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On July 3rd I was at the Clackamas Costco and I got to meet Becky in the parking lot. She was so kind to take a couple of minutes to talk to me. Thank you Becky!
How cool! Chat about anything interesting?
It was so nice to meet you, Kimbery! Thanks for saying hi!
If you hit the yogurt button twice it will switch from ferment to boil. The boil setting will stop when the milk reaches the temperature needed.
I appreciate that you remember about us, Celsius people!
Yes, only the whole world :)
An idea for you, Becky. Make a large batch of caramelized onions and since you didn’t like canning them, then freeze dry them. They are fantastic freeze dried and sprinkled over casseroles or veggies, or my favorite is to powder them and add into any dish that will benefit from a wonderful caramelized onion flavor.
I do too. Roasted garlic and onions.
Love that idea!
What a great idea!
Wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing!
If you begin to replace the tomato cages, or need more, PLEASE buy the square ones! They store flat!!! Another way to keep your storage area organized & neet!
1/2 the reason I switched to the square ones as well
@@juliedyer540Where do you get them?
I was going to say the same. Square are so much easier to manage
Great idea
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I can’t believe how your channel is growing. Congrats Becky. You’re going to be a million viewer channel before you know it. I’ve been watching you since you only had 150, but I binge watched all the older videos. I’m so proud of you and Josh for what you are doing. Keep up the good job. Love from Debbie in Missouri.
Same, I'm also a 150k follower! Her old videos are great to binge, I always go back to the one where she meal prepped for her sister postpartum.
@@lnhoughify yes, I love them💕
I think she had like 8k followers when I started watching. I’m so proud of how they’ve grown and still stayed the same. This is my favorite channel & the only one I watch RELIGIOUSLY.
Thank you so much for including the Celsius conversion, super helpful ❤
Becky, I hope you won’t mind if I suggest that you don’t leave your cooking utensils, especially wooden spoons in the pot as the contents are cooking. The metal utensils can get hot and burn your hands and it’s possible for the wooden utensils to absorb flavors. Just some grandmotherly advice from someone who has been cooking for a very, very long time. I love watching your videos, I’ve learned a lot from you. 💕
I have been outside in the garden for 4hrs in this heat...SC...pulled all 50 of my tomato plants n reseeded more winter squash n pumpkins!...I have soo many tomatoes..they are coming out my ears!...been planting bush beans n pole beans every 2 wks...canning season is going to be bananas!..Lets all give Becky a thumbs up guys!...we need these videos to keep coming...Becky keep doing a great job!
Hi Becky! Hi friends, love spending the afternoon with the Acre family! ❤
The square tomato cages can also be attached to one another if need be. Much sturdier than the typical round cages. Perfect 4 my cherry tomato plant.
Love when you show multi task days…… watching you “think” through what you are doing and what you need to do!
I add my spent vanilla beans to my yogurt before fermenting it. Adds a touch of vanilla to my breakfast parfaits. Delicioys!
I swapped to the square ones last year. I actually like them better for all things. It is easier to set up, take down, and theybfold up for storage. Worth the investment especially for Roma style. I've used them for my cucumbers too
Speaking of tomatoes, there was a woman that advertised Dr. Wichies tomato starts a couple of months ago. I bought three! These are the first time I am growing this variety and eating them, all thanks to you Becky!
You have a BEAUTIFUL garden!! Your Snap Dragons are pretty and vibrant looking 👀
My experience, I don't make mine in an instapot but my experience is straining the yogurt for Several hours is what gets you your thicker Greek yogurt
hey becky! just that you know: the big measure cup is in the sugar bucket ;)
I love Becky's sweet expressions when she is thinking about what to do next . Becky has a special channel. Thankyou Becky😊🤩
Wow! I think that every time you drop a new video. It is obvious the time and work you and Josh put into this channel!
Becky you just make my heart happy.
Becky, just checking to see if you know that you can use the whey from making greek yogurt to make further yogurt? (Obviously the yogurt itself works too but I know you know that already!) I freeze it in ice cube trays and it definitely keeps for a long time -- longer than I've ever gone before wanting more yogurt. One batch of straining makes enough for multiple batches of new yogurt. Reminds me of saving seeds. 😃
Wow! Good to know. Ill be trying that next round. love all the knowledge being shared in the comments!!!
Came here to say this! :)
Oh perfect timing! I am currently downsizing my wardrobe and needed some new motivation. Becky to the rescue!
Good luck! ❤
Thank you for the great video
. Blessings
I learn so much from you Becky, even though i am
in my 50’s! You are very knowledgeable. I have never made yogurt. I want to try it! You are always so busy, and inspire me. Thanks for the great video. 💖😊
Hi Becky. God bless from Australia 🇦🇺 I’ll watch this later on today. It’s 430am! 🥱
Thank you, Becky, for sharing how to use vanilla beans after making vanilla 😊
I‘m also in the Yoghurt game. I like to fill individual portion size glasses. So my husband has a breakfast every day and there is nothing left and forgotten and wasted.
YES! Our hens lived to the ripe old ages of 12-13 years old. Beginning at around ages 5-7 (depending on the breed. some begin earlier) they started laying fewer eggs, fairy eggs, yolk-less eggs, lash eggs, even sometimes shell-less eggs. It's very common when they begin as well as when they are at the end of their laying due to old age. You will start seeing more abnormalities now.
Also can indicate a calcium deficiency.
@@mariaTsounakis1521 That is true for younger hens, not so much for older ones. These abnormalities, along with laying less and less, is why most hens aren't allowed to live more than 3 years.
Fun to see your beautiful smile today!! Thanks for sharing. ❤
I planted a ton of paste tomatoes this year. I'm getting ready to pick green beans tonight for the first time. My cilantro has gone to seed so going to harvest coriander and maybe replant some in the fall.
I had a jar given to me by friends who were moving out of the country. I kept it going for years. Then it was taking up coveted counter space. I’m going to start it back up with a few of the new beans.
You might have bought the tomato cages already but if not, an other homesteader channel said they have rectangular cages and they love them because they can be fold and so much easier to store... Love watching these little choirs around the house, it's so peaceful before the big harvesting/canning "storm" lol😂
I just have to say that I find you so calming in an insane world right now. I truly look forward to your videos. I can’t say thank you enough, not only for the cooking, the food preservation, and the gardening…all of which I love but the chickens and YOU for just being YOU. 🙏
Btw, I’m very jealous of your garden. It’s gorgeous! The heat dome hit me in the Midwest and my herbs all bolted early even my lemon balm 😮. It’s a weird year but everything else is hanging on. Getting a second round of rhubarb 🤷🏼♀️, lol. Some things are coming early, some are coming on late, and some are still thinking about it 😂.
If you decide to do greek yogurt, feed the whey to your tomatoes, they love it. I save all my whey for that purpose. I’ll even dehydrate it in the winter as an unflavored whey protein powder for shakes.
It makes an awesome loaf of bread too!
When you fill your sugar jars, try setting the jar into the sugar container. That way, if you spill, it goes into the big bin instead of all over the floor.
I have no issue with indeterminate tomatoes growing in my tomato cages. I make sure to prune side branches and I have a great harvest. Sadly this year I didn't plant as we are leaving for a long road trip. Good luck on yours.
My patient freezes little portions of yogurt with different types of fruit in them.. good for a summer day snack.
Happy Tuesday, Y'all! Hope everyone has a beautiful day! 🦋
You as well!
I use fairlife milk. It's ultra pasteurized, so I just put it in my instant pot, add a little store bought yogurt, and push the yogurt button. In 8 hours, I take the pot out, cover it, and put it in the fridge for 8 hours. Love it❤❤❤
I do the same. So easy. I strain mine overnight to make a thicker yogurt,but, it’s sooo good. Her way is very putzy compared to ours. LOL
Dumb question - this is how I’ve done mine but I was told to add a can of sweetened condensed milk too. But the end product is way too sweet. I’d get the same result with just the milk and yogurt?
@RVACraft if I want some sweetness, I add some sweetened coffee creamer. Sometimes plain and sometimes flavored. I'm diabetic, so I use sugar-free. It always turns out
@@RVACraftyes skip the sweetened condensed milk. I make it with only milk and one container of plain yogurt in the crockpot overnight. I sweeten as I need it.
@@nancern53Becky makes her yogurts both ways
I enjoyed seeing your chickens. I’m thinking of raising chickens, so I’m on a learning curve!
I am so happy to see the chickens again. I missed them and the dogs. 😊
Just wanted to let you know that I appsolutly love you and your channel! I'm 57 and I learn so much from you! Thank you and God bless you and your family 🙏 Teresa here in Minnesota!😊
Thank you! Have a blessed day. 🤩
Watching your videos is always so calming, I can tell you’re a really kind and amazing person. Never change!
For doing the yogurt without the thermometer, I usually bring it to a boil then let it cool down for 30 minutes.. it will be at the desired temperature to add my leftover yogurt and cover 👍🏼
I cannot wait until you start posting the harvesting videos, those are my favorite ❤️.
Become a member of Indri Vanilla Co-op. Their beans come directly from the growers from all over the world. They have so many kinds! They generally go for $10.00/ounce.
Agree! I buy from them too. They recommend 1 ounce of beans to 8 ounces booze, let sit for one year. Makes they most spectacular vanilla and so much cheaper than good store bought. Indri's retail site is fantastic too and just a few dollars more than a group buy. So glad you mentioned them.
I have been a member for 4 years, and I usually do mine for 18 mos and it is so rich by then, I currently have 1 and 1/2 gallons right now. I give it out for gifts and use it of course.😊😊. I use the spent ones and make vanilla sugar after they dry. I want to try making the non alcohol vanilla next time.
I second this, big high quality beans, and their FB group has a lot of great ideas for using them.
I've never heard of that before! I always learn something great in the comments here. ❤️
Thanks for the advice.
I love this video. Puttering around all day…….totally my style!
In Texas I have been harvesting and canning with my Roma and San Marzano tomatoes making a yummy Seasoned tomato sauce. After this making cucumber salad and making zucchini bread from our garden. I have more than I can handle right now. Our garden season is coming to a close until fall with the summer heat coming. I ran out of tomato cages this year will have to get more for next years crop. Hopefully that is at our 10 acres land hoping to sell this home and start building. Something interupted her egg cycle since it was empty, nothing to worry about as long as her next one is normal.
I have been having trouble with my tomatoes here in Texas this year, haven't gotten much production. Can you tell me what has worked for you?
I just got my first ‘fairy’ eggs of the year from my young chicks. No matter how many times I get them, I still giggle when I find them.
Becky, yes! One of our girls is now laying what look like, robins eggs 🤣 She's 8 years old. No yolk inside. We just throw them out 😬
I recently learned that you can make vanilla extract in a sous vide in 24 hours! It resulted in the best vanilla I’ve ever made.
I have a gallon of purple bull peas, 35 more lbs of peaches, another 50lbs of Roma tomatoes or so- 2 more gallons of blackberries, and a pound of peppers to preserve this week. I’ve been going non stop for a month and after 27 surgeries and having severe arthritis in every part of my body (even hands and feet)…..
I’m so tired 😭 this has flared up my RA like nothing else but I’ve already preserved up 120lbs of peaches and this is the LAST of them.
I’ve made peach jam, peach honey butter, peach pie filling, strawberry jam, strawberry honey butter, blackberry honey butter, salsa, 25+ jars of spicy garlic dill pickles, I’m currently canning pizza sauce, pickled jalapeños, hot sauce, and so much more..
Preservation season is a LOT of hard and long labor, that doesn’t seem to end for a couple months. Just when you think you’re done, more produce appears in your garden or at farmers markets or stores or wherever you get it from! But BOY I AM EXHAUSTED
I stood over my pot of pizza sauce today crying while it splattered into my face and eyeballs😂 my body needs weeks of rest and recovery after this but I still have a ways to go.
I also have 6 gallons of vanilla extract that I’ve had going for a year and it’s so delicious, I put it in everything! I have Madagascar beans in bourbon, Mexican beans in vodka and in bourbon, Tahitian beans in vodka, Uganda beans in vodka- I think out of everything, the Tahitian in vodka is what I reach for the most and what smells the best! Bourbon kind of overpowered the fragrance of the vanilla beans but i still bake with it and it tastes amazing.
But my canner is dinging at me so im gonna go get back to it, but im bringing ya with me so i can keep watching my comfort channel to help out some wind in my sails to go peel another thousand Roma tomatoes😂🥲🥲 ive been throwing peaches and tomatoes into a pot of BOILING water for 40 seconds and then straight into a huge bowl of ice water- the peeling literally slides off for me and there’s no fussing over it. Its the fastest method ive tried
My goodness, you wore me out just reading this! I'm heading off for a nap with the dog! 😊
You are wonderful. Hang in there. Do you have a younger person that would be able to learn and help?
@@Farmer76021 I am the younger person😭 I’m 29!
But after being thrown 221 feet from a car that an 18 wheeler plowed into at 75mph, and 27 surgeries- I have the body pain of an 85 year old lol
I’m the only person in my family who cans or preserves food and I’m self taught- so nobody really helps out. My mom started helping me peel peaches but with her schedule, it’s just hard for us to get together at the same time.
Do you know how many plants you have of the purple hull peas by chance?? I planted over 100 and only harvested about a quart. I did have some kind of disease that may have affected it which is why I ask if you know how many you planted. Curious if it's worth even trying again with the little space I have here.
@@A-G5518 I wish I knew! I actually got the purple hull peas from a farm stand, as well as some of my romas & the cayenne peppers!
Need lots of tomato cages? ---- get cattle panel that comes in a roll and can be cut to length (use double-hinged cutters or have your home improvement store cut them for you). Zip-tie the two ends together for whatever size circle you need. Easy to put around tomato plants that were let to too long.
You will love the statis flower. The color stays vibrant for years!
I found your channel during a search for something else. I'm so glad I did. You are a remarkable woman, I live vicariously thru you. You have taught me so much. I love to cook as well, your recipes look delicious. Love your channel... I subbed. Watching all your vods. Thank You ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for the great preservation ideas. My sister and I put in a garden for my parents and my mom picked up a couple of the square, collapsible tomato cages and I have to say they are working great and will be so much easier to store!
If you press the yoghurt button 2 or 3 times it puts it into boil mode with exact temperature for yoghurt making
❤happy Tuesday becky and friends
I've been watching so many of your videos the last few days.i love the ones with your parents and extended family.
I had always wondered how Hreek yoghurt differed from standard! Thank you for the video!
I love culturing my yogurt in individual jars. I have also experimented with flavoring it with liquid water enhancers before culturing, and that turned out fine as well.
Don't forget to order vanilla beans to make extract!
I love your videos, they're always great, full of good ideas and good vibes. Have a nice day!
I love your shows. I watch new and old basically all day long. You are very helpful.
Went to a new construction convenience store near me, and thought of you. When I walked in, I noticed the floor. It was polished cement. Maybe an option for your grow room floor? Sand the floor down and then seal.
Love the flowers in your garden beautiful to look at while in garden
I love a day of completing a list of little tasks. I think you will find the square tomato cages easier to storage and the legs (?) don't bend out of shape.
Thank you for the yogurt making instructions. I have always wanted to make it. I just wasn’t sure how. Now, I know!
Love how you get your things done. I should take a page out of your book to get things done around my home too.
Good afternoon Becky
I make a wonderful omelette that includes cilantro, tomato and onion. Very fresh and tasty. The whole time you were harvesting the cilantro i’m craving this omelette!! ❤
Really enjoyed this video......a little bit of everything! Thank you.
I love watching you. I would love to see what you do for watering your plants.
Good afternoon Becky 👋👋👍🥰👍♥️😋😋😋😋😋😎. Wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July !
I have taken my beans and ground them completely in a spice grinder or high powered blender. Dd them directly to the sugar and good to go.
Hey Becky. I love these kinds of videos. Thank you for taking us into your garden again, you can do that enough... it's winter over here😢😅
🤣🤣😂 Becky when you popped your head into that shed I just about died with laughter. love it!
Those snapdragons are gorgeous! I used to think they were magic flowers when my mother grew them!
Companion gardening... basil and tomato love each other
Hi Becky and Acre friends ❤
Thank you for putting the Celsius degrees on your video! Love watching you do all the things. Thanks to you I’m making my homemade vanilla extract for myself to use. So easy but so delicious!
Becky, I have found the best way to make a Greek yogurt without straining. You have to use a specific milk, though. Fairlife milk. It is in a red and white carton and has a cow face on the front. You put that in your instant pot your yogurt culture, then stir. You put it right on the yogurt setting for 8-10 hours. There is no heating the milk first. Then when the yogurt is done, put it straight to the fridge for a few hours. It's the most thick yogurt I have ever made.
Wow, I recognized cilantro! I love watching you garden. ❤
Becky, you're AWESOME! You make me feel like I could do anything🥰😍🥰
Always good spending some time with you 🤎
Basil is an excellent companion plant fro tomatoes
yea! My order of 50 beans have arrived. I guess I need to look up your video on what liquor to use.
You seem to live in such a nice area... I love the trees everywhere. We live in a smaller city and I miss nature a lot.
Have you ever crushed the vanilla beans to a powder? I make vanilla sugar as you do. The vanilla sugar is great in coffee‼️‼️
Becky, I make alot of mexican food, so using frozen cilantro in the cooking process is essential for me. You have taught me about food prep. Whenever you make mexican chicken and rice or pinto beans, add in your cumin, black pepper, onion, garlic, tomato sauce with cilantro, and you'll feel like you're eating in Mexico
everything looks amazing Becky thanks for sharing that video
So inspirational love it the garden looks so vibrant. xxx
Yogurt makers are really popular in France. Most of my French neighbors have them, but I do not.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi Becky😊 my granddaughter mentioned watching homesteaders and I asked if she watches you and she does ❤ Made my day.
Love this video well rounds showing all of us how to do it all.❤❤❤
I also make vanilla powdered sugar to coat my Christmas Peffernüss and Stollen. It's the same process.
Last winter I found a tip for freezing herbs. Instead of blending them with water to freeze in ice cube trays, the tip was to use oil. I blitzed fresh basil with olive oil and then poured into ice cube trays. When I added the cubes to soups, sauces etc the taste was amazing. I have also made mint and coriander chutney the same way. So good.
Butter lettuce is my favorite!! Bolts in my greenhouse though if misters or swamp cooler not working 🫤
I use alfalfa for cover in the garden....love the smell and feeds the animals through the winter if they dig through the snows