Cooking From Scratch Every Day

[Music] this is just a typical day spent at home with my children homeschooling and you know completing all of my normal daily tasks while also cooking Three Square meals from scratch so I'm going to take you along with me and just kind of show you my workflow throughout the day we are getting started bright and early as usual and if you notice there is another little guy here in the background one of my cousins is having another baby so I'm keeping her little guy for a couple of days while she has the baby and just the initial you know couple of day recovery period until they can get home and get settled in so you know I'm used to having a lot of kids around my kids are home with me all day every day so it's really not that big of a deal to just add one more in so I'm going to get my morning coffee going you know I know it's pumpkin spice season but this chocolate collagen is really really good if you whip it in with your cream and a little maple syrup and your coffee just fabulous such a treat so this was actually Monday morning and my home school planning that is something that I do either Sunday night or early Monday morning it honestly just depends on our weekend if we have the opportunity to do something really fun and spend time with family all day Sunday and just be out and about or just you know doing fun family stuff all day Sunday I'm not going to stress about getting my weekly planning done I'll just do it early in the morning and it always works out it doesn't take me that long maybe takes me 10 to 15 minutes to just flip through everybody's uh books and kind of re-evaluate what we got finished the week before check on what we will be learning in the coming week that is new and make out my lesson plan now you see there that I was checking um my little guy uh had a bandage on his wrist and that is because we had a sort of freak accident over the weekend um it was it was actually pretty scary and I I don't I'm not going to say too much more because you know Health details privacy issues and stuff like that but it was just a freak accident that that was really scary and required going to the hospital emergently and uh getting quite a few stitches but praise the Lord everything is okay and you know that is just part of life with kids especially if you're not going to keep them locked in a closet all the time if you let them play and run and you know do different things they're going to get hurt and it's it's always scary but like I said praise the Lord he's fine so I'm taking pictures here of the little guys trying to keep my cousin updated with pictures of her sweet guy because I know she was missing him she was texting me saying oh I feel so guilty but you know when you're giving birth certain settings are just not ideal to have a little toddler running around and I'm so happy that she was able to focus on having her baby and um my kids really enjoy having the company as well so it's like I said just no problem at all okay what I'm holding here is something new this is a silicone bread mat I have seen people bake sourdough with these and you know I was just intrigued obviously I don't mind using parchment paper and it's parchment paper is really pretty for your aesthetic if you're doing photography of bread but this is really nice because they're reusable so this is the first time I'm going to be trying this little baking mat and I'm curious to see you know once my bread expands in my uh bread oven you know if it sticks to the sides or anything without the parchment paper coming up around the sides we'll just have to see now I'm trying this out because I was going through my fridge this morning and I found this dough in a baton basket shoved in the back of the fridge it's at least a week old maybe old older so you can kind of see that it's doesn't have the best shape it's losing its shape a little bit but when I originally made it which who knows when that was like I said maybe a week or more ago the um starter was strong and the dough was good and everything so even if it doesn't have the prettiest shape it will be fine so while that is baking in the oven and by the way I have tutorials on making a closed crumb beginnner loaf an open crumb Artisan loaf just go back in my um you know some of my recent videos and I'll I'll link them in the description as well so while that is baking I'm going to head outside and collect eggs because that has been neglected the last couple of days we have so many chickens a lot of chickens 30 40 more who knows but you know they're getting old and I got new chickens this year and I hatched some new ones but they're not laying just yet so we're not getting that many eggs it's kind of depressing you know you get spoiled when you have lot of eggs coming in all the time and then now we maybe get two or three a day which we go through a lot more than that so I'm going out to see if I can find any eggs checking on the cows checking on everybody while out here this little guy here is a steer who's a full blooded Jersey steer we just castrated him and we're going to feed him out for beef we have uh eaten our Jersey beef before and it was great we really couldn't tell the difference between the jersey and the Angus you know we we grass feed feed it and finish it with just a little bit of grain and it was just fabulous in fact you'll see a roast later on in this video that comes from a jersey uh steer and it's so so tender so just showing you some of my ladies there and my pretty roosters like I said they're getting up there in years they're slowing down with playing but I've got some young ones coming up to replace them so I climbed all the way up on a hay wagon I was about or this is a straw wagon I was about ready to give up on my egg hunt but I did find a few a little pile of eggs out there so that's always good I get my buddy Howe who follows me everywhere Great Pyrenees are truly the best dogs like the best farm dogs so you know if you have any amount of property if you have chickens definitely look into great Pines now that I have my eggs I can go ahead and make breakfast and I have a couple other things that I want to make that I needed the eggs for so I'm just going to do my sourdough discard pancakes this is like one of the oldest recipes on my blog and um it's just Old Faithful for us you can make the batter and let it you know uh ferment overnight but I never do I always just make it the morning of and I add in baking powder and baking soda that act as a leavening agent since it doesn't have you know it doesn't sit and ferment and they're just so so good nice and fluffy a good classic pancake so I'm getting ready to pull out this little narrow drawer cabinet SL drawer to my right here which is my spice cabinet spice drawer whatever you want to call it it is so handy I love the placement of this you know when we built this house we had already redone a house prior to this so I learned a lot doing that and I can't say that I regret too much there are some things that I would change but overall the layout especially the kitchen layout I really do love now believe it or not our kitchen is still not finished I've showed you guys a couple areas in the kitchen where there's built-in shelving That was supposed to be done and some things happened with subcontractors to where we had to just uh ask them to not finish and just settle up and it just never got done here we are 6 years later but one of these days uh the kitchen will be finished all right my um pancake batter is just about finished here going to take the lid off and you know what this loaf doesn't look too bad it didn't I didn't get the oven spring I would have hoped for but I got got a little bit of an ear so for a weak old you know weak old dough it's not that bad all right I'm going to spread some butter on my gridle here this is the key to making good pancakes is you really want to well I use cast iron for everything but you know so bias but I really think cast iron pancakes are far superior so you want to grease it up really well whether that is with butter or bacon grease or whatever you use coconut oil just Gree up really well in between every batch of Pancakes now my children uh you know I I don't I wouldn't say that I spoil them I'm not one to spoil in fact if I air it all it's probably a little bit in the other direction of making sure that I don't spoil just because I think we live in such a materialistic entitled culture and age it's something we have to be mindful of we live a very easy life in this country you have to like try not to spoil your kids but anyway this is one area I do spoil them a little bit by taking orders at breakfast and making them all their you know pancakes with their favorite toppings so I've got one that requested blueberries and that's my favorite too if I'm going to put something in my pancakes it's going to be probably either bananas or blueberries I don't know one of my favorite things is dark chocolate chip with bananas and chopped pecans that is just so fabulous and then if you make like a Bananas Foster glaze to go over top of it and some fresh whipped cream you will probably have very high blood sugar that's not low calorie at all but oh it's so good but anyway we're not going to get that fancy today so Child Number Two requested chocolate chip pancakes which that is easy enough and my timer is going off so we're going to check out this loaf here and like I said mainly I'm wanted to test out this bread baking mat see how it does in a dutch oven well this is my my uh prized Al de bread oven so it looks it actually looks pretty good like I said didn't get that oven spring since this dough was old but as you can see there was just a little bit of uh residue left on the bread oven but it worked great so I am now a fan of the bread mat I'll link it in the description below for you guys I did end up cutting into this Loaf a little bit later and I made some toast with garlic you know I I've told you guys I eat fresh garlic every day as part of a protocol to prevent um group beta strap so yeah I made some toast with what did I put on there spicy mayo avocado garlic and something else it was so good I've been on a kick with that lately and um that bread worked great for that so child number three wanted a mix of CH dark chocolate and white chocolate chips and this was my last custom order because the little babies uh you know they can't talk yet well at least not that much they can talk but not enough to give me custom orders so this was what we had for breakfast we just had pancakes which usually I would do eggs or some kind of meat on the side but I didn't have any meat thought out and I only have a few eggs and I need to reserve them for what I'm going to make next so you know it was just pancakes and we had some fruit on the side just a simple breakfast and that is that sometimes that just has to be okay because that's what it is so right now I am going to make some sourdough muffin batter and then I'm going to put it in the fridge until tomorrow so I'm preparing breakfast now for tomorrow that way it's ready to go these will eventually be sourdough blue Blueberry Muffins with ausel topping and a glaze and I've made them before they're just really really good but I'm just going to go ahead and get this ready now and that's one last thing that I've got to do tomorrow this full recipe all of the recipes that I share today will be in the description for you guys as always I always share recipes in detail in the description and I told you before too long within the next couple months my blog will be back up and running and up to date with all like so all the recipes that I share here will be on the blog as well which is just handy sometimes if you want a printable version or if you're searching for something there isn't really a search function on YouTube that allows you to go back through and search my videos by recipe I do usually post reels that have each recipe but it's just still not easy to organize those there without the search function like that so I'm pretty excited to get the blog up and running now I'm sharing my secrets with you here when you make muffins muffin batter is very thick it should be very thick and when you find a good muffin batter you like just keep that as your base recipe and then modify it with whatever add-ins and toppings you want so this is my muffin recipe it is my go-to muffin recipe right now I'm just replenishing my starter since I just used it for pancakes and I used it for the muffin batter and I'm going to try to find some time to start some bread later on so it's pretty chilly uh the cold weather has definitely hit us now I'm going to go ahead and put my starter here in my proofer you know that's another great way to use these these uh proofing boxes is if you need your starter active in a short amount of time in your house is really chilly you know cold weather B baking with sourdough you need to account for that temperature if your house is not as warm as usual things are going to take longer sometimes they'll take a lot longer so it's just a handy little tool that you will see on my countertops quite often I did get a grocery order this morning I actually put it in last night so my Sunday even though we spent most of the day with family and I didn't get all of my planning and prepping done that I usually would have which is why I'm doing a lot of stuff this morning I did get a grocery order in and I did make my weekly to-do and daily to-do lists for the week so that counts for something it did give me a head start the groceries were here you know shortly after breakfast so we are moving it right along here just tidying the kitchens as I go refilling my canisters these canisters are things that I use most often I have allpurpose flour I have sugar I have my coffee grounds and my Rye flour which the Rye I feed a little bit to my starter every time I feed it so I just keep it out it's nice and handy now my sister and her kids just got here so that's who I'm talking to you can see me talking to her in the background so I'm going to make lunch we've got lots of little ones running around and I meant to film The Lunch process if you watch my video last week then you will see that I shared my recipe for my favorite sandwich bread and that's what I used to make this grilled cheese I do these uh if you want to call it a Sherie board just snack boards a lot for lunch because it's really fun for the kids it doesn't take a lot of time and effort but it's still aesthetically pleasing and allows me to make sure that I am you know getting a little bit of a variety on their lunch plates and it just goes over so well every time especially when I have other kids over now I'm just going to keep it moving here right after we ate lunch I'm going to go ahead and prep dinner for tonight I'm making roast so I need to get that going now because it takes several hours roasting in the oven and yes that's a Frasco that is my guilty pleasure I really love fresa I know it's not that good for you but it's just the little cans and it's so just refreshing I can't do like a second cup of coffee in the afternoon and yes I know there are healthier pickme up drinks but I just like it all right I'm prepping my roast to roast in my huge Dutch oven over there I was going to use my instant pot but I can't find the little um gauge weight that goes on top of it so we're just going to do it old school and in fact I actually prefer going old school I I just think that the roast turns out better A lot of a lot of stuff instant pot's great for an instant pot roast is really good I've done it many many times but there's something special about slow roasting now when you roast roast beef you want to sear it first so I season with salt and pepper very generously as you can see here so I'm doing the first side that's going to get roasted uh or seared and I had oil heating up in my Dutch oven over there so then I'm just going to place those sides down here in the Dutch oven let them roast on high get nice and brown and while those sides are roasting then I'm going to season the other sides just like I did before with salt and pepper now you might be thinking wow lady that is a lot of salt well it is a lot of salt but that's a lot of meat right there that is two huge roasts we are two roast family and yes this is a very well-loved Dutch oven this is maybe my oldest Dutch oven I don't know how many quarts it is but it's a really really big one and I cannot part with it it's so handy I could probably get out my barkeeper friend and scrub it really well and get it clean but I just don't have that in me this pretty much gets used for only roasts and sometimes I use it for making bone broth so I'm going to let that sear while I prep my veggies I'm going to make this really easy just carrots celery going to do a whole onion my onions from this year's Spring Garden are still looking so fabulous I have a video on that that I will link up in the in the corner in cards if you want to go see my process of growing onion for an entire year I mean it's just so worth it it's a huge onion crop but if you cook from scratch every day then that's like a staple you're going to use probably a whole onion every day because it just goes in everything my roast is steaming pretty well over there so I'm going to go ahead and flip it over and look at that it's just seared perfectly nice and brown and that is really going to help the moist help help the uh meat retain moisture and prevent it from drying out once I start the slow roasting process in the oven so these are really thick roasts I'm standing them up on their sides to make sure that I sear the sides as well and now that they're all seared I have some Garden potatoes that were stored in the basement I went down grabbed those wash those off and they're all pretty small so I didn't even cut them I just put them in whole now I've got the rest of my veggies just going to add those in here and this is going to be a tight fit um you know we just recently became a two roast family we've been a one roast family for a long time but as our kids grow you know my oldest son is 12 well he he's almost 12 it's just an adjustment that is a lot more food and I almost forgot a crucial ingredient here which is garlic and I have so much garlic that I need to to make sure I'm using it as much as possible I don't want it to go to waste so I'm just going to smash several whole garlic cloves and put them in just like that and that's one of my favorite things is roasted garlic cloves I like to pick them out just eat them whole I've got a quart of beef broth that I had canned just pulled that out of the pantry and I'm adding in some extra garlic and onion powder probably add in a little bit of smoked paprika two just for a little bit more flavor then I'll shake this up and pour this over my roast as long as the liquid mostly covers the meat then I'll be good to go I don't want liquid to come all the way up the sides of my Dutch oven because then once it starts bubbling in the oven you know it will run over the sides and there would be smoke billowing out of my oven smoke alarms will go off and it just won't be good all right we're ready to go here I'm going to slow roast this at 275 for like four or 5 hours so it'll roast for quite a while then I'll check on it make sure it's tender and we will be good to go now while I do that I got the little babies down for a nap so I am going to open up a few new things that I got for me these are early Christmas presents that I'm very very excited to start using this is a new tripod as far as photography equipment goes I've had the same stuff for a really long time and I'll talk about that here in a minute um and a lot of it still works but it's really wearing down and my tripod is one of those things I mean it's like no pun intended on its last leg that was very cheesy and I did not mean for that to sound like a bad joke but it does so I went ahead and splurged I got this tripod that's supposed to be one of the best and I'm trying to figure it out here make sure that it all works and that I know how to use it I am hoping I can take some time this week to figure all of my new stuff out and start filming with it and start using it by next week I also got an early Christmas present which is something I'm very very excited about so I got myself a really really nice camera my first you know good camera nice camera my first DSLR I got over 10 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter and it was you know it's nice but it's way under the ,000 mark so definitely more of a beginner's camera but I have used that thing for 10 years now I'm not filming on it I still use it but I'm actually filming on just a little vlogging camera which is also well under the1 thousand Mark so I have never really really splurged on photography equipment everything that I have had up until this point is very basic and that's a good thing because I've just been learning and practicing and I see you know a lot of times people can go all in and buy all the nicest equipment thinking oh I'll get around to learning how to use it I'll teach myself to use it and they don't do it and then they invested in the equipment and it's just sitting there so I have taken 10 years to prove to myself that I will use my photography equipment I've learned how to use it all and now I'm definitely ready for this upgrade so this is going to be a learning curve I don't totally know what to expect from this bad boy but I'm so so excited it's got everything that I want it is this has been on my wish list for like 3 years but I just haven't been able to to pull the trigger so it's uh mirrorless this is a must for making videos and um you know shooting blog photography stuff like that and honestly there are so many features on here that I haven't even checked out yet because I'm still waiting for the battery to arrive so I have the camera body I have the mount kit here to adapt to my lenses so I have cannons I have three or four really nice Canon lenses that I use with my starter camera my little Canon Rebel and those will work with this still I just needed the adapter so I've got these two pieces I'm waiting on the battery and the charger and I just can't wait to start playing around with this thing and creating content with it so I'm actually just curious to see what it looks like side by side because I actually really like the camera I have now but I just use it a a lot more than I think what it's built for so the camera that I'm filming on right now that I've always used I'm going to reserve as a vlogging camera when I'm like outside or out and about and then I'm going to use this full-time in my house I'm just excited to see the lighting and the quality and hopefully there is a noticeable Improvement I will link my Amazon storefront in the description of this video so right now I have a list I I don't know what it's called maybe it's called photography supplies or blogging supplies YouTube supplies something like that but it has everything that I own on there from my beginner's camera to this one I just bought to my vlogging camera uh the basic tripod that I have used for years and years and then this new really nice one that I just got everything that I own is on there and I need to go through that list and put little notes on every product and note which ones that I started with and which ones I waited to invest in because once again I think you know when you're just getting started whether it's just for personal photography just to be able to take pictures and videos of your family or whether you want to actually do professional photography whether it's you know weddings or family photos or food or blogging blogging anything like that it's a really good idea to start with the basics like don't go go haul in and invest a ton of money right away because you can actually start making a little bit of money and then use that to reinvest in nicer equipment and that is what I did I waited until this paid for itself so I had to wait a little while but it was worth the wait so I will link all of my favorite products in my Amazon storefront in the description the babies took a nice long nap I got so much done this afternoon just little tidying stuff around the house and my roast was done in about 4 hours so it's so nice you know making something like this that you can start either in the morning or after lunch and then just walk away and when supper time comes it's ready and you don't have that rush you know you're not you don't have babies hungry babies clinging to your leg you know waiting to eat and you're rushing trying to finish things up sometimes that's just the reality of it but when you have a meal ready in advance it's a very nice thing so look at this roast it's so so tender and I promise you it was very very flavorful as well but this came from a jersey steer so you know we have been very very pleased with with that so far all right so that was our supper that was you know our food for one whole day that you just saw now we are fast forwarding to the next morning I had made that sourdough uh muffin bag B and put it in the fridge so I have that ready to go I actually slept in a little bit both of the the little guys that I my little guy and my cousin's little guy slept in too so I thought why not I don't sleep in that often and I knew I had breakfast mostly ready so I did make the streusel topping which was really easy that was just butter flour sugar the recipe will be in the description now I'm getting my blueberries ready you definitely don't have to toss them in flour but it just keeps your dough from turning completely blue which is really nice if you want pretty pictures like if you want them to look really pretty and be able to see your blueberries clearly now since I had little guys underfoot and I was kind of distracted I actually forgot to put my blueberries in my batter but all is well I will just add them in now and no one will know the difference it'll be just fine you can usually you know Salvage most things and and fix most mistakes in the kitchen now I'm spooning my um streusel topping over my muffins and then they will be ready to bake while they are baking I'm going to make the glaze which is very simple it's just powdered sugar and a little bit of cream now since my cows are both dry because of them both accidentally getting bread at the same time I do not have any fresh cream I think I might survive but it's it's been pretty tough no I'm just kidding I I do miss it a lot but it is what it is so I've got my my glaze made up here and ready to go my muffins are ready now I just got these um washable silicone muffin tins well they're not tin muffin liners gosh I'm just spacing here and what to call these little muffin things that's what they are and they even had them in this cute blue color which is my color that's like my blue and I was curious to see if they would work you don't have to spray them at all you don't have to coat them with anything they're just supposed to be totally nonstick so we check that out here in a minute just drizzling my glaze over these and oh my goodness they're so good you know a lot of baked sourdough Goods you can taste they just taste sour they taste really sour these do not they are very very delicious and you really wouldn't know that there was starter in there so the silicone muffin liners muffin cups maybe that's what they're called worked great they totally lived up to expectations totally non-stick they washed really well it came clean very easily so I'm I'm pleased with those um and I I I'm glad cuz I bought 48 of them obviously I had to te taste test this first one you know to make sure it's not poison or anything and it was not poison it was delicious going to get another batch going and call the kids in shortly for breakfast and for myself I'm not going to eat more muffins for breakfast that one is enough for me I'm just going to make myself some avocado toast loaded with fresh garlic and black olives sorry to offend you if you're not a black olive fan but that way I get my garlic in for the day and don't overdo it on the sweet stuff all right well thank you guys for watching again this week everything I showed you today will be in the description of this video and I will see you all next week

Channel: Hopewell Heights

Views: 56,232

Keywords: sourdough, cooking from scratch, large family, stay at home mom, homestead kitchen

Id: Q0xlCstv4GA

Length: 31min 36sec (1896 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 15 2023