EASY Weeknight Dinners We Are Loving!

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EASY Weeknight Dinners We Are Loving!

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3 ай бұрын

We are in the in-between of working through the stored food from last year's growing season while starting to harvest and preserve new crops this year. Meals have required a bit of creativity to avoid trips to the grocery store. Come along and see what we've been eating as a family!
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@trapped7534 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. As I have told you before,I am an old woman whose great grands were born in the 1880’s 1890’s. I know lots about the “old ways”, BUT,I either “missed” the medicinal aspect,or just wasn’t interested…. So,nettle and other wonderful things are new to me. I have a backyard full of nettle that I will start harvesting on Monday.😊. I need to learn lots about herbs and their uses. I bought a few books over the winter to assist me. Watching your videos is such a peaceful experience. God Bless you and yours💖

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

The most helpful book for me getting started was Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs, A Beginner's Guide. I still reference it often! Thanks so much for being here and watching!

@CH-zy5ot 3 ай бұрын

I freeze my pesto in ice cube trays and then pop them out and freeze in a ziplock bag. Since I'm cooking for one I can just one or two cubes for my pasta or on a sandwich. I also grate ginger and freeze in tsp/tbsp. quantities so I can grab and drop into a recipe, makes prep so much faster. Thanks for all the ideas.

@roadtriplover. 3 ай бұрын

Freezing in ice trays is a great idea! I appreciate your tip.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

This is a great tip! Thanks for sharing!

@delnacarruthers9335 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your tip on covering your casserole with a sheet pan!!! Love that idea!❤ I try to avoid cooking everything with foil as well. Have a lovely day!

@FromScratchFarmstead 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome!! Thanks for watching!

@marjoryvick1179 3 ай бұрын

#### I have found that if I put my pan on medium heat and wait until it starts smoking to add plenty of fat and then wait a minute or so until the fat gets hot, then my food ( scrambled eggs for example) will not stick. Meat I set into the oil and then moved it a little bit until it browns just a bit and then leave it, the meat won't stick either. Cleaning is also soooooo easy. Just wipe out esp after taking the scrambled eggs out. So easy.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Yes! Great tips. Thanks for sharing!

@beverly3397 2 ай бұрын

I still enjoy watching your son that just chows down with a smile.

@FromScratchFarmstead 2 ай бұрын

Meal time is a favorite around here! ☺️

@roadtriplover. 3 ай бұрын

I’m unable to eat nuts, but seeds are ok. I’ve found that pesto made with roasted sunflower seeds is really good with just about any green. I’m very curious about nettle, but I don’t know where to find it in my area where I’d trust it enough to ingest it. Instead, I use greens from my garden. I generally have a variety of greens, so there are different pesto varieties to make. In winter, I let my collards continue to grow and I collect baby leaves in those colder months for my pesto. I’ve started following your lead, @From Scratch Homestead, by cooking a whole chicken on weekends. This is saving me so much money, as I can get numerous meals from it. I can’t believe I never thought to do this before. And having the gelatin-laden broth has been great for soups, teas, etc.

@ka6148 3 ай бұрын

Seeds can be found online It is veeeery prolific

@lindasummer2343 3 ай бұрын

Also, try braising other meats for variety.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

I love how versatile pesto is with just about any greens! Thanks for sharing! So glad that cooking a whole chicken has been a good addition to your routine.

@annayang1667 3 ай бұрын

Really love this food video! I'm definitely going to try the spaghetti squash casserole. I also don't like spaghetti squash but this may change my mind! Thank you for sharing your family with us ❤

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

So glad you enjoyed this one and I hope you love that recipe! Thank you for watching!

@marilynrainville 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. Will definitely be trying the spaghetti squash casserole and carrot mash!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful. I hope you enjoy them! Thanks for watching!

@chantal3172 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing with us. I love watching all your videos. I've missed them lately. So many good idea for meals.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!! Thanks so much for being here and the sweet, encouraging words!

@welshrarebit1153 3 ай бұрын

Omg that little calf is the cutest

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

She's super sweet!

@susiet2150 3 ай бұрын

I think of you guys often when I watch Escape to the Country which is a UK produced program about folks leaving big cities in search of a home in a rural setting. Many times I’ll see an AGA Cooker in the kitchen of an old farmhouse (or a stately manor house), and the escapees will ooo and ahh about it. I’m so impressed that y’all were able to score one and design your kitchen around it!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Aw! That sounds like a fun show. I'm still amazed we have ours too! Such a blessing!

@carolwhisenhunt7504 3 ай бұрын

I get so e cited when I see a new video post from you. I really enjoyed this. The little calf is so cute.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Aw! Thank you!! We love having her running around - so fun!

@DollyJohanne 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing and have a good week 😊 Love and blessings from Johanne, Norway 🇳🇴

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!! You as well!!

@ayakaaaaaa 3 ай бұрын

Glad to see a food video, love this style!!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@laurieshatney9279 3 ай бұрын

Awesome video. You reminded me that I have to seek out my nettles because I am getting very low. Here in Vermont, things are just getting started. Love how laid back your videos are. Keep it up and God Bless.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! Enjoy nettle season! :)

@villagesteader3552 3 ай бұрын

Pesto, provolone, chicken and fresh bread, grilled, is our sandwich of choice! I love foraging! ♥️👍

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

It's my favorite type of gardening! Yummm - my favorite too! :)

@jvgl2024 3 ай бұрын

I love pesto with carrot tops, a lot of people throw them out but they are delicious

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Yes!!! Such a great way to use carrot tops. Thanks for sharing.

@e.k9358 3 ай бұрын

I am already buzzing with ideas after watching your video. Your lifestyle and attitudes are so inspiring. I am looking for a property with sufficient land in a countryside . At the moment i only have smallish veg.garden and two chickens. Your videos and ideas are such a boost to my confidence , the fact that it is realistic and achievable. To whatever level of selfsufficiency you want to aim for. I am very willing to learn and to adapt the life of our family in a similar way. Thank you very much for sharing your experience with us.🙏

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

This makes my heart so happy. Thanks for sharing. This is why we do this and get so excited learning about others going for it too!

@lorimcmichael5846 3 ай бұрын

Great recipes! Did not know you could freeze pesto! Added that to the to do list! Alas, would not know where to get nettles where I live, probably right outside door I know!! Just not confident enough to identify them! I started basil in my sunroom back in January and I have a great big bush of basil- pesto it is!

@trapped7534 3 ай бұрын

lol…. I read your reply and had the smile. Nettle, amazingly, usually grows around blackberries and raspberries for some reason, and that’s why I smiled because I didn’t have a clue what nettle looked like, and I had blackberries that I had planted in my yard,there’s a huge weed that had popped up out of nowhere and I reached down and went to pull it and I thought I had grabbed fire. You’ll know if you reach down and just kind of pinch the leaves on nettle it will set you on fire is like 1000 little needles just hit your hand. if you see something that looks like it just kind of pull on one of the leaves and see what happens lol Cooking it stops its ugly stuff and I “think” the young fresh leaves are ok…

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!! That's awesome about your basil. Basil is what we make the bulk of our pesto out of - it's so good!! Nettle (aka stinging nettle) is commonly found because of the way it stings you when you touch it. But, we still love it! Thanks for watching!!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Bingo!! This is how to identify it :). I don't find the stinging to be that bad but it can be surprising if you aren't expecting it!

@batbseverino6015 3 ай бұрын

Great video. Thank you for sharing.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@sergeb957 3 ай бұрын

very good nutritional meals

@donnatarasawa1715 3 ай бұрын

Pumpkin seeds are another great thing to make pesto with :)

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Good idea!!

@susie6315 3 ай бұрын

Wish you had a cookbook 💗 Tried the mashed carrots it's delicious 😋 Don't have a homestead but got a big bag of organic carrots at Sam's Club. 💗

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Yay! So glad you liked the carrots! One of my favorites. We are hoping one day we will :). Thanks for watching!

@firstlast-js5yw 3 ай бұрын

Spag squash with eggs, genius!!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Game changer!!

@graysgram 3 ай бұрын

For some reason, I thought I needed a recipe for pesto. Silly me. Thanks for helping me in my quest to need fewer recipes.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!! Yes, pesto is definitely very flexible. Thanks for watching!

@simoneclarke5104 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the meal inspiration, it’s greatly appreciated 🥰!!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!! Thanks for watching!

@julialucas6626 3 ай бұрын

I found your channel in recent weeks. I am really enjoying your content. Thank you for all that you share 💖

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

So glad you're enjoying it! Thanks for sharing that with us and watching!

@julialucas6626 3 ай бұрын

You’re most welcome. Have a lovely day with your family 🥰

@suzanamiljenovic8525 3 ай бұрын

You can make a homemade nettle syrup. - 60 top leaves of nettle (exactly like you picked them) - 6 lemons - 6 l of water - 6 kg brown sugar (or any other) - 50g of citric acid. Wash the nettle. Slice the lemons thinly, and put lemons and nettle in a bucket or a big bowl and add the water. Let it rest like that for 24h. After 24h, strain it, and into the water add sugar and citric acid. Mix until the sugar disolves. Pour the syrup into clean bottles and freeze solid. It tastes almost like mint. ❤

@silviamagda 3 ай бұрын

6kg of sugar? 😮😮😮

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! What do you use the syrup in then?

@playcolumbus2413 3 ай бұрын

We just finished off the last of our carrots too!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

That's awesome - so rewarding!

@letscookfamilystyle 3 ай бұрын

Hi! Your family is so sweet! So I'm in the process of getting toxic cookware out of my house. Would you be willing to do a video about what you use and what I shouldn't be using? I am learning a lot from you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you and thanks for the video suggestion! A real quick response - we got rid of all of our non-stick cookware. Now we mainly use cast iron or enamaled cast iron. All the best! :)

@letscookfamilystyle 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

@kcconaty5270 3 ай бұрын

All looks delicious 😊👍

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@crystalallen4031 2 ай бұрын

I have one last spaghetti squash….making this tonight!!

@FromScratchFarmstead 2 ай бұрын

I hope you love it!!

@carriecreates1207 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful video!!

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@paulawallace6688 3 ай бұрын

I wonder if the speg. squash casserole would be a good freezer meal. I have the same issue with speg squash. I want to like it. I have been meaning to use a pan over my casseroles but keep forgetting.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

You could freeze it but I don't think it freezes as well as some other casseroles. It changes the texture a bit in my opinion. Thanks for watching!!

@debimorsette1685 3 ай бұрын

I laughed when you said “extra bacon”. We’ve never had extra bacon. What ever is thaw and cooked always gets scarfed down. 😋😋

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Ha! I have to portion it out or else it would get scarfed down too!! Thanks for watching!

@peacemama4957 3 ай бұрын

Extra bacon? What is this strange new concept? 😂😂

@hilltophomestead7262 3 ай бұрын

I'm curious as to why you can handle nettles with bare hands? Our nettles are so nasty that no matter what part of the plant you touch - even with gloves (!) you get stung. We tried gathering just the tenderest new young nettles and dried them, but couldn't bring ourselves to make tea as they STILL stung, even after drying!! Are there different kinds of nettles, I wonder?

@jenfa582 3 ай бұрын

I have the same problem! 😅

@silviamagda 3 ай бұрын

Crush them up when making tea. Let it steep and then discard them and drink the tea.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

It's a good question! We've lived in both Wisconsin and Illinois and the nettles were the same. They stung but I never found it to be that bad. I'm honestly not sure if there are different varieties that would impact the sting or maybe just different people are more sensitive? Thanks for watching!

@Jana_PalmTree 3 ай бұрын

I can’t handle them either. 🤔 about picking with tongs and scissors, rinsing with tongs and tossing in blender. So nutritious but not worth being stung! They grow in the wild lot across the street from me.

@silviamagda 3 ай бұрын

@@Jana_PalmTree the sting from the nettles is beneficial for the body.

@firstlast-js5yw 3 ай бұрын

What brand is your headband? It’s so lovely❤

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! They are from Natural Life: www.naturallife.com/collections/boho-bandeaus

@chantalfoucher547 3 ай бұрын

Good show☺️ how do you pick those without hurting yourself? And do you leave the calf with the mom all the time? I wanted to leave the calf with the mom and have some milk . I was wondering if it's possible.

@jenfa582 3 ай бұрын

It is possible! 🫶🏻

@chantalfoucher547 3 ай бұрын

@@jenfa582 do you have a video yet on it? Thank you, I love your video

@jenfa582 3 ай бұрын

@@chantalfoucher547 No sorry, I don't have a video of that. But friends of the family do it that way since many years 😊

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!! I'm not sure what it is but nettle doesn't bother me. I get stung but it never seems that bad. You could always wear gloves. For the calf...right now we are leaving the calf with Mama all the time because she's only nursing on 2 of her 4 teats. We are still getting plenty of milk by milking out the 2 that she's not getting to. As the calf gets bigger and starts nursing off of all 4 quarters, we will separate them at night and milk first thing in the morning and then put them back together all day. We let the calf self-wean when she's ready. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!

@janellewillett6684 3 ай бұрын

These dishes look great! Also, that's a cute dress in the spaghetti squash casserole part of the video. Where did you get it?

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I got it for my birthday last year from an Etsy shop called Simply Darling Shop Co. I'd highly recommend. :)

@everykneeshallbow8861 3 ай бұрын

How are you not getting stung by the nettles? 😮

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

I am....but they don't really bother me! I'm not sure if I'm just not super sensitive to them or what the difference is. Thanks for watching!

@punjabseth260 3 ай бұрын

👌👍

@dhawk766 3 ай бұрын

Once a month sourdough? I’d love to hear about that? Have you ventured into gluten-free sourdough? I looked through your recipe playlist but I couldn’t find anything about the once a month sourdough baking. Do you have a link? Thank you so much. I am liking your channel 😊

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

Here's the link to our video all about our once-a-month sourdough routine! Thanks for asking. I'll include it in the description to the video as well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n8tnbJZ00ZzKo6c.html We did do gluten-free sourdough for a while with brown rice flour. It worked well for flat things (flat breads, pizza crust) but I could never get it to work well for breads and things that needed more rise. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!!

@dhawk766 3 ай бұрын

@@FromScratchFarmstead Thank you so much for your response. I’ll check out the link. We have been using sorghum and millet and teff in addition to the rice with marginal success but I miss organic white wheat and kamut and rye and barley. Oh well. Maybe someday we can get our guts all healed and have sourdough einkorn. 🙂

@seasidehomestead4064 3 ай бұрын

Do you have to blanch stinging nettle first before making pesto?

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

We just threw it in raw!

@user-ff2bm5gi9w 3 ай бұрын

is there a reason to pick only the nettle tops as you show in the video or you basically can pick whatever leaves you want from it? great video as always!

@silviamagda 3 ай бұрын

The nettle tops are the most nutritious i think. I pick those too.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

If I'm making pesto, I'll snip the stems but if I'm using for cooking like spinach or drying out, I like to just pick the leaves. Thanks for watching!

@seasidehomestead4064 3 ай бұрын

How do you pick nettle with bare hands? Doesn’t it sting?

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

It does sting but really doesn't bother me. I'm not sure if some are more sensitive to the sting than others but I don't mind harvesting them at all. Thanks for watching!

@shayleeann7481 3 ай бұрын

I was literally about to type a message asking about getting things not to stick with cast iron and then you talked about it. I purchased cast iron last year but evvvvverythinnnng i make sticks and so i still avoid it. What fat do you cook in?

@roadtriplover. 3 ай бұрын

One of the best things you can do in your cast iron is to cook bacon and/or sausage. Making sure your iron is the right temp is super important to ensure things don’t stick, and I’ve found that weather can impact what determines the right temp. Keep trying and don’t give up. I’m tellin ya, food cooked in cast iron is so much tastier than food cooked in stainless, etc. I don’t know what it is, but it’s magic!

@shayleeann7481 3 ай бұрын

@@roadtriplover. Thank-you! This is also very interesting to me as we are a predominantly vegetarian household so it had been eggs and vege sausages (since learnt how terrible these are) sticking in there. Maybe i'll have to have some friends over and cook up some bacon! lol.

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

We normally cook in lard but I read your other comment about being vegetarian...so that's not going to be a good fit! You could also do coconut oil, olive oil, or avocado oil. Thanks for watching!

@lauraritchie2088 3 ай бұрын

Have you canned the rhubarb bbq sauce?

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

I don't normally but you absolutely could!

@susie6315 3 ай бұрын

Love it!! Do you live in the U.S.?

@FromScratchFarmstead 3 ай бұрын

We do!

@susie6315 3 ай бұрын

@@FromScratchFarmstead Okay that explains it. I live in the US as well and our food has so much garbage in it. We don't have property so I'm kind of stuck with what we have. We do eat a lot of vegetables and fruits but I could only dream of having a little homestead like you plus I'm middle aged so this is where I'm at unfortunately. You are doing great! Love your videos and simple way of living, it truly is the best. What a blessing. 💕