Living off what we grow, forage and hunt (Week 5)
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- čas přidán 7. 12. 2023
- In this series we're going to share how we live off of the food that we grow in our community garden plots, or forage and hunt in the woods. Here's a little window into the fifth week of this year's living off the land challenge!
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This is my comfort channel during exam phase in uni... When i feel like life is to fast, to short and to hectic i come here and watch these videos to get the feeling of what i want my life to be some day and feel peace.❤
Ah yea, I remember those days/nights 😅 So glad you can find some refuge from the stress here!
The sound balance between music and real life is PERFECT yall!
The slightly smoky tomatoes could be bbq sauce.
Or the base for a venison chili?
Milling corn suddenly turning into a thirst trap 🤣🤣🤣
caught that too😂
🤣🤣 haha yea, he was sweating through his shirt even though it was like 50 degrees in the house. That mill is a workout!
Was looking for a comment on that! Not disappointed 😅😂
Smokey tomatoes make great salsa! I always char my tomatoes to make my salsa!
Thats a nice way to think about winter, thanks
My mother made butter tarts and used black walnuts instead of pecans, it was divine! Thanks to you guys we harvested a bunch this year.
That reminds me of pecan pie!
Have you considerd raising or hunting ducks or geese for cooking fat? Waterbirds can be really fatty and it from what I can gather it is quite shelf stable if stored correctly. As the fat percentage is quite variable I am not sure if they would be a good source but if more variation in meat or eggs is desired the side product of their fat could be a good addition.
Your musician friend's music reminds me of my older brother that passed away. He would write his own music and I'd just sit near the piano and listen. He would've loved your lifestyle and videos as we've always had dreams of an abnormal and beautiful life. I have a feeling some of your friend's music is improvisation. But even if not, its a beautiful combination with the snippets of life you all show us. I look forward to all of your shorts and videos. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing that beautiful memory. I'm sure your brother loved having you there to listen to his music ❤. And yes, Ethan writes and improvises all of his own music. The songs in this video were just him free-styling I believe.
@@HomegrownHandgathered Thanks for taking the time to respond ❤️ can't wait for the next video and more music 🎶
Tea cookies are an excellent choice for a treat when you don't want that super sweet taste some cookies have. I used to live how light they always seemed.
Love the slow motion sifting of corn flour, followed up by the time lapse shelling of walnuts.
The information you guys share is priceless and the way you create/edit your videos is so artful...that combination is something I really appreciate!!❤
Thank you, so glad you’re enjoying them!
I make hard cider every year and I will say that if you add a little honey once it’s done fermenting and a couple ginger peels at the bottom and let it sit in the fridge it’ll carbonate more and get sweeter, and act as a probiotic when drunk straight. I don’t know how much drinking you guys do but as a nice every so often alcoholic treat that also improves your microbiome I think it’s worth making a gallon or so
In addition to field corn, I grow sorghum. It’s very easy to process. The grain can be boiled into porridge, milled into delicious flour and even popped like popcorn! I process the stalks of this “hardy sugar cane “ into syrup. Sorghum is a relative of corn and is easy to grow.
With those tomatoes you could make bbq sauce. The apple cider is probably something you could throw in the sauce. I’ve made apple bbq sauce before where I used homemade applesauce and it turned out great. I canned it and used it on pork mostly
I like how even the piano music is homegrown by one of their friends
This was a beautiful video to watch and I really enjoyed it . I love that you put glimpses of the ingredients being foraged, harvested or preserved as you made the recipe. The music is fantastic. I'm watching earlier videos too at the moment and they are all great. Thank you for sharing lovelies ❤
Thank you, so glad you're enjoying them! 😊
The music, your home, and the food were all beautiful. I love your genuineness the most. I too will set my cookie sheet on top of my dinner pans and sit watching a movie over a basket of laundry. You are truly making a good life together and I thank you for sharing it with us. God bless you both.
The shot of sylvan walking through corn at 2:50- guh! I could practically *feel* the summer sun!
The smoky tomatoes could make great salsa!
I loved the balance of music and speaking this week. They didn't over run each other. Thank you.
Im noticing how your skin is so clear. This lifestyle is truly a healthy one
Great video
Thanks!
So much admiration and respect for this couple.
nuts make a great low carb pie crust. especially nice with custard pies!
you guys are actually the coolest ever
Smoky tomatoes could be the base of a pretty tasty Indian-style curry!
love the way you use different clips to go through a story (like the corn section, or tomatoes). Your videography is improving a lot with this series. Audio balance is also great
Watching this is giving me so many ideas. I wonder if the corn flour could make pasta? Maybe something like a spaetzle or a more traditional long noodle. I know some cultures, like the Philippines, make noodles from corn starch.
Also, idea for next year's gathering. If you live in an area that has native sumac, maybe you could dry the berries, maybe grind them up to make sumac spice? I know your husband is Middle Eastern, and sumac is one of their common spices in things like za'atar. It'd be interesting to know how it compares. Or save it for tea or stew.
Hyssop, a common garden herb, is also an ingredient in za'atar. I wonder if you could use something like amaranth in place of the sesame, because from what I hear sesame can be a little tricky to grow.
Immediately captivated
This looks so lovely. I hope to someday have a lifestyle like yours aswell. Looking into planting local nut trees like hazel around the city i live in so people can harvest in the future. Also have bought a small previous farm next to the city for very cheap that we are renovating. Looking forward to making a garden there the coming spring!
I hear "smokey tomato sauce" and visions of BBQs dance in my head.
this is so inspiring❤❤
I loved this video!
thank you that was wonderfull to watch ❤
I’ve always wondered if you could use the nut shells for cooking fuel?
I so enjoy watching the two of you work together as a team.
I discovered your channel from an oyster mushroom short, and now I’m watching your videos and loving every moment. New subscriber here and so happy to find you guys!
Great content, I have learned so much from this youtube channel. Thank you for sharing.
I like that the music intro was shorter this time.
Audio levels are perfect with this one!
Thank you!
love your pup
Have you guys considered adding a little hard wood ash when using cooking your corn in your various dishes? It'll add more calcium and make more nutrients bio available from the corn. Love your videos.
Wonderful videos!
I love ur videos! Very calming. Also, gonna maybe try to make cornmeal next season cause of you guys.
Waow absolutely love this, wish we all had a significant other like her
So glad you collaborated with Pro Home Cooks, otherwise I don't know if I'd have found your amazing channel! Your content and way of life is so inspiring. And your dog is such a sweetie :) Watching your videos is like meditating to me. Keep doing what you're doing!
The smokey tomato sauce would be awesome with tacos. Venison tacos are awesome and that would be next level.
The new sieve you guys use looks exactly like the stuff we use in Cameroon to sift sorgho/tapioca/corn flour etc to make fufu and gari 😹😹 never seen it outside of Africa that’s so cool and yes it’s a much finer sieve
We might try making fufu with the corn this year! My friend from Lagos made some for me years ago and I’d love to recreate it
Do you guys ever go bird hunting? Duck or quail would be a nice change from venison. Possibly rabbit if you have an area where you can set snares.
Maybe try using the smokey tomatoes in stuffed cabbage. I usually don’t stuff them but make a casserole or soup instead. Same ingredients but quicker.
If you beat the honey and butter together and then add the egg it will emulsify better.
I love your videos! This is so amazing, please keep sharing the journye with us! What is the food that you miss the most during this challenge?
Omgosh, this is so crazy amazing! Can I come live with you? Lol
Being from the south I know good grits. Yours looked really creamy and buttery which is the best. I would love to try hand ground grits. I bet yours are delicious.
I’d love to hear more about the sweet woodruff vanilla substitute!
How do you know when the moisture content of the corn is low enough to grind it ?
Please tell me you guys are compiling these recipes into a cookbook?? I’m so motivated by your videos and Instagram content! I love what you guys do and want to achieve it as well! ❤
Do you have a link to your grain mill? Love all of your content!
BBQ sauce sounds like a good idea for a slightly smoking tomato sauce 👀
The video was fantastic this week, guys! Have you given any thought to growing sunflowers for the oil? It seems laborious, but I'm considering it.
Yea sunflowers are a great option for pressing into oil! There's a little hand-cranked press that we've seen some folks use in town to press oil from sunflower seeds and it seemed to work really well.
I just realized there's a black walnut tree near me! I was wondering what those fruits were and tried smashing them with my foot. Not sure if it's worth trying to harvest them though when there's a giant pecan tree right outside my door and those are a bit easier to harvest and process
can you do a video about how you winterize the hives? and beekeeping in general? I think it could be a great couple of episodes
Well we already did that and didn’t film it, but we will next year. There’s not much to it in zone 6 because they pretty much take care of themselves
Thanks for responding @@HomegrownHandgathered
I saw someone soak walnuts in water and used them as a meat substitute in pasta sauce
Make BBQ sauce out of the toasty tomatoes
Where did you get/what brand is your corn mill. I've tried to find a similar one but haven't been able to find any as nice as yours.
You seem to eat pretty healthy year round but do you feel any difference in the winter eating food that is not highly processed?
I noticed you soaked the corn and ground it wet to make tortilla chips recently and you grind the dry corn for corn meal. Does wet grinding give you a better texture for tortillas & chips vs grinding dry and adding water afterwards?
Love your videos! I really look forward to them. Thank you for sharing your food and your lives with us.
I’ve heard of the float test to check if black walnuts on good or not but at what point do you do that? Is it too late if I’ve already started drying them out for several weeks?
They did that when they first harvested them. Apparently it's not effective if they've started drying.
My question is. When grinding your corn or whatever with that grinder, does bits of the rocks not come off over time?
The first few times you use it some bits of grit wear off of the stones and you just throw those batches of flour away. Then for the rest of the life of the mill it won’t wear down unless you run it empty or something
Thank you for your time.
One more question if I may. Could a person take corn on the cob from the store, still in the husk, and hang it to dry like you've done with your homegrown varieties?
No. The corn on the cob at the store is sweet corn which is picked underripe. The corn that we grind into cornmeal and corn flour is a grain corn that grows until it’s fully ripe on the stalk.
So you mentioned that you burned the first batch of tomato sauce, I would love to know if any of your canned products or preserved foods have gone bad
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I know what you mean about missing the cookies, cause after my husband was diagnosed with Celiac disease and I became gluten intolerant I miss the actual making of all those Christmas cookies.
@@kluafoz I will give that a try! Thanks for the help!
I think cookies are actually the easiest baked good to do gluten free as gltuen development isn't necessary for the structure. Oat (grind oatmeal in your blender), almond, sorghum, buckwheat... all could be used to make delightfully unique cookies.
I am so curious if yall have plans to eventually make your own oil?
Yea, we actually pressed oil from our walnuts last a couple weeks ago, but it’s not really enough to use regularly. We included some bits of that in our video from last week if you wanna see how we did it
How were the cookies?
I want to know too, I could have been eating pine needles this whole time?!?!?!
I definitely want to know how they tasted.
Yes, pine needles can be used to make a tea. I think they collected the young spruce tips in spring and preserved them. I wonder what that texture is like?
Pralines or pies
You could make a smoked tomato pasta or boulanese
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Omg I love these videos so much can't wait to watch
Floriani Red Flint, might be the ideal corn for your situation. It is considered the most flavourful and versatile culinary corn buy many. Have you ever tried it?
So hard to find though! I've never had the chance to try it, but I was able to get some Bloody Butcher seed that I am excited to try next year.
It is readily available in Canada and the States, if that is where you are located. It is an Italian polenta corn. @@beth8775
I made the pizza recipe you guys made and it was so good the best pizza recipe iv tried- but i didnt wright it down and now i cany find it , dont suppose any1 knows which video it is?
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Where do you grow? Haha looks like beautiful land😅 want to go somewhere similar