a real master gardener. I'm going to keep watching. Thank you for posting all the videos you have your super. Oh and thank you
"I won't judge you." Me either. =)
"Real food comes dirty" new shirt idea
I ALWAYS WANT TO SEE THE GARDEN! Even with regular garden tours, it's one of the highlights of my day 💚🌱🌿
I have a big collection of cookbooks. I have probably had hundreds of them over the years. I scaled way back in recent years and donated all of the abundance to the local library.
Agreed about the bug-enticing produce. I’ve had insects in my lettuce and such before. It’s real food.
I don’t usually peel my carrots either. Just a good scrubbing with a stiff brush :)
What happened to your curly hair? Of course, you can wear your hair however you like but I miss your curls. 😊
It was permed and I grew it out to let it be healthier
Y’all are just beautiful people. God bless. Im planting potatoes and some other things for the first time this year. Here’s to a good harvest. 💜
Another note about slugs - don't let dogs eat them and don't let them have veggies that could have them on it. Last year my dog Ronan got a condition called lungworm, where a parasite enters the body and can cause some serious issues reminiscent of pneumonia. It was terrifying to watch him go through that and he had to be medicated for 2 months to rid his body of the parasite.
And yeah, I accidentally threw a little garden spider in our stir-fry yesterday because I failed to wash my spinach 😂 Lesson learned!
Our dogs love carrots, even the tops! I agree, real food! I have to hide that part from my kids though! 😉 Thanks for sharing!
So So excited to have you with me daily in my garden as well as me in yours! Love you Jess and your sweet family!❤️ 😊 🙏 😇 🙋♀️ ☀️
“Real food comes dirty” - Next R&R t-shirt! I love it!
In 1973 I got my favorite cookbook as a wedding present. It is called The Cattle Country Cook Book, Basic Recipes from East of the Cascades by Nancy Strope. I am still using it! As far as I know it is still in print. God bless you and your family. I love your videos.
Aren't those old cookbooks great? I taught myself to cook using the Farm Journal's Country Cookbook (1959). It had all the basic things, and a section on cooking for fifty people, lol. Now I'm going to try to find the one you mentioned - sounds like it's right up my alley!
You were speaking directly to my heart when you said I’d be eating them out of the jar at the fridge 😍
Gotta put something like that on a t-shirt...it's like a party's going on down there!
My Walmart use to sell the 3 pack 🍅 and each 🍅 had its own section. That always weird me out,b/c how do you make that many tomatoes to fit in that perfectly whole.
I just requested that book from my library! Hopefully they're allowed to open soon, because now I'm even more excited to look through it. I'm wanting to do a lot more quick pickles and marinated veggies this year, so I'm on the lookout for recipes.
And just think of all the waste they have with all the blemished produce to be able to get all that perfect presentational produce!! So sad....hope they help the locals!
I don't know why, but it never dawned on me that I could eat onions straight out of the garden. I saw a complicated curing video years ago, and it scared me away from growing onions. I guess I need to revisit the idea.
If u come to SandyEggo some day...we have authentic Mexican Food..Taco Stands every block ;) this pickles goodness is given away with every order...u just load up!! It's definitely ADDICTING ;)
I'd even soak farmers market vegetables( supposedly clean) before I has a garden really intensively. My granmother only really ever used salt water, maybe a drop of dish soap if the produce was really dirty.I will never forgret having a couple of mt tiny Sunday school babies (age 3 and 4 atthe time think thy had done a magic trick when I had them pull carrots out of the church's garden bed!Wish I had filmed that!😊Lovely recipe. Thank you for sharing!Blessings!~Hope
No-pahl-EE-toe....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your pronunciation...& your up-front honesty that it is the Arkansan version. Will have to make a batch of those pickles...they look yummy
Nothing like growing and preparing your own food. Thank you for taking about REAL food and it’s blemishes. I work at a farm gate that deals mainly in oversized and undersized and unwanted produce because it’s not deemed perfect enough for market sale. The amount of good food thrown away because of its look is just so heartbreaking. Your message will reach many, thank you 🙌🏼 xx Cathi xx
Oh my goodness, jess!I just relized that is a gryphon on your right arm!In 5th and 6th grade, our school mascot was th Gryphons- and being a J.K. ROling fan, how could Inot love that gorgeous ink?💖To me, home preserved food gems look more precious and beautiful than stone gems to me.God's grden treasure!
What? Harvesting carrot now? I just planted mine last week. Mind you, I am in the Upper Laurentides region in Quebec, zone 4A/3B!!!
my favorite cookbooks are Farm Journal cookbooks, my favorite is my copy of the book my Mom used on the farm when I was a teenager 1959 Farm Journal Country Cookbook FIRST EDITION vintage by Nell Nichols. but the one you can fine on sale is Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook, Farm Cookbook, Recipe Book, Revised Enlarged Edition, 1972 but for a some one with garden the Farm journal's, America's best vegetable recipes cookbook is a good one
Hey, Jess. Those onions are beautiful. What variety are they?
I am trying BAKER CREEK's "Globo" for the first time this year, but our growing season is enough behind yours that all I have right now are little, whisky, stems...
Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 5/29/2020.
i absolutely LOVE that you started talking about the rewiring. its so true and real. retrain the brain lol REAL FOOD HAS BUGS AND DIRT and aint always pretty
Lol I totaly am.right there with you girl!!! Been growing food so long now the stuff in the grocery store with it's perfect shapes and colors now look fake and unappealing to me.
HOWEVER next time you buy produce from the store do the salt water trick. You'll be surprised what still crawls out
I JUST LOVE YOU SO MUCH :) you are so cute and i love how you get so tickled over food and gardening
Jess for slugs & snails put a container or saucer of beer out in your garden ( where ever they are) I have done this for years & have never had a problem here in sub-tropical Brisbane Australia, Jess I totally agree when it comes to supermarket perfect food- Thank Goodness we are lucky enough to grow & eat our own produce that is not sprayed or treated with terrible things, Unfortunately I cannot grow cauliflower so I do have to buy from my organic store. Loved this video. Cheers Denise - Australia- YOU ARE THE REASON I GROW FOOD because of your motivation. !!!!!!!!
K I gotta say it. Another one for a t-shirt! Real food has dirt. Or dirt & bugs. Something like that.... K I'm gonna start a t-shirt line and I'm gonna just watch your vids for inspiration for my prints...I'll give you credit of course... 😏😂 haha kidding. I've got no 'follow through'. And I'm too busy gardening. I loved this video! Makes folding diapers much more enjoyable! 😳😂
I had to laugh when you talked about getting your first eggs. My neice got chickens and when she got her first eggs she sent me a picture, then asked if it was ok to eat them.
Your veggies look delicious!
I absolutely love how Sweet Mia is SOOOOOO supportive of everything you do 🥰 its the "Are you so impressed?" "I am." "I knew you would be." that just melted my heart completely. He has so much gentle confidence in you. I just love you guys together so much.
Prestine looking store bought produce makes me take pause, too. However, so do bugs on my homegrown food. It speaks volumes to me about what may be happening in my garden. I use soil regeneration/biological practices for high nutrition/plant health. The high levels of sugars in healthy plants actually repel insects. I haven't had an infestation or crop wiped out for years. My garden is 100% pesticide-free + no synthetics anything 😁 It is possible to grow great food without all the bugs. Does my garden have bugs? Yes. Beneficials need to eat, too lol. Do bugs infest my crops? No. I happily eat and share my pristine garden food 🥰 It is very possible.
THANK YOU! Salt water rinse is a great idea.
WA is slug country for sure...They're horrible. Beer traps? LOL! I've been there done that along with using yeast with sugar and water...I'd have to have hundreds of traps out to get them.
Hey Miah... I grew this...lol.. Miah didnt build, fill ,top, put in drip irrigation... I think. WE. grew this is in order. Lol. Oh no you didnt just take all the glory did you Jess???? Lol. Crazy gurrl
Love it! Dec. 28th is my daughter's b- day. Her name is "Isis". People tend to get nervous saying her name. Except for the bellydance community. They absolutely love her name. I look forward to seeing the new kitchen. Too bad you didn't over winter your peppers. I did, and they are producing like crazy right now. Pepper plants can last as long as 2 years before dying. They turn massive like tomato plants can be. Thank you for sharing.
Give me bugs and blemishes above chemicals and who knows what anytime! I love Bear, he is just a gorgeous boy 😍
I'd rather have dirty veggies any day...
Grocery store food too many chemical exposure...
Loving your hair n ALL the smiles!! Stay safe n blessed guys💖🙏
My husband quick pickles some of his super hot peppers, and puts them on EVERYTHING! Tacos, sandwiches, pastas, you name it lol
Speaking of cookbooks - check out “In Pursuit of Flavor” by Edna Lewis. She was a truly amazing chef! I love that she focused on cooking things in season and made her own mayonnaise. That’s what’s up ☺️💛
Good morning from Maryland! Jess and Miah: you are both such an inspiration to me. What a blessing you are to me. You remind me so very much of myself when I was young and raising our 5 children. I grew everything that we ate, made all our clothing, rugs, curtains, blankets, etc. For me it was just what we did! There was no homesteading movement. Lol Hubby and I are both pastors and teachers. There nothing better than tending to God’s garden and His children. Such a blessing for the two of you to share with your children! We recently bought a log cabin and several acres of good Maryland ground. Devotions are finished, My large garden is growing abundantly and my chickens are laying profusely. I’m currently knitting hubby a blanket, relaxing while watching my favorite RUclips channel: Roots and Refuge. Ever hear of them. 😆 May God’s blessings continue to shine on your family, friends, neighbors and fans!
Rhonda
Jess
What is your recipe for quick pickle brine
Oh &
Reg pickle brine to water
bath can ?
Your veggie mix looked very yummy
Linda from Ct
There is a food truck that make gyros in Colorado Springs. They put the same pickle veggies in the gyros... It’s mind blowing delicious ... I crave this gyro for months during deployments. It’s the FIRST thing I eat every time I get back home. I’m not joking
Jess, you are such a Sweety. I love your love for your family & garden. It's such a joy to watch your videos. And yes, I've thought that very same thing when I go into the grocery stores---"what the heck did they put into this crop to make it so big and with no blemish!"
Cant wait to try that pickled veggie recipe. Thank you. God bless you & your family.😊🙏💕
Quick pickled veg with Brussels sprouts is amazing too! I normally do sliced jalapeños, carrots, cauliflower, onions, Brussels sprouts, and cucumbers, along with cilantro, mustard seeds, uhmmm what else lol.. peppercorns.. red pepper flakes.. then my brine i do water, honey, a little salt and apple cider vinegar, bring to a boil, cool slightly, then add to the jars. I pretty much put whatever i have in the jar/bring
"Real food is dirty! "Could be your next t shirt. Loved the fast forward with you and Ben talking normal, obviously your editing skills are advancing! Do you soak everything out of the garden in salt water? You said you soaked the black berries, should I be soaking my strawberries? Thanks love your videos!!💗