The Magic of Fire | Cooking Over Fire on the Farm 

The magic of fire calls me deeply... come join me for a day of cooking over the fire on the farm. This is GOOD EATING.

I am only 16, but I love to cook and garden, I also love cast iron so much and I collect them and chef knives too! I also inherited my great great grandpas cast iron skillet that is over 150 years old! cooking is so much better when the simple tools you use have a story

You have the rare gift for being able to extract the goodness out of life and for appreciating that goodness once you have found it. You are both practical and poetic. I think that many will look to your example in the years ahead.

I get it, I’m so glad I insisted on a wood burning fireplace when we remodeled our old house. It soothes me on cold winter days.

Beautiful morning. I’m the same way, “Let’s have a bonfire!” And by the way I go to the beach at least 4 mornings a week and sit outside or in my car depending on how cold it is and knit.

Will you do a full home tour at night? I think homes are so magical at night with the lamps and lights and fire and candles!!!!!

Shaye, I've said this before if RU-vid was giving out Emmy's or Oscar's your channel would definitely win one!! Because of the content, the poetic flow to the story and the characters are just the most adorable family :) Blessings to your crew:) And it's your daily reality that the rest of us get to see in Realtime!!

Nothing cooks like cast iorn over an open fire. I have my granny’s cast iorn skillet set. It’s still the best pans I own. I love watching you cook. It’s so relaxing. Your voice is so calming.

I love this. I enjoyed your thoughts about cooking, fire, family and homestead. I grew up on the edge of a medium sized city, Salt Lake City, Utah. But, I’ve always felt more comfortable in the wilderness, the mountains and the canyons. And, I’ve always been fascinated by fire. And, I love cooking on fire. I have a cast iron skillet that my grandmother used to make meals for my dad when he was a kid. And he’s 89 years old now. One of my most prized possessions. And a Lodge Dutch oven that I have owned since it was new over 20 years ago. So many meals. So much history and tradition. And so delicious. Now, I live in a beautiful log home in the Uinta mountains of Utah. With the sweetest woman I have ever known and our four amazing dogs. We use those cast iron pans every day, and life is so good. So much gratitude. Thank you. 🙏

Deep in the human DNA is the urge to levitate to fire and water. Whether a open campfire or a roaring fireplace, each invites gatherings of social interaction while soaking in the warmth. Just as fire invites, so does water. Pools, fountains, and even the water cooler are congregating places of relaxation and interaction amongst people. Life is all about the basics and the basics are all about life. Blessings!

That was one of the most beautiful things I have ever been captivated in. Absolutely felt this in my soul ❤

Oh beautiful - been looking forward to this video since heard you were doing a month of fire cooking over on Instagram! ❤️🔥

My husband just got mad I watched this without him 🤣 we are obsessed and trying to simplify and enrich our 5 acre piece of land

Another absolutely gorgeous video Shaye. Im feeling the Outlander inspiration here too. 😉 I just started book 3

Oh my goodness! Those kittens! 💕 A house cannot be a home without a fireplace, at least in my opinion. Thank you, Shaye, for another inspiring, beautiful, and heart warning video. May God bless you and your beautiful family.

Cannot thank you enough for inviting us in to enjoy a perfectly serene world... I feel such a peace while enjoying these gifts you share, and that is not small thing! Yes, I borrowed that phrase from someone.

I absolutely long to smell the first wood smoke from a fire when the weather gets cold. It completes the season for me. Here in the South I have to wait a bit longer.

I watched this while my warm 8 month old was laying on my chest. So calming. I want a fireplace and a home with a backyard so badly to do just this. One day! Thank you for this video you guys. ❤️

Simply beautiful ❤ Thank you for sharing. You are such a great narrator. Blissfully sweet and soft spoken.

Love this! You all seem to have that healthy balance of work and relaxation we all strive for!

The videos you make really bring up emotions in me. I catch myself smiling and often times teary eyed too! I don’t know, but I think it’s your gentle reminders in each one of just how beautiful life truly is. This was so lovely! ☀️ ♥️ love the music! 🤩

Yes, tucked in on a cozy winter night inside by the fire is beautiful. Grateful for all the beautiful Seasons god gave us too. hugs

Very touching and warming moments… it’s a longing atmosphere that makes one hope for poesy.

It’s that ancestral connection. Once upon a time all humans used fires in this way. I feel like it’s a way to look back and connect with our great great great (etc) grandparents.

There’s something specifically about the fire-side squat, lol.

I watched as I sat by my fireplace. Merry Christmas all!🎄🎅❤

You have such a beautiful story-telling voice ❤️

What a work of art this video is! I was fighting back tears by the end.

Pieces of log set around your fire would good to sit on. Loved this video's. Thank you

I feel this too, just the smell of smoke from a fire brings me peace. It’s so hard to explain to people that don’t get it. Your videos are a work of art! Thankyou!

Beautiful video. I wait with excitement for each one. Your voice and your videos sooth me. I come home from working at the hospital, shower, curl up on the couch with a cup of tea and I enjoy a video from The Elliot Homestead. Thank you

You have such special way of bringing goodness into the world and for that, I thank you!

Oh girl...let me tell you what, you're speaking my love language! Cozy fires, seasonal, slow living, fantastic food and family. What more in life could anyone ever possibly want? ❤❤❤

What a beautiful way to spend the morning with your family. You are setting the culinary bar quite high for your kiddos, lol.

Shaye I love to watch your videos of you and Stu and the kids. U have an amazing life and so blessed. Thank u for sharing. I've always loved cooking over a fire and the outdoors. But the best is the end with the kids listening to their dad reading and moms cooking and then just u and Stu just wonderful. God bless u and your family. ❤

I looooove the way you dress ❤️ But I can never find clothes like that. Where do you find your clothes??

Cooking by a camp fire is the BEST! Fire seems to smooth peoples inner beast don't you think? For me it brings my heart and soul into a warm and cozy place. Your country side is absolutely fantastic. I have a pot from my brother like that and have used it many times making stews and soups on the camp fire. Like you said it does taste and look better. While outside you get your lungs full of fresh air and in turn your appetite gets bigger or at least it does for me.

Your channel is my anti-stress pill ❤

I love cooking over coals... thanks for reminding me that it's not just for camping season!

You feel about your fireplace the same way I feel about my wood burning stove. I finally closed in my old, drafty, massive, heat sucking fireplace (I know newer ones might be better) and purchased a wood stove. I've wanted to do this for decades. Very expensive but worth EVERY. SINGLE. PENNY. The beauty of fire AND it heats the cottage instead of sucking the heat out.

What great skill sets to teach your children. Most kids today think food comes through a drive-through window. Cooking outdoors is the best. I remember cooking lobsters over a fire, in the Acadia National Park in Maine. We are lobster until we couldn't eat anymore. We went campsite to campsute, trying to give lobster away, because we were leaving the next morning. Love your videos. You are blessed with a beautiful family.

Such pleasure having a fire outside or in our fireplace!! I miss the days we did that. Thank you for sharing ❤️

Food always tastes better cooked outside over a open fire! What wonderful memories your making with your children. Blessings

Omg tears when Stu carried the little boy to bed 😭

I live on the Oregon coast and I feel like you’re like us. We like to be able to be self sufficient as much as possible. I love the Pacific Northwest. Living simple.

reminds me of grandmas kitchen, small but so warm and welcoming. watching her mill and cook was the best. we helped of course. Great times and memories.

The fireplace is stunning! I wonder if you ever considered adding a wood stove insert? With a wide glass door, you’d have all the ambiance but get to keep all that good warmth ✋🏻🔥🤚🏻 😌

Beautiful ,nice to see a beautiful family so relaxed and loving

I understand what you mean about fire, theres something so deep and primal, soothing and calm. We don't have a fire in our current home and it feels like I've lost something important, something I crave. We'll be having a Christmas bbq with my parents though, it's a family tradition rain or snow. Sitting outside as long as we can stand in front of the chiminea then coming inside to the open fire in the house.

Simply beautiful way of living and raising children. We are going to start a new tradition in our family. Bonfire on Christmas day. So much inspiration from you, thank you so much.

I think you create a wonderful home and environment for your beautiful family. When I look back on my childhood being outdoors, building camp fires, running wild was the most happiest time.

We used to go camping every weekend, back on our property by the lake, when our kids were little. Every meal was cooked over the fire. Trying baking a pie in your dutch oven! It's delicious!

Your so dreamy, I love and admire your life and family. Thank you for letting me in and inspiring me to be a better person and homemaker.

We didn't hear your husband play the guitar. Well, maybe in a future episode. Great video!

Love your style...life..family values

I've only seen a few of your videos, but after watching the Townsends channel for a while, I took to cooking in skillets on the bbq outside (I can't build a fire in my yard where I live). I typically cook chopped vegetables and small pieces if meat in the skillet right next to whatever I am grilling. Very different than stovetop flavors, since putting the lid on allows me to get some of that smokey flavor in the skillet foods. I agree, fire is special. It's almost as if it is living energy born of a spark, growing to a raging power, fading, and then dying - just as we do.

"The missing part of the puzzle" , seeing your video's, I've asked myself when you will step out of your gorgeous kitchen and try the legendary iron cast outside! And there we go 😊 , exactly what I expected!! Good job , a very nice touch of a heart there . Something tells me that the iron cast is the grand, grandfather of those Michelin stars.

I love this so much. You are raising those kids right

I absolutely LOVE your videos. When I was raising my children, we used to watch the Beatrix Potter videos. They were so nice, and your voice reminds me of them. Your voice when you are narrating the videos is so soothing, I so enjoy them. God bless you and your family and your homestead. Thank you for sharing!

Wow I wish I can live where you live , that was the most relaxing video I have ever seen you really took my stress down in those ten minutes, I live in Chicago and I just started cooking over live fire for the last 13 months, thanks you for the great video

It is wonderful really because I go to ancient Israel in my mind and imagine a woman's daily life and she prepared flat bread and poured goat milk for her family and maybe got some dates and cheese out to go with the meal. How they stored food in ancient times too in crocks. Its amazing! History comes alive for me before a fire. It allows you to contemplate things. Love it! Shalom.

you need a small table near the fire to sit and enjoy the beautiful food you make. So good and delicious to see and eat .

Is that the dress you had made? It's so flattering but still looks comfy, love it ❤.

You are so right about the mood-adjusting affects of a fire. At times in our 30-year marriage when a fire has not been possible, my husband and I have had an oil hurricane lamp burning on the breakfast table each morning. It's very meditative. It's centering. It starts the day off right.

OMG YES! Cooking outdoors over fruit wood is the best. I always set aside my cherry, apple & plum wood specifically for cooking in my fire pit. Lesser woods are used for just plain fire, but I only break out the fruit woods when I'm cooking.

I love your videos. The atmosphere... the kids, the cats.. the guitar, and even the vine in the evening.. especially by the fire... It is just perfect!!!

Wonderful video. I love the idea of cooking breakfast outside over a fire. Thank you

We have been blessed to have found and bought a Kitchen queen wood cook stove last year. Love it, still learning even at 55 years old.

We live in South Africa and cooking on an open fire is called Braai here. Something we love and nothing better than a nice lamb chop or steak over the coals. We do it at least 3 times a week. Enjoy,

Love the outdoor cooking over coals. The fire is always inviting and I can look into it for the longest of time while my memory runs like a wild stallion! Mesmerizing, compelling, inviting, so much I don't understand? Thank you for taking the time to put this video together!

That little orange kitten ❤️

Wow. This one was for me I think..lol. Grew up spending every weekend outdoors, camping etc which of course meant all meals cooked over an open fire. This could have almost been 150 yrs ago. Very well done.

Even the video of the fire put me in a super cozy, thankful mood.

Fire is very fascinating, the colors and shapes, how it feels and cooks. I also am in love with fire!

If I so much as take a deep breath my kids wake up and swarm me. I can't even imagine being able to wake up 'before' them. 😂😢

Ooooh I love cooking over an open fire...especially breakfast 🍳 Bit too cold for that here right now in the Midwest 🥶

Wow! This was one of the most enjoyable vids I've ever seen! I pray for y'alls continued health & happiness & that your kids always remember the paradise they were raised in & family time... By the fire!

You guys live such a simple but beautiful life!!

We love cooking over fire so much ❤ camping cooking has played SUCH a huge role in my journey, so cooking over fire feels so right.

I have great childhood memories with my family around the fire pit in which I will cherish forever. Thanks for showing and sharing in how you and your family enjoying the fire pit.

Your place has got so amazing views❤️❤️If I ever come across place like this,I would never leave.

I ambiance of the room totally changes with a real fire. There has been short times in my life where I have not had a real fire but I changed it to having one because it was just not the same. It seems to me all the old ways are coming back, they have never left for me perhaps it was growing up on a farm for me. A good fire home cooked food peace, nothing like it xxx

its definitely the perfect time to set around the camp fire and enjoy your favorite meal before the snow flies

Beautiful, I have had a wood burning fireplace for the past two years since my husband I moved into our first home. I always wanted a fireplace as well, maybe it's time to start a nice calming fire. Thank you for the lovely video.

The love you guys share as a family is inspiring and encouraging! Thank you for letting us be a part of it.

Just superb, food looks wholesome and delicious. Its amazing the calling power a fire has.

I LIKE THE WAY YOU COOK, BEAUTIFUL FAMILY

Everything you said about how fire changes moods to food is so true. I love eating food cook over and open fire.

beautiful, breathtaking, nostalgic, and all the lovely feels it brings to be in tune with nature.. you and your beautiful family are immensely blessed. I also dream of a fireplace and homesteading.. Thank you for always sharing and keep them coming.

When my family of nine were living in an old house with only wood heat, it was hard. Wood chopping and hauling were daily chores. It seemed like keeping the fire going, and learning to make it but slow through the night was such a learning curve. Sometimes walking up to a freezing house, because I did it wrong, felt so brutal. Funny enough, that's the house my kids treasured most. Our best memories were there, in front of the fire, cooking, cuddling, reading, and praying. So much is lost in convenience.

That helps keep a family strong for sure.

That was so beautiful! I love cooking over a fire...

Ahhh....Beautiful. Thank you. Yup, there is something about cooking over the fire. I remember my grandma taking breakfast outside on our side lawn a few times and doing it over the fire pit. Those were some of the best pancakes! :)

Simple, elegant video with practical tips. Thx.

Me and my boyfriend were over the moon when the house we were looking at had one of those cast iron fireplaces, I've ALWAYS wanted one, and we finally got it cleaned for this winter, and even with only a few days of use, it was like nothing else. We're on the hunt now for a teapot to put on top of it too!

As always I enjoy walking with you through your lives.It takes a certain kind of family to live like you do. You work hard and enjoy life full. I have been following you for quite sometime. Your children have really grown. My daughter home schools my 2 granddaughters. Not planning on it but things work out. They are now 12 and 14 . They have such an all rounded life. Plus the outdoors has been something they have all enjoyed. It doesn't hurt to be married to a teacher (: Thanks again Joyce

Your videos are sight for sore eyes. I always enjoy your way of living and your relaxing voice narrating it. Greetings from sunny Greece💕💕

Great video! You have a beautiful family. I enjoy watching these two ladies channels from Sri Lanka one is Traditional me and the other Poorna the nature girl. Their cooking techniques are amazing. And how they use everything that is around them is so fascinating. So is their practically zero waste lifestyle. I believe here in the West we have much to learn from them. ❤️

Your family videos brings me Joy, Shay Elliot!🙏🎄Happy Holidays to you all!🙏💚💜💙

We love cooking outdoor the food taste so much better.