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I can at least 200 quarts of potatoes a year. The secret I discovered to getting them to crisp up when frying them is. Open the jar. Dump out the liquid. Then fill the jar with clean water a couple of times. This gets rid of the excess starch. Then dump the water really good. Then take a few paper towels or a clean flour sack towel. And take each big potato chunk and squeeze out all the water you can out of each potato chunk. Then cut them up and put into a pan with oil warmed up. Then fry till golden brown. If you don't get the water out. You will just steam them in the pan. This also works for anything else you do with your canned potatoes.

I make chorizo with diced potatoes, I part boil the potatoes until almost done, drain, then add to the cooked chorizo skillet with a bit of water to finish cooking the potatoes, cover until the potatoes are cooked, warm up flour tortillas, add some cheddar cheese roll up burrito style...yum yum

I absolutely love how you incorporate all the foods you get and raise into healthy meals for your family. I also admire how you utilize everything and waste hardly anything! Love watching your videos. Keep up the amazing work!💜

It seems to be a dying skill to evaluate what you have in your pantry and cook up a meal. Lots of people can find a recipe, buy all the ingredients, and make a good meal. But to be able to use whatever you have on hand to make a good meal is an important life skill.

Not only you have good cooking, but your gentle and sweet personality counts just as much! It is so much better to watch a kindly smiling woman than to watch a Martha Stewart. You are genuine and that is what we all love! Thank you for sharing all this lovely stuff with us! I also really enjoy when you tell us stories like the boy and the Swiss cheese story❤😆ps. Finally someone who uses proper seasoning and not just salt and pepper! The perfect example is you, for the fact that budget food CAN be seasoned well :)

I just made Chorizo yesterday with onions and Serrano peppers, then I cooked my pinto beans , fried the beans in bacon grease and added cheese , my husband is from Mexico city " he is a Naturalized US citizen " over the years I've learned how too cook so many delicious dishes. Girl homemade tamales, oh child. 😋

Just found your channel and I'm enthralled! You're so down to earth and sensible. Your sense of humor is kind and at no one's expense. I appreciate that! I find you very helpful in your spirit of food adventure. I'm definitely going to be interested in your content!

Never seen purple cauliflower before. Very pretty. All the meals look great 👍 Blessings!!

One of the things my mom would occasionally make that was my favorite was what she called peach kuchen. Her 1967 Betty Crocker cookbook has a sweet dough recipe that she'd make, stretch it onto a pan, cover it with home canned peaches turned into pie filling, and bake it like a pizza. Mmmmmmm, peaches and cinnamon dessert on homemade bread dough "pizza" crust... your apple pie pizza reminded me of that. When I go home for Thanksgiving this year I'll have to request that a peach kuchen be made! 😋

I like how you combined items from the food pantry, your canned items and items from your garden to make a meal. This looks delicious.

I love that you show what you make with what you canned. It gives me ideas

I cook chorizo all the time. One of hubby's favorites. Chorizo and eggs, chorizo con papas, chorizo bean tacos, chorizo stew. So many recipes!

I’ve been binge watching your videos. I love them!

New subscriber here! Love your personality and your view on not wasting things. I think expiration dates are more of a suggestion than a hard and fast rule. I'm glad to see you checked it, it was still good, so you were able to make a meal with it. Very creative recipes! I always call my new ones "concoctions". 😂. Keep up the good work! 😊

Also chorizo makes a good hot dog topper, wrap bacon on the hot dog grill peppers and onions add either mayo or sour cream or both to the inside add avocado or simple guacamole no onions cilantro or anything just mashed up guacamole with salt made a bit milk that's how they do it in Mexico then add the chorizo on top of the guacamole it'll be like glue and u can add ketchup and mustard. Sometimes I eat them like that without chorizo but your life will never be the same

I've your use of what. You have in your fridge and pantry. You don't have to be a fancy cook to make a good meal . It's the love that counts that makes it good . So keep on making those meals sharing the with all your family. Love your videos and your family.

Your Applebee's story brought a memory to me. I live in a very tiny town, like we don't even have a stoplight small, and I was down at our local Chevron grabbing some snacks & I had a girlfriend who worked there so I was chatting with her & her co-worker behind the counter while she waited for her fiance, her co-worker was an 18 year old boy. They had music playing overhead & the song Venus by Bananarama came on. The young man behind the counter kept pausing & listening to the music & finally he says "why is this commercial way longer than the one on TV" so I tell him this isn't a commercial honey this is a song. He was like "oh, I thought this was just a song made for razor commercials" my girlfriend & I cracked up laughing & the poor guy was like "what...I didn't know" I finally got words out & said we're not laughing at you sweets, you're just so young. This was prob 5 years ago so I was a whole 35 years old but that made me about twice my age so you just gotta laugh.

I have just found your channel today and I’m in love!! I love your attitude and your spirit. I am now part of your KZfaq family

When I'm baking bread products I follow recipes to the letter. But when cooking on the stove top or baking veggies I Wing it too! I've been cooking my whole life. I'm good at it.