What's For Dinner | Tomatoes Every Day!

[@heathere.6557]

As someone who just turned 30 and has been married to my husband for 5 years (together for 9), I so value relationship talks from folks who have been married longer/are older and can share their wisdom. Thank you for reminding everyone that relationships can take work but still be beautiful and last ♡

[@niascheiber]

Love how Todd needed a napkin and came back with one for Rachel too! Simple natural thoughtfulness ♥️👏👏

[@ruthiekeene1654]

Todd your reaction to the BLT was priceless! Love how much you guys love the food you make. Thanks for sharing its nice to get dinner ideas 😁 Also knowing yours and your partners love language is so helpful for a happy marriage. We hit 9 years married 13 years together and it gas been key to our happiness.

[@mommybear8672]

Yooper here (moved from downstate 35 years ago to go to college & never left 😅) and just recently found your channel and am loving it!! ☺️🌻🍅🥕🥔 Gardening up here is so different and a challenge at times but love seeing yours and it's giving me some great ideas.

[@robingirven4570]

Our son lives in Iron Mountain, he will never leave there! After serving in Afghanistan and Kuwaiti- that’s where he needs to be. I’m from Fruitport (Muskegon area) I shop in Traverse City and I used to work in Grand Haven! Love you guys!!

[@reneevation5011]

My son and his dad went to Michigan tech in Houghton. And that’s where 2 of my sons were born. Loooove the UP!!! We’ve lived in Washington state for every 20 years, but Michigan still feels like home. 🥰

[@jamjar5716]

Rachel has the most interesting canning recipes that I have watched on KZbin! The tomatoe you were slicing made my mouth water!

[@roberthicks5704]

Leslie (The Farming Pastor's Wife) recently recommended that we check out your channel. So glad she did. Looking forward to getting to know y'all. Greetings from North Mississippi.

[@caravanmassennhoven4004]

Thank you!! I have said for years I can smell the worms after a rain. Particularly in the spring. My family thinks I'm nuts. Lol!! Just finished canning my first round of carrots. Tomatoes are just beginning to come in. So excited!! Be well from Canada 🇨🇦

[@staceyford6733]

I can smell worms in the air, too. Can also smell rain in the air before it comes.

[@sprigssprouts6786]

Do you pressure can your carrots or pickle them? Also from Canada….

[@patriciakoester1580]

Our Granddaughter & her Husband live in St. Clair Shores, MI - they just bought a home there and absolutely love it!! ♥️♥️

[@stevepoore2322]

You guys are fun! I found your channel looking for gardening tips to canning. You two make a fun couple!!

[@19Angelbaby70]

OMG! I thought you guys have been doing this FOREVER! My guy and I have been together for 11 years. I grew up with my aunt and grandma canning a ton! I just started, SERIOUSLY, canning until four years ago! Age is 51 yo, 52 in September! Old dogs CAN learn new tricks! My stepmom is from Grosse Point Park! Michigan, for sure, but not UP! They had land in Lansing as well! ❤️

[@robingirven4570]

I so agree! I love when my husband cooks and cans with me or works in the garden with me. We built a greenhouse together last year. I so agree with you, words of affirmation- thank you for dinner, it was good. The house looks nice. Your flower gardens are beautiful. Thank you for weeding the tomatoes. That’s what I need. A hug is nice too but not too much touch.

[@marcidevries5515]

Oh, that first BLT of the year! It should be this week on the other side of the state. Mmmmmm!

[@catieb450]

Houghton/Hancock area is so beautiful. A must see is Copper Harbor and Porcupine Mountains.

[@christinealwayschirping4115]

You both are awesome thanks for taking time to sharing all... and Rachel, Sarah from living traditions has a awesome ketchup recipe also if you get a lot of huge cucumbers juice em in freeze 😋 makes a refreshing drink n healthy... God bless

[@sylviaking3686]

I would love that!! Thank you for the time you all take to teach what you know!! Blessings to you all!!!!

[@marting.2359]

Great video again. I love your Dackels, in the 70 & 80 we had a lot over here but nowadays they're realy rare to see over here. Greetings from Luxembourg.

[@marking-time-gardens]

My favorite place IS MICHIGAN... anywhere IN Michigan... (not currently living there but...) If it is in God's will I would be thrilled to be able to live back in my home state again. My Dad's job/ work took us literally all over Michigan so I just love it all. Recently went to the Migardener grand opening in St. Clare and found it very hard to go back home. Maybe some day... thank you for the memories. Blessings on your day Kiddos!🥰🌻🐛🌼

[@normastarr4390]

Love seeing what you guys cook for dinner. Gives me ideas to try new things. Todd has told us what kind of job he has, but what does Rachel do? Now I want to make onion jam too!

[@janicenichols7271]

I smell worms after a rain as well!!! I said it this week!!! That sausage looked soooo good!!! I love cooking sausage in my air fryer!!! It's so fast and doesn't heat up the kitchen on the hot days!!! Thanks for sharing this vlog!!!

[@azdesertrat9104]

Rachel, you mentioned Traverse City and it brought back such fond memories for me 😊 I stayed at the Mystic Lake Casino and had such a blast that weekend! It was the only place I knew of where I could get a mani pedi AND have the bar upstairs make me my Cadillac margarita and have it brought to me in the nail salon!! I would go back there just for that experience! Great food there too! Thanks for giving me the flash back!

[@CosmopolitanCornbread]

Oh how funny! I am sitting here eating leftover pizza pasta casserole as I watch this. 🤣

[@jessidutton3441]

I would LOVE your maple onion jam recipe!

[@aimee2234]

Dearborn sausages, ham & kielbasa are the best ever. MI is a great place to live. Love from Downriver!

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Ok, you talked me into making the onion jam.

[@jaynemar1]

Cut River Gorge on US 2 west of the Mackinaw Bridge… Where our joint ashes will be scattered. Michigan Garden Girl

[@flintforsberg2956]

I love watching the video of you guys. Your recipes, conversation and sharing your knowledge is sure a warm caring way, Thank You

[@estellaeggleston1643]

I will have to make that onion jam! Sounds delicious

[@cherylmoran5134]

Have thought about adding rabbits…just for the added manure (fertilizer). I grew up on a farm, so gardens and meat were part of my life. But I went lacto-ovo vegetarian in 1995 and have stuck with it. The first tomatoes in BLT sandwiches is great…although it’s veggie bacon in my case. I have chickens also and they’re with me til they die of old age. 🙂 Gardening and food preservation has always been a constant. Growing up on a farm was the best!

[@4cfaith]

Have you tried the rice paper method for bacon 🥓… taste awesome

[@krazedvintagemodel]

I'm enjoying your talks at the table. The food looks delicious, so I have to suggest adding sharp cheddar cheese to a BLT for a BLT & C. Peace and Blessings 🌻

[@sB-wl4bp]

I can't wait to see your harvest and what you do with it. So exciting!

[@zlifehomestead9772]

The pizza bake is what my husband and I would call "somma" some of this some of that. We love those meals. Most certainly see onion jam in our future. My husband is still a huge peanut butter lover, we are to never run out, ever!

[@rachelpotter2247]

Great video as always food looks amazing and Rachel love love that hail shirt. Go blue. I live in the suckeye state but my blood runs blue and always will 💙 💙 💙

[@cyann410]

The very best thing about summer is tomatoes everyday !

[@1murr2867]

Everything looks good. I love taking cucumber and tomatoes mixed with Sweet Vidalia Onion dressing. Season cucumber and tomatoes first. Salt and pepper and little seasoning Salt.

[@shaynej]

My daughter is going to MTU and yes the UP is just different and beautiful

[@leaannebrummett9159]

Pizza pasta! Gonna give this a try. Oh heck all of your meals make my mouth water. I'm hungry now and I just ate about an hour ago🤣

[@nic7761]

its really cool to see how consistent your husband is kind, loving and patient. Ive been watching a homemaker youtube channel and she pointed out How its a God given right for a Woman to be loved and a Man to be respected. (despite what culture says) it is not earned "husbands live your wives, wives respect your husbands" its a beautiful command tgat sets us up for success when we fill each others tank 💛 Thank you for sharing yoyr dinners with us! That cucumber salad and cajun andiulli sausage looks so yummy

[@dedrajade5394]

Just discovered your channel and loving you two!🥰

[@lesleyhoban6559]

I love our dinners out together ... good food good company

[@marshallbryan3715]

You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. We feel like we are setting across the table and sharing a BLT. Great way to pass an evening while traveling cross country.

[@tracybowers8055]

That was the most beautiful purple tomato.

[@debbiemusgrove676]

Can’t go wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes. I have a friend that recently moved back to UP by her family. It looks absolutely beautiful there. Don’t think I could handle the all the snow though.

[@tammygagnon996]

Love the meals!! Love the pizza meal looks so easy peasy. If you could at some point can you do an in depth video about your chicken? Thanks for sharing. Always look forward to your videos. Blessing form Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 ( near Niagara Fall).

[@dededammann9108]

You two are and amazing couple 💑 ❤️

[@xanthmom9096]

The UP is amazing. We went every year when I wasa a kid. Just north of Land of Lakes Wisconssin.

[@daveandellenbartlett8725]

Lol - I love that one of you sliced your sandwiches and one didn’t! I’m like that sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t lol!

[@maleesaparadis9889]

I live in Traverse City. I like Elk Rapids my In Laws live there and I also like Frankfort and Arcadia since it isn't so busy and nice to go visit and see the sites. We like to just go for rides and see places we haven't been before and take the whole day doing it. I made your onion jam and we love it. I was telling my husband we need to make some more to be stocked up for the next year.

[@SuperKaratemom]

I've been to Mackinac Island. Had a drink and played cornhole at the Grand Hotel! Michigan is beautiful!

[@RiceaRoni354]

I’m originally from the detroit area and I miss the entire state. So diverse, great ethnic food, beautiful lakes and scenery. I miss pines, lake perch, fish flies, well a lot.

[@tonijohnson7132]

I vote for UP. Grande Marais is my favorite spot.

[@LivingMiracleHomestead]

I love simple quick meals.

[@acoastalrv4582]

I love these whats for dinner!! That was the one thing when we bought our house: both sit down and eat at the table. WOW 90 degrees!! I am 3 hours north of you and I still put on my flannel shirt for the day!!

[@tracyzabelle]

Those tomatoes were gorgeous

[@teresaroubal7237]

We relocated to Manitowoc WI for our homestead and as you know that’s where you can take the ferry across to get to Ludington

[@aepineda914]

Serious tomato envy 🥺😥 our weather has been terrible this year, and the bugs are like nothing I've ever seen. My garden is so sad. I don't thing I'll get a single tomato this year.😭

[@jelsmommy]

Yay! I love your answer to the Grand Hotel question❤️ probably especially because we live in the UP :) come visit anytime! My daughter has an Airbnb over her coffee roastery❤️ I wrote that question from the porch of the Grand 😘

[@centraltexashomestead-mike4956]

Yummy, looks real good. Rochelle

[@sabbyjones2308]

When I make a cucumber salad I like to peel and then run a fork down all sides it catches the dressing better🤤

[@redlanternhomesteadcathym105]

outstanding talk! We just had our first BLT too!

[@k10ishere]

A friend up mine just moved to the UP very off grid! It's so pretty there.

[@JeanHudson2022]

What most people don't know about Upper Michigan is that we have tons of water falls. We have it all from water, sking, off road trails we have it all. Even Golf LOL

[@jenbarbay9413]

Have you been to Maine? I’d be interested to visit the UP in Michigan. Thanks for doing the q&a! So much fun to watch and learn about you both!

[@juliannahs-joy]

I made a B A T with my first ripe Motsman tomato. Bacon - Avocado - Tomato. It was fantastic!!!

[@shermdog6969]

I didn't think I would like goat meat but it's now one of our favorites. It's a mix of antelope and beef.

[@brendalay5161]

Just an idea that I do when I make the blt is to cut the bacon in half, and weave four half slices in four different piles and bake in the oven. Then put the tomatoes between two of the weaved bacon. Keeps the bacon from crumbling.

[@jeannecrum9921]

Do you make fried green tomatoes? They are one of my families summer favorites

[@carriem7832]

I dehydrate large cukes and put into dips and sauces…also into smoothies

[@jerriscollins-ruth9019]

Enjoy

[@amjuga1]

I love these videos. They make me so hungry though 😂

[@amladao]

🙋🏻‍♀️, When you go to your cabin, do you stock up at the Amish store for organic grains & stuff? Also have you heard of Azure Standard? Do you buy from there?

[@1870s]

Usually at the cabin, we don't use Azure

[@johnhinds2229]

Love your videos. I have two questions. One, since you were not born on the farm how can you raise animals one year, ten years and then have them butchered for your meals. I was born and raised on the farm and still could not eat our hand raised cows as they became my pets? Two, do you have a house keeper to clean the house and do laundry since you both work full time and then do all the things on your acreage?

[@angelacox90]

About how many pints does the Onion Jam make? I am planning to make this over the weekend and want to make sure I have enough jars. Thank you! I cannot wait to have it on a BLT!!

[@evelinapustova182]

I am really inspired by you to start my own food preservation. Currently I'm living in Denmark and food preservation here isn't a thing. Canning lids and jars impossible to find. And buying from Amazon for a fortune isn't a go. I've been wondering, if I can use jars with twist-on lids from store-bought produce like jams and pickles to preserve my own jams and pickles through the winter. Or it is not a good idea?

[@SnowGardener]

Another amazing video!!

[@jeaniceshelley6088]

I love the double "placemat" Where did you buy it, or did you make it?

[@1870s]

It was a gift from one of our subscribers, they purchased it from Amazon

[@LindaASJ]

I made the maple onion jam this last week but mine doesn’t look as thick as yours. I think next time I’m going to double the pectin from the recipe

[@kathyeichholz1516]

I live in Michigan my favorite place is ludinton I went to northern university I love Michigan it’s so beatiful

[@FortNite-jz1wj]

Your cucumber and tomato salad looked so good! What was in that?!

[@1870s]

I heaping spoon of sour cream, a big squirt of mayo, a hug of vinegar, coleslaw seasoning and pepper

[@sctrent]

What is coleslaw seasoning? I’m pretty sure I need that in my life!

[@katiesan865]

I love old homes. Ours is not quite as old but was built in 1920. Would you ever consider doing a house tour?

[@1870s]

No, probably never

[@Iluvchknz]

Organic food has become less expensive, present inflation excluded, then when it first started being available in grocery stores. However, growing food is fun and gives you such a sense of accomplishment. I grew up with gardening and canning. I am 46 and myself have always grown a garden at my own home. I didn’t focus a lot on preserving though. I gave away a lot of what I grew and could consume myself. However, over the last few years I started canning and preserving using my grandma’s equipment. I support a local farmer that sells direct to consumer for my meat. I have the land to raise meat. It’s also nicely laid out with water access over the entire 10 acres , but I won’t lie I am a little intimidated by the prospect.

[@tesshomestead8019]

Did you make it to the coast guard festival in grand haven.?

[@findmysoulgarden914]

Peanut butter and fluff🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@staceyford6733]

Nothing like a homegrown tomato.

[@sheilakappelman7824]

What are you using to open your jars? I don’t see real good but it looked different.

[@susannielsen8688]

You mentioned Ludington, my mother's home town. I took her back several times (we live in CA), and town hadn't changed much since she left it as a teen in WW2. Her ashes will be buried there.

[@marking-time-gardens]

So sorry for your loss...🙏 My family and I lived in Ludington when I was in 2nd grade (1955). Really liked it there. Blessings on your day 🌻🐛🌼

[@christym6128]

Try St. Joseph and Saugatuck sometime!

[@marilyncapehart663]

Thanks for sharing Todd & Rachel., My Rhematoid Arthritis has really been bothering me a lot I think it’s the weather do you guys have any suggestions for it to Calm is down 7-30-2022👍🏽👍🏽😊😊

[@susanwever3991]

Pictured rocks in the UP or Silver Lake in lower Penninsula.

[@madmecyr]

Is there anything you are going to change about the onion jam from that original video? How was the amount of cardamom/cinnamon to onion? Over powering, nice balance?

[@leesamahaffey694]

You guys have all the gadgets :)

[@greenlady43]

Leelanau peninsula! Luddington!

[@Grubbdub]

I pretty much want to be you guys when we grow up. White claw and all!

[@christinebrush4399]

Where can I buy the pretty placemat please? We are having the same kind of weather here in North Bay Ontario.

[@1870s]

From here: amzn.to/3oFNCqy

[@HumbleHillsHomestead]

I have been binging your videos the last couple days in the heat of the afternoon and I've been wondering what the tattoo on your left arm is? For next QnA maybe? Thanks! You guys are awesome!

[@1870s]

Rachel's moms initials ♥

[@remoc52357]

Question: My friends that pickle HOT okra never refrigerate their okra after its opened. They pickle the okra themself 's. Is that safe???????

[@jessidutton3441]

How long did you fry that sausage?

[@robingirven4570]

That’s funny! My baby sister, 20 years younger, had an orange nose from too much squash and carrots! Lol

[@stevemichalski2538]

Have you caned sausage links? I made fresh Italian sausage but when we caned the links, they split. I'm at a loss. Store bought did fine. ? Help.