Red Onion Skin Powder and Other This~N~That

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[@user-te3mj1dw6w]

I watched your tomato video last year and I saved seeds on the paper towel and this year mine are all sprouting!!!! Thank you so much!

[@utopicconfections5257]

I like to save and dehydrate the green onion tops when I trim my onions. It makes a green onion powder, which we don't mind. It has a nice onion flavor and it's virtually free.

[@conniekline9881]

Heidi, you do a phenomenal job to make sure we can follow your suggestions and to find the videos you suggest. Thank you for all the work you do to build up the community. God bless.

[@reibersue4845]

I love that you are following the Bible and fiving the land it's rest. When I first read Leviticus ot really sounded so random to me until I read an apocryphal book where the dietary restrictions were explained. Then I re-read Leviticus with that in mind. And it all amde sense. Forbidden foods were mostly things that would be high in toxins or contain harmful organisms because of what the animal ate, mostly carrion eaters. Resting the land makes sense because you allow ot to regain nutrients for better yoelds and causes those pesky bugs that lay eggs in your soil only to emerge in spring to begin their destruction of plants. I'm on my third year in this garden bed. I fully plan to give it rest and may not wait till the 7th year. Resting my garden does not mean I take a rest. It means that I have more time in the spring to tramp though my acreage and find the things in the wild God has put there for me to find. I have a few things on my foraging check list I would love to discover. I may even take the time to educate myself about edible wild mushrooms.

[@lindamckeny876]

I went the easy way and purchased frozen onions and dehydrated them. I am starting to rebuild my shelves now for soups for this coming fall. Whole lot less smell when you use frozen onions. I enjoy your channel each morning , so informative. May God continue blessing you and your family.

[@joycewedel9084]

I like dehydrating & powdering all kinds of vegee peels & mix them up together & use especially to make a V8 type Tomato Juice.... Sooooo good! Can then

[@joycewedel9084]

Oops.... Continued... Good in a Virgin Bloody Mary with or without booze. Wonderful in stews, gravies, soups... Numerous things.

[@exscapegoatpowerfulhealer9685]

Your an absolute gem with recipes for storing etc. Thankyou

[@judyhammond9054]

Just out of curiosity I recently took one of the tomato slices I dehydrated last year for snacks and put it in a pot with dirt and covered it. Wasn't long and I had lots of tomatoes seedlings out of just that one slice!

[@bradlafferty]

I’m going to watch that diy drying rack. What a great idea! Thanks also for the onion skin uses. I freeze bones until I get enough for bone broth, but never considered drying vegetables for soup base.

[@joycewedel9084]

Btw.... I recently heard that white tangerine dried peels are delicious in teas.

[@serenitysealed485]

Heidi, again thank you for your encouragement and instruction. I have been dragging my feet on dehydrating. Ni have had my Cidirri fir a couple of months. I finally tried it and dehydrated my first batch of sliced mushrooms. I ran it fir the shorter time suggested. They needed a little More tune. Checked and they turned out great . Tasted a few. Yum.!‘stored in my mason jars. I will rehydrate s small batch next week to try. Looking forward to making mushroom powder as well, again, thank you. Your demonstrations snd teaching helped me to talk my first steps on this journey. Next: frozen mixed veggies, cabbage, squash.

[@joycewedel9084]

Ty. I'm going to make an onion skin vinegar. That would probably be good in my Sauerbraten, Salad dressing, Hot & Sour Soup, etc

[@kathyshaw2870]

Again, ty for your advice~GOD BLESS Y'ALL ALWAYS~

[@karenw9996]

Good information, thank you!

[@KarenSmith-ys3sk]

I watch u on my 65" TV,then if I want to comment I use my phone. I have You Tube on my TV,desktop and phone. I also watch you on Rumble,so I can access u anywhere! Love the video,Heidi.

[@joycewedel9084]

You get a nice rest too as well as your garden. That will be nice while your soil rests.... Per the Bible which I agree with. "Father knows best!"

[@blessedbloominghomestead9134]

I started Cherokee purples this year, they are my favorite! I also have 4 (?) tomatoes that I think may be cherry tomatoes that came up in my compost pile, and a tiny little blueberry sized wild Florida tomato. They are a little pop of real tomato flavor. I got a plant from a friend and saved 3 little tomatoes, cut them in half and planted. They grew! lol I got a dozen little plants and shared half with a friend. I was happy to hear about the onion skins because mine usually go in the compost pile. I buy a lot of Videlia onions. God Bless!!

[@RainCountryHomestead]

I think mine might be Cherokee but not with certainty since they were seeds I save from a mix of organic heirloom tomatoes I had purchased just to try and really liked the flavor of the purple. There was no name given to the individual tomatoes but that was years ago and I have been growing them ever since and they always do great

[@blessedbloominghomestead9134]

@@RainCountryHomestead they do look like Cherokee purples. They have such a great tomato flavor!

[@WendyLKoc]

Heidi, what a great idea for the red onion skins! I am going to have to try this. Watching you on Rumble as well.

[@trishthehomesteader9873]

Thank you Heidi! I wasn't going to grow tomatoes this year but, Gosh! I'm out of tomato flakes! (I gave a bunch to my sis.) Besides, I know I'll miss 'real' tomatoes in salads and BLTs if I don't plant at least a few. ☺️ Blessings! 💜

[@sandracedar368]

Heidi, You are amazing! My son loves his garden. He grows quite a number of vegetables which he shares with so many. Things I’d like to do is make spaghetti sauce and freeze it. I would like to note, if you wouldn’t mind sharing with me, how you process your tomatoes? I have seeing where they are processed through a mail attachment to the mixer. Would you kindly share your process with me? Thank you a million times over. I forgot to mention to you, that we live in North Central Florida. So our growing season is very short due to the heat. He grows potatoes of varieties, peppers, onions, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, celery, garlic, acorn, squash, various other squashes, & pumpkin. This year he is venturing into some herbs. It keeps me busy because I’m the one that tries to figure out how to get all this processed so we have it until the next season. I need your help! Maybe you could share with me if there is a way you know of that I could also process potatoes. They are so good. THANK YOU❤️🙏🏻

[@RainCountryHomestead]

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[@chrismaryb.7409]

Thanks Heidi 😊 ❤❤

[@marygrott8095]

I love the onion skin powder idea! I'm definitely going to try that. I'm still not seeing uour shorts, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'm pretty sure I'm following you on Instagram, but I'll double.

[@darleneschreiber9415]

Wow! What a great idea about the onion skin powder! Love it...thank you and God bless you! 🥰

[@TheUniverseWorksForUsBeings]

Great this~n~that video. Ive noticed that content creators that build many informative, useful videos have been bombarded with rude comments/complaining/or bots trying to devalue/debunk info even when its truthful. The part that i dont understand is that the people that are actual beings will watch the video just to critisize or??? I could understand someone asking about something they dobt understand....but i dont understand why people use their valuablebtime and energy just to be malicious/negative. That golden rule :treat people the way you want to be treated, as well as: if you dont got nothing nice to say, dont say it at all!!! Anyways...be blessed, and as always thank you for the valuable info and the energy/time put intondoing so. 😊 Kristine from Michigan.

[@Deauxneal]

❤

[@margaretpollard2179]

👍Always!👍 Thanks!

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

🎉🎉

[@conniemoore3207]

I love the purple tomatoes. Especially the Cherokee purple but carbon is good too.

[@debraflowers5905]

Good morning Heidi. Thanks for sharing the idea of dehydrating onion skins and making powder. Excellent idea! I have learned so much that I can't wait for my garden this year to apply what you have shared. Have a great day. ☺ btw...it's snowing here in NE Indiana. I do like watching the snow, but I also like the summer. Having 4 seasons showing it's stuff is great!

[@brightstarr57]

Great this n that! A little late watching but enjoy your content!

[@debichats8634]

Heidi, you’re one in a million! I’m so happy I found you and I take your advice 99+% of the time! I’d hate to lose touch with you! THANK YOU!!! ❤❤❤

[@valerieescabi6104]

Got hi Heidi, God is good all the time Holly❤❤❤ thank you Heidi for so much help you give many blessings be blessed

[@johnparkhurst825]

👍

[@kds1332]

Good morning

[@monagriggs6352]

Heidi, I got almost 3 qts of apple vinegar put into jars today 😁🥰

[@michelle_1776]

Oh my! Those cookies look delicious! What are they & do you have the recipe in a video? Thanks😍

[@RainCountryHomestead]

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[@maria_w311]

Hi Heidi 👋🏻

[@homesteadgamer1257]

I'm also always saving my onion skins for broth and then forget lol. I am currently making dragonfruit vinegar (it's so pretty) and lemon vinegar, but I haven't yet made pineapple. It sounds like it would be great in a Fire Cider.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

I am doing the same thing with dragon fruit peels for the first time so it is interesting you said that. Mine are the yellow ones though as I find they have more flavor even though they are not as pretty

[@homesteadgamer1257]

@@RainCountryHomestead I'm using dehydrated dragonfruit for mine, which is why the color is so strong. I'm going to have to try it with the peels sometime to see how much of a color difference there is. The yellow kind is definitely much sweeter. I hope to grow some this year, of both the pink and white flesh. My mom has a friend who started a tropical garden inside a tarp-greenhouse and has a bunch of dragonfruit growing. It would be amazing to be able to grow that and not have to spend $12 on one fruit

[@RainCountryHomestead]

@@homesteadgamer1257 I get mine from Misfits Market and they are $4 each.

[@monagriggs6352]

Hey Heidi, God bless 🥰

[@kathysnavely1802]

Will be saving all kinds of scraps for broth. Thank you for the good reminder. God Bless you and your loved ones. Have a wonderful Resurrection Day!

[@corneliaklaraghadami8455]

Ah Heidi nice to see you again😊

[@RainCountryHomestead]

Still putting out 5 videos a week as I have been for well over 7 years, if you have not seen me, it is because youtube has been hiding my content

[@corneliaklaraghadami8455]

@@RainCountryHomestead Stress ist das schlimmste für den Körper.Nimm Algae Oil Omega 3 Fettsäuren.Bleib gesund.

[@cpeace3172]

This time of year I save some purple onion skins for naturally dying Easter eggs. They come out a blueish color.

[@reibersue4845]

Grandma used the brown skins to dye eggs.

[@ingeranneamundsen7722]

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[@RJ6161-rc5vs]

God IS GOOD ALL THE TIME😂❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@rosemarybutt2608]

I learn so much from you. I do have an X account but don't use it. I do get notifications and open it occasionally on my phone but get frustrated and close it again. I don't care for Mobile apps in general. Meanwhile back at the ranch, I dehydrated a small red cabbage this weekend AND I dehydrated 1/2 head of green cabbage this weekend. Brilliant! Eventually I intend to rewatch the kimchi from dehydrated video and enjoy that product. Thank you!

[@joyjournal6157]

I'm glad you mentioned about the tomato seeds. It's Autumn here in New Zealand and I've been saving vegetable seeds to give out to folks next spring to help them out (food is getting terribly expensive here). I've never saved tomato seed before because I'm allergic. Good to know I've done it the right way. Heidi, may I ask a question? I've already searched through your videos. Can you store Sauerkraut for long periods? Most of the videos I've seen says it has to be stored in the fridge. I would like a way to store cabbage when it is cheap. Thank you, Heidi! 😊

[@RainCountryHomestead]

Fermented foods can last for a very long time in cold storage, I have had some that was a year old and still good, this can be a fridge or a root cellar but I personally would not store on a shelf outside of cold storage

[@joyjournal6157]

@@RainCountryHomestead Hmm. Might have to give that a miss. Don't want to give myself food poisoning!

[@jenniferdupoux2601]

I love your videos. How do you protect the foods your dehydrating from dust and any other debris from the wood stove?

[@RainCountryHomestead]

I go over that in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqCWfHWXi7yeZ9U

[@jenniferdupoux2601]

Thank you...I've been dehydrating onion skins for years & people think I'm nuts. lol@@RainCountryHomestead

[@pen5532]

First, wanted to say that I love your videos. I have been so inspired and have so many concoctions going now, and my nersturim plant is huge! QUESTION: I made the honey garlic, but garlic does not agree with my digestion the last several years, so I have a red onion one going. Interesting that the honey was super fluid the second day. Do you have thoughts on the raw honey with red onion? Benefits, cautions? I plan to let it sit for a few months before using.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

Yes, that is totally normal. The water in the onions are blending with the honey and making it less viscous. This happens with garlic as well

[@davidadausuel4537]

I’m confused, just what was this video about? I follow your videos, and this one popped up on my feed.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

Maybe you did not listen to the intro nor have ever seen my Monday This~N~That videos but as noted in the beginning, I cover many things in my Monday videos. It is a chance for me to answer questions from the past week, give updates, and more

[@Barosunflower]

I like this and that videos in a short time she said a lot .

[@jeanmullins3284]

❤love your advice and posts!! I've been looking for a "made in the USA" dehydrator. Yours is made in China. Not a criticism but I am trying to buy more US made products to support our companies. Just wondered if you had noticed any.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

Yes, I know where it is made but even the Nesco and Excalibur that claim to be made in the US have components made in China so good luck finding anything made 100% in the US, especially anything with electronics. I too am one to look for and support US companies as much as possible but certain things are simply no longer made in the US. So your computer or smart device is most certainly made in China

[@jeanmullins3284]

@@RainCountryHomestead thank you for your reply. I truly appreciate it.

[@sandrad518]

It gets harder all the time to find things NOT made in China.

[@spiritwindvue8038]

🙏🕊🙏

[@joycegiasson5219]

🍁🌿🍂

[@rustybell2722]

Does anyone know where one might get a how-to video on making incontinence pads? I'm not sure how thick to make them nor the size. Thank you in advance.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

I have one on cloth menstrual pads that could be used the same and tailored for thickness: kzbin.info/www/bejne/noTEmoOcm615a7M

[@stacy9345]

Google/KZbin is blocking links.

[@gidget8717]

I've seen new shorts in which the link to the full video is below the channel name instead of in the description box. Example of how they look ~ Your channel with the subscribe button the link to the full video the title of the short

[@RainCountryHomestead]

hmmm, I wonder how they do that. I guess I need to go to the edit section to see if I can add those after the fact

[@RainCountryHomestead]

O wow! I figured it out! How did I not see it before! WOO HOO! Thank you for that, now to go add to my other shorts

[@gidget8717]

@@RainCountryHomestead look at the shorts for the remember this history & nostalgia channel. I've seen several different channels that have those links in the title. When on the hunt this morning and history & nostalgia was the first one I ran across.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

@@gidget8717 Yes, in case you missed my last reply, I did figure it out by going back tot he edit page. I had never noticed the section on the lower right where you could provide a link to a related video. I which one could put more than one or put a playlist but at least there is that and I can still pin other related videos and playlists in a comment

[@gidget8717]

@@RainCountryHomestead I saw it AFTER I sent the channel. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️😆 glad I could help. Love rain country homestead👍

[@Niamh07421]

I noticed on the picture of the red onion powder you have a plastic lid on a jewel jar- where did you find those thanks in advance

[@RainCountryHomestead]

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[@Niamh07421]

thanks -I have those I meant to say gem jars sorry @@RainCountryHomestead

[@Niamh07421]

I just put the regular plastic lid on and it worked- I actually thought they were a different were a smaller size thanks

[@ceciliafuentes3299]

Heidi, why can't I find you on X. I also looked for a link to X on this video, and I do see it.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

The link is there in the description box as it has been for a few months now just below the instagram link but I will link it here too: twitter.com/HeidiRain

[@sugarshell1973]

Maybe the Juniper is a male tree not female...check into it✌

[@RainCountryHomestead]

Yes, this has always been my assumption though it would seem that at least some varieties are both male and female

[@alenaB]

🥰🤍

[@rojacostly635]

What do you use onion powder for?

[@RainCountryHomestead]

As a seasoning just like garlic for anything such as sauces, gravies, meatloaf, meatballs, and much more.

[@judithsmith9319]

I'm not being condescending... but people! Think logically!!!.. onions are onions.. none are poisonous. The color matters not! I'm concerned that people seem to have lost common sense and need step by step hand holding...

[@RainCountryHomestead]

I have never had anyone question about the toxicity of any one color being toxic, only wondering if they can do the same thing with the skins of other onions and get the same results.

[@joycewedel9084]

Are shorts really worth even doing & your time & the problems with them? You have so many other things you do. Sometimes eliminations of things are good for us.... Sooooo many creators get overwhelmed.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

Yes, they are worth it even though I do not make much on them and they usually only take 5-15 minutes to put together unlike full length videos that can take hours. And yes, I know about cutting back, this is why there are many items I no longer make for selling such as the skirts, aprons, soaps, and more

[@sandrad518]

​@@RainCountryHomesteadSpeaking of sewing, I hope your knee has healed! 😊

[@RainCountryHomestead]

@@sandrad518 Thanks for asking. I still get occasional twinges but it is pretty much healed and I am back to sewing again :)

[@shelleymitchell7912]

happy monday sista x

[@bonnielafayette6599]

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