I absolutely loved hearing you say you were waiting to wake up the children because you hadn't told them the night before, and it wouldn't be respectful to wake them early. Children learn so much from modeling their parents' behavior, and by respecting yours, they'll grow up respecting themselves and others. Today's video explained part of why your boys seem so peaceful and joyful. 🩵
I loved the video on “chores”. It shows real love and respect for the children and takes consideration of teaching the children with love and life skills. It’s the only way children can grow up with the right tools for success in life.
I lovee your videos. The best crop you are raising is your children. The skills they are learning as part of a family are priceless. You should be so proud.
Oh come on you guys... The likes help Ruthanne too . this video has 4600 views and only just over 800 likes? Lets be morenintentional about showing ruthanne our appreciation for her videos and Recipes! Ruthanne i love your videos. I am so thankful for your channel🥰🥰🥰 ❤❤
Ha, ha, ha ha I hadn’t realized I watched the whole video and hadn’t like it… Truth be told I loved it! So thank you for the reminder to go hit that like button!❤️❣️❤️
@@RuthannzimmI am just loving your video's. I click the like button, share them and save everything in a file. I'm 65 and a widow, I grew up on a large chicken farm but moved off when I was 16. Thank you for everything. I just love you.
Kendrick is such a good helper! He seems to do all things with a joyful heart! Big sister is encouraging and filled with patience as she helps him figure out how to do tasks. You are raising a wonderful family!
God bless your thoughtfulness towards your children in not waking them. I found this so lovely and respectful. There is no age limit to respecting another human being 🙏
I can’t get over how much you love and respect your children. You parent from the top down and it’s shows. Respect is given to you as you guide them and respect their hearts. Just a beautiful example of motherhood ❤
I don’t know much about RUclips lighting, but I thought you looked beautiful sitting in the sun enjoying your morning coffee with your garden backdrop. I love all you share and learn something every time I watch. 🥰Now thanks to Kendrick I know how to make flower garden fairies!
Thank you for these great recipes. It was relaxing watching all of you actually canning them. You’re an awesome woman and mother to patiently do all the things you do…definitely a Proverbs 31 wife! I caught your video 16 minutes after you posted it and am glad I watched it. You’re a blessing! God is so very good. May bless you and yours ❤️
Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Thaoms Gabriel from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask??
I enjoy your channel so much. Your family projects are so helpful to watch. It is just my husband(age 69), and me(age 68), but we enjoy canning so much. He is so helpful and I could not do it without him, but together we get it done. This week we canned 8 half pints of pizza sauce, 9 quarts and 5 pints of tomato juice. 17 pints of salsa, 14 quarts of potatoes and 14 quarts of french fries. I guess you have to love it to enjoy it. You and your family are so inspirational and peaceful to watch. Thank you.
I canned 32 quarts of pickled pepper cabbage after watching your video several times! Guilty of absolutely loving this as my grandmother always made this for my German grandfather, and I don't understand why I wasn't regularly canning this delicious side. She served a small bit on all of us kids plates with dinner and supper. I walk backwards in time listening to you gently explain your methods and ingredients, because you help me to understand what I had been too young to know I should of paid better attention when she told me so many of her methods. You do a wonderful job. I had to turn the volume up to listen to your son say he didn't think the dog had a wonderful mother like he did who made [salsa] hahaha. Such a beautiful wholesome way to raise children, I'm happy to see it in today's world. Please know you brought joy to this grandmothers life. Good job!
Oh what a little sweetheart…making his momma a “flower girl” from her flowers! A memory/video to keep ~ especially as he gets older! Love boys who enjoy being with and working for with their Mommas! I am a Daddy’s/Grandpa’s girl (more so my Mom too now I’m a woman)…but…It’s beautiful to see Mothers and sons together, as it teaches them how to treat girls/women and others as they grow up…especially if they get married! Obviously, the same goes for girls! I can change my own tires, oil, etc. It’s truly beautiful when we help one another….and as a family…it only brought us extremely close, and remain even more so to this day! Many Blessings🇨🇦❤🇺🇸
I roast my tomatoes for both flavor and the skins literally roll off. Then I take the pan juices and the skins and pulverize them into a thicker juice. I use this for the salsa, in tomato jam, tomato sauce, or whatever I'm making. The skins and seeds contain flavor and nutrition, therefore I leave the seeds in so there's no waste. I never notice the seeds when I eat it, anyway.
I don’t have a garden, I don’t do canning, and the extent of my preserving is freezing bought produce and making the odd jar of something (not using either water bath or pressure canning methods)…yet I really enjoy watching you doing all this stuff for your homestead! I also love the fact that your kids get so involved. I get that it can be such hard work for you but they are picking up some amazing skills, and when they look back they will know just how fortunate they were to have this kind of background, rather than one where everything came solely from a supermarket shelf (I now know how lucky I was to have a mother who knew how to feed a family, even if I didn’t always appreciate it at the time.)
Ruth Ann, You are such a hard worker on your homestead, and you have trained your kids to help, teaching them how to have their own homesteads in the future if they choose to work hard like their Mom.
You're putting so much love and heart into making food for your family, give advise and teach the RUclips viewers your recipes. It's pure pleasure to listen to what you have to say. God bless you and your family.
Ok I did this! Here’s what I did. We were blessed with overachieving tomato and bell pepper plants. I used a chopper like you have as well. I did take a spatula and kind of squash them to get more liquid out. I ended up with a quart of tomato juice btw for whatever later. I got about 15 well drained tomato cups, 3 cups HG coarsely chopped onion, 3 big cloves of HG garlic chopped fine, and I increased bell to 1.5 cups chopped. I used one HG red jap and one HG green jalapeño, finely chopped. 2tsp cumin 1Tbsp Chili powder abd 3 Tbsp kosher salt the ACV etc everything but what I stated was as directed. I added 2Tbsp sugar because im accustomed to store bought but if you aren’t then blow off sugar or decrease. Boiled around 45” burned the bottom but it didn’t hurt it one bit (don’t ever scrape burnt part). Was exhausted so left it overnight to meld. Heated today and water bathed. Before I waterbathed I put a tad bit in fridge. It is EXCELLENT. I would literally search to repurchase in store. The peels and seeds didn’t bother us one iota. Our turned out between mild and medium heat(hubby doesn’t like heat). It made 5 pints exactly and was the consistency sort of like pace or other store bought. Thick and also thin creamy and also chunky and not chunky so all different but worked out so well. Perfect. I cannot thank you enough! Btw my tomatoes were a mixture of whatever grew some red some orange but all were ripe and some a bit overripe. Took only big cores abd bad parts out. Why work harder? Edit:Next time I will add one more cup of bell abd one more cup onion and one more small jalapeño as well as reduce sugar to 1 Tbsp. Sorry so long but I’m trying to help others.
I look forward to sharing my morning coffee with you every Saturday morning. I woke up yesterday morning and immediately felt happy because it was Saturday…but by the time I had brushed my teeth I realized it was only Wednesday. Phooey, no morning coffee with RuthAnn! I love your videos. ❤
I love your channel!! My husband is ex-Mennonite along with my mother and grandmother. So I relate so much to your channel being brought up with Mennonite ways of life. My mother felt the same about making sure we had the similar life knowledge of this way of living. ❤
I was looking to make some salsa this year. I am off work with a broken ankle. I dehydrated blueberries & cherries last week, canned 2 turkeys, 2 chickens & some chicken legs to make room in my freezer! Guess I was meant to watch your video today! Love your beautiful family!
Hello from Ynys Môn in Wales UK. I can't understand why anyone would feel the need to insult you. I watch your channel after a busy day to unwind and centre myself. I may not be canning but you have inspired me to stop buying ready made products and my fridge and freezer is full of home made meals. I love your channel. Thank you 😘
Can't tell you how grateful I am to have stumbled across your videos today. I had a couple fails canning Tomatoes earlier this week. After listening to you I was able to figure out what I had done wrong and it makes me mad to think that I went against my lessons that I've learned as a child and decided to trust Google only to be let down. Thank you so much for bringing these lessons to the rest of us. Keeping things simple. Going back to our roots. I appreciate you so so much
So a year later, I’m watching your video and having the same panic attack about my tomatoes. We had a really hard late frost with temps down into the upper 20’s at the end of may and first of June. My husband and I had to run out every evening and throw stare on top of as much as we could and saved most of the tomatoes and green beans but I do believe it caused everything to be delayed. The looked terrible but came back like a shinning star so I have high hopes for the tomatoes, it’s just nerve wracking!
Adopt me please. I want to learn everything you have to teach me! I love how you involve the children even tho they may slow you down. You dont snap at the children for getting in your way. A big shout out to your husband who probably cherishes all you do for the family
Excellent. I never understand removing seeds in Zucchini or tomatoes. Then there are jars of FIBER you can buy. Why? Eat your fruits and veggies, as is. No peeling. This is what I do. Good job, Mrs. Zimmerman. I am on a salsa kick, so this is perfect. Thank you.
Watching your videos is so relaxing. It reminds me of my childhood. I was raised in Church of the Brethren - - a few steps more modern than the Mennonites. But we canned, and canned, and canned things….learning right beside mom, just like your kids are doing. I appreciate ALL of the work you do in making the videos. But NOW, Girlllllll, you need a nap. You make me tired.
just wanted to add a little note that you probably already know. We live in an area with hard water. I put 4 tbsp of vinegar in my canner and it limits the calcium on the outside of the jars.
RuthAnn I love your channel more than you will ever know. I didn't know yellow tomatoes were low acid. I have canned 51 quarts and 122 pints of YOUR pasta sauce, 9 pints of diced, 25 various sizes of "green" relish and 30 pint V-8 juice all after a devastating hailstorm the end of June. (I am still canning as they ripen in our basement)‐As I watched you drain the tomatoes for your relish, I wanted to share the Lord whispered into my inexperienced ear to make the juice off my preciously canned tomatoes into V-8 juice!! ❤ I took some V-8 juice to our little church for snack/fellowship time and everyone LOVED IT! I feel so blessed to have the Holy Spirit whispering into my inexperienced ear and you on RUclips! GOD IS GOOD!!
Your family videos always makes my Saturday good. So much peace, cooperation, love and just good vibes exudes from it. Has this 72 year old doing a "Happy Dance"! 😂 Oh, love those recipes too!
Your video is great, on so many levels! There is a point where Kendrick mentions how wonderful his mom is, and if his pup could have such a wonderful mom.. that , if nothing else.. says so much about you. Clearly your children are awesome, and you live in a wonderful, magical place, and good life lessons are abundant! Thank you for sharing it ALL! Subscribed!
I have just started canning and growing a garden. I just love it. Thank you so much for sharing your videos for those of us just starting out ❤ Great helpers too!
Used 6x28 oz cans of diced tomatoes because of hail storms and 100+ heat, my tomato plants Haven’t been producing. My yield was 9 pints. My sampling while it was simmering indicates a great tasting salsa. Thank you
I helped my mother can for years. Then when I had kids at home I canned. Now it's harder to do I don't have the things I used to. I love watching my childhood on a dairy farm
this is so nice. I woke up and decided I'm making Salsa today, boot up my computer for a recipe and may favorite lady is giving me the recipe. Thank you
Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Thaoms Gabriel from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask??
Your children are growing strong and healthy. We grew up in Alaska. So lots of fishing, berry picking and so on. They will appreciate everything you give. The knowledge. The appreciation what the God gives.
Kendrick reminds me so much of my Daniel. He just loves to help me with canning. He's the best tomato peeler and loves to operate the apple slicer! We are making pie filling tomorrow and he is so excited
Your yellow tomatoes look like my heirloom tomatoes called "Rainbow"... They have red stripes going through them that are tasty and beautiful. Good for your husband who was sensitive to tomato acid.
you and your family make canning very simple and enjoying, my grandmother and grandfather grew up in the great depression, i learn alot from them ,your way of doing things remind me of them, i enjoy watching your channel, keep up the good work.
I love, love, love how simple your instructions are. I also feel it’s very helpful when you explain why you do things the way you do. I’m going to be busy this week making salsa and pie filling. I’ll save the turkey information for after Thanksgiving.❤
What happens if you forget and you want a bath for 15 or 20 minutes? Will that harm the product or make it taste any different posting the Homestead recipes, and I love how the children are such good helpers.
What an inspiration you are! I love your display of your canned items! So beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I am just learning to can more and your videos are very helpful!
Not taking the core out of small tomatoes- you just saved hundreds of people ) like me) lots of time!! As well as leaving in skins and seeds which i do also.
On your lack of schooling. If we couldn't get as much food as we need I'll just bet your family would be fed while others would not.Your knowledge of food preservation and growing would be priceless. All the book learning in the world would not care for a familly. Experience would be everything.
How I love your videos! Your smile and spirit with your children and animals and garden is so gentle and healing. You probably have no idea how you have helped others in the most genuine way! ❤
In the past I lived in Lancaster county in Pennsylvania and if I had a question on any aspect of homesteading, I would seek out the mentoring from my Mennonite/Amish brothers and sisters. They are the salt of the earth. I learned a lot and I'm a better person for my interaction with this community. Thank you and I subscribed and hit (smashed) the "thumbs up" button. We are programed to use vinegar 5% or higher for proper shelf life. With My salsa (pico de gallo (red-tomato) or salsa verde (green/yellow-tomatillo,) I use lemon or lime juice for a bright flavor that doesn't bite the tongue so to say. Lemon and lime juice are slightly more acidic than vinegar. The higher the acidity the safer the canning. Also, your use less then using vinegar. I prefer the tastes of lemon or lime juice over vinegar, as some people feel it has a milder flavor. I don't remember cilantro in the processing, I use one part cilantro and 2 parts parsley. And I don't cook the herbs, I include raw during the canning. Some people think cilantro by itself is bitter in taste. Another use, and the children may like this, I will blend smooth the salsa (red or yellow) to create enchilada sauce. Enchilada are a tortilla rolled and filled with a seasoned mixture, usually containing meat, and covered with a sauce flavored with chiles.The whole thing is baked in the oven with cheese on top. The people I know where family friends, the husband "English" and wife ex-Amish. I believe during rumspringa she decide to move on from the church. They met and fell in love, married after her decision not to baptize. Well look forward to watching more videos.
I can hardly wait for your recipe book to purchase!! I’d also love canning recipes as I have none! Combined? Two seperate books? I’ll take each please!!!!! I’m a new subscriber of a month or so, using LOTS of printer paper for your recipes😂.
I just said the same thing. Mid August and my barn is full of spiders and webs, garden is already down due to weekly cold fronts. Weirdness. Took a break and hollared... oh my Ruthann.. gonna make me binge watch. Lol😂❤ south folks.. let us prepare as hard as you can for another harsh winter. Go time... is now. Love ya. Hugs. God is Good.. we'll make it even despite having to feed cows hay already, this will last til may. Pray over your land and animals, we are gonna need that.
we also had double tubs from the wringer washer, I would wash jars in those tubs, would wash cabbage and grate on my great grandma's cutting board, used those tubs for so much large processing of of veggies....in the south it is hot the tubs were under shade trees....one summer mama and I put up 1200 jars of food...she would can tomato juice in gallon jars....jelly in quart jars, my family would go through the different jelly jars that she did like you started using quarts....
Great video. If you want a little tip for using the chopper, try putting a damp tea towel under the chopper to stabelise it to stop it slipping around. The salsa looked delicious ❤
I really love to watch your videos. The JOY of the LORD really shines while you are working away... There really is a difference in Born Again Believers..... I would love to come at Harvest time and work side by side with you, but alas im in PA...LOL Have a Blessed Day Sweet Sister~!~
I enjoy your videos , love the recipes. Will you ever do a video about when you left the Mennonite community, how old were the children and how much of the old ways do you still follow or not.
I found out that a black Sharpie marker will write on a jar when you need to label it and when you want to reuse the jar for something else, all you have to do is scrub the writing off with a rag and dish soap. My maternal grandmother used to take green tomatoes and pickled them like dill pickles or she would make a green tomato pie, substituting the green tomatoes for the apples in an apple pie recipe. My other grandmother would take all the leftover vegetables at the end of the season and make chow-chow bread and butter relish. MMM! Good!
I tried your recipe and made 16 pints. I did do a couple minor modifications. Someone asked me on Facebook if I could share the recipe so I posted a link to your video.
Another great video, thank you, loved the flower person Kendrick made, very imaginative, good job! Such wonderful helpers you have😁, such a very special family
You’re lucky you got tomatoes. I planted 5 plants last year and only got 3 tomatoes. I’m buying them now at the farmers market. Great tips in your videos, as always.
Growing my own plants from seed from Bakers creek (Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine) in my garden loaded with old barn manure, chicken poo and mulch gave me huge plants that came out the top of the cages and I added strings and they grew up and finally trailed along sideways. I had around 150 quarts off a 20' row easy not to mention tons I passed along. My all time favorites. Well worth starting.
I really enjoy your videos. I am allergic to tomatoes, and yet I still watched it. I made peach salsa years ago and it was awesome. We have five children and now they have their own families. I love canning. I have to can my own due to my allergies. Thank you for your videos🤗🤗💞💞💙💙
This was AWESOME! Ty for putting the recipe in description. Gonna do this and return with my thoughts. I would LOVE to be your neighbor! God bless you and your beautiful family😍
I made this just now - by myself, no wonderful blessings helping me - I followed the ingredients to a T and only got 4 quarts - what a bummer because in tasting it - it was marvelous! No sugar added. Maybe if the extreme heat doesn't kill the tomatoes we will try again - How do you measure your 14 cups? I measured it after they were cut and drained .. . Thank you!
When you were water bath canning the blueberry pie filling, the water did not cover the jars. I thought it had to cover the jars by an inch or two when you're doing water bath canning.
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I absolutely loved hearing you say you were waiting to wake up the children because you hadn't told them the night before, and it wouldn't be respectful to wake them early. Children learn so much from modeling their parents' behavior, and by respecting yours, they'll grow up respecting themselves and others. Today's video explained part of why your boys seem so peaceful and joyful. 🩵
I thought the same thing !!!
I thought the same! What a wonder mom!
Came to the comments to say this. I aspire to be this parent.
I loved the video on “chores”. It shows real love and respect for the children and takes consideration of teaching the children with love and life skills. It’s the only way children can grow up with the right tools for success in life.
Yes, showing respect should always go both ways. I wished my dad would have done that, but he wasn't brought up to respect women, let alone children.
I lovee your videos. The best crop you are raising is your children. The skills they are learning as part of a family are priceless. You should be so proud.
Oh come on you guys... The likes help Ruthanne too . this video has 4600 views and only just over 800 likes? Lets be morenintentional about showing ruthanne our appreciation for her videos and Recipes! Ruthanne i love your videos. I am so thankful for your channel🥰🥰🥰 ❤❤
Well aren’t you my favorite hype girl ever to show up here!!! 😍😍😍😍
Ha, ha, ha ha I hadn’t realized I watched the whole video and hadn’t like it… Truth be told I loved it! So thank you for the reminder to go hit that like button!❤️❣️❤️
Great reminder.
@@RuthannzimmI am just loving your video's. I click the like button, share them and save everything in a file. I'm 65 and a widow, I grew up on a large chicken farm but moved off when I was 16. Thank you for everything. I just love you.
Thanks for the reminder.
What a good helper Kendrick is! And the efforts really showed how bad he wants that salsa hahaha
Kendrick is such a good helper! He seems to do all things with a joyful heart! Big sister is encouraging and filled with patience as she helps him figure out how to do tasks. You are raising a wonderful family!
God bless your thoughtfulness towards your children in not waking them. I found this so lovely and respectful. There is no age limit to respecting another human being 🙏
Well said!
Your daughter is such a great helper, too! She knows just what she needs to do to help, and that comes with experience. Blessings!
Thank you so much!
I can’t get over how much you love and respect your children. You parent from the top down and it’s shows. Respect is given to you as you guide them and respect their hearts. Just a beautiful example of motherhood ❤
I don’t know much about RUclips lighting, but I thought you looked beautiful sitting in the sun enjoying your morning coffee with your garden backdrop. I love all you share and learn something every time I watch. 🥰Now thanks to Kendrick I know how to make flower garden fairies!
Yes! Thank you!
Thank you for these great recipes. It was relaxing watching all of you actually canning them. You’re an awesome woman and mother to patiently do all the things you do…definitely a Proverbs 31 wife! I caught your video 16 minutes after you posted it and am glad I watched it. You’re a blessing! God is so very good. May bless you and yours ❤️
You are so welcome!
It so warmed my heart watching Kendrick make his "flower girl"❤
My grandmother came from a Mennonite background. I see similar recipes. Thank you for all your hard work to share with the masses.😊❤
Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Thaoms Gabriel from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask??
I got my salsa recipe from an Apostolic friend
I enjoy your channel so much. Your family projects are so helpful to watch. It is just my husband(age 69), and me(age 68), but we enjoy canning so much. He is so helpful and I could not do it without him, but together we get it done. This week we canned 8 half pints of pizza sauce, 9 quarts and 5 pints of tomato juice. 17 pints of salsa, 14 quarts of potatoes and 14 quarts of french fries. I guess you have to love it to enjoy it. You and your family are so inspirational and peaceful to watch. Thank you.
Wow!!! It’s harvest week for you!!!!
Wow, you guys make an amazing team!!
I canned 32 quarts of pickled pepper cabbage after watching your video several times! Guilty of absolutely loving this as my grandmother always made this for my German grandfather, and I don't understand why I wasn't regularly canning this delicious side. She served a small bit on all of us kids plates with dinner and supper. I walk backwards in time listening to you gently explain your methods and ingredients, because you help me to understand what I had been too young to know I should of paid better attention when she told me so many of her methods. You do a wonderful job. I had to turn the volume up to listen to your son say he didn't think the dog had a wonderful mother like he did who made [salsa] hahaha. Such a beautiful wholesome way to raise children, I'm happy to see it in today's world. Please know you brought joy to this grandmothers life. Good job!
Oh what a little sweetheart…making his momma a “flower girl” from her flowers! A memory/video to keep ~ especially as he gets older!
Love boys who enjoy being with and working for with their Mommas! I am a Daddy’s/Grandpa’s girl (more so my Mom too now I’m a woman)…but…It’s beautiful to see Mothers and sons together, as it teaches them how to treat girls/women and others as they grow up…especially if they get married! Obviously, the same goes for girls! I can change my own tires, oil, etc. It’s truly beautiful when we help one another….and as a family…it only brought us extremely close, and remain even more so to this day!
Many Blessings🇨🇦❤🇺🇸
I roast my tomatoes for both flavor and the skins literally roll off. Then I take the pan juices and the skins and pulverize them into a thicker juice. I use this for the salsa, in tomato jam, tomato sauce, or whatever I'm making. The skins and seeds contain flavor and nutrition, therefore I leave the seeds in so there's no waste. I never notice the seeds when I eat it, anyway.
Kendrick said he has the most wonderful mom ❤😊
Brought back a memory from over 60 years ago. My grandma used to make us hollyhock dolls,
I don’t have a garden, I don’t do canning, and the extent of my preserving is freezing bought produce and making the odd jar of something (not using either water bath or pressure canning methods)…yet I really enjoy watching you doing all this stuff for your homestead! I also love the fact that your kids get so involved. I get that it can be such hard work for you but they are picking up some amazing skills, and when they look back they will know just how fortunate they were to have this kind of background, rather than one where everything came solely from a supermarket shelf (I now know how lucky I was to have a mother who knew how to feed a family, even if I didn’t always appreciate it at the time.)
The best part of this video is at 13:45. The boys are so sweet discussing whether or not the dog’s mom could make salsa.
Ruth Ann, You are such a hard worker on your homestead, and you have trained your kids to help, teaching them how to have their own homesteads in the future if they choose to work hard like their Mom.
Your boys appreciating what a wonderful momma they have was just the sweetest thing. 🥰
#Blessed ❤
I Love the fact that the all the kids jump in and they know the process ❤❤❤❤
You make canning look so easy,really like how the children are involved in the canning process. Really enjoy your channel.
You're putting so much love and heart into making food for your family, give advise and teach the RUclips viewers your recipes. It's pure pleasure to listen to what you have to say. God bless you and your family.
Ok I did this! Here’s what I did. We were blessed with overachieving tomato and bell pepper plants. I used a chopper like you have as well. I did take a spatula and kind of squash them to get more liquid out. I ended up with a quart of tomato juice btw for whatever later. I got about 15 well drained tomato cups, 3 cups HG coarsely
chopped onion, 3 big cloves of HG garlic chopped fine, and I increased bell to 1.5 cups chopped. I used one HG red jap and one HG green jalapeño, finely chopped. 2tsp cumin 1Tbsp Chili powder abd 3 Tbsp kosher salt the ACV etc everything but what I stated was as directed. I added 2Tbsp sugar because im accustomed to store bought but if you aren’t then blow off sugar or decrease.
Boiled around 45” burned the bottom but it didn’t hurt it one bit (don’t ever scrape burnt part). Was exhausted so left it overnight to meld. Heated today and water bathed. Before I waterbathed I put a tad bit in fridge. It is EXCELLENT. I would literally search to repurchase in store. The peels and seeds didn’t bother us one iota. Our turned out between mild and medium heat(hubby doesn’t like heat). It made 5 pints exactly and was the consistency sort of like pace or other store bought. Thick and also thin creamy and also chunky and not chunky so all different but worked out so well. Perfect. I cannot thank you enough! Btw my tomatoes were a mixture of whatever grew some red some orange but all were ripe and some a bit overripe. Took only big cores abd bad parts out.
Why work harder?
Edit:Next time I will add one more cup of bell abd one more cup onion and one more small jalapeño as well as reduce sugar to 1 Tbsp. Sorry so long but I’m trying to help others.
You can always tell that your boys are well and truly loved by the little things they say. So adorable.
oh my goodness! Kendrick making that flower lady was awesome! The smile on his face when she was complete!!!! ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!!!
I look forward to sharing my morning coffee with you every Saturday morning. I woke up yesterday morning and immediately felt happy because it was Saturday…but by the time I had brushed my teeth I realized it was only Wednesday. Phooey, no morning coffee with RuthAnn! I love your videos. ❤
I love your channel!! My husband is ex-Mennonite along with my mother and grandmother. So I relate so much to your channel being brought up with Mennonite ways of life. My mother felt the same about making sure we had the similar life knowledge of this way of living. ❤
I was looking to make some salsa this year. I am off work with a broken ankle. I dehydrated blueberries & cherries last week, canned 2 turkeys, 2 chickens & some chicken legs to make room in my freezer! Guess I was meant to watch your video today! Love your beautiful family!
I’m glad to see you’re passing the cooking skills on to the little ones they will remember all of this
Hello from Ynys Môn in Wales UK. I can't understand why anyone would feel the need to insult you. I watch your channel after a busy day to unwind and centre myself. I may not be canning but you have inspired me to stop buying ready made products and my fridge and freezer is full of home made meals.
I love your channel. Thank you 😘
Your children are fortunate in that they know where food comes from. And the labor involved.
Look at that boy creating and having fun in the garden ❤
Can't tell you how grateful I am to have stumbled across your videos today. I had a couple fails canning Tomatoes earlier this week. After listening to you I was able to figure out what I had done wrong and it makes me mad to think that I went against my lessons that I've learned as a child and decided to trust Google only to be let down. Thank you so much for bringing these lessons to the rest of us. Keeping things simple. Going back to our roots. I appreciate you so so much
So a year later, I’m watching your video and having the same panic attack about my tomatoes. We had a really hard late frost with temps down into the upper 20’s at the end of may and first of June. My husband and I had to run out every evening and throw stare on top of as much as we could and saved most of the tomatoes and green beans but I do believe it caused everything to be delayed. The looked terrible but came back like a shinning star so I have high hopes for the tomatoes, it’s just nerve wracking!
Adopt me please.
I want to learn everything you have to teach me!
I love how you involve the children even tho they may slow you down. You dont snap at the children for getting in your way.
A big shout out to your husband who probably cherishes all you do for the family
Me too!
Excellent. I never understand removing seeds in Zucchini or tomatoes. Then there are jars of FIBER you can buy. Why? Eat your fruits and veggies, as is. No peeling. This is what I do. Good job, Mrs. Zimmerman. I am on a salsa kick, so this is perfect. Thank you.
Exactly!
Watching your videos is so relaxing. It reminds me of my childhood. I was raised in Church of the Brethren - - a few steps more modern than the Mennonites. But we canned, and canned, and canned things….learning right beside mom, just like your kids are doing. I appreciate ALL of the work you do in making the videos. But NOW, Girlllllll, you need a nap. You make me tired.
Kendrick seems like a very sweet, gentle boy. Great helper!
Omg what a precious moment to catch on camera, making a flower person. You will have this to look back on when he has kids of his own and show them 🥰
just wanted to add a little note that you probably already know. We live in an area with hard water. I put 4 tbsp of vinegar in my canner and it limits the calcium on the outside of the jars.
So good to know. Thanks for sharing your information.
That little flower girl was adorable. What good helpers you have.
Awwww Kendrick is priceless watching his face trying so hard to press the garlic. Way to go Kendrick.
I love the way you include the whole family with your projects. Even the supervisor (dog) shows up! 😅
I love seeing kid’s learning the food preservation process ❤ valuable life lessons that will make them stronger in life. Great job 👏
Kendrick wondering if the dog had a wonderful mother like he does 🥹🥹🥹 are you kidding!!! The cutest❤❤
RuthAnn I love your channel more than you will ever know. I didn't know yellow tomatoes were low acid. I have canned 51 quarts and 122 pints of YOUR pasta sauce, 9 pints of diced, 25 various sizes of "green" relish and 30 pint V-8 juice all after a devastating hailstorm the end of June. (I am still canning as they ripen in our basement)‐As I watched you drain the tomatoes for your relish, I wanted to share the Lord whispered into my inexperienced ear to make the juice off my preciously canned tomatoes into V-8 juice!! ❤ I took some V-8 juice to our little church for snack/fellowship time and everyone LOVED IT! I feel so blessed to have the Holy Spirit whispering into my inexperienced ear and you on RUclips! GOD IS GOOD!!
Your family videos always makes my Saturday good. So much peace, cooperation, love and just good vibes exudes from it. Has this 72 year old doing a "Happy Dance"! 😂
Oh, love those recipes too!
Awe thanks for this support
Your video is great, on so many levels! There is a point where Kendrick mentions how wonderful his mom is, and if his pup could have such a wonderful mom.. that , if nothing else.. says so much about you. Clearly your children are awesome, and you live in a wonderful, magical place, and good life lessons are abundant! Thank you for sharing it ALL! Subscribed!
Thank you!!!!
I am so grateful to have found your channel! Thank you for all that you share!
I have just started canning and growing a garden. I just love it. Thank you so much for sharing your videos for those of us just starting out ❤ Great helpers too!
Used 6x28 oz cans of diced tomatoes because of hail storms and 100+ heat, my tomato plants Haven’t been producing. My yield was 9 pints. My sampling while it was simmering indicates a great tasting salsa. Thank you
You’re so blessed to have such great little helpers.
I helped my mother can for years. Then when I had kids at home I canned. Now it's harder to do I don't have the things I used to. I love watching my childhood on a dairy farm
this is so nice. I woke up and decided I'm making Salsa today, boot up my computer for a recipe and may favorite lady is giving me the recipe. Thank you
Hope you enjoy
The boys are so cute and I'm really impressed with your daughter! She jumps right in and goes to work! She's such a good helper with the boys too!
Hello, I hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness, prosperity, love , and peace all over the world 🌏. I would love us to be good friends in honesty and in trust so as time goes on it will bring something great for us in the future, hope you don't mind? I'm Thaoms Gabriel from Brooklyn New York, where are you from if I may ask??
Your children are growing strong and healthy. We grew up in Alaska. So lots of fishing, berry picking and so on. They will appreciate everything you give. The knowledge. The appreciation what the God gives.
Kendrick reminds me so much of my Daniel. He just loves to help me with canning. He's the best tomato peeler and loves to operate the apple slicer! We are making pie filling tomorrow and he is so excited
Your yellow tomatoes look like my heirloom tomatoes called "Rainbow"... They have red stripes going through them that are tasty and beautiful. Good for your husband who was sensitive to tomato acid.
you and your family make canning very simple and enjoying, my grandmother and grandfather grew up in the great depression, i learn alot from them ,your way of doing things remind me of them, i enjoy watching your channel, keep up the good work.
Yellow tomatoes is all I can eat due to acidity…. So salsa away …. Yummy!!! Love salsa!!
I feel like it made the salsa sweeter!?? Maybe just less acid that I tasted?? Anyway I may continue to plant them just for salsa.
@@RuthannzimmGood to know , plus they would look pretty mixed. I like dipping into salsa with sliced raw zucchini, about the size of a Ritz cracker.
I love, love, love how simple your instructions are. I also feel it’s very helpful when you explain why you do things the way you do. I’m going to be busy this week making salsa and pie filling. I’ll save the turkey information for after Thanksgiving.❤
Back when I first started canning in 1980 there was mock pineapple and mock cherry made from zucchini.
I love the way the boys help out willingly 😊
What happens if you forget and you want a bath for 15 or 20 minutes? Will that harm the product or make it taste any different posting the Homestead recipes, and I love how the children are such good helpers.
I just love your family and your channel- you are so unprentious which is so refreshing! More recipes please :)
What an inspiration you are! I love your display of your canned items! So beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I am just learning to can more and your videos are very helpful!
Your salsa recipe looks absolutely delicious, thank you for sharing.
Not taking the core out of small tomatoes- you just saved hundreds of people ) like me) lots of time!! As well as leaving in skins and seeds which i do also.
Just love how you all help each other making and canning the food. Plus your taking in the outside freshness.
Kendrick was so creative with the hollyhock. What a great team your family is!
On your lack of schooling. If we couldn't get as much food as we need I'll just bet your family would be fed while others would not.Your knowledge of food preservation and growing would be priceless. All the book learning in the world would not care for a familly. Experience would be everything.
How I love your videos!
Your smile and spirit with your children and animals and garden is so gentle and healing. You probably have no idea how you have helped others in the most genuine way! ❤
Kendrick is quite the little man! Look at him strong arming that garlic press! Haha, too cute!
In the past I lived in Lancaster county in Pennsylvania and if I had a question on any aspect of homesteading, I would seek out the mentoring from my Mennonite/Amish brothers and sisters. They are the salt of the earth. I learned a lot and I'm a better person for my interaction with this community. Thank you and I subscribed and hit (smashed) the "thumbs up" button. We are programed to use vinegar 5% or higher for proper shelf life. With My salsa (pico de gallo (red-tomato) or salsa verde (green/yellow-tomatillo,) I use lemon or lime juice for a bright flavor that doesn't bite the tongue so to say. Lemon and lime juice are slightly more acidic than vinegar. The higher the acidity the safer the canning. Also, your use less then using vinegar. I prefer the tastes of lemon or lime juice over vinegar, as some people feel it has a milder flavor. I don't remember cilantro in the processing, I use one part cilantro and 2 parts parsley. And I don't cook the herbs, I include raw during the canning. Some people think cilantro by itself is bitter in taste. Another use, and the children may like this, I will blend smooth the salsa (red or yellow) to create enchilada sauce. Enchilada are a tortilla rolled and filled with a seasoned mixture, usually containing meat, and covered with a sauce flavored with chiles.The whole thing is baked in the oven with cheese on top. The people I know where family friends, the husband "English" and wife ex-Amish. I believe during rumspringa she decide to move on from the church. They met and fell in love, married after her decision not to baptize. Well look forward to watching more videos.
I can hardly wait for your recipe book to purchase!! I’d also love canning recipes as I have none! Combined? Two seperate books? I’ll take each please!!!!! I’m a new subscriber of a month or so, using LOTS of printer paper for your recipes😂.
I’m exhausted after watching you work so hard!!
I just said the same thing. Mid August and my barn is full of spiders and webs, garden is already down due to weekly cold fronts. Weirdness. Took a break and hollared... oh my Ruthann.. gonna make me binge watch. Lol😂❤ south folks.. let us prepare as hard as you can for another harsh winter. Go time... is now. Love ya. Hugs. God is Good.. we'll make it even despite having to feed cows hay already, this will last til may. Pray over your land and animals, we are gonna need that.
we also had double tubs from the wringer washer, I would wash jars in those tubs, would wash cabbage and grate on my great grandma's cutting board, used those tubs for so much large processing of of veggies....in the south it is hot the tubs were under shade trees....one summer mama and I put up 1200 jars of food...she would can tomato juice in gallon jars....jelly in quart jars, my family would go through the different jelly jars that she did like you started using quarts....
Southern Ohio here. No rain in June did the same. Our tomatoes are just now ripe. Ty so much❤
Great video. If you want a little tip for using the chopper, try putting a damp tea towel under the chopper to stabelise it to stop it slipping around.
The salsa looked delicious ❤
I really love to watch your videos. The JOY of the LORD really shines while you are working away... There really is a difference in Born Again Believers..... I would love to come at Harvest time and work side by side with you, but alas im in PA...LOL Have a Blessed Day Sweet Sister~!~
Our tomatoes took a long time this year too. They just sat green for so long.
I enjoy your videos , love the recipes. Will you ever do a video about when you left the Mennonite community, how old were the children and how much of the old ways do you still follow or not.
You have a great little helper today. I loved the floral doll that he made, it was very pretty and creative. 😊❤
Lighting was great ! Good to see you enjoying the morning sun !!!
Yes, thanks
I found out that a black Sharpie marker will write on a jar when you need to label it and when you want to reuse the jar for something else, all you have to do is scrub the writing off with a rag and dish soap. My maternal grandmother used to take green tomatoes and pickled them like dill pickles or she would make a green tomato pie, substituting the green tomatoes for the apples in an apple pie recipe. My other grandmother would take all the leftover vegetables at the end of the season and make chow-chow bread and butter relish. MMM! Good!
I tried your recipe and made 16 pints. I did do a couple minor modifications. Someone asked me on Facebook if I could share the recipe so I posted a link to your video.
My favorite childhood memory. Making flower dolls 🌸
Another great video, thank you, loved the flower person Kendrick made, very imaginative, good job! Such wonderful helpers you have😁, such a very special family
Thank you so much!
tell him I loved the flower person he made too.
This is my new favorite canning channel. 👍
The color of your tomatoes in the sun is beautiful!
You’re lucky you got tomatoes. I planted 5 plants last year and only got 3 tomatoes. I’m buying them now at the farmers market. Great tips in your videos, as always.
We are struggling here in Ontario Canada to get any ripe tomatoes, so much rain.
Growing my own plants from seed from Bakers creek (Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine) in my garden loaded with old barn manure, chicken poo and mulch gave me huge plants that came out the top of the cages and I added strings and they grew up and finally trailed along sideways. I had around 150 quarts off a 20' row easy not to mention tons I passed along. My all time favorites. Well worth starting.
I really enjoy your videos. I am allergic to tomatoes, and yet I still watched it. I made peach salsa years ago and it was awesome. We have five children and now they have their own families. I love canning. I have to can my own due to my allergies. Thank you for your videos🤗🤗💞💞💙💙
This was AWESOME! Ty for putting the recipe in description. Gonna do this and return with my thoughts. I would LOVE to be your neighbor! God bless you and your beautiful family😍
He's so cute. I love his little flower person😊
It is really amazing how much of canning is intuitive. You are great at this. Blessings!
I made this just now - by myself, no wonderful blessings helping me - I followed the ingredients to a T and only got 4 quarts - what a bummer because in tasting it - it was marvelous! No sugar added. Maybe if the extreme heat doesn't kill the tomatoes we will try again - How do you measure your 14 cups? I measured it after they were cut and drained .. . Thank you!
When you were water bath canning the blueberry pie filling, the water did not cover the jars. I thought it had to cover the jars by an inch or two when you're doing water bath canning.