Preserving Food From My Backyard! Canning Salsa & Freeze Drying Eggs - Backyard Homesteading

[@itsbreellis]

What are you currently harvesting from the garden???

[@ttaite84]

Hey Bre! Right now, I'm harvesting Celery, green beans, tomatoes, herbs, all the things in the garden are coming in, so I am preserving little by little, so I don't get overwhelmed.

[@itsbreellis]

@@ttaite84 Thats amazing!!!

[@kmarshall53]

Lots of tomatoes - I’ve dehydrated some of the cherry tomatoes and today I’m cooking down a big pot full to make some sauce. I won’t be canning it, because I’m not following a recipe, so I will probably freeze it. I also have some summer squash still coming in, and a few cantaloupes and other squashes maturing. I got carrots seeded last month for fall. Sunflowers and a few ornamental corn plants are looking pretty! I really enjoy your videos and plan to make the salsa when my hot peppers mature. I hope you make it to 100K - your videos are so well done! 💗

[@Campanula.rapunculus]

Hi Bre, it's my first year gardening in the Midwest . We're harvesting lots of Zucchini, some baby carrots, a few green beans and bok choi. Thank you for your beautiful garden and homemaking inspiration. Your work ethic is super encouraging! ✨️🏡

[@abhayathomas1232]

Cucumbers, potatoes, basil, cauliflower...no tomatoes just yet in my Oregon garden.

[@terriespock5384]

Hi Bre, I’m new to your channel (2weeks) been going through all your videos and I am hooked. I love all of them. I wanted to share a story from when I was little, my great grandmother would grow cantaloupe and she would have us pick which one we wanted to share with someone in our family, we would pick it and go into the house and she would prepare it for us and we each got a half and she would put a dip of vanilla ice cream in it and we would enjoy that sweet treat. It was so good. I’m 68 yrs young now and still enjoy doing this. Thanks for sharing your garden with us all. I really enjoy you.

[@itsbreellis]

Love that story! Thanks for sharing!! I will defiantly have to try it with vanilla ice cream!

[@williamcrane7583]

The easiest way I've found to peel tomatoes is to freeze them first. Take them out of the freezer and put them in warm water for about 30 seconds to soften the skins. Then squeeze them and the skin comes right off.

[@AlanaLee-xv2qy]

It is nice to see someone else who jars individually instead of these videos of filling and wiping and putting back 12+ jars at a time. I don't get how they keep everything hot, so it is nice to see my method in a video.

[@carllatta871]

You need a handheld vacuum to collect all of those squash bugs.

[@kiaracollier7290]

You harvested potatoes for dinner that night... you have made a fan out of me

[@TheCornDavis]

I just replanted my watermelon seeds that out grew their little container! They grew so fast haha i just put a bunch of seeds in a thing of soil and watered them and they sprouted over night! I maybe shouldn't have put ALL THOSE SEEDS in there but i figured only a few would take but i think all of them did 😂 im so excited for those to grow!

[@somewherreinmaine]

That salsa looks delicious! :) You should try giving your chickens some frozen fruit and veggies when it gets really hot out. Mine love to have a couple of frozen apples, tomatos, cob corn, etc to nosh on. It's a good way to make use of the not-so-pretty garden harvests that you'd probably be giving them anyways, but if you keep a stash in the freezer to dole out as needed, it won't be a feast or famine event for them to have home grown goodies. Cheers from Maine!

[@itsbreellis]

Thanks for the tips!

[@walkbyfaithfamily9177]

If you save all those tomato skins and dehydrate and powder them- you can make your own tomato paste for salsa too!

[@BlackthorneChronicles]

I am so happy to see your follower count go up! I love your content and I’ve been here since you had 8k subs. Awesome to see you grow so quickly! We’ll deserved 🎉

[@itsbreellis]

Thank you so much!!

[@abbyhurst1]

I love your spending the day videos. This is my 3rd year to garden and still feeling a little defeated. I would love for you to share your favorite resources for soil and gardening, either in book form or online. My winter is going to be filled with study 😂

[@itsbreellis]

Thank you for watching!! Winter is perfect to learn and see what you want to change up!

[@LupeRV]

Can you show us how you store/ organize the jars in the basement?

[@Zonnebloem20]

Love your videos so much❤❤ I would love a pantry tour❤

[@itsbreellis]

Thank you! Love that idea, its something I need to organize!

[@angiests]

Thank you for your inspiring and instructional content! I love how authentic you are.

[@sealskin5221]

Could you possibly do a short tutorial on how to use the headspace tool? I do not fully understand how to use that thing. Lol😅

[@rolamfatima]

Loved learning how to make salsa with you! You and your garden are absolute goals

[@TheCornDavis]

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[@jackiek4159]

Loved learning how to make salsa with you! You and your garden are absolute goals! 😍🙌🏻💚

[@itsbreellis]

Thanks so much 😊

[@PYN111]

Can you post the actual salsa recipe?…

[@LavendeKeller]

Really like your content and all of them are so amazing!!

[@sammigirl66]

I did not know you could freeze dry eggs 😮 how exciting!

[@michellegordon1822]

Can we get a tour of your canned pantry?!

[@khaledkebbas6907]

Love it... Good Luck

[@MovingBlanketStudio]

Dang, I gotta grow canteloupe next year. That looked so good.

[@itsbreellis]

Its so good!

[@wilfredoriquelm2406]

I love these videos. They are so informative and motives one to keep going.

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[@sherry2836]

Freeze drying your eggs is an excellent idea. You said you wanted to use some freeze dried eggs for holiday baking. How much egg powder equals one egg? How much liquid is needed to reconstitute one egg? Alas, I also had to take down my multi branching Chocolate sunflower. They were blooming beautifully then one morning I went out to garden and was shocked to see every flower head, even the buds, were chewed off by squirrels! I found 2 small buds on the grass with their petals spread around like a bird kill. They must be able to smell when the seeds are ripening and go crazy!

[@ninjapiratess]

That sounds more like raccoons, haha. Squirrels leave sunflowers alone usually, in the flower stage, and even when the seeds are still drying, I've never had any do that. If you grow any berries/strawberries, or tomatoes, that's where squirrels shine in being jerks. XD

[@sherry2836]

@@ninjapiratess This was most definitely squirrel damage.

[@itsbreellis]

Do 2 Tbsp egg powder to 2 Tbsp water and mix up! Use as normal!

[@sherry2836]

@@itsbreellis Thanks!

[@diablomom]

That intro was spooky 😅❤

[@justysiakowa]

Loved it ❤

[@PYN111]

Do you have the actual salsa recipe you can post? Thanks! Never mind!… Just found it at time stamp 13:17. Thanks so much! (I’ve tried multiple salsa recipes to can, and they’re all too-thick-tomato-sauce paste-y… this is the first one that looks most like the kind of salsa we like!… chunky and fresh

[@TheCornDavis]

The war on squash bugs lol

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[@christytschappat2592]

What do you use the dried egg? You said something about baking. Does it work the same? How do you no how much to use? Very curious 😂

[@itsbreellis]

I do 2 tbsp egg powder to 2 tbsp water and it reconstitutes into regular scrambled eggs!

[@PoorAcres]

Where did you get your apron?

[@autumnwood7959]

Could you freeze dry pico de gallo? I love pico, but dont know if its possible to preserve

[@itsbreellis]

Yes!! Ive done a batch of salsa in the freeze drier already and it came out amazing!

[@joannak4640]

I love watching you so much ❤️😁 Have you freeze dried any cantaloupe or watermelon yet? The perfect treat for the dead of winter 👍

[@itsbreellis]

I haven't but I should have some extras to play around with!!

[@joannak4640]

@@itsbreellis for what I've heard, fruit is the BEST thing you can freeze dry for flavor

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[@robertdale427]

Time laps was fab. Any live steams forecast maybe?

[@HabitualHobbies]

Another great video! Thanks for sharing! PLEASE tell me what microphone you use! The one you clip to your shirt sometimes?

[@divinemzl]

I’ve always wondered what mic she uses too. The sound is so clear even when she’s far away from the camera. Hopefully she replies. :)

[@HabitualHobbies]

@@divinemzl EXACTLY ... my audio doesnt sound that good from right next to the camera, let alone from across the yard lol

[@itsbreellis]

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[@yogininamaste]

Oh my goodness, over 100F that is way to hot. Don't work too hard during tye hottest part. Everything looks good i got excited when you showed your luffa. I have 2 big once and im waiting for the, to dry for sponges. After watching you doing it the hard way 😂 i decide to wait. Actually that how i started watching all your videos and subscribed. Your passion for homemaking and homesteading is what i love. Thank you ❤

[@itsbreellis]

Thank you so much!! So excited for your luffas!

[@troybrodrick7208]

have you tried waterbathing eggs?

[@itsbreellis]

nope, I have water glassed though and they turned out really good!

[@troybrodrick7208]

@@itsbreellis I’m sorry water glassing is what I meant

[@rvduerr2297]

Might be an ignorant question (just getting into canning myself), but why do you peel the tomatoes? I’ve only made fresh salsa before and the peel has never gotten in the way….

[@rvduerr2297]

And boil the salsa…..is that a necessary process for canning?

[@itsbreellis]

Everything I've read on this states that skinning tomatoes before canning helps remove the bacteria that can live on the skin. Canning should kill off most of the bacteria present, but its a extra precaution. Some people also prefer to not have the skin in for flavor reasons

[@itsbreellis]

@@rvduerr2297 Just depends on the recipe I'm sure. I cooked mine down to thicken

[@Nicole-jz8yd]

@@rvduerr2297boiling releases some of the water content. If you put fresh salsa in a jar without boiling the jar will come out looking pretty “empty”. There would be a lot of liquid in every jar - boiling basically allows you to fill the jar with more solids that will not change form as much after processing. Usually recipes will recommend ~10min of boiling before filling jars.

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[@queenlyfanatic9842]

Your chickens look like red sex links. That’s what I had and they layed all through the winter (in Utah so, cold). I just upped their protein to the highest percentage feed and gave them fish carcasses from fish we had caught. They loved it! Also, mealworms.

[@queenlyfanatic9842]

Also gave them a heat lamp. Felt too bad for them all huddled up without one.

[@amnajoudi5393]

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You need a handheld vacuum to collect all of those squash bugs.

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