EASY Weeknight Dinners We Are Loving!

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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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@beverly3397 7 күн бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead 5 күн бұрын

Meal time is a favorite around here! ☺️

@trapped7534 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 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!

@delnacarruthers9335 15 күн 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 13 күн бұрын

You're welcome!! Thanks for watching!

@marjoryvick1179 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 Ай бұрын

Yes! Great tips. Thanks for sharing!

@roadtriplover. 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 Ай бұрын

Seeds can be found online It is veeeery prolific

@lindasummer2343 Ай бұрын

Also, try braising other meats for variety.

@FromScratchFarmstead 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.

@CH-zy5ot 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. Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

This is a great tip! Thanks for sharing!

@chantal3172 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 Ай бұрын

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

@annayang1667 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 Ай бұрын

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

@marilynrainville Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

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

@welshrarebit1153 Ай бұрын

Omg that little calf is the cutest

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

She's super sweet!

@susiet2150 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 Ай бұрын

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

@carolwhisenhunt7504 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 Ай бұрын

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

@crystalallen4031 23 күн бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead 23 күн бұрын

I hope you love it!!

@DollyJohanne Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

You're welcome!! You as well!!

@ayakaaaaaa Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@jvgl2024 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

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

@laurieshatney9279 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 Ай бұрын

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

@e.k9358 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 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!

@villagesteader3552 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

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

@sergeb957 Ай бұрын

very good nutritional meals

@batbseverino6015 Ай бұрын

Great video. Thank you for sharing.

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@lorimcmichael5846 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 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 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 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!

@donnatarasawa1715 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

Good idea!!

@graysgram 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 Ай бұрын

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

@firstlast-js5yw Ай бұрын

Spag squash with eggs, genius!!

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

Game changer!!

@susie6315 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 Ай бұрын

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

@julialucas6626 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

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

@julialucas6626 Ай бұрын

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

@simoneclarke5104 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

You're welcome!! Thanks for watching!

@letscookfamilystyle 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 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 22 күн бұрын

Thank you! :)

@kcconaty5270 Ай бұрын

All looks delicious 😊👍

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@carriecreates1207 Ай бұрын

Wonderful video!!

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@playcolumbus2413 Ай бұрын

We just finished off the last of our carrots too!

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

That's awesome - so rewarding!

@paulawallace6688 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 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!!

@suzanamiljenovic8525 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 Ай бұрын

6kg of sugar? 😮😮😮

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

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

@firstlast-js5yw Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

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

@janellewillett6684 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 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. :)

@hilltophomestead7262 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 Ай бұрын

I have the same problem! 😅

@silviamagda Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead 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 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 Ай бұрын

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

@debimorsette1685 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 Ай бұрын

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

@peacemama4957 Ай бұрын

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

@punjabseth260 Ай бұрын

👌👍

@chantalfoucher547 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 Ай бұрын

It is possible! 🫶🏻

@chantalfoucher547 Ай бұрын

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

@jenfa582 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 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!

@user-ff2bm5gi9w 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 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead 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 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

We just threw it in raw!

@everykneeshallbow8861 Ай бұрын

How are you not getting stung by the nettles? 😮

@FromScratchFarmstead 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!

@dhawk766 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 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 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. 🙂

@lauraritchie2088 Ай бұрын

Have you canned the rhubarb bbq sauce?

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

I don't normally but you absolutely could!

@susie6315 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead Ай бұрын

We do!

@susie6315 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. 💕

@seasidehomestead4064 Ай бұрын

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

@FromScratchFarmstead 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 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. 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 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 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!