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00:00 Intro
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01:22 Cheesburger Soup
05:45 Sourdough Ciabatta
06:44 Ciabatta Sandwiches
07:02 How to find sales
08:13 Homemade Subway Sandwiches
09:54 Homemade Sourdough Bagels
13:34 Freezer Jars
13:49 Salad Dressings
14:43 AMAZING POTATO RECIPE
15:20 Pizza Night
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20:03 Fig & Feta Quinoa with Balsamic Vinegar
22:34 Feta Cumin burgers
24:21Donuts
27:35 Devotional TEACHING OUR CHILDREN ABOUT THE LORD
31:16 Wild Rice and Chicken Ginger Soup
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You guys I bumbled so this video that you’re watching is a video I published about 4 days ago and after about 4 days and 4,000 views I realized that I accidentally deleted the music from the video so there was long periods of awkward Dead Silence in the
Video I think one of the sweetest comments that was left when I made the announcement on my Community page that that I had forgotten to put the music in this video was somebody said it’s okay I found it refreshing I don’t know why I thought that comment was just so funny I started
Laughing out loud this probably goes without saying but you guys it has been an extremely bumpy past 6 weeks for me personally anyways I have redone the sound in this video for you or the music Portion by the way I have started uploading recipes Rees at the blog again
For your convenience the recipes are printable so you can go straight to the blog and print off recipes I even have my sourdough recipes on there for you it couldn’t be easier because all you have to do is go there and hit the print button towards the end of the video
There is a devotional as usual and today’s devotional is on the importance of teaching our children about the Lord and at the end of the video I have a very special section for some of you it may be boring but I think some of you might enjoy I am actually going to be
Bringing you guys along as I teach two of my older children how to make soup so you guys kick back and relax and if you’re watching this video for the second time one thank you because the views help get this video seen by more people even if you only watch like 30
Seconds of this video it helps the video to be shown to more people and every single view helps me out so much and number two if you’re watching this the second time you’ll get to see it with the music that it was was intended to have the first time around in today’s
Video I have some cheap healthy family meals on a budget at a little bit of homemaking for you life is a Winding Road no telling where it goes driving through days and nights won’t stop for traffic lights and I I really W to know really W to know
Last year we were so blessed to be able to grow so much from our Mountain Homestead Garden that we don’t have to go to the store as often as we normally have to go there are still a few things that we do have to go to the store for
Though you can say I lost my mind I will keep on holding my head high even if sky is falling down but I think that’s too much Mayo friends I packed this video for you with meal ideas from over the course of about a week and a half from Bagels to salad
Dressing ideas of things that you can do with your sourdough which by the way be sure to check out my latest sourdough video with all the sourdough things and of course soups and so much more so stick around to the end for some delectable meal inspiration first up on
The list of things I’m making today is a soup soup is one of the most affordable things that you can make and there are just so many different kinds of soups I’m going to start out with making a cheese burger soup I made one maybe 10
15 years ago so most of my kids have never tasted cheeseburger soup and I decided I would like to try it and see if they love it I think cheeseburger soup is just one of those super fun soups I am of course using my favorite knife my Nano knife I’ve talked in my
Videos before about Nano I am in the process of switching all of my knives over to noo because of how high quality and amazing these knives are this time of year I like to use my W cook stove to make a lot of soups on I’m going to go
Ahead and sauté at my onions this stove is one of my favorite things about the home that we moved into I just love this thing it takes a little bit of knack to get used to I like to use the wiid stove this time of year it’s already fired up
It’s already hot may as well conserve energy and use the LI pck stove since it’s already going I like to start soups about 3 hours 2 to three hours in advance because I don’t normally have the wook stove burning super hot so sometimes soups need a little bit of
Time to simmer and of course a slow cooked soup that has simmered for hours is the best on the ledge of my stove here I have my first batch of chabata bread I am going to try chabata for the first time ever instead of using flour to
Thicken my soup I’m going to use potatoes because I like to limit the amount of non-fermented wheat that our family consumes fermented wheat like what you get in sourdough is just so much easier on the digestion and since we already eat a lot of wheat through the sourdough I like to use Alternatives
In other recipes when I can in addition to that we have so many potatoes to use up that we grew in our garden last year so I figure they will be perfect in this soup as I make dinner the younger kids are expanding on their living room for
It making skills and they’re getting quite elaborate in here homeschooling has been going very well we’ve been getting done each day by about 2 or 3 and at the time of making this video we were experiencing an extreme cold spell we had a like a week of zero and below
Zero temperature so it’s the perfect time of year for living room Fords in the SC you can see in the distance I’ve got a gallon of homemade chicken broth this is all going to be going into the soup and I’ve got my potatoes all chopped here I’ve already put the broth
In this pot and now I’m adding the potatoes and I’m just going to let them simmer until they are done once they’re done I will cream them with my immersion blender I’m also going to add some celery so you will probably be using just fresh C celery and to this I would
Do probably like about half of a cup I have dried celery from our garden so that’s what I’m going to be using so I’m only going to be using about a/4 of a cup of dried celery I’m also going to add some parsley to this you can add
Basil or time to this kind of whatever seasonings that your family really loves something I should have added but did not is shredded carrots shredded carrots are a great thing to add to this soup as well and of course they boost the n nutrition so I’ve been letting this
Simmer for quite some time probably about an hour and a half to 2 hours and I’ve got my hamburger over here I did not do enough hamburger so the kids weren’t too crazy about it until I added more hamburger obviously I was trying to conserve some meat but this is one of
Those soups that does definitely taste better with more hamburger I mean it is cheeseburger soup after all I have a immersion Blended the soup as I was immersion blendering I added about 2 to 3 cups of cheddar cheese and some sour cream maybe about a cup of
Sour cream I also added a couple tablespoons of mustard and some ketchup and then I added pickle relish I have my own home canned pickle relish so I added about a pint and a half and over here we have something I’m super excited about I’ve always tried to figure out how to
Make chiata bread and I finally figured it out but this isn’t just any chiata this is sourdough javat bread it turned out perfectly the crumb was amazing it had the perfect pockets for capturing loads of butter the family went so crazy about this that the next day my husband
And I were texting and I asked him if there was anything I could do for him that day he said well you could make some more of that chabata bread and we could make some sandwiches that is what we did chabata bread is one of the more
Difficult breads to make if you guys would like to know how I made mine let me know know in the comments below I wouldn’t recommend making chipata bread if you’ve never had any experience making any bread at all if you’re new to bread making definitely watch the video
That I will link to at the end of this video and that I will put in the description box below it’s my complete bread making sourdough guide so my husband requested these super simple but ever so delicious sandwiches they are a combination of cheeses avocados which
Are on sale this time of year so it’s a a great time to incorporate avocados into your Foods we’ve got some tomatoes and bacon also which we found on sale and of course mayonnaise speaking of sales one of the ways that we keep on top of sales and seeing what is on sale
Is through the newspapers I don’t get out very often especially this time of year so my husband does a lot of the grocery shopping and every time he goes into the grocery store he always goes and checks for the sales especially in the meat department in these scenes my husband is making
Breakfast he makes breakfast for us probably two Saturdays a month lately and his breakfasts are always the best but our usual go-to breakfast consists of eggs and toast or oatmeal and it never fails there’s always a little bit of oatmeal left over and it’s cooked often times I’ll end up with a
Considerable amount of oatmeal left over in the fridge something super delicious that you can do with that leftover oatmeal is you can put it in your bread dough when you’re making bread as you’re measuring out all of your ingredients into your kitchen or mixer simply just
Dump that oatmeal right in there with it you don’t really have to adjust the recipe generally but it’s a great way to use up leftover oatmeal so that’s what I have in the scene I have some sandwich bread that I’m making I told the kids I would make them Subway sandwiches this
Week for lunch so Subway sandwiches homemade might not seem that affordable but if you pay attention you’ll find lots of sales and affordable meats and you can fill these sandwiches up with less expensive foods and vegetables another thing is making your own bread we have calculated the cost if we were
To buy all of our bread and bread products from the store it would cost us around $200 a month it cost me around 30 something though for the ingredients to make our own so by making our own bread I save our family around $160 a month I
Don’t remember the brand of meat I used on these but I know it was one of the healthier Brands we also have two different kinds of cheeses lots of lettuce some salami and pickles homemade Subway sandwiches are one of the kids favorite lunches the living room fors
Have started going up a little earlier every day and now it’s to the point where the kids build their little Fords and then started doing their reading for school and here this part it’s so Grand I can actually walk inside and stand up on this particular day my third grade
Daughter was enjoying the space so much that she decided to study her science for an additional 2 hours and it’s kind of neat because it was this particular day that she discovered she loves Science in these SCS I’m making bagels and I discovered a secret it’s probably not a secret I think probably most people know it but if you put a tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of baking soda to a gallon of boiling water to boil your bagels in it really
Improves the outside flavor and gives them more of a bagel taste that we all acquaint with bagels for these Bagels it is just my basic sourdough bread recipe which you can find in that video that I keep referring to and what I did and I simply worked the recipe just like in
That video and then I let the dough rise overnight the next morning I pulled the dough out and let it rise on the counter until it was soft enough to work with so in my home with the temperature that my home stays it took about an hour and
Again that’s because I put it in that really warm spot on the ledge over on my wood cook stove Once the dough had nearly doubled I took it out of the pan as you can see here and I started to form the bagels now comes another trick
That I learned when making Bagels so I’m putting these on a piece of wax paper and I’m going to let them rise until they’re double then I’m going to pop them in the freezer for about 30 minutes or until they’re getting fairly firm this makes them a lot easier to work
With and it helps them to hold a better shape when you go put them in the boiling water when you put them in the boiling water you just want to boil them for about a minute per side definitely want to be careful not to overcrowd the
Pan or you’ll have a big doughy goopy mess all stuck together make sure you have your egg wash all ready to go as well as a greased cookie sheet in fact I would go a step further than what I did here after doing it this way I would
Actually cook these on parchment paper you want to have your oven preheating to about 425° and I did learn since making these that it’s better if the water is not quite boiling if it is just a bit under boiling it reacts better with the natural yeast and the sourdough and they
Will rise a little bit higher now the purpose of the baking soda is to give them that more chewy pretzel like Flavor I am making these Bagels to have on hand as a replacement for toast just to mix things up a little bit for the kids but
Did you know you can make Bagel sandwiches as well they’re delicious cream cheese turkey Bagel M so you’ll want to bake these for about 12 to 15 minutes we got time on our side we in a state of home I need you are my fire I want you to know that every time
You’re away I long for you so much I can find my way we got everything here at least to stay alive and the time that we share makes it all worth got this place on do so it turned out that my husband and I and only a couple of the kids were
Super crazy about the hamburger soup which which was strange to me I thought all the kids were going to go crazy over it so what I’m doing is I’m adding more hamburger to the soup and I’m putting it into a freezer jar see the difference between the regular jar and the freezer
Jar the freezer jar is a lot thicker and it will not break when you go to freeze your soups in it so I love having these freezer jars on hand to freeze soup for my husband’s lunches through the week anyways I’m going to put a couple of
These in the fridge for him and the rest are going to go in the freezer I’m going to make some salad dressings now making your own salad dressing is usually so much healthier than any salad dressing you would find on a generic grocery store shelf our two top favorite salad
Dressings are an Italian salad dressing and a caesar salad dressing both of which I will share on my blog I have the recipe already for the Caesar salad dressing and if I don’t have the Italian salad dressing up at the time of posting this video I will have it shortly when
You do your own salad dressings you’ll find that if you use Lids like this they will R though so you want to get a different kind of lid to go on your jars if you’re using mason jars this one here is a leak proof lid they’re a little bit
More pricey than the regular white Lids but they don’t leak so you won’t have salad dressing all over your fridge potatoes oh my gosh you guys we just found the most amazing potato recipe look it up it is Greek lemon potatoes these were insanely good it’s
One of our new favorite ways to do potatoes to make these you need about 2 to 3 lbs of potatoes about 3 cups of chicken broth juice from two lemons salt to taste olive oil and oregano mix this all up together and then roast them I suggest roasting them on parchment paper
So they don’t stay at 400° until they are golden so in this particular night we have roasted chicken salad which is gone as you can see I wanted to get a shot of it but it was gone before I could usually two or three times a month
We have a pizza night when when I do pizza ton night I always make up extra Pizza crusts and extra pizza sauce so that we can have these for quick lunches for at least a couple days after pizza night so I’ll make up extra fixings extra grated cheese meats and toppings I
Like to do this because it guarantees that there will be at least a couple days where the kids are very happy about their own lunches and of course they like to assemble their own pizzas so I let them do that hey if you like basil
It’s hard to find this time of year get pesto and just mix that in with your pizza sauce it’s a really easy way to liven up your pizza sauce I have a really amazing quinoa salad to show you guys in a second it is just so good and
I also have a Asian inspired ginger chicken soup but before I show you those I wanted to show you guys what’s happening around the homestead I have been having a lot of fun making more soaps and getting more creative I will link to a video below where I talked
More about my soap making Ventures I wanted to add some color to my soaps so I started researching how to do that in a way that was Die free because I don’t want anything terribly bad for us in our soaps and of course that’s when I learned about adding flowers and herbs
To the Soaps for some color I got this package of dried flowers and they’re all so beautiful the package included such a wide variety of so many different kinds of dried flowers like rose colula lavender and many other kinds I’ve had had these for a couple weeks and I’m so
Excited to get to use them finally today since I only like making soap in the cold weather my goal was to make enough to get us through until next January or February I’m pretty sure I succeeded we have about three boxes of soaps that I made and have curing I’m not sure if
That’s the right word to use in this case but I’m not sure what the right word to use is so we’re going to call it curing after you make soap you have to wait about 6 weeks to use it I did something a little bit different with
This batch of soap I added coffee to it so I have a coffee soap and part of the reason I did that was for scent but the other reason that I did that is my husband likes soaps with a little bit of scrubby power to them and I figured the
Coffee would be just the right amount of grit I’ve also read that coffee is supposed to help reduce the appearance of cellulite so hey can’t beat that if you are a regular around here you’ve probably been wondering when we’re going to get some door trim up I mean it’s
Only been almost 2 years right I finally had it one day and I’m like honey I need to trim up I can’t stand the way this looks anymore so on Saturday afternoon my husband got the trim and he painted it and got it up and it is just so
Beautiful but then my daughter said it looks good but now we need to paint the door black and I was like you know what I think that’s a great idea I had been deliberating for a long time what color to paint the door and when she said
Black I thought I think she’s right while I was at it though I realized it would be a good time to also paint the hutch in one of my last videos I moved this from the laundry room into the dining room and although I liked it the
Only thing I didn’t like about it was that it looked so farmhous in my Decor I like to take more down a boho or a Bohemian path well one of you lovely subscribers suggested that I paint it black or charcoal to give it a more Bohemian look and it hit me that that
That is a perfect idea I look for almost any excuse to paint something because I just love painting so I went to the store and I picked up high endurance paint and I went to Work For some more recipes and we’re going to start with my Mediterranean inspired fig and feta with bomic vinegar dressing Salad now served cold this will be a salad served hot it could be a peel off if you like a stronger cheese I highly suggest swapping out the feta for blue
Cheese or Gorgonzola those are my personal favorites when I first tasted quinoa I thought I hated it the first couple times I tasted quinoa turns out quinoa needs to be washed before you use it not only does it need to be washed it’s nice to soak
It for a few minutes but what really helps set the flavor off is first if you wash it and then if you toast It If you’re looking for a way to level up your hamburgers I have got a seasoning combo for you to try beta cheese jalapeno and cumin mix this into your hamburger meat and prepare to be amazed if you are looking for a way to stretch your hamburger meat when you’re making
Hamburgers one way that you can do this is to to combine your hamburger with a less expensive meat like turkey ground turkey all right now over here my husband’s going to do a different kind of a burger he’s going to do a taco inspired burger if you are doing partial
Ground turkey in with your ground beef this makes them even better we happen to find ground beef on sale my husband stocked up on a few packages so we have some to spare and we’re going to indulge in Hamburgers on this particular Saturday night hamburgers are one of our
Favorite dinners but we only have them about once a month a little trick an avocado is really yummy on the taco Burgers whenever we have hamburgers we like to do a substantial side to help fill people up and of course we always make extra burgers for the coming week
Ahead on this particular night we’re doing those Greek lemon potatoes but another really good potato to do on hamburger night is home fries completely doused in chili powder and garlic and paprika and of course olive oil I always make my own hamburger buns and they are
So good these ones really spring up you guys I’m really excited to tell you that on the blog I now have almost all of my sourdough recipes and they are printable for my hamburger buns I simply use my sandwich bread recipe one day last week
One of my older boys asked if he could make Betty Crocker cake donuts and I said M okay he thought he could do it all by himself but it wasn’t very long after he got started that he needed help that was a fun random twist to the day
Speaking of kids and cooking we’re going to make some chicken ginger wild rice soup I didn’t think I was going to like this soup I’m really picky about soups but I have to admit this is one of the better soups I’ve ever had I hope you
Don’t mind but I’m going to do something a little different I have six children and I’ve been teaching the the older four children how to cook about once a week I bring a couple of the kids into the kitchen and we have a cooking lesson so today I have a soup making lesson
With two of my middle sons and I thought I’d take you along soup is one of those foods that can be really delicious and really nutritious if done right but learning how to make really good soups is an art since soup is kind of a poor
Man’s food and I know that it’s going to be something that will benefit my kids to know how to do when they first you know start out in life I’m trying to teach my kids the art of making the best soups because they’re so much easier on
The budget and like I said they’re healthy and can be delicious if done right all right boys so we have this leftover chicken from yesterday and we want to make soup with it because this isn’t enough food for our whole family but if we make a nice delicious soup it
Will be enough so you guys see how do you see how this turned to Jell-O the broth turned to Jell-O at that’s a really good sign that means there’s a bunch of collagen in here and collagen is what we need for healthy skin and hair healthy bones and joints so we
Don’t want to waste this we don’t want to lose that gelatin in there we want to make sure that we put that in the soup now optimally what would have been better is last night if we had strained the juice into something else that would have been better if we had done that
Then we wouldn’t have to try to get the collagen separated from the chicken right now so this is going to be a little bit tricky but what we want to do is we have our pan here but if we get a plate and then we just start peeling the
Chicken off the bone and the best tasting soups are when it’s shredded just perfectly some weird reason to me if it’s cubed it tastes different than if it’s shredded up into little pieces and I’m not sure what it is about that I guess when it’s shredded maybe it
Absorbs more the flavor I really don’t know it seems like it absorbs more juice and flavor though when it’s shredded off and pulled off like this so wash your hands and I’m going to have you boys separate all of this meat off of the bones okay and I’m going to go
Gather some other ingredients for the soup so boys do you see these onion skins over here I’m pretty sure I bought organic onion skins so when we make our broth with the chicken bones see these we’re going to put these in and they’re going to give more
Flavor if you’re new here I like to do a little devotional in all of my videos or just a little bit of scripture reading and since I’m on the topic of teaching children I thought that would be a great topic to incorporate today I have the
Holy Bible U verion app and I just love it lately I have been doing a plan called guiding children and it’s by one hope Bara it’s essentially about discipling and leading children I do highly recommend it in the first day they talked about how family is one of
The top influencing factors in a child’s faith in Proverbs 22:6 it says direct your children onto the right path and when they are older they will not leave it I had a friend who passed away some years back who pointed out that it doesn’t say what might happen in the in between time
Before they get older that can be extremely stressful as a homeschool parent one of the reasons that I’m doing this that I am going through the extra trouble of keeping my children home and homeschooling them is so that they will have more time and opportunity to grow
Roots in Christ in the study I was telling you about it talks about how a church typically gets such a small portion of time in a child’s life and it talks about how kids need more than that thep group that created the plan that I’m doing in the uver app said that they
Did a study and found that once parents begin to let their children manage their own scripture engagement at around age 9 there’s almost a 30% drop in the child’s scripture engagement it declines more around ages 10 and 12 so clearly kids still need parents to kind of show them
The way and it went on to talk about how they need this through the Adolescent years something that my parents did when I was a teenager that positively affected my spiritual walk was we went through a Bible series together that studied Bible law it talked about what
The Bible had to say about pretty much everything you can imagine something that we are using in our family to learn more about the word of God and stay in the word of God and just grow our faith is we are using My Father’s World homeschool curriculum and I use it a lot
Differently than the program suggests we end up saving pretty much all of the Bible readings and activities to do on Sunday and my husband leads those like so many people my husband is not estatic about teaching it’s just not his gift he’s got other gifts however even if
You’re not a natural teacher your children still need to hear from you and they need to hear your thoughts on matters and of course simply reading the Bible to your children is a huge benefit one of the things we like about My Father’s World and the Bible portion of
The curriculum is that it makes it so easy all my husband has to do is pick up the teacher manual and basically read the pages on the books that are listed and that’s it now the neat thing is that the more times that he has done this the more exciting that the discussions
Become afterwards there’s a whole lot of learning a whole lot of laughs that usually end up overflowing the living room anyways it doesn’t have to be My Father’s World you could get just about any plan out there there are so many Bible study series out there for kids
And curriculums that cover Bible topics for kids it is a great place to start for any parent that is seasoned in teaching or just getting started in teaching some really beautiful Bible verses regarding children are Psalms 1273 children are a gift from the Lord and they are a reward from him Matthew
19:4 Jesus said let the little children come to me and do not hinder them for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these Proverbs 176 children’s children are a crown to the Aged and parents are the pride of their children 3rd John 1 and four I have no Greater Joy than to
Hear that my children are walking in the truth deuteron omy 6 6- 7 and this one is one of the ones that encourages me in my homeschool Journey these Commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts impress them on your children
Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road and you lie down and you get up can anybody guess how we’re going to get all of that wonderful collagen yeah how are we going to separate all that lovely collagen in there eat the bone
From the chicken no we’re not going to eat the Bon silly but what we can do is let’s dump it in that instant pot and we’re going to heat it up we’re going to get all the rest yeah yeah but first we’re going to finish cooking so we’re
Going to get all of this the rest of see this right here see that that’s more collagen so what we’re going to do is we’re going to basically melt all that off the bone the best way to do that that I know of is in the instant pot so
Let’s dump all this in the insta pot and then we’ll be able to cook all of that gelatin and it’ll it’ll separate come off and and it’ll go into the liquid we’ve got seasonings here these are onion tops from our garden last year that we harvested we have celery tops
Celery tops make almost any soup tastes better so we’re going to put celery tops in and we’re going to put these onion tops in because they’re going to give they’re going to give more depth of flavor to the soups now with the celery top you could end up putting too much in
Celery can be bitter if you put too much in so we don’t want to put too much in but we’re going to do our bones with some of the celery top here and we’re also going to do some of this onion and like I said if you want to make any soup
Broth better these are two things that you can put in you just got to be a little bit careful not put too much celery top in all right this is ready to go we’re going to Instant Pop this what we have here is the last clove of garlic
From last summer oh I’m feeling a little bit reminiscent one of the other things that you can always put in soup that will always make your soup better is garlic and fresh garlic just cannot be beat okay boys as I look at the pieces of chicken here I see some that are
Really big so the point is we want bite-sized I don’t think anybody’s mouth here is that big so we want to shred this up a a little bit more finely we sauté the onions before we just put them in the soup if we sauté them first it helps to
Bring out more flavor in the onion it also helps to keep the onion from being undercooked there’s just nothing worse though than a big old chunk of raw onion when you’re eating a nice warm brothy soup this is a little bit of an Asian inspired soup it’s going to be we’ll
Save the jalapenos for later but we’ve got onions in here we’re going to put in some lemongrass it’s going to make this really good about a tablespoon of lemongrass it’s just one of those things that elevates your Dish the garlic will burn if you put it in the pan too soon this is this this is the ginger I’m going to go ahead and put it in there right now because these onions are just about done don’t smell that it smells Good I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to put the uh garlic in you just keep that stirring now okay so look good it’s almost done turn down this is a g um little less than a gallon I want to say this is probably a
Pint less than a gallon but you know we’re not measuring what we want to do now is we want to bring this to a nice boil so we’re going to turn it back up we’re going to put some rice in now you know where the wild rice is let’s do
Wild rice okay so for about that much let’s do about 1 cup of rice let’s also do about a half of a cup of wild rice wild rice it’s really tasty it’s a little more expensive rice is a more affordable food so if you’re on a
Budget which when you move out you will probably be on a budget rice is a very affordable food and it’s very filling brown rice has more Nutrition a wild rice and it also has a lot of nutrition go ahead and wash your rice now you always wash your rice
Do you notice how pretty that looks together kind of looks nice doesn’t it so what we want to do now is wait for this broth to boil if you put that rice in right now you’re going to have to stand here stirring it cuz it’s going to
Stick really bad if you wait until this boils though you’ll be able to just dump that rice that we just washed just dump it in here just stir it like once or twice and turn it down low on simmer and just let it simmer until we’re ready to
Eat it probably now with the chicken I like to put the chicken in last if you put the chicken in and then cook your soup for a really long time the meat will get overdone and even though it’s in liquid it will taste kind of dry and
A little bit chalky so we don’t want to put our meat in until it’s close maybe like within the last 15 minutes if you put it in within the last 15 minutes It’ll absorb the flavors of the soup it won’t lose it’s only own flavor and nice texture but the texture will definitely
Suffer if you put the chicken in and then boil it for like or simmer it for 2 hours it won’t be quite as good at least that’s my opinion so one thing we haven’t added to our soup yet is salt so for about a gallon of soup which is what
We have we have about a gallon of soup here we want to add salt to this so let’s add one teaspoon and see what it tastes like you always taste as you go when you’re adding salt yep let’s put another teaspoon in there okay so so
This is 2 teaspoon of salt broth is not very good it does not taste good if you do not have enough salt in here and the reason we want to Salt this now before we put the rice in is so that the rice has a better flavor think it needs one
More teaspoon so it’s a full tablespoon of salt wait a minute let’s use let’s use the Celtic salt because this is getting to be a lot of salt we need to buy more Celtic salt do we have more Celtic salt open the faet how many cups
In a c there are four cups in one CT let’s add one more quart of water to this so it’s a full gallon of liquid boys we have jalapenos here it would taste better if we put them in now but we have younger kids here and the
Jalapenos are not going to taste good to the younger kids so we’re just going to save these aside for garnish okay all right this is boiling so we can put the rice in but but we got to do this very carefully cuz you don’t want to get
Splattered all right so we got the rice in we’re going to give it a stir now and then we’re going to turn it down on a very low simmer in fact we could put it over on the wood cook Stove