I love seeing Ben at the head of the table offer thanks for what y'all have and blessings. Such an important thing for your children to see/observe. What a great video. 🌿🌺🌿🌺🌿

Watching Meg prep the loaves and make the meal is a gift. She’s amazing and then is so humble telling us a story of her failure without being self deprecating. She is such a role model for anyone who strives to be a homemaker.

I love the prayers and the dinner 🔔!!! Three pounds of pasta for seven people doesn't sound like too much when you have four hard working, growing boys.🤗 Another great video, Meg!✌️💖🙏🤜🇺🇲

If anyone deserves a full CHEFS kitchen, it’s Meg! That girl cooks! ❤❤❤❤

Meg, my mom made bread every Saturday and a buttermilk pound cake, cookies and some kind of breakfast bakery. I am 71 now, and my mom is gone, but that memory will be with me forever. Thanks😊

I love ALL The Hollar Homestead videos!

Thank you for giving thanks to the Father who makes everything possible.

One of my favorite videos yet. Watching Meg in the kitchen. And the expression on her face when saying “and i never used that lid AGAIN” oh my word 😂 had me cracking up

I can remember the brick oven my grandfather built for my grandmother.She used it to make home made brown bread and baked beans she grew herself.I miss that.

Meg works so hard how does she do it! She is a good woman, mother and wife, thank God for ALL that! stay safe thank you.

Just another video showing why we all love this family. Obviously your love carried you thru the spaghetti loss lol! But what a great little life vignette. ❤❤

Hi folks ! What a joy you all are....!

Nothing can be more impressive than a meal with your family and thanking God for all our blessings! Beautiful to see!

Love Jessica at Three Rivers Homestead. Sweet, smart, organized, awesome.

I always keep my bacon grease. I appreciate the way you share your style of cooking and the meal prep it takes to get dinner on the table. ❤

That was a great young cook story! I couldn't even boil an egg when I got married, but I learned really quickly.

The bean tips are fabulous! I haven't done them yet so this is perfect timing. Thanks Meg and Jessica too.

I wish I could taste your bread, Meg!! I sometimes think I can smell what you bake or cook. You make the videos so enticing and make me hangry! Thank you. ❤️👍🏻

Meg you make the best looking bread! Dinner looked awesome

You can fit more regular-mouth jars per layer than wide-mouth ones... You are such a superstar in the kitchen Meg, I love watching you create all these amazing things...

Totally agree with you Meg... Jessica at TRH is a sweetheart and a wealth of knowledge! Watch her every Sunday after church! (Don't miss the Hollar 's either :) Blessings on the Hollar Family Homestead!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿

My stove is back in a corner like Meg's. I bought a florescent light about 18" long , put it up and plugged it in. What a difference it made. I got it at Lowe's. Inexpensive fix.

Love the newlywed story. Ben your so lucky. My second wife blasted a hole in the front door with my shotgun. I talked to while cooking and made her loose concentration on the recipe. When I saw her pick up the shotgun I ran, if I hadn't fell out the door she would have got me. That was week one.

I grew up in the Midwest eating lima and navy beans. Once i discovered black beans, they instantly became my favorite!

Ahhh. I'm a wool spinner and every September our spinning group gets together to dye wool. We use natural dyes. Black bean juice from soaking gives a lovely lavender/periwinkle color to white wool.

Meg I love when you are in the kitchen you are at your great place. You’re so phenomenal at whatever you’re doing. I too watch Jessica and enjoy her videos and like you said she’s a wise woman as are you. Love watching you and Ben doing whatever you are doing. Good luck with the new baby!

You all are always working so hard!! Meg, your cooking skills are AMAZING!!! You could easily own a restaurant!

I love watching you cook, Meg. Never gets old. Thanks for sharing.

I love watching Meg cook and Ben pray. And bacon grease makes the best fried potatoes and onions!

Hi Meg. It's 1/2 cup of dry beans per pint. Wide mouth jars are 8 per layer.

Mealtime..YUM! You should be sponsored by whatever brand mixer (not sure what brand that is, but they should be paying attention!!) you have, as Meg does a great job putting it through the paces with wonderful results! So thankful you had some good weather to get back onto the addition work....but you seemed to have handled it in stride, though I know it has been challenging. Meg, you are a beautiful mama-to-be yet again. May the Lord continue you lead you and bless you as a family. Thanks again for the HH "fix" today!

Such a joy to have a Hollar video to watch while I procrastinate...

Dinner looked fantastic! Enjoyed seeing y'all at the table and eating together.

Thanks for letting us visit

If y’all ever redo the kitchen, one thing you might add is a faucet over the stove.

It is so sweet watching Meg grow. We weren't able to do the pregnant thing ,we did adopt 2 boys, and I have a pile of grands and great grands. Because of that I always love watching the baby process. Beautiful lady

Jessica is amazing, but YOU are equally amazing!

Meg, I can dry beans, I don't soak, I put a little less than a half cup of dry beans in a pint jar add water (add salt) I don't, then process them. It gives me beans up to the bottom of the ring when they are processed. It sure does make it easy to throw together a meal. Your family make me smile every time I watch a video.

I love homemade bread. It’s like dessert here. Your bread looks darn amazing.

bacon grease also makes the best fried potatoes and onions.

Hey Hollers, I haven't told you how amazing you are in a while Meg,you don't miss a beat🌈🌷🐦🌺🌸💗. JO JO IN VT

Yes Meg that is how I now do my beans. JESSICA is the best I have followed her for several years. I also can when I have enough empty jars as Jessica suggested. 😊 love your video.

Great suggestions on the canning, Meg! We have quarts and quarts of heirloom Crowder peas ready to can and this may be just the game changer we need. We first grew these peas that came from a 15 year old jar of dried peas that came from my grandfather's farm, then have seed saved ever since. They volunteer like crazy, too, at least here in the N. GA mountains. I'm going to use this method when we get the canner going this season. We rarely eat peas anymore (we eat mostly beef, butter, bacon and eggs), but when we do, they're amazing, and it seems prudent to keep growing them, considering the world we find ourselves navigating now. Good protein when/if the meat runs out! Thanks for the tip to Jessica at ThreeRivers and you, Meg. I've enjoyed your channel for years now. It's amazing how time flies. ~Cynthia

I just canned some beans this morning. I want to do one more canner full and I should be set for awhile. I enjoy Jessica’s videos too and have learned quite a few things.

Yummy! Add that fabulous bread and a salad and you could maybe squeak by with 2lbs?

How sweet to know that you appreciate Jessica from Three Rivers Homestead too. LOVE your newlywed pasta story! Reminds me of trying to cook the rice new Hubby's mom cooked. This was ancient, pre-texting days mind you, and she'd written to tell what brand to buy at the military commissary where we were in Germany. Nothing on the bag mentioned rinsing. I wrote back to her and said something along the lines of 'are you sure he loves that rice? It was a big glue-y mess and nothing like what my mom always made' (MJB rice). Her next letter revealed that I was supposed to have rinsed it 3 times and she was so sorry she didn't mention it. She and I laughed over that so many times over the years. After another suggestion of a meatloaf recipe featuring a heavy amount of bulgur wheat with a huge dill pickle in the center of the loaf came out a complete disaster, I just loved on her and gave her recipes a very critical eye. (Yet so very many were STELLAR!) Keeping you and Baby Hollar in my prayers! Thank you for including your family's dinner prayer...it is much appreciated and hopefully a good teaching moment for those who might be seeking.

Love you, too, Meg ❤

Good evening Hollar family 💜

Meg, your bread making skills never cease to amaze me.

If you take a pint of black beans mix it with a pint of diced tomatoes, put it in a food processor, with some fresh herbs, heated up on the stove, it makes the most filling best tasting Tomato soup you’ll ever have.

Ah I just love this family!!! I'm in the early process of finding my first home with my husband, and we are looking at a small little plot of land with a quaint little cottage on it. We don't have/can't have children, but I just can't wait for the day where we can spend a day baking bread and making a delicious home meal in our own little home like theirs ❤❤❤❤❤

❤Love watching y'all..MY FAVORITE HOMESTEADING YOU TUBE VIDEOS. I LOVE Y'ALL. BEAUTIFUL FUN FAMILY ❤

Hollers are still the sweetest most genuine youtuber ever many years after the Homestead rave

We love your basic bread recipe. We make it at least once a week if not more. My son makes us pizza with it. ❤

Meg love the videos of you in the kitchen. First rate guys

I’m nearly 70 and have just learned the inverted strainer trick. Life changing!😂

Meg always like when you cook it's so relaxing. By the way I made bread the other day from your video and finally it came out great ( i don't have good luck in making sandwich bread rustic bread yes) so thank you. By the way, I had one of those pots and yes in the garbage it went 😅. Have a great weekend. Blessings to you and the family. 😊🇺🇲

I love brown beans over corn bread with fried potatoes. The corn bread is a yellow cake mix with corn bread combo. Yum!

I have the same canner, I can get 18 regular mouth jars in mine, but only 16 wide mouth jars. I love your videos and also follow Jessica at three rivers homestead. I have been canning for over 30 years and learn something from both of you.

I lived in Italy on five separate occasions for a total of over 18 years. Carbonara was one of my favorite meals. An Italian friend told me that the dish got its name from the fact that miners were served one meal as a part of their job working in the coal mines and carbonara was what the normally served.

Hi.... Meg and Ben thanks you for showing your video homestead bye

Black beans are my favorite beans also. Thanks for sharing. ❤

I had that pot too. Redish color. Thank GOD mine hooked in well. It nevered fellout. That is too funny. When I was first married (18), I wore rubber gloves to touch raw chicken. We were stationed in Northern California. 40 miles N.of San Francisco. Mare Island Naval Base. We lived off base.They closed years ago. I enjoy your family vlogs. . I pray part is praying. I pray right with you. See you BEN, tomorrow, FRIDAY SHOPTALK SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

Had one of those funky pots , mine is red with non stick interior , but the lid locks in place with a small turn of the lid these days...lol Always nice to drop in for a visit , love watching you cook Meg. I tune into Three Rivers , she has many great tips.Have a happy pasta dinner..

Yes save the bacon grease, working on the farm a freinds mom worked on a cattle ranch . She cooked and made bread daily for the hands. Her recipe called for 9 cups of flour, tried to reduce the recipe but never came out right. But wonderful bread. And the smell, taste with home butter. Mom always prepared bean in the fall for quick meals and cornbread. Family of 7. Your a great cook. Blessing

Yes, CS! Also, she should be sponsored by Freeze Right freeze dryer!! ❤❤❤❤

I loved the "Don't spill your beans." The bread looks fantastic! I'm sure the canned beans are beautiful too! Thanks so much for showing us how to do it. Thanks amazing that you can can 16 pints at a time of beans. Meg you are an inspiration! All that and Carbonara for dinner! Jack, you just keep asking for pasta! That was a great spaghetti story! Thanks for this video Hollar family!

I am a huge fan of Jessica at ThreeRivers. Been following her for quite a while now . Then found your lovely family so enjoy both of your recipes and lives. Thank you for sharing. 😊

Never developed a taste for black beans - yes, it is a SW thing. But I enjoyed today’s video. Lots of work. I don’t think people realize how much time preserving and cooking takes. My adult son chides me that I spend too much time for what I do.

That was the best newlywed story!! Luv it ❤

I use your bread recipe all the time. I love it! I watch Jessica on Three Rivers Homestead and have used her bean canning recipe. Both recipes have streamlined my time in the kitchen. Thank you for your bread recipe!

Meg, you've come a long way from that early pasta mishap, and clearly you have learned to show spaghetti who's the boss, that Carbonara looks delicious! Thank you for taking us along on your busy multitasking adventure, I always am inspired when I see how much you can get done!

I can dry beans without soaking.

You guys need a harvest right dehydrator to powder your eggs so you use them in cooking or store in jars especially over winter when egg production is lower.

I watch Jessica too! She's the one that told me about you guys. Love it! 😊 Yes Ben, southwestern cuisine is the best! Arizonian here 🌵

SERIOUSLY, Meg... ❤❤❤

That BEAUTIFUL baby bump.... oh my goodness!!!!

Hi Meg just wanted to tell you thank you for the stir fry you made recently with pineapple my son loved it iis delicious . I added grated ginger and garlic to the chicked thighs with the soy sauce .

I love black beans too, oh everything looked so delicious!!! love the happiness you display !!!

Love your videos. Thanks from the UK

Meg -- I never get tired of watching you make bread.🤩

I keep a pint jar of bacon grease in the fridge. Just for what ever I like to use it for. Eggs . fried potatoes .

I love Jessica’s bean canning process! It’s so easy! ❤

Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Meg "I will never use that lid again"... I know that feeling and so relate. 💖 Love you and all of your tios and tricks. We can all use whatever help to make our lives a little simpler and I appreciate you💖

Meg is the best thing since sliced bread what a lady

I love seeing you in the kitchen. You're an inspiration 😊

I know we see vloggers how they want us to see them. We only see an edited 30 minutes of an entire week. However, I really believe Meg and Ben have a great amount of respect and love for each other and what they bring to the table. To me, it would be hard to fake their content expressions and laughter. And, they have been honest about how they almost called it quits years ago. They courageously shook up their life so they could make better choices for their family. Their children seem to be happy on this homestead. I wish them the very best and am thankful we get to share in their journey. 😊

It’s a law in my house to never waste the bacon grease! I have a big metal container with a strainer and a little tray that it sits on and whenever my husband makes bacon or I make bacon, the grease goes in that pot and I used it tonight to make eggs so save your bacon grease!😊

They say don't cry over spilled milk but spaghetti down the garbage disposal is different! In Cosmopolitan Cornbread's recent video "canning disaster", she shared good info about how different beans expand, how she lost her batch and almost ruined her canner. As always Meg you are inspiring! I'm adding this video to my saved list called Meg's scrapple. 🤩

You guys get a thumbs up before I see your videos. 😊

That story was hilarious and not at all embarrassing. Thank you for sharing that with us. Sparked some laughter out of an otherwise anxious day. God bless.

Always save my bacon grease!! Cook eggs, Roasted potatoes, home fries, chicken, basically my go to for cooking any thing in my cast iron pans!

Everything looks wonderful! When are you due? Praying for you and the baby!

When I was growing up, e we had a Navy surplus bell mounted to the side of the house. It had to be 15 inches in diameter! When the bell rang, it was time to come home. It could be heard over a block away! Good times!

I love how much I have learned from Jessica from Three Rivers Homestead! She’s a wonder! You also inspire me Meg, and I don’t say that lightly. You look less tired since cutting back on videos. Take care♥️👍🤓

Love watching Jessica too and black bean is my favourite also

One more thought…I am 61 and still in awe of yeast. Every time I see someone work with it and watch it rise, it’s like a miracle. LOL! Plus, I love bread so it looks even the risen plump dough looks yummy when raw. And then to see those beautiful brown loaves, holy cow I want to dive in head first and snarf it all down. Well done, Meg! 😊

Hi Meg! Look on your hot water heater manual...it says do not drink water from your hot water tank that comes up to your faucet.. It says that the metal used in the tank leaches chemicals that is not good for our human health. Please read yours just to make sure.... Love watching you in the kitchen! I have learned so much from you! ♥

That's hilarious Meg. Poor poor Meg. But it's still hilarious 😂. Much love from Oklahoma

I love all the interaction in your family. It’s wonderful to see.