My Life in Appalachia 23 | Putting up Food & Living the Good Life
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Along with celebrating and preserving Appalachian heritage and culture I'm always hoping to shine a light on the good life that I live in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. I hope you enjoy this peek into my life.
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Please stop/never apologize for your kitchen. Any of us that are your people in heart know it's just a functioning, productive, producing, happy kitchen that teaches us. Anyone that doesn't know that should. And welcome to Appalachia with Tipper, her family, and her knowledge/experience/information 💘
I agree .. a kitchen with fruit and vegetables and cans and pots just does seem a mess looks like production line food being put up! WORK. No apologies needed
Couldn’t agree more!❤
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How would you know how much of the home made antibiotic to take? 1 tsp? 2 tsp? And how often. Also what was the proportion of nasturtiums and vodka?
I agree❤
I come to visit with Tipper, Matt, the girls and their friends, and I come for the amazing scenery around their mountain homes, then there's the foodways and meals prepared, the stories, book readings and oh my goodness, the Music ! The more I come to visit the more I find to enjoy. Please never change ya'll, it's perfect.
You are so kind-thank you!! So glad you enjoy us 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachiaqqqq1a1😊Qatar, 😊okra canning
Dearest Cory, thank you for letting us all enjoy watching as you honor your wonderful mom. Such a blessing.
Cory, “we’re eating our friends!!!” 😱😱😱😱Bahaha I cracked up. You two look like two little girls playing kitchen. Y’all are having too much fun experimenting. I love it! The sparkle in your eyes, the giggles, and the playing together. Such fun memories being made. 👩🌾🧡♥️💙👏👏👏
😀 Thank you!!
Yes that made me laugh hard!!
@@supergirl460 love these ladies to pieces. 👩🌾☀️💙😁
Had to laugh am still laughing about this !!! She is a sweetie of a daughter !!! Love that Girl with all of your heart !!! Linda P.
@@lindapetersen1800 😄🤣😆😃🤣😁🥳
We should all be so lucky to have what you have. Its truly the good life.
Thank you! I feel very blessed and very thankful 😀
Miss Lori from the Whippoorwill Holler channel makes vinegar from all sorts of things. You can surely pick up some tips from her.
I love to watch Miss Lori and Mr. Brown. I wondered if Tipper ever watched them. They have a lot in common.
She is so wonderful 😀
Your land is so beautiful. Thank-you for sharing your life with us.
You are so welcome 😀
Recently, I've started to watch your videos with a different eye, Tipper. C and I understand how much work goes into making a garden and preserving the harvest, but to perform those daily chores while creating a video and telling a story just amazes me. I can't even guess how much added work it must be, to be constantly thinking about camera position, light, audio, script, etc, and then editing it all into a beautiful, coherent story.
I'm certain there is much more to it that I'm not even aware of. How you and the girls have developed these skills, on your own, by trial and error, gives me great respect for your accomplishments of the last few years. It also gives me great appreciation for what you and your family are contributing to the world.
Thank you for the kind encouraging words Roland 😀 We appreciate you!!
Yes!! I always look forward to a new video from her or the girls! I watch them all! So much hard work goes into each one.
Instead of a plate to submerge your apple peels, you can do the same as I do with kraut, I fill a large plastic Ziplock or Hefty bag with water and set in on top, it forms all the way to the sides. Use a different size bag for different size containers, from 2.5 gallon down to pint size depending on your container.
That’s a great tip, thanks for sharing 😊
That does work really well 😀 I use them for kraut
The weighted water bag will hold them down. The apple peelings will start to rise once fermentation begins and your apples may mold.
What a beautiful life you have Tipper. So peaceful and the wonders nature has to offer. ❤️
I love that Matt helps with the canning. Even if it's only taking the jars out after they're processed. Most guys wouldn't be caught dead doing even that! You have such a lovely family, working together to make your good life!
Yes!! It takes a family at times to get the job done. Glad to see them do things like this as a team.
You can test the ph of the vinegar. We used a pool testing kit from the pool supply store. The longer you leave it, the more acidic it gets. Ours reached 5% acid in about 1 year. I wouldn't use it for canning without testing to make sure it's 5%, because I don't think it's a sure thing at all.
Amazon has a ph tester Abt $60
EBay has pH tester strips, also. I think the girls tested their soap with them, I believe. It doesn't give you the percentage....
My heart aches so watching your vlogs bc I so envy how you live and the wonderful family you have...
My prayer is that you have what you want!! Thank you for watching 😀
I love seeing all the butterflies and bees in your videos! We desperately need to save all of our pollinators. Thank you for your wonderful videos, I greatly appreciate them!
Great video. After watching Matt in several videos, there is no mistaking that Corie is his daughter. She speaks like him, looks like him, and has his facial expressions and body language.
😀 I've always thought that too
If you add a little organic vinegar with the ‘mother ‘ it will turn to vinegar that much faster . It should start producing the ‘mother ‘ after 2/3 weeks
Thank you for that tip 😀
I’ve been enjoying watching the garden videos and food preparation. The interaction with your family is something I look forward to, so much! Thank you Tipper and Corie!😊🇨🇦
"We ate our friends!" LOL! You'll have a lot of delicious vinegar in a few weeks. Of course, the longer it rests, the more acidic it gets, so I imagine in the old days they had it worked out how long to let it set in order to use it for canning (before acid testing was readily available as it it today). Love how you are putting up food and living the good life!
Thank you 😀
My grandma made vinegar for canning and used litmus paper to see if it was ready(Not sure if that was acidity) to be used in canning.
I’ve been canning all summer out of my first ever straw bale garden . Learned everything from you ! Thank you !!! Pray for y’all everyday and can’t wait to see the next video .
That is so wonderful! Thank you so much Trudy 😀
The chairs in your garden look like acacia wood. This is the type of wood the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament was made of. It was very strong wood that could withstand any type of weather. If the weather was too hot the acacia trees would lose their leaves to maintain the integrity of the tree. When it rained then the trees would have leaves again. Your chairs should last a long time.
@@deborahringley4662 The acacia wood is one of those things that makes people speculate so much about the present location of the Ark. It would be about three thousand years old by now and they say that the acacia wood would have surely decomposed. However, the Ark was covered in a layer of gold. That fact may have led to the Ark’s ability to maintain its structural integrity even if the acacia wood has turned to powder. Personally I believe that the Ark is being guarded in the Coptic Christian church in Africa. Why would they lie about it?
I cannot describe how much I loved this video. Every second of every single thing y'all filmed and how the video was put together is pure perfection to me. You captured my heart's feeling of the contentment, security and peace of home. Thank so much. I want to keep this video so I can watch it as I settle into bed every night.
You are so kind! Thank you for the encouraging words 😀
Thank you for the memories of growing up… my parents moved us from Michigan to South Texas when I was 11… and every fizzy drink down there is called “coke”… no matter what color… no matter what flavor… no matter what brand!
You can see that the land is much loved. So well taken care of. As always thanks for sharing. Take care.💙
Gosh i wish i was there with you two helping out.
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"LIVING THE GOOD LIFE" is the understatement of the year. I wish I had a do-over after watching y'alls videos.
Thank you for showing the lovely scenery around your home. I am confined to bed and do not have access to a window. Medical studies have shown, if one cannot go outdoors, just looking at photos or videos of pretty scenery will help reduce stress and improve mental health. I enjoyed the whole video, but the outdoors scenes were my favorite. Thank you.
So glad you enjoyed it Vicki!! You might enjoy this one too: czcams.com/video/Nh3jYk6uo2s/video.html 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you so much for recommending this video! I was moved to tears by the quiet beauty and peacefulness of God's creation. I bookmarked the page so I can easily access it again. I'll be watching it often.
@@vickiwood9192 I'm so glad you enjoyed it 😀
I love hearing the sounds of nature, especially the thunder and rain. Right now it is drier in northwest Oklahoma than what it was during the dust bowl.
I love water kefir! I was taught to no use any metal/stainless with the grains, as it will cause a reactant could harm your kefir grains. Not sure how accurate that ibis but I use a plastic strainer and spoons. You’re certainly doing something right because your kefir grains are huge! Strawberries and peaches make great kefir water.
Where can I get kefir grains? How do I know I am getting good quality grains?
@@sonyamyer2342 Exactly what I want to know.
Cory: "My hands aren't clean, I probably shouldn't touch it."
Also Cory: (shoves her hand down in the raisin box...)
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Corie’s “Be measured about it.” makes me think of Mrs. Cindy. 💐💗
I have watched "Simple Living Alaska " channel and she has taught me a lot in those vides I would say go to those videos and watch them !!! Apple cider vinegar and keefier !!!
What a fun video! A little bit of everything, music, nature with the flowers and butterflies, rain and putting up food! Thank you.
Girls, y’all are so smart and inspiring. I am so excited about this new water. I really need the probiotics. Sending y’all lots of Love and prayers from Texas ♥️🙏✝️
♥️♥️♥️ Sorghum ♥️♥️♥️🙏
Miss Tipper, Miss Corie, looks like you are having way too much fun. Lady bug just adds more protein. Have a good evening.
We do have fun 😀 Thank you!!
I Love that more young people are going back to natural ways .. you’re awesome Corie ! Learning hands- on with your momma , a very wise lady . People are waking up to what’s coming down the line and call us preppers lol I just do what generations before me did. Fermented foods removed my gut issues.. very thankful for this channel. God bless you and Keep you all
Edited to ask a question..
I wonder if litmus paper would determine vinegar percentage..? I’m like you Tipper, our ancestors made vinegar.
I just love your family good people
Thank you so much 😀
That is just a very well-rounded and interesting video you made I learned a little bit about everything now I know you can't make videos like this all the time. Just seems like everybody makes the best videos when it's harvest Time. That plate of food I seen your husband fixing up look mighty fine
My daughter and I went to Hiawassee Saturday for her friends baby shower. We decided to stay the night so we werent driving home really late (it's a 2 hour drive). I wake up Sunday morning got a cup of coffee and sat on the balcony, thought about you all. How breathtaking to see a view like that every day. It's beautiful where I live, very rural. But oh my those mountains. I can't wait to go back!! God's Blessings to you and your family
Glad you had a good trip 😀
All of those low hanging clouds should explain to most folks, why it's referred to as the Smoky Mountains.
Vacationing there as a kid, that's the way it looked all the time.
You guys are doing great! Looks like a good start. It's great for cleaning wood items like cutting boards:) God Bless you guys and your families.
Thanks so much!
Lisa on the farmhouse Boone has a blog where she breaks down Keifer and recipes. She also makes all her own bread using a sour dough starter. There are also several ppl who do sprouting of their wheat berries which entails redrying them before milling. Wheatberries like almonds have a protective hull that hinders ones ability to digest said grains or nuts. At one time mill companies remove the outside of the berries before processing them but as that is time consuming, they no longer do it. Which is the reason most ppl are intolerant to wheat. Different countries such as France still use the method of removing the outside hull of the berries. At any rate if you want to get the nutrients out of your almonds you can soak them over night or sprout them remove the skins and toast them in the oven on low low till they are dried them eat them. You can also make almond flour or almond butter with the dried nuts. They are choked full of good things for you that you wont get unless the skins are removed. I make them for my son. His daughter is low in iron so I buy organic sunflower seeds and toast them ever so lightly with salt in the oven and they are full of iron not to mention you can make sunflower butter if you prefer to eat them on toast. Its was 116 today at 7:11 it is 100 lol baking our brains out and I am praying for rain !
Thank you for sharing that information!! I hope you get cooler temps and rain!!
I trust you will have chapters in your new cookbook - vegetables, beef, chicken, pork, people, desserts. You two are having so much fun x
😀 We do have those chapters! Thank you Chrissie 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia don’t ever say to me ‘we would love to have you for dinner’ 🤣🤣🤣
@@chrissiewalker8980 😀
Thank you for sharing. Every time I watch your videos I learn something new Tipper.
Love shishitos. Grew them for the first time this year. We had them before and decided to try growing just one plant and they did really good
They do well for us too 😀
Shishitos are on my must-grow list for next year. I hadn’t really thought about fermenting peppers before but I certainly have now! Pepper plants can be so incredibly prolific - it’s great to have another way to use them. Thanks, Tipper and Corie. I love your channel so much. It gives me peace. 💕
I'm constantly learning from this family....
Beautiful song Cory. I miss you all sing every day
Even Matt cans ! Omgosh how GLORIOUS
I have never intentionally made a batch of vinegar. But, I made a lovely batch of plum wine some years ago and gave the last quart (in a Mason jar) to my pastor. I left Virginia and sojourned in another place for some time. I returned 2 years later and we were cleaning out the church fridge. He found this quart of mysterious liquid (he had forgot about the wine) and popped it open. Daringly, he took a sip and declared it was no longer fit to drink. It had turned to vinegar.
Gorgous country where you live! Love the night sounds of the cicadas and crickets. They have their own band.
Thanks for Sharing!
My pleasure!
Loved hearing the rain! I am in Arizona and I miss hearing it.
I so loved this!! The land..... OMG. Just gorgeous. I've never done canning before but I'm going to give the peppers a try. You inspire me.
That supper 's made me hungry! Thanks for the video.
I made a fresh blueberry/lemon drink that was really good. I will get around to kefir, after studying your video a bit more. Wonderful video. Packed full of interesting topics. Thank you.
Here's a couple of tips for you. Don't use metal. It's said the electricity created by metal and and acid can stump the growth of the grain's. I use a nylon strainer and plastic spoon. Also ad raisins or a dried fig cut up in a few pieces with the grains in the first fermentation. Thats feeds the grain's and keeps them happy and active. Makes them grow faster too. In the secondary fermentation not containing the grain's, you can just ad whatever you want to flavour your kefir with. This worked for year's for me. 👍 And if you can't give the excess grains away, the chickens love them!
I love all your stories and lovely food! 💜
Thank you for the tips! So glad you enjoy our videos 😀
I love the mountains, you are a blessing and are blessed, thank you for sharing. It looks like a good grape harvest also and peppers. the Keefer sounds interesting. Your flowers are so pretty. Cory a beautiful song. You all live in such a peaceful place. Harold and I gardened together along with our daughter Cristi, we canned together too. God bless you all❤🙏🙏❤
Just what I've found in my research, if lacking bubbles add more sugar/sweetener and give a bit more time.
Apple Cider Vinegar you can use ph strips to test for acidity to use prior to using for canning.
Many uses for ACV, my favorite salad dressings using maple syrup or honey with Olive oil. I love adding 1/4c. to any roasts for cooking as a tenderizer too. I do not believe vinegar ever expires either.
And, any fruit can be made into a flavorful vinegar too.
Great preservation day! God bless.
Also a great resource on CZcams for fermentations is Rain country (homestead).
I love watching you and Corrie working together. That was a cute song at the end. 💕
I'm so glad 😀
I loved everything about this video!! Tipper you and your family never disappoint. Shew eee i am jealous of all them amazing jars your have LOL.
All that glassware/ jugs and jars.. I have to say, I'm jealous!
So peaceful and so serene. Fall is my fav time of yr. and the sounds of the crickets are a sure sign it's not far away. I love your kitchen and love to watch y'all cook and clean. I look forward to the next video. I'm also anxious for the holidays and your holiday cooking. Yum! Quesion: Where do you get the salty bacon? Been wondering that. Y'all sure live off the land and make it all so interesting and I have enjoyed all the different kinds of beans you grew. Love the land there! The mulch in your garden, is it some that Matt chipped there? The garden is so clean and never grassy. :)
Rose-you are so kind! Thank you!! We buy the mulch 😀 Our local grocery stores sell salt pork 😀
Mrs. Tipper, since you like trying new jam/jelly recipes, I just wanted to see if you have ever made Pyracantha Jelly? They're bushes that have thorns but also really pretty orange berries in the Fall. I didn't know that you could eat the berries until a few years back and I've never tried them myself. It's supposed to taste similar to apple jelly. Pyracanthas are pretty common decorative plants around my area but I don't know if you have them up there. Just thought I'd let ya know. Sending Love from Memphis!
I've never even heard of them 😀 Thank you for telling me about them!!
I've been picking apples... making apple butter, canned apples, etc. And have a batch of apple scrap vinegar started too. I first heard about fruit vinegars in Backwoods Home Magazine years ago. I haven't tried kefir water, I might try that too since you ladies give it a thumbs-up. Cinnamon might go with the raisins next time if the raisin/lavender doesn't work.
I can't remember if I asked this before or not. I see you went from glass top stove to coils. May I ask why? I cracked my glass top using my cast iron dutch oven. I went back to coils and love them. Your videos are so great. Love your home, your family and your way of life. It reminds me of when I grew up in South Carolina.
Thank you Don! My old stove quit working so we had to get a new one and wanted to go back to the coils. I'm very pleased with it 😀
I remember Corie mentioning Mary's Nest in a past video, and I know I've seen her make many different vinegars with scraps. I love this idea! Fingers crossed! And Tipper, I love the title of this one. "Living the good life," indeed! Do either of you watch the Make It Make channel? She's a really wonderful resource for canning videos, too! Hugs
I have seen Make it Make and enjoyed her videos. Corie loves Mary's Nest 😀
So peaceful
The jelly reminds me of a project in science in middle school. We took a egg and added something I forgot what it was but next day it looked like the jelly
Love watching you guys cook and making plates to eat!! Wish I could live more like you all do!!
I have never heard of that special flavored water until you started talking about it..interesting!😊
Great video! Thanks for sharing another part of your daily life.
I love watching all your videos. This reminds me of growing up doing all the putting up food to feed the family during the winter especially.
I don't do that now because both my grandma's are dead. My mom and dad are dead. All my mom's sisters that preserved food are dead also.
I so miss doing all that and enjoying the food.
It's just me left so I just go to our local produce stand and get it. I know them of course.
Thank you Yvonne. I know you miss them all.
Wow... y'all covered lots of great information, showed the awesome countryside with a beautiful song to boot! I really enjoyed it... thanks 🤗❤️❤️
Learning so much from this video. Thanks for sharing and please don't stop. Wish you were my neighbor. You are so lucky your daughter shows interest and helps you.
So nice of you-thank you!!
I have been enjoying you videos for a while. I loved this one. Iced coffee in my recliner...I felt like I was there with you. Or garden and property are so well groomed. I really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Thank you 😀 So glad you enjoy them 😀
Thanks for the scenery. I love to make some of them my screen saver.
Glad you like them!
Kefir is like sourdough starter, best not to use metal. Use wood, plastic and glass
Love watching and learning from you thank you!
loved that song.
Salad dressings & fermentation. Get a large baggie & fill with non chlorine water to weigh the apples down on top of your plate. Use wooden spoons.? Well, I should have waited til later to comment bc you said the bag of water. But I will add that I put add Italian seasoning on tops of some tomatoes when I dehydrate and it has a pizza flavor for garlic bread toast that I like. Yall worked hard and accomplished alot.😋😃
I healed my body from an iatrogenic condition (six and a half years of courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics for an infection I didn’t actually have) by culturing kefir on dairy at home. I then learned to brew my own kombucha, but quit when the commercial variety (GT’s Synergy is my brand!) got to be as good as my home brew, and so many flavor selections (my favorite being Watermelon Wonder). Ginger tea is delicious, so thanks for recommending this, as I’d like to try it. I adore coconut water, so I think I’ll like this. Thanks for posting! ☮️❤️🐾
So wonderful that you healed yourself with it 😀
Oh, so after you drain the kieffer water off, dissolve your sugar in water in your jar before adding your kieffer grains back to it for the next ferment. 🙂. I’ve read that doing the second ferment with a few raisins makes the kieffer water taste like Dr. Pepper or root beer (I can’t remember which lol). And if you like kieffer, you would probably like your homemade kombucha too. It’s super fizzy and delicious!!!
I was thinking Dr. Pepper and Root Beer. Sassafras would be good.
I made some once. I only used mine for cooking and cleaning. But I read the comments and I think I will try it again and use the ph toaster. Thanks for the video.
Made my afternoon! Corie cracked me up...."eat our friends"....Sounded like something Matt would say! Also loved the song Corie sung! It sounded familiar but don't know who wrote it!
Lots of hard work putting all the produce up for the winter. I am impressed that Matt helps as well. You and Corie making memories for sure.
Thank you Tipper once again!
Also you can ferment veggies also. I love dilly beans and spicy dilly okra, both with garlic, and would love to make sour okra, the same way as you make ferment sour pickles. With apply cider vinegar I use a mix of apple scrapes, fill a gallon jar at least 1/2 full , or more, and add a cup of sugar or raw local honey. Dissolve it in the water and cover apples, leaving 2-inches from top. Leave on counter covered to keep fruit flies/gnats and dust out. I don't submerge my scrapes, just stir twice a day and keep covered with a piece of cotton clothe and a jar ring(no seal), or a rubberband. It will cloud up, a fizz w/bubbles and starts to smell like hard cider(alcohol). Alcohol needs air; no alcohol, no vinegar. Will darken, this all take about 2-4 weeks, give or take. Drain fruit and If you have a "mother" from previous batch or from Bragg's ACV, add to sped things up, leaning toward 2 weeks instead of the usual 12 weeks. With no "mother" vinegar fermentation may take up to 6 months when it starts to taste and smell like vinegar, put a lid on it. Air is no longer needed or wanted. This is where I store in a dark, cool placed. Never below 60 degrees, kill zone of "mother" and above 86 degrees, less desired. I do like to add red pepper flakes and Mexican oregano in the pineapple vinegar after I drain it.
Thank you for sharing your process 😀
I love watching your videos because they remind me of all the canning and preserving my grandma used to do.
It is so soothing to the heart to see y'all be in the world but not of the world. Thank you for your videos.
You are so kind 😀 So glad you enjoyed this one!
Glad to see that that you are exploring beyond your roots! Well done. This something I'd like to explore. (I'm from a PA Dutch tradition.) Much as I love Fall, it's hard to say goodbye to the bounty of summer...
Really enjoyed watching. It's like l was there with you.
Wow. How sweet to see you 2 so close together. I live in Elkin NC and so proud my fellow NCians is on here showing Appalachian roots. Love y'all.
Another great video. I loved when Corie started smiling at whoever was making her want to laugh. So pretty. Be blessed.
😀 Thank you! My niece surprised us by walking up on the porch 😀
We must look into this. God Bless. Jean
Beautiful song and voice!!!
This is absolutely my favorite channel
Thank you 😀
I love watching you and the girls daily lives. You have a great life. Great way to live!
I probly already commented on this video bit I cant help but comment beautifully done Tipper and miss Corey
O love the the peppers I really love sweet banana peppers they are so good I cant handle the hot ones. Thanks guys you are so helpful
I love all these different fermenting products. It’s so interesting.
I LOVE WATCHING YOUR MOVIES 🎬
Lots of things in this video, I love it all…seeing your beautiful gardens & flowers and watching you & Corie making stuff…I love the span around of the camera seeing your beautiful surroundings and either listening to birds or thunderstorms & rain…and being serenading by Corie’s beautiful song….🤗🤗
My Goodness you actually live in a Paradise what a beautiful land you live on I'm so happy for you and your family. I would love to live somewhere like that you are truly Blessed. Thank you for sharing
Cori, nice playing and singing. All ya’ll food makes me so hungry! ♥️🙏🏼
Loved Corie's song!