Week One in the NORTH | Cooking & Problem Solving Off Grid
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Van Life and Skoolie Life come together as Chris and I take on the Wisconsin north woods over winter. Week one was all about problem solving, settling in, and learning how to cook using the variety of foods we have preserved and stored. The fun has just begun!
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We are Linnea and Akela. Through the van build, I used my stubbornness and drive to show individuals that they, too, can convert a campervan by themselves and on a budget, with a lot of learning, rolling up the sleeves, and getting to work.
Our goal is to inspire individuals to chase their dreams... to break from societal limitations and live the life they truly desire.
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My husband built a water box. Basically a wooden insulated box with a lid but no bottom. That way, we set it in the lake, it freezes around the box but when you open the lid, you have open water all winter.
I haven’t subscribed to a new channel in a long while here on RUclips, specifically channels like this. I have one RUclips channel I’ve been following for a while and have come across others, but have never been drawn in. What I love about you and your channel is you’re AUTHENTIC! You don’t try to mimic other styles you see here on RUclips and you’re just YOU. Thank you for the breath of fresh air! Blessings to you on your journey 😊
Oh yeah, and I’m an avid bread 🥖 baker and LOVE cooking outdoors, so this is definitely an added delight for me!
I’m vicariously living through you guys! My fav channel to watch ❤
Wow thank you! ♥️
Exactly Katie! Same!!! Goosebumps on this vlog!!!
Ditto so fun😊😊😊
Akela lighting up when it's time to get the water and then stealing a little piece of ice was so cute. Hope you're staying safe and warm.
"That's inappropriate!"
LOL
I'm super impressed with your dutch oven sourdough!
I think it's pretty great you both have your own spaces. It's more fun and you don't always have to sleep together to be together. You could have date nights and take turns creating a romantic evening. 💟
My wife and I have lived separately for 15 years. The only time we really had any trouble was the 30 months we lived together. We love the difference between the two of us. We are very different and we love that about us but we also love our private spaces which makes the love so much easier to find you know?
Nothing like having your own space especially if you have a dog near you on your bed.Or a cat.
@Adrian T you good?
Linnea…..this vid was so well put together……you got skills, girl! And, I was wanting to reach into the screen and snag a piece of that delicious-looking bread! Great job on that, too. It was so good to see the dogs frolicking and playing together in the snow 😊. Loved every single second of this vid. Very much looking forward to next one….but then, I always am. Hope you guys have a great week, and hope Chris’s spider bite is healing nicely
awww i love the little “bloopers” at the end
I’ve been looking forward to this all week! Y’all are the best couple. Your kids would be beautiful!
Wow thank you so much!! This is so sweet :)
I am so proud of you for doing this winter in the north woods & am learning so much vicariously! You are really inspiring me to step outside my comfort zone & learn to live a simpler more independent life. ❤💯🙏
Ahh the beauty of the Great Lakes states in winter--the whole world is your freezer!
General rule on baking anything in a Dutch oven is 1/3 coals on bottom, 2/3 on the top. I’m in the process of converting a van and love your videos!
Here's a hint on bread if you do not have a thermometer to check the interior temperature. Turn the loaf over thump your finger on the bottom of the loaf of bread, if it sounds hollow it's done! 👍
Just the best -- the bread looks amazing. My mouth is watering for great sourdough now-- and the four of you are so sweet together.❤
Been excited for this video. Looks like you both thrive out there in those beautiful woods and you work very well as a team. I’ve been loving seeing all your cooking! Keep it up. Learning a lot through you!
Loosing the sledge was hilarious LOL ......
I waited for your laugh...
That Dutch oven Works so good....
Proud of you.. stay safe in the storm...
I have to say I am absolutely loving this content!! I am so envious watching you living my dream, but it's so cool! You guys have been so thorough with your prep that I am in awe. Congratulations on the bread too! 🥰. I'm so curious how you're managing to upload these videos to us?? Thank you so much for sharing this chapter of your lives! 🥰💖🚐🇨🇦
Thank you so much Michelle! We both have a Verizon hotspot that we rely on for uploads, and Starlink just in case (but that draws a lot of power so we try to limit that!)
Thank you for watching and supporting! ♥️
You should teach those dogs to pull that sled for you. Every good dog needs a chore. The bread looked awesome. Great job. Thanks for posting.
The dog licking our of the pitcher!!! Wow
here , Linnea reminds me of the legendary women my mother spoke of after reading "Women who Run with the Wolves." and here you nicknamed Chris "wolf man". So I have no intention of insulting but celebrating the full circle from my own perspective. I look up to you both and love that you are challenging your selves! this is amazing, and completely original footage, which we all know is hard to find as of late. Totally immersing myself in your videos, I can almost smell the fire Here to cheer you on from Belmont Shore, Long Beach CA!!!!! namaste, babies 💖
This is just so sweet. I love that book :)
Thank you for your kind words and support! ♥️
One of the things we do to secure ends of wood piles is pound in a couple t-posts. Helps keep the stacking easier.
Ooo very smart. Thanks!
I'd love for you to share your sour dough recipe when you get a chance (if you have one for a traditional oven). I've never made it before because I've been to intimidated. All of the scientific steps, materials and information overwhelmed me.
Best damn blue 💙 bowl. Helps make great looking sourdough bread and soaks Chris aka Wolf 🐺 man foot/spider 🕷 bite. 😆 I absolutely love your videos. Keep being a bad ass!
I am getting so much entertainment (and knowledge) watching your adventure. Didn't you say something about sharing your sour dough recipe? Your bread came out absolutely beautiful!!
The dogs are definitely living there best life 😀 your bread looked amazing 👏 I love cooking with my cast iron over the fire 🔥
I just love, love, love this vlog. Your delight in the bread was wonderful, your prep paying off, your sharing of your day/times so very interesting and I can't wait for each Sun to watch. Love the dogs playing and snuggling and you are Chris are so loving and harmonious. So good! Thank you big time and hugs to you all!
Msg 2- I live in my camper up at the homestead with my husky, to tend my gardens I got great info on your cubic mini My house burned mid last March was able to get our the wood stove from the basement but it's too big for a camper I heated water on it and cooked throughout summer ,, an apartment in town for winter and I miss my solitude,Woodheat, woods, etc... so thank you for sharing your winters with me
I could hear the crunch from the crust all the way in Austin. Yummmmm
The excitement about the bread 😅 I feel you, sis! 😊
That's some beautiful sourdough bread! Good for you. Another triumph.
So much awesome in this video!
I love watching you guys working and playing together, my partner makes jokes like that all the time 🤪
Wow that bread looked so good 👏🏻👏🏻🤤
I don't know who's the cutest couple of you guys. Adela wins the grand prize anywhoo 😋😀
So beautiful! and Linnea you are a beast! (in the best possible way)
I live on the west coast of Canada but I grew up back east. You are bringing back so many wonderful memories of winter life in the woods. There is something uniquely magical in that environment. Enjoy and I hope you both have a peaceful, healthy and happy Christmas. I miss my sled!
I agree about the unique magic out here! I wish you the best as well! ♥️
Digging how you're settling and adjusting. I can't sleep hot either. This is such a cool thing you're doing. She's got bread skills baby!!
Thanks so much!
HOW IS CHRIS'S LEG? Wishing you two, the pups, & all your family & friends a safe, healthy, & aware 2023!!
I'm the same. If I am hot while I sleep I get really uncomfortable and have nightmares. Side note.. I think its really cool you both have your own space. I think its essential.
Hi Linnea a laser thermometer would be handy to keep track of the Dutch oven temps. Tom
You four are such a wonderful vibe. I absolutely love your content. That bread looks amazing! You should try an amish friendship bread. Easy to start and makes a great dessert to go with your applesauce
Plze be safe with the storm coming. Stay warm, stay safe. Your bread looks delicious. 🙏💙💜🙏
Always! And thank you very much :)
Wow making bread in a Dutch oven is amazing…I've only just cracked it in my oven after a few times. 😂 Well done..
Well not only did I get a lesson in off grid cooking!! But I think I just got also educated in Willie Nelson!! LOL!!
Wow wee thank you for this pleasant enjoyable vid
Beautiful bread great job
I would love the sourdough recipe! It has been intimidating to me!!
This vlog is so magical. I love all the realness, the little bloopers at the end and this sourdough, oh my. So glad to see the recipe soon 😍
I love all the tiny tools for your cubic mini 😁
Heet and sleep don't go together! I always have weird and scary dreams when I'm to hot at night. We always sleep with the wi doe open, even if it's just slightly, even when it freezes. Glad you slept well again. 😊
Right?! I couldn’t figure out what was going on and then Chris actually googled it - that’s when we put two and two together, otherwise I don’t think I would have assumed it was just the heat!
@@Linneaandakela yeay for google! I've had it since I can remember. Also my migraine is much worse when my head is hot. I have dreams where I'm walking around trying to do something important or get somewhere, but I can hardly see for the pain in my eyes. When I wake I actually have the pain in my eyes. So rather 10 blankets and socks than warm air. 😊 It's so much fun to see you guys having fun out there.
Good work baby, love your handmade's bread.God less you for storm
Linnea there is one heck of a storm coming your way. Im in Menomonie Wi. Foot or more of Snow and a big drop in temperature. Way below Zero. Put some kind of skirting around your vehicles. Even snow will help insulate your vehicles. I lived in my 48 passenger schooly for three years in the Mountains in Colorado.
I would love to make sourdough bread. It looked so delicious! Can't wait till next Sunday ❤️
You two give me hope.... Stay healthy stay safe, and, stay happy! ✌🏼❤️🌱
This is going to be my favourite series yet! You’ve inspired me to do more hearth and home endeavours! Also I love how getting to see a different side of you, still you but an more playful you! Your excitement with the bread was super cute! And I would love to see a tutorial from you in the future! Thanks and have a great Christmas! 💜
I love watching every single video you post!! Bread looks so yummy.
Thank you Shirley!
Can't wait for the next episode of your life 😍😍🥰
I've followed you for a long time now and your adventures are inspiring.
I would love the sour dough recipe. Mine turned out like a rock and needed a chain saw to cut it!
Loved seeing the dogs wrestle! Glad your settling in, bread looks fantastic! Please do share the process! Hope the bears don’t come for your freezer meat, you’ll know if they’re around, its easy to spot scat on the snow. Have fun, stay warm.
I love watching your videos, and I want some of that bread!
New subscriber. I really enjoyed watching. That sourdough bread,...looked so good!!!
How satisfying! Fresh baked bread on a campfire…with butter!!!😊. Don’t get much better than that!❤
I recently started making my butter from scratch takes about 10 minutes and heavy cream and a wisc or a mixer if you got one. What you can do is put any herb you want, in that and eat it on your homemade bread 🍞 🍞 🍞 🍞 🍞 have a nice time 😊 bye-bye
I'm the same way, the room has to be cold for me to sleep well.
Oh man, that bread looks so good! 😋 My stomach is growling.
I don't know how far back your videos go but I'll be thinking about y'all and praying for you during the artc blast this weekend. Take care and stay warm. Good luck!😘❤❤🐾❤🐾❤
You have amazing skills , editing, personality, ...
But I must ...I'm hungry and when I heard the crunch of fresh crust..
Sorry I need a break lol
I am digging the scarf! So as not to blend in with the snow! Love Akela!
The bread looks amazing!!! I would love to see a video about how you make it. The bloopers are hilarious. Thanks for keeping them in at the end!
Yes! Please share you’re sourdough recipe!!! ❤
Just want to copy everyone else has said, I'm in Arizona but left Ohio at 10, my mom raised in a smallish shack in a holler in the back woods of kentuck. With 8 sisters and a brother, through the depression, I'm sure life was almost like you are living. She did however have a cast iron stove she talked about a lot.
Stacking the split wood, it's my understanding to try to stack bark side up as a natural cover to the wood.
Sending love and happiness to all.
Happy holidays
Great job on your bread it look's delicious Linnea.I enjoyed your video and good Luck to you two.
Thank you Jimmy!
Oba vídeo desta menina que tem um sorriso lindo e a Akela e Cris, parabéns pelo seu pão, eu ja estou com frio aqui no Brasil só de ver vocês ai neste frio, Eu desejo de coração que vc tenha um ótimo Natal e um próspero ano Novo, com muita saúde e paz para você. 🙋♂️🇧🇷🌲
I lied. Said I was done. One more ' u have a beautiful life. So inspiring
My heart sores. Kinda hope I never see u 2. You're Rockstars, literally.
I would love the sourdough recipe also it looks amazing
Sounds great I will make sure to do a video on it!
Ty my father made some 49 years ago but I never got the recipe so I've never made any but I love sourdough
Well done,your bread looked better than the bakers👍🏻
we're loving this series Linnea! it's so relaxing and fun to watch
Thanks so much guys! ♥️
You guys living m'y dreams life lol. love your video
All these videos are so well done. I love the music you use and the content is so interesting, informative
Hey you are the only other person I've seen that wears Kenetreks! I'm an archaeologist and swear by them for hiking and working in the backcountry.
Yay!!! You guys are doing great. That bread looked amazing! Blessings!
@Linnea - I would REALLY like your sour dough recipe! PLZ-PLZ-PLZ!
🤗 ❤️ 💜 Great work...
Yeah I'm hitting the like button as soon as the video starts because I already know how good it's gonna be! Keep up the good work, y'all are killing it!
P.S. Gotta stop watching so late cause your cooking makes me hungry! 😁
I love your videos. So well put together. Watching from Northern Germany where it almost never snows.
Thanks!
Wow beautiful bread!!!!
Enjoy your time up there! So fun that you take us along!
Amazing as always. Your awesome. Love the catchup’s with you. Looks so beautiful. That bread, yummmmmmmy. Well done you.
Thank you very much, I was so stoked! 💛
The bread looks yummy!
Lol at Akela trying to eat that chunk of ice by the water 😂
A new cast iron cook is born! You can read all the books you want, but every piece is different. Finding a good bread recipe is tough. Your sourdough looked (and sounded) awesome! 😊
Haha love this idea! Thanks so much, I’m proud to announce it tasted as good as it looked!
Cool video, A big storm just started in Montana today.My grandpa used to make sourdough pancakes when we went camping.They were the best.
This is so beautiful
Saweet, good jobs guys
I'm so excited to watch this I hope you guys are doing amazing.
What was that thing to clean off the tops of the rigs? All truck drivers need that to make is safer. I hate having huge piles of snow fly at me its so dangerous and scary.
it was a tool to clean of solar panels- they need to be clean of snow to absorb the sun's rays especially in overcast days
That Bread looks Amazing Linnea 🥰 would like to know the recipe you follow. Never was able to get it right.
So I switched to an Amish bread recipe which is so much easier to make and tastes Devine ❤
Your bread looks so good!
This is so inspiring! I loved every minute of it and had to watch it twice. Thank you for sharing all these adventures!
Wow thank you so much! 💛
I'm sitting here in Western Australia, a huge fan of your channel and I'm loving this new chapter. It's 34c (98f), the begining of summer for us. The lowest it gets here in winter is -1c (30f) and that's at night when I'm tucked up in bed so I know I would struggle with being so cold. Watching you make your bread reminded me of when we would go camping with dad. He was known as the "damper" guy. It's an Aussie bread that's sort of like your "biscuit" but was just delicious straight from the camp (Dutch) oven and drizzled with Golden Syrup or honey. Less prep time and it's def not bread but I can highly recommend it. There are heaps of recipes on google if you would like to try to make one. I'd just like to wish you both a very Merry Christmas and I'm looking forward to the rest of your journey up North.
The bread looks delicious
Love the Winter in the Northwoods camping, so much better than all the van lifers who spend so much time in the empty desert.
What county is your land in? We have been working in the forests of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minn for about 40 years and always enjoy camping out on a project in Winter.