join me in my urban homesteading era || chores, tomato gardening, homemade pickles, etc
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
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I will be sharing the ups and downs of life and how to attempt to get through it in one piece. I’ll be sharing realistic life advice, minimalism tips, routines, vlogs, and anything else I think you would benefit from! Life is messy and unpredictable, and learning how to manage these hurdles is the first step to leading a happier and more intentional life. We're all trying our best out here, and I just want to share what is and isn't working for me.
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I know I kind of talked through the changes that I made to the pickle recipe I found, but currently, what we're working with so far is:
¾ cup vinegar
¾ cup water
2 tbs sugar
1 tbs salt
(boil this to dissolve salt + sugar)
put in a jar:
as much dill as makes you happy
a dash of red pepper flakes
2-4 cloves of fresh garlic
as many cucumber spears as you can fit
and then pour the water on top and refrigerate for 24 hours ideally!
Thanks for the recipe, I like cucumber in salads but I'm bored so I need a new way to consume them.
You should try pickling other things as well! My favorite is pickled red onions! Great on salads and tacos!
Recipe tip. I have a notebook/journal that I use to copy down recipes we like. I number the pages and made an index bullet journal style. Also write the date I put the recipe in. Then I can find them again. I also write the website or wherever it came from. Then I have all the go to recipes together and don’t lose them. Also fun to revisit old things we’re were obsessed with but then forgot all about. Fellow ADHD person here who can forget what we made for dinner last week. It’s like I’ve been having dinner my whole life but can’t remember what we like to eat. 🤷🏻♀️
I've been meaning to do something along this lines !! I have a notion page that I just need to fill in😭
@@gracenevitt I keep hearing about notion but have not done a deep dive on what exactly it is or what it could do for me. I’m a chronic try something new, think it’s great, forget about it 2 days later person!
@@SarahCbyneedleandthread I do this too! It's so nice to look back like 5 years later and remember the things I loved to eat!!!!
you kept me company while i was crocheting! your excitement over the tomatoes and the pickles was felt in my soul!! keep living your joy
I do all of the laundry as well due to everyone’s various neurodivergences. For some reason I am the person who can remember that laundry needs to be switched over. It’s fine, though. There are other things that I have noped out of that other people cover. I live in a house with 4 people with a combination of autism and ADHD, so it is a challenge over here at times. I really enjoy your low key videos like this, by the way. They are super realistic and don’t make me feel bad about preferring to stay in and get things done. Congrats on your baby tomatoes!
Thanks for keeping me company while I prepare supper. It's been a salad heavy week and prepping in the morning when it's cooler as it's also hot (heat wave) where I live.
aw hope the weather cools down soon!!
Ray is so cute, you two (three, with Flip) are the cutest 🥰
You kept me company while I was knitting ❤ and I watched the second reading vlog whilst making dinner!
Aww loved this video Grace! So chill snd wholesome. I was watching while I work and actually stopped what I was doing to grab my water cup and take a big drink when you said you’d wait 😂💙 I love pickles but never made them myself, definitely going to have a go now 😋😋
I'm still watching but your excitement over the tomatoes is FABULOUS!!
truly has been the highlight of my summer tbh
I had a moment when a neighbor who is 6 months ahead of me on the widow’s journey advised me of a couple of things that made her life easier so I bought them. 1. A small rice cooker and 2. An egg cooker. I love poached eggs but never get them right. I even bought a little scoops devise to start them in and it was a complete fail. The cooker makes poached eggs too. Anywho, I spent under $50 for both of them together. Very cheap. Now I have to find a space for them in my cupboards. Am getting rid of my magic bullet set - makes small smoothies and salad dressings, etc. I have never used it in over 20 years. There are 6 containers so it takes up a lot of room.. although I did not spend a lot of money, I am determined to make these purchases worthwhile. Since my life situation has changed, I have to change systems too. I have had to change everything about my life. Lots to think about all the time. Oh, and 2 most excellent news items: first, my friend loves to sell stuff online and he has just retired and is looking for something to occupy his time. I have about 6 cartons marked for Craif’s list or marketplace”ace that have been untouched for 13 years since we moved here. He is going to take them and see if he can sell them and I am giving him 50% of the profits. Hopefully so much will be gone at the end of this. Second, my former DIL is an interior designer and she and my granddaughter are going to come over in 2 weeks and get my craft room organized. May be looking at destashing some yarn on Ravelry but I do love my stash a lot. We’ll see how good I am at letting go. I am just so thankful for the help.
you got this!! hope it all goes well! and I'm glad you've got some help too :)
@@gracenevitt thanks!
the no dish washer + eats 99% of meals at home combo will be the death of me :')
truly
I moved to a new place on Monday and I'm setting up my new kitchen/putting dishes away. Thanks for keeping me company! :)
congrats on the new place!!
@gracenevitt Thank you! Moved to a new city (near where I used to be, though), and moved in with my partner! Things are good! 😁
Also, I've been on the low-buy train. Your videos have been great motivation for me to actually track spending/retirement/etc and pay attention to budgeting and understanding where my money is going.
I got incredibly into minimalism when I was like 22, about 8 years ago, and a lot of things about low-buy/no-buy are things I already have incorporated for a long time, but the reminders are really wonderful.
Also, when you wouldn't let the "drink water NOW" not be listened to, I begrudgingly drank half my Nalgene, so thanks for that too!
Setting a laundry timer is really helpful 😊
Had to jump in right at the start of the video as I have been making homemade pickles for the majority of my married life - which was 57 years. I used to make homemade dill pickles with my mother-in-law for many years. So delicious! There is nothing like them. We opened our first jar on Thanksgiving after making them in the summer. I also used to make my own sweet pickle relish - once again - nothing else tastes life it. And in later years my friend and I have made refrigerator pickles, which are kind of a bread and butter pickle. I have all of the recipes. Fair warning - you will have to invest in some equipment to make them but because they are pickled, they do not require a big canner. They do require the right kind of jars, lids and seals as well as the ingredients to make them. I am almost positive that it is much cheaper to buy them at the store but the taste just can't compare. If you want any or all of the recipes, please let me know by reply and I will look them up for you. My MIL's dill pickle recipe pre-dates 1900. You will get mighty hot doing it but so worth the effort.
eventually I would love to try doing it the proper way, but currently, with no equipment, I'm very happy to just be making my refrigerator pickles for now :) if you'd like to share the dill pickle recipe I'll gladly save it for down the road
All this homemaking is so fun!
I had a great time doing it hahah can't wait to finish up the limoncello in a few weeks!!
Thanks for another super cozy video! I didn’t do anything productive but watched it to wind down my brain before bed. Might watch it again sometime soon when I have chores to do if I remember:)
Really wanna try the pickle recipe! Looks absolutely delicious. And a friend of my mom’s gave me some cucumbers from his greenhouse so this was great timing!
Girl you’re going to love pickled red onions, just water vinegar salt boil and add to a PACKED Jar of sliced onions in the fridge it’s my favorite home pickling thing ❤❤
Oh also I cleaned up the kitchen and packed lunches and started putting away laundry! I love these videos for hanging out and getting chores done!
omg I gotta try this!!
@@gracenevitt you’ll LOVE it
This vlog was like a chill voicecall - loved it!! also like, wow the glass jars really had a moment 😆
lol it was a jar modeling video in disguise
This was nice to watch, your excitement for the tomatoes, the pickles and the limoncello. I felt a little bit bad for you two, both of you feeling guilty for something that has to do ADHD, I loved your reply to Ray's, his face suddenly turned sad about the dishes but you reassured him that was ok. Hope you gave yourselves more grace, you're doing great ❤.
that's so sweet
Try quickles I haven't quite gotten around to them my self, but if you have a whiped cream canister you can apparently make pickles inside of it that are called quickles.
I'd consider these "quickles" because they're pretty much perfect and ready to go in 24 hours. I'd maybe just suggest eating them in about a week or two because they're not properly sanitized and sealed and all that jazz and idk how long they'd last.
Currently knitting a patchwork blanket for my friend's birthday. I love these vlogstyle videos and even more so the homestead videos! 😊
this + actual outdoor gardening (and some book videos + intentional spending videos) is essentially my dream for this channel in the future 💗
Me actually drinking water when you told me to...LOL
good!! LOL
I'm washing my bedding while watching this video 😊
nice!!
@@gracenevitt 😊
Grace, I highly recommend you look into a countertop dishwasher. It can drain into the sink! Some things are worth spending money on for quality of life and we would NEVER GO BACK
we already have such limited counter space already I know it would drive me crazy 😭 maybe we could put it on top of the washing machine though???? idk
Girl is on a no buy
Ray and I were talking about getting a dishwasher of some sort eventually but yeah it would likely be next year at some point haha
@@gracenevittlol I was joking - obviously get a dishwasher if you need one but my 2 cents is that it might make more sense to get a full sized one that you'll need to run less often, especially if you're planning live in that apartment for up to 5 years. I feel like a countertop one would fill up too quickly
@freshfreshfreshfresh I agree!!
Why would you not want to be a plant chanel? Plants are awesome! 😍🌱
Congrats on the tomatoes!
I just didn't want to start out being an ONLY plants channel .. plus there's literally only so much you can say about how to take care of a plant and there's plenty of fabulously informative channels out there!
If I had to hand wash all my dishes I would just use one plate and one cup all day and just keep washing it after each use. 😂 Might suck in the moment to put forth the effort to wash it right after eating but at least it would keep the sink from piling up. But that wouldn’t really solve the problem of the amount of dishes used from actually cooking the meals 🤔
yeah I feel like the pans and things are really where the issue lies 😭 I really need to try and get better as washing as I go or doing a dish here or there in between doing things
Me literally staring at my empty water bottle and refusing to fill it even though I wanted water earlier and...got a soda because it felt easier
I worked in the lab and waited for an incubation step
woah that's so cool!
❤
I just watched Conscious Consumerism's video on things she was influenced to buy as part of her No Buy series and wow so thought provoking. I wonder if you be interested in doing your version of that? I'm surprised I haven't seen more of these types of videos as part of peoples no buy years.
I can't lie, I've either decluttered or forgotten a lot of things that I've been "influenced" to buy (and that's just via trends, not specific influencers) because I've been mindful of sustainability for a while, so I genuinely think the only things on that list would be a hydroflask and some shoes maybe lol