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I make chorizo with diced potatoes, I part boil the potatoes until almost done, drain, then add to the cooked chorizo skillet with a bit of water to finish cooking the potatoes, cover until the potatoes are cooked, warm up flour tortillas, add some cheddar cheese roll up burrito style...yum yum

I absolutely love how you incorporate all the foods you get and raise into healthy meals for your family. I also admire how you utilize everything and waste hardly anything! Love watching your videos. Keep up the amazing work!💜

It seems to be a dying skill to evaluate what you have in your pantry and cook up a meal. Lots of people can find a recipe, buy all the ingredients, and make a good meal. But to be able to use whatever you have on hand to make a good meal is an important life skill.

I can at least 200 quarts of potatoes a year. The secret I discovered to getting them to crisp up when frying them is. Open the jar. Dump out the liquid. Then fill the jar with clean water a couple of times. This gets rid of the excess starch. Then dump the water really good. Then take a few paper towels or a clean flour sack towel. And take each big potato chunk and squeeze out all the water you can out of each potato chunk. Then cut them up and put into a pan with oil warmed up. Then fry till golden brown. If you don't get the water out. You will just steam them in the pan. This also works for anything else you do with your canned potatoes.

I love that you show what you make with what you canned. It gives me ideas

Just found your channel and I'm enthralled! You're so down to earth and sensible. Your sense of humor is kind and at no one's expense. I appreciate that! I find you very helpful in your spirit of food adventure. I'm definitely going to be interested in your content!

I like how you combined items from the food pantry, your canned items and items from your garden to make a meal. This looks delicious.

One of the things my mom would occasionally make that was my favorite was what she called peach kuchen. Her 1967 Betty Crocker cookbook has a sweet dough recipe that she'd make, stretch it onto a pan, cover it with home canned peaches turned into pie filling, and bake it like a pizza. Mmmmmmm, peaches and cinnamon dessert on homemade bread dough "pizza" crust... your apple pie pizza reminded me of that. When I go home for Thanksgiving this year I'll have to request that a peach kuchen be made! 😋

Never seen purple cauliflower before. Very pretty. All the meals look great 👍 Blessings!!

I just made Chorizo yesterday with onions and Serrano peppers, then I cooked my pinto beans , fried the beans in bacon grease and added cheese , my husband is from Mexico city " he is a Naturalized US citizen " over the years I've learned how too cook so many delicious dishes. Girl homemade tamales, oh child. 😋

I cook chorizo all the time. One of hubby's favorites. Chorizo and eggs, chorizo con papas, chorizo bean tacos, chorizo stew. So many recipes! Also, try adding butter to your eggs. So much better.

Also chorizo makes a good hot dog topper, wrap bacon on the hot dog grill peppers and onions add either mayo or sour cream or both to the inside add avocado or simple guacamole no onions cilantro or anything just mashed up guacamole with salt made a bit milk that's how they do it in Mexico then add the chorizo on top of the guacamole it'll be like glue and u can add ketchup and mustard. Sometimes I eat them like that without chorizo but your life will never be the same

Not only you have good cooking, but your gentle and sweet personality counts just as much! It is so much better to watch a kindly smiling woman than to watch a Martha Stewart. You are genuine and that is what we all love! Thank you for sharing all this lovely stuff with us! I also really enjoy when you tell us stories like the boy and the Swiss cheese story❤😆ps. Finally someone who uses proper seasoning and not just salt and pepper! The perfect example is you, for the fact that budget food CAN be seasoned well :)

Try dusting corn starch on your rinsed and dried potatoes I get crunchy potatoes and nicely brown

I’ve been binge watching your videos. I love them! I was eating a chorizo and chicken taco while watching you make the beef chorizo egg scramble lol. When you said MLMs are a scam- I was so happy! So many people can’t see that sadly. I fell for them back in the day too.

Chorizo with onions tomatoes potatoes into breakfast tacos with onion and cilantro and lime or refried beans with chorizo with cheese make a good dip or if u add eggs into it makes really good burritos, or if u add mashed up potatoes add them to a warmed up corn tortilla and fried them up makes good fried tacos

New subscriber here! Love your personality and your view on not wasting things. I think expiration dates are more of a suggestion than a hard and fast rule. I'm glad to see you checked it, it was still good, so you were able to make a meal with it. Very creative recipes! I always call my new ones "concoctions". 😂. Keep up the good work! 😊

When I'm baking bread products I follow recipes to the letter. But when cooking on the stove top or baking veggies I Wing it too! I've been cooking my whole life. I'm good at it.

I love both my cauliflower and broccoli crunchy. Tonight we are having haddock, broccoli and rice, all mixed together it's delicious as you get a bit of everything in each bite. I only found your channel today, now I am binge watching your video's.

Your Applebee's story brought a memory to me. I live in a very tiny town, like we don't even have a stoplight small, and I was down at our local Chevron grabbing some snacks & I had a girlfriend who worked there so I was chatting with her & her co-worker behind the counter while she waited for her fiance, her co-worker was an 18 year old boy. They had music playing overhead & the song Venus by Bananarama came on. The young man behind the counter kept pausing & listening to the music & finally he says "why is this commercial way longer than the one on TV" so I tell him this isn't a commercial honey this is a song. He was like "oh, I thought this was just a song made for razor commercials" my girlfriend & I cracked up laughing & the poor guy was like "what...I didn't know" I finally got words out & said we're not laughing at you sweets, you're just so young. This was prob 5 years ago so I was a whole 35 years old but that made me about twice my age so you just gotta laugh.

I just made a peach crisp with canned peaches from our food distribution. Yummmy!

I just discovered your channel, its so good! New subscriber :)

I've never seen purple cauliflower! Your meals look delicious!

Thank you again for a great video! I’m new here but love your resourcefulness I’m the same way ! Thank you from Massachusetts

I like soyrizo. If they ever offer it at the pantry, try it. Chorizo is all about the spices and soyrizo has all the spices, so it’s also delicious and lighter.

I LOVE your videos so much!! Thank you for sharing with us!❤

I have just found your channel today and I’m in love!! I love your attitude and your spirit. I am now part of your RU-vid family

My husbands favorite is chorizo with eggs and diced potatoes.

What a fantastic way to sneak veggies in the kids food! Great job

You could make a stromboli, those are so good with meat and cheese of your choice. Thanks for sharing

I've been sick for a few days, with no appetite. Those scrambled eggs look soo good. 👍💛 But I will say that I too, used to our olive oil in my pasta when cooking it. Until a Chef told me that it's a waste of good oil, and the sauce tends to slide off the pasta. But you keep doing you. I find I'm stirring it more though, while cooking. To make sure it doesn't stick. Ugghh

I got several bags of frozen avocado at the food bank. Was soooo excited.

Great cooking, in your rice and cauliflower dish I would have added a little water to help cook veg and rice quicker. I can't get over how Americans seem to add so many strong flavours to one dish, I like to be able to savour the different ingredients, like that breakfast dish I would have cooked the ingredients separately and servered them that way and really enjoyed each element, maybe that's just me.😋💜

I've your use of what. You have in your fridge and pantry. You don't have to be a fancy cook to make a good meal . It's the love that counts that makes it good . So keep on making those meals sharing the with all your family. Love your videos and your family.

I first tasted chorizo over 50 years ago and loved it,we always use the beef since we stopped eating pork about 20 years ago.I like to scramble the eggs with the chorizo and make them into burritos yum

Have never used or ate. Thanks for teaching us.

You are very creative. I try to do this too. I don't think I ever cook the same things, the same way, twice. lol. And recipes, I will try to use one, but never end up following it. Thanks for some new ideas.

My Son frys up our chorizo seasons it up and puts eggs and scrambles in up and we put the chorizo and scrambled eggs in a corn tortilla shell with shredded cheese either cheddar or mozzarella like a beef and egg and cheese taco I really like it very tasty he is trying new things to cook he is doing very well and has made a lot of yummy dishes we share the cooking we try different things for each other it is fun for us.

wow, may of 2021 for a jar of pesto and you posted this well over a year of the expiration date. I do hope your family did not get sick.

I smiled and giggled when I saw you use mayo on you chorizo sammy, my dad came from mexico in the 70's. Super poor he became obsessed with mayo and ate it with everything. To this day I can not eat chorizo without mayo. Yesterday was 25 years since his passing, it was a great memory to have today.

I like to scramble eggs in mine and have some refried beans and tortillas on theside

Hello from Oregon! I’m new to your channel. Just subscribed! Your cooking looks delicious ❤

You have practical and clever ideas on using up what you have, and all of it sure looks good to me. Never thought of making a chicken BBQ type pizza and really want to try that one in particular soon. I don't know if the leftover deli type turkey and ham I froze after making myself some subs will work as well as your chicken, but why not? Also have some banana peppers I should use up or freeze maybe for pizza. I've got to where I tend to buy nothing but the pepper jack cheese since it melts nice and I like it for pizza or Mexican food. The fruit pizza is a great idea also (I should be using some of my canned fruit). Thanks much!!

I used bourbon smoked Gouda on a pizza work out good. 8 oz of cheese 49 cents I bought the lot so still 5 pieces left in the freezer

You come up with some great ideas !

I totally enjoyed this video. If it was me I would re-season the cast iron I have had some cast iron for 40 years and never have any problems with sticking. Thanks for sharing.

Your an amazing mother ❤️❤️🎉 your kids are so lucky ❤️💙💙💜💜

Good Job very creative I like your style for this is the sort of thing I do, I don't use a recipe very often either, just use what I have on hand and go with it.

Our chourico is not ground up it is real chunks of meat It is a Portuguese sausage i slice it up and sauté with onions peppers and pace it in a grinder or make an omelet it is so very good it is Portuguese chourico. Don't think they have it in every state but it can be purchased on lin.

the swiss cheese story made me laugh out loud hahah

They all look great.

Spicy for an 84 year old but I needed in the past and it's very very good

Apple pizza looks delicious !

If your low income and revieve food stamps guys you can pick up food and just use your snap for meat and specialty items . And you can pick up at several locations so you wouldn't have to do that but maybe once a month

You are so wise in the kitchen and so young!Awesome it is good to see❤❤

Ohh, I've got to try this one, looks so good!

So excited!!!!!!

Your meals look delicious! I've never used chorizo before. Looks yummy.

When l lived in Payson, there was an old hot tub behind my trailer. No matter how hard l tried l could not get anyone to remove it. So one day a light bulb moment happened. I turned that hot tub into my garden. Just filled that puppy up and planted my veggies. Then the night before l was going to harvest l had a visitor l had not expected. A javelina made a feast out of my garden. The only thing it did not eat was the mint. I had never heard of them let alone see one. I was so upset because it was the first time in a long time l could have a garden. When l told my daughter how l saw these paw prints and my garden gone she told me it more then likely a javelina. Then l told her how it ate everything but the mint. She said well l guess it didn't want to have a fresh breath after ate. We had a good giggle over that.

👍you have become my favorite cook.

So many beautiful recipes, thank you, so inspiring ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I had no problem hearing ! Enjoyed watching !!

your line of jalapeños on the pizza almost made a heart (-:

Wow. I so enjoyed watching you cook everything. But that apple pie pizza......mmmmmmmm

That looks fantastic!

Girl! I used to sell PC also, however I loved the company😉

I use chorizo with beans. Also with eggs.

I don't know if they still have it, but Pizza Hut used to have dessert pizzas, at least at their lunch buffets.

my potatoes did the same thing then my friend told me to rinse them really good I did that and girl they are awesome. Love your videos

I adore you. I just stumbled upon your channel and have been binge watching your videos. Ive decided we are besties, now. lol. Thanks for the awesome content! xo

I took hamburger meat and shaped it like hotdogs. Cooked it put it on hotdog buns and made hamdogs. Was a easier for the kids to eat.

Oh my goodness. My kids used to call it Mouse cheese ( Swiss) when they were little. Awwwww

I need a good set of knives both preparing and eating ones. Any recommendations

Lovely channel I will definitely be a new sub best wishes from england

This is how we make chorizo in California. Another way to eat them is with Cactus, yummy it's tasty and "healthy" Lol

I'm a new subscriber and so glad, this is my first video but glancing at your list of them there are ingredients I haven't seen used before, I'm excited about that! I like your wholesome personality. One question... it's your tattoo infected or colored that way? I have a few myself.

I prefer to add cooked (frozen) shrimp to my pesto pasta for a protein. Yum!

Hey Carolina is that a chocolate cherry tomato my chocolate cherry didn't give me very many this year I have lots of cherokee purple tomato and a yellow tomato which is my favorite I also have early girl, better boy, pear tomatoes and regular cherry tomatoes. As for the chorizo I make mine just like you minus zucchini because I don't always have it. Gouda is very gooda and Swiss is good too. Great meal ideas hope you have a great week. Oh I just have to tell you I break my pasta too it's easier for my autistic child.

Do you have a recipe video of making the pizza crust?

New to your channel and girlllll you are one amazing mama! Love your content and you are all adorable🥰

That’s some great recipes!

I love your apron. Where did you get it from. I love watermelon things too.

Zucchini soup is pretty good or Zucchini lasagna they take place of noodles

Give her a plant that is hers so she can watch and wait for them to ripen just for her.

I break spaghetti into about 1 inch pieces and cook it. Then I put it in my veggie soup.

Hello dear, just came across your channel and subscribe ☺️ pizza looks great 👍

Is the cereal "yucky" cause it's not loaded down with sugar and crud? Lol 😂 I'm just laughing cause I wouldn't eat it either. That dish you made with the cereal as a topper looked delish btw. You make me wanna cook more, thank you! 😊

Have you ever tried chicken tettrizzni with zucchini if not you should try it it is amazing

Looks good

Ive never had chorizo. Ive always wanted to try it but i thought it was spicy hot so been afraid to buy it

You look really good in the blue. It's your color.

I need that pizza dough recipe!

What are the knowledge on the pizza dough

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What is chereico? Never heard of it. I know it's spelled wrong but I'd love to know the ingredients. The meal looks delicious

How long can you store cheese grated like parmesan Lake parmesan 84 in California 84 in California

That apple pizza looks so good.

I use potato chip

Yummm !