Our Simple Meals this Week + Easy Tomato Recipes!

[@elizathies6303]

Just want to say that your channel is hands down one of my favorites. You make it all look so easy and effortless and the food looks so delicious. Always an inspiration to cook more from scratch! Love it.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Aw! Thanks so much for this encouragement!

[@drk218]

Great video! Enjoy your channel. Love that you don't play music. Thank you.

[@gabbylovedbyJesus]

John 1:1-5 NKJV💝 [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] He was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. [4] In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. [5] And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 💝💝💝

[@amandaburke5662]

Love meal idea videos from you!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

So glad these are helpful! Thanks for the feedback and for watching!!

[@bonniehoehne6501]

We love tomato soup and your’s looks delicious. Mmmm, sourdough sandwiches.👌👌💕

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

The best!!

[@carolwhisenhunt7504]

This was such a great video. I'm definitely gonna try roasting my tomatoes like you did. All the food looks so good. Loved this !

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Thanks, Carol!!

[@stevenspencer9104]

Thank you very much, and God bless y’all!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

You're welcome!

[@lisapop5219]

Oh my goodness, I used to have that book memorized when mine were little. I haven't thought about it in years. It was that, goodnight moon & the barney number books.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Ha! I love that! Good memories :)

[@alison8725]

You have such a beautiful family!☺️

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Thank you! :)

[@susie6315]

Oh love your recipes!! Yummy 😋

[@Kazacks9602]

Delicious pizzas! Great video thank you.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

You're welcome!

[@carriecreates1207]

Thank you for sharing great information.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

So glad this was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@sallycormier1383]

Mmmmm will have to try making that soup once my tomatoes are ripe. I love tomato soup and grilled cheese(or grilled peanut butter) sandwiches! ❤

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Yum! Grilled peanut butter sandwiches - that's a new one for me!

[@otrdean]

I've been storing my rings on my jars to prevent chipping the jar edge while storing or moving them to storage and back to the kitchen

[@Patti-1962]

We have been slaving over a hot stove, removing our tomato skins and cooking our sauce for hours. I have already saved your tomato sauce recipe for us to use instead, and it will be SUCH a time saver!! I also found myself thinking exactly what you said about making pizza, as the crust is not that hard to make. I'm curious if you have ever tried gluten free flour in this recipe? I have a bladder disease called Interstitial Cystitis, and I am not supposed to eat tomatoes, ever. But, I found I can have home grown tomatoes grown to be as acid free as possible (putting baking soda in the soil and buying the right variety!) So growing our own and making sauce for the year is very important to us! Thank you again for the amazing recipes!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

That's so cool that you found a way that you can still enjoy them!! I think you should be able to sub an AP gluten free flour in the pizza recipe. Thanks for watching! Keep up the amazing work!

[@Susan.I]

We grow yellow tomatoes and love them!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Yum!

[@shimulparvege3130]

Nice tomatos

[@sergeb957]

Roast tomatoes are the best to have on hand.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

They are so good!

[@stephencameron1709]

That pizza looks so good! Just started cooking on cast iron. I’ll have to try this. 🙏🏻❤️Val C

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Yay for cooking on cast iron!! That's exciting!

[@ricktimm3227]

Great videos. You do like your recipes going to have tried them and roasted the tomatoes

[@cherylpresleigh6403]

Your soup looked so delicious. Because of arthritis and Crohn’s disease, it’s been recommended to me not to consume the skin and seeds of tomatoes. We do love tomato soup around here and I had hoped to master a homemade version as buying an organic option is ridiculously expensive and still may not be what we are looking for. Your video is the second video this week that I have watched recommending roasting. I am definitely giving roasting the tomatoes first a try. Thank you for sharing.

[@gabbylovedbyJesus]

John 1:1-5 NKJV💝 [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] He was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. [4] In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. [5] And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 💝💝💝

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

You're welcome! I hope this works well for you! Thanks for watching! :)

[@sandrataylor8708]

I waterbathed my marinara sauce, i added 2 tbsp of lemon juice to each jar before pouring in the sauce then waterbath for at least 35 mins turn off heat and let sit 5 mins before taking jars out....its acidic enough with the tomatoes and added lemon juice so u only have to waterbath

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing what you do!

[@donnatarasawa1715]

I wondered what your canning process is. When I do fruit or tomatoes, I bring the pressure up to 15# then turn the heat off and let the canner cool. I've done it that way for years and it's so much faster than taking it to 10# and keeping it at that pressure for any amount of time.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Hi! I do 10# pressure for 15 minutes! Thanks for watching!

[@asyed1995]

Good job.

[@rebeccadubolsky2183]

Cute apron. 😊

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Thanks! :)

[@ricktimm3227]

Made your tomato sauce ist time I ever made tomato sauce it was alsome and easy I'll grow more tomato next year thanks for the great recipe

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Awesome! So glad you like it!!

[@MeBeingAble]

You can make candied peel as a treat rather than powder them

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Yum!

[@slandshark]

Hello! Can you please tell me about your stove? It's the exact style we are hoping to have in our future home build, but when looking in up the AGA brand it shows prices of $30k USD or higher. Where did you get yours? I'm assuming it's an older one? I'm very curious! Thank you! Also your videos are very inspirational! We are also a family of 6 and we just bought our first 3 acres. We are going to homestead as soon as we can get on the land. We'll be keeping sheep, growing vegetables, flowers, lavender, alfalfa, and likely a few fruit trees. Our kids enjoy watching your videos as well, they enjoy pointing out all the kitchen/food items that we have that are the same as yours. :)

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

That's so exciting!! Congratulations on your new homestead! When we were renovating our home in 2020, I told Jim that an AGA was my dream oven but I knew that it would never happen. He started searching on Facebook Marketplace and one came up in our area for nothing, just the cost of hiring movers. I'm still in awe that it worked out! We got the deal of a lifetime but I do see them pop up every so often by us in the 5k range for the size that we have.

[@slandshark]

@@FromScratchFarmstead Great, thank you! We'll keep an eye out for used ones.

[@doulacoach6801]

​@@FromScratchFarmstead That is an amazing story! Thx for sharing! So happy for you. New to your channel. I love it. Im getting reinspired to make the effort to cook from scratch. Ty 💖

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

@@doulacoach6801 ❤ love it! Thanks for watching!

[@jerrystout3032]

Great

[@alisonwilliams4606]

Are those cabbage moths flying around your garden?? How do you keep them from eating up your cole crops?! Your garden is beautiful!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Thanks! We have had issues more issues than usual with cabbage moths this year. Honestly, I haven't been doing anything to this point. Any suggestions? :)

[@CindyLouJ816]

Was your sausage uncooked before you put the pizza in the oven?? That would save time. Also, what salt seasoning are you using. Is there a brand you love? Or just organic cheaper?? Thanks for the video!!! Ps we have that board book. 4 kids in... I'm pretty sure I have it memorized. Lol ❤ I enjoy watching you just live life. What a blessing!

[@cdscott]

I suspect you need to have the sausage pre-cooked. Sitting on top of the dough and stuff it wouldn't cook evenly and would leave little.pools of fat. I worked at a pizza place for a few years and all of our meats were precooked.

[@susie6315]

They use "Real Salt" now I'm using it. That is what it's called.

[@CindyLouJ816]

@@susie6315 thanks!

[@susie6315]

@@CindyLouJ816 You're welcome. It's Redmond Real Salt.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Looks like your questions were already answered :). But Yes, redmond sea salt and we do precook the sausage! I actually make sausage patties and freeze them and then pull them out as needed. Here's that recipe if you're interested :) fromscratchfarmstead.com/healthy-sausage-patties/

[@MySilverSprings]

Maybe you have already explained this in a previous video but how do you season your cast iron? I don't use soap on mine but it still doesn't always have enough seasoning on it to prevent food sticking. Also are there any foods you don't cook in your cast iron because of acidity or anything? Because i have used mine for spaghetti sauce but it strips the seasoning. Thanks in advance and I love your imaginative and simply recipes and preserving methods.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

I always make sure to heat the cast iron before adding anything to it and cook in plenty of fat and haven't had any issues with sticking. It just naturally gets seasoned through cooking this way :). Thanks for watching!

[@DeniseSantia]

Can I ask where you got this dress from? I love it!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Thank you!! It was from an Etsy shop called Simply Darling Shop Co. I just looked them up though and unfortunately it looks like they closed their shop this past summer :(.

[@susie6315]

Overall what do you think of growing broccolini? Made my first sourdough whole wheat bread today, overall it rose and tastes fine. It is a very hearty loaf and the dough was tough and hard to fold and work with. Does your sourdough bread behave like that? What are you going to do with all the eggs from all the chickens, will you be selling some?

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

We aren't sold on the broccolini and may just go back to growing regular broccoli. Yay for making sourdough. A whole wheat loaf can definitely be a bit more dense. Do you think you need more liquid if the dough was tough? Without seeing it, it's hard to know but I wouldn't describe the dough that way. We sometimes sell some or give them away to family. :)

[@tinylife_homeschool]

I just have to ask...what are your kids doing when you are in the kitchen like this? Does your husband keep them busy? I go to cook dinner and I'm interrupted at least 20 times before I'm even done lol (we also have 4 kiddos). Your kids seem very content, and I think that's just so cool

[@bh4396]

You can see the kids coming in and out so I’m sure they are always around. I think if it’s a rhythm of your life, it becomes a normal occurrence. We have 3 and I have always cooked everything homemade.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

They are there, usually playing in the living room or outside. We certainly have our moments too but for the most part they are great independent players who always have projects and things that they are working on. The under 2 age can be more challenging but I'll just throw her in the carrier if her project is unrolling the toilet paper roll or something similar ;).

[@sherisevalentygibb]

Are the eggs that you guys eat fertilized? Meaning like if you left them alone would they turn into chicks? Because I noticed that you let your chickens hang out with the roosters ....and I think the fertilization process takes place before the eggs are laid correct? So that's why I'm asking 😊

[@sherisevalentygibb]

Are you able to grow strawberries where you live?

[@DollyJohanne]

Thank you for sharing, and have a blessed week ❤ Love from Johanne, Norway 🇳🇴

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Thanks, Johanne! :)

[@christinebrush4399]

did you stream can the sauce or pressure can?

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Pressure can!

[@praisetheLord2377]

Where do you get the flour grinder

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

It's the Nutrimill Harvest Grain mill. We love it!! Here's the link: collabs.shop/ptqt7c (Use code FROMSCRATCH for $20 off)

[@nikkimaro6559]

Do you find leaving the seeds and/or skins of the tomatoes on makes the sauce bitter? That’s what my family has said when I make sauce with the skins on.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Interesting! We haven't experienced that at all!

[@jacquelyncorbin8116]

Stuffedd tomatoes?

[@Sandra-hk8ks]

I love tomatoes but i cant move after eating them. They will really put you in bed if you have arthritis. 😢😢😢😢. What i wouldnt give for a thick scliced tomato sandwich with lots of crisp head lettuce and has to be made with miracle whip so its a crisp cold. salt and pepper , little garlic...oh what i wouldnt give.

[@dpenland2112]

Do you have any problems with predators taking your free range chickens?

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

We've had some issues with hawks and one nasty weasel over the years but it's been fine for the most part!

[@omeys9893]

Would someone pls LMK what the board book was? Thank you in advance !

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

It’s The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton! 😍

[@omeys9893]

@@FromScratchFarmstead Thank you for taking the time to answer!

[@SarahHuffman-oc9jh]

Does your beautiful oven really heat up your kitchen in the hot summer months? Love your videos!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

It does give off heat but it's not unbearable at all. Maybe I'm just used to it at this point but it doesn't bother me. We keep our house around 78 and it's probably a little warmer in the kitchen but not bad. Thanks so much!!

[@gabbylovedbyJesus]

John 1:1-5 NKJV💝 [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] He was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. [4] In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. [5] And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 💝💝💝

[@thedebbieadams]

Oh I feel bad for the chickens in the dog crate. They don’t even have room to move.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

It's not ideal at all but they were only in there for 24 hours. Unfortunately chickens that lay eggs for the grocery store are often in worse conditions all of their life. :( Thanks for watching!

[@Ashgutierr]

I am trying to place your accent, where are you all located?

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

We are in the midwest - Northern IL.

[@Ashgutierr]

@@FromScratchFarmstead Okay, I thought it might be Midwest but wasn’t sure! 🤍

[@Susan.I]

I’m allergic to cows milk products.

[@NothingWasted57]

I use goat milk in my tomato soup. I’ve never tried other dairy substitutes, but I know that some people don’t add milk at all.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

You can always sub an alternative type of milk :).

[@tonytwigg2270]

Don't you say grace for the food?

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Sometimes we pray formally or often times we'll do a more talking prayer and go around the table and share what we are thankful to God for that day. Saying grace can look like lots of different things :).

[@alexisdresen8857]

Are you doing okay? You look down and seem to be moving quite slow.

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Aw! I appreciate the concern! We are doing well overall! It’s been some long days lately and I’d be lying if I said we weren’t tired. Balancing filming with life can sometimes lead to some pretty frustrating moments that may have gotten the better of me in this video 🙃.

[@JoeTeti-ie6ox]

@@FromScratchFarmsteadYou did great! The precious moments with your children during your busy kitchen where perfect. A mother’s love. ❤

[@jabeavers]

The way you hold you knife is not the most efficient. I learned from TV shows (and then my own research) how chefs hold their knives in order to be able to slice faster. I don't know if I can describe it, but you hold the blade above the handle between your thumb and pointer finger. The handle is, basically at this point, just a counter-balance. It makes for easier and more efficient cutting. Having said that, if you're used to a certain way, it may be better to continue with it rather than change to something else.... God bless!

[@FromScratchFarmstead]

Thanks for sharing and watching! :)