Your channel is by far the best on RU-vid. Love to watch what ever you folks are doing. Cooking, fishing, hunting, Canning, even building. Plus the chickens.
Your videos are a perfect blend of education, entertainment, and inspiration, and I look forward to each and every new adventure you share. Your content has taught me so much and has been a source of joy and motivation in my own life. The way you present your experiences and the beautiful Alaskan landscape is truly captivating. Thank you for all the hard work you put into creating such wonderful videos. Keep up the amazing work-I can't wait to see what you have in store next!
I remember making apple jelly from the peels leftover from canning apples and applesauce. My grandmother was great at using everything to it's full potential. Growing up during the depression made quite an impact.
Thank you for sharing a small piece of your amazing life with me. You’ve inspired me to take up gardening and cooking. You two have such a zest for life. 😍
I wish I could live in a place like this when I retire. Every morning, I can hear the chickens crowing, feed them and pick up eggs. In addition, there are a few more farm animals such as goats, sheep and possibly a dog and cat.
Arial, the jelly's look delicious and beautiful as does Eric's pickled pike. Your dishes are phenomenal. The salad looks so refreshing, farm to table. Well done guys. You are not surviving, you are thriving!
The bee on the stem shot was awesome. It's so cool that the time you spent at your first cabin was for learning and the time at your new cabin is for expanding that knowledge. You don't have to struggle so much processing your food as the equipment is all set up in one place outside. You have electric, water, space, and fresh air. I really enjoy watching and learning from you. Thank you
You guys are our favorite RU-vid channel, we grab our coffee and a snack every time we see a new video launch! Thank you for taking us with you on fishing trips and harvesting the spruce tips and all the wild grown goodies! Thank you!
21:41 Holy moly, look at that color. Beautiful salmon. Also, I saw Eric take the skin off, which I personally think is the best part. You can just put those in a pan until they become crispy and delicious. Adds a great crunch
Ceviche is AWESOME! I have made it with fish and also shrimp! One tip I Iearned is soak your seafood in a separate batch of citrus juice, once it is "cooked", drain it, then mix the seafood in with the other ingredients with fresh citrus juice. This cuts down a bit of the bitter taste and makes it way more fresh tasting. Some Mexican recipes use octopus or calamari. Love the video! You two are so awesome! Your videos are so relaxing they are like free therapy for me! Keep up the great work!
Cooking and preserving wild foods like fresh salmon and pickled pike in Alaska truly highlights your connection to nature and resourcefulness. Your dedication to preserving these flavors and traditions is both admirable and inspiring. And I am Floating Village Life.
WOW, you guys have it goin on!, as a hunter and fisherman that is why I started watching, but your knowledge of foraging, preserving and cooking game, vegetables and wild stuff is becoming more important to me. Keep it up.
I love how productive your new property is in the garden and the wild plants, your jellies look amazing and I love how imaginative you are when making a meal ❤
Thank You for the wonderful lesson in cooking and preserving. Reminds me of the time when I would help my maternal grandmother canning and pickling fruits and greens and veggies of all types. Having those homemade items in the middle of winter sure was awesome.
Thank God I finally found you guys again. Thank you for all those tips on survival methods that you take to store away for extreme cold times. Stay safe. Amen
Yes, I've had ceviche. Many times. Fish, shrimp, octopus. Really good stuff. You always make such great meals but today, for some reason, it felt like you hit it out of the park! I was dying with envy - the food and jellies and pickled pike and everything else looked so delicious. I chuckled when Eric said the garden and property are "coming along". That's the understatement of the year. Your property and garden is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Just a suggestion to save your back while working over your fold up table. Add some small pcs of either plastic or steel pipe that are about 12” long to the legs of the table. It will bump the height of the table up and makes it so much easier on your back! Love your videos!
Oh my, I am so jealous of your garden right now. And this is only the first season.. Those amazing greens, I would love to taste them. My grandparents had a garden and I so miss tasting all the seasonal good veggies. I am stuck in city life for now and I really miss homegrown, superfresh veggies. There is nothing like it. No matter how fresh the supermarket says it is, its not the same.
Glad you learned how to debone a pike. Several different methods but they all work and the best thing is you can eat them without fear of getting a bone caught in your throat. Finally pickled pike is amazing!
this shot of the pines up so high and reflected in the evening light makes it look like the tops of the trees r floating in the sky,way to go Arielle,its so cool looking,thx.
The Pike: Really good to hear about those desolving bones. I like too, that you don't put much sugar in. Nice to hear about the flower tea, along with lemon juice tip. I loved Ariel feeding fish bones to the chickens. If I have time I always watch them eat stuff like that, it's so satisfying!
I find the music with the beautiful shots of animals, insects and scenery so relaxing. Also love watching you live our dream life. And it pays you a living….bonus for all of us!
Hi friends! Hubby is Chilean so I make ceviche often. If you add more fish and a bit of olive oil, your flavors will balance beautifully. Buen provecho 😊
A day that brings a new video form you guys is always a good day. I look forward to them every week. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful life with us.
Oh how I miss growing salad greens! A local restaurant here in SF makes a wonderful salad with mixed lettuces and chicories, dill, parsley, cilantro, and mint, plus nuts, dried and fresh fruit, goat cheese or feta. But it’s the herbs that make it so great, so I hope you try this combination sometime! So fun yo watch your canning, everything sounds so good.
Hello there, I would like to start out by saying that I think your videos on RU-vid are produced very well. I think your homesteading videos are done very well. I can't say anything bad about your video. You've done very well every time I watch them. I've been watching your videos for about a year to a year and a half now and really enjoy them. I don't usually get a smile on any particular videos that I would have to say. Your videos give me a big smile every time I watch your video when they come out. You did very well in the garden. Build in your videos. You did very well. I'm putting up your tiller panels on top of the trailer that you put it on. You've done very well and your chicken run outside greenhouse build and the new chicken run indoors as well. I saw that very well done. I can't say anything. Really bad you guys I give you 👍👍 up. Keep on making those videos. They spark a smile in my face. Again, thank you 🌻🌸💮🌼🏵️🌷🌺🥀🌹💐❗❗❗
❤❤❤I’ve been saying this a lot lately, but I can’t help it, y’all are doing the traditions that we just love watching! ❤ It just feels like home watching y’all process the fish you caught, gathering things from nature or things you planted and then canning it and cooking it and then eating it. I could watch this every day! I think many of us who watch you long to live off the land and just seeing you go out in nature and gather all this amazing food and spices and then make amazing meals out of it, it’s just so exciting and refreshing to see! I still can’t believe how easy y’all make it seem! And it seems so fun! I know y’all work very very hard but we can see that you are living a joyful & peaceful life! 🙏🏼🕊️☀️🙌🏼 I hope you never change for the audience! I hope you stay true to what you love doing and just keep being your same wonderful selves because that’s what we love to see! We don’t need to be entertained… we just enjoy watching this lovely couple living life to the fullest!!❤ seriously, you guys are awesome! I pray that God Will continue to bless you in all that you do!❤🙏🏼🕊️☀️❤️
I’ve had ceviche made with tilapia and ceviche made with shrimp 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋 I hope you have a garden tour soon. I really enjoy that. Very peaceful. Take care guys and stay safe.
The low-angle shot of Arielle harvesting, so beautiful : ) Living the dream. I know you two work insanely hard, but you absolutely reap the benefits too. I'm in awe and envious and am pretty certain I could not do what you do! Kudos and bravo.
Your garden is amazing. Such a selection of goodies. I do love fish but I tend not to buy them. Many, many years ago, I was fishing at the Whiskey town lake and I caught a big Dolly Varden. I don't remember us eating it but we must have. It was on my first cast . Don't remember what I was using for bait. Oh, that is a good memory of a catch. I'd like to gather leaves for a tea someday. Thanks so much for your visit.
I just keep checking every day after day 5 to see if there is a new video from you two! Love the garden and all the things you build and work on! Your lives are so busy but in such a delightful way!!! Life!! Enjoy it!!! Thank you for sharing!!
I love to watch you work together so harmoniously you really show a lot just in this, plus all the other amazing things you share. Your home loves you I can see, and it's no wonder!
Very smart to do spruce tips in the Korean cheong method. For anyone unsure, spruce tips taste mostly sour with a whiff of that pinecone flavour you smell. It's pretty nice as long as you pick them at the right young stage.
I love your videos,look forward to seeing them as soon as they come out, I love watching you two on your adventures together,and the scenery in ALASKA is amazing. Thank you very much.
Ceviche is awesome. Its really a dish for a nice warm summer night or a hot day after a swim.. it always reminds me of summer holidays and the goosebumps life.
Great episode! Canning, fried fish, fresh salmon, fresh salad, jelly making, outstanding scenery, sleepy chicks, explosive garden plants! Everything is looking healthy and happy. You even have peppers getting ready to harvest.
Ariel my better half definitely loves listening to you and Eric when I’m watching your videos!!! She actually also loves to do gardening things and loves learning about all the different kinds of plants!!! This year has definitely been one of are best and biggest gardens that we have done and actually turned out!!! We have already been harvesting from are garden for probably the past month or longer!!! My better half herd that you guys was planting some tomatelas and she had never tried planting those before and she also would love to now more for what you guys use them for also?????? We had gotten 4 plants from a church planting that the church gives away certain plants every Saturday for a month or so long and it is a free will donation!! We was able to get so many new varieties of vegetables that we had never grown before and I would definitely say that every one has turned out really good!!! One that we had gotten and had never seen before are a cucumber plant we believe that they are but the cucumbers get to be anywhere from 2’ long to 4’ long and have a wavy outer skin to them also!!! We are not exactly sure what they would be good to use for but we have been adding a bunch to her salad that she takes for lunch every day!!! Please let us know more about the tomatillos and what you guys use them for in one of your upcoming videos please 🙏 !!!!! My better half keeps asking me how your tomatillos plants are doing and if you have talked about them any more also??? Lol!!! I believe that are tomatillos are just about ready to pick shortly hopefully!!!! Awesome video!!! Oh and do you guys make like a salsa with a bunch of things from your garden??? We would definitely love to try and make some salsa out of some of the things in our garden this year also and would love to see what all you guys like in your salsa that you might make???? We definitely don’t like wasting the items that we get from are garden but with just two of us and just so so many tomatoes, peppers, jalapeños, and many other things we definitely are needing to find other ways to use stuff up!!! We do have chickens so anything that we can’t eat we give back to our chickens and they definitely love the stuff from are garden also!!!!
You need a food mill. No electricity needed. Core and halve the apples leaving the skins on. Cook and run through food mill. It gets out skins while adding all the pectin in the peels. Where most apple pectin is. Your dinner looks awesome! I love foraging and the views of the garden. I was hoping for a garden update.
thx so much for the garden scenes Arielle.i really love it when u r in their talking about ur plants bc u have so many,and that in itself is pretty awesome that u and Eric take care of so many.
I found your videos a little over a year ago when I lost my son to an accidental shooting when he was 22 and want to thank you for getting me through one of the worst years of my life.😢❤
I've said it before, EVERYONE's said it before, but I'll say it again - your cinematography is just stunning. I love how we can tell how much you love where you live and what you do. It comes through in every video. It's what makes your channel so lovely. Thank you for sharing with us.
Good to see my favorite couple again. Looks like a busy days ahead getting ready for winter. makes me hungrey watching you preparing food. I know you two will get the job done.😊❤❤👍👍🙏in my prayers to get all done without any problems.
I first experienced Ceviche, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. A man’s on a bike with a large bucket and bells came through town selling it. It was soooooooo delicious (and spicy). He couldn’t make it too far as everyone came with bowls and wanted some. Congratulations on the transplants surviving and thriving.
Awesome dishes from your fishing trip and the harvest from your garden. Makes everything taste super good when you catch and grow your own. Thanks for sharing the video 👍
I love your videos, I dont know what I love most the adventures, the gardening or the cooking -everything is great and you two make it perfect, so relaxing x
I just got done with schoolwork for the day. Im totally burned out on school but i trudged through today. I turned on the TV hoping there would be a new Simple Living Alaska video. There was, so i did a little happy dance! You guys are so great to watch. You aspire me to work harder. I love to watch your adventures and projects. Your food videos always make me hungry. I always look forever to a new video from your channel!
Hi guys- a tip I learned in restaurants when you are pulling bones out of fish is to keep a cup of water next to you to dip your tweezers in. It helps with the stickiness
