hi everyone and welcome Tom said testy couple minutes cold outside
everyone and welcome to a very special edition of cheap meal Monday today I'm
making dinner for my whole family while it's not gonna be quite so cheap I
think you will enjoy this very special edition without my video today you're
gonna see some of my heirlooms that I use and I only get these out a few times
a year when I have my family for a big meal so the first thing we're going to
use is my grandma's savory roaster this has been handed down through the
generations and it makes roasts so nice and what we're having as our meat today
is Himmler we eat very little hand here on the homestead and this is a special
treat for us we get this only a few times a year this Hamlet loaf was made
locally by a butcher that has been a childhood friend of mine and so we like
to get this for something special my family always looks forward to it
it's not cheap at all but it's a family tradition and so I have four of these
Wow you may think that is a lot of food for ten people it's going to service for
lunch and of course we will have lots of leftovers and that's always a special
treat when you have leftovers after a big meal for the week ahead so I'm going
to put all these Hamlet's it and then we'll get it in the oven so we have the
ham loaf in the roaster and about halfway through cooking I am going to
put a special glaze on top of it and it is consists of brown sugar and a little
water and we put on the top and then we will take the cover off about 20 minutes
before it's finished to brown it so we got the meat it's all ready to go in our
Aryan roaster
and there we go and it's set for two hours now let's get on to our vegetables
for my hubby peeled all of the potatoes this is 10 pounds of potatoes and we are
going to cook these two they're soft and then I'm going to mash them and then we
will put them in the insta pot on warm to keep them on warm until it's time to
eat what I like to do is try to prepare everything as much as I possibly can
ahead of time because that way it's not so much stress when people start
arriving so we have some dishes that we need to clean and we want to have the
kitchen in top shape that way there's not so much to do
afterwards while the camera is closed up I'm gonna share with you this is the
time when I bring out my antique bowls and here is one of the bowls that I have
that was my grandma's another Bowl that I had that was my grandma's and then
this one here as well that the pickles go in so I'm gonna share with you
everything that I do today and I'm even gonna have a little bit of footage of my
family and how when they all stood up to eat so I really think that this is gonna
be an extra fun video so we want to have the water just so is covering the
potatoes we have about an inch to go yet this is a large stockpot and I really
enjoy it it was my mother's and so she gave it to me many years ago what she no
longer was going to be cooking so we're gonna finish this up all right so let's
get the potatoes on the stove I always have to heat my water up when I wash my
dishes so we're gonna get the water heated up and as you can see I have some
really nice running water today so while the potatoes and the ham loaf is cooking
I thought maybe you just wanted to see a little bit of my family room now I've
know you've seen other pictures before but I thought hey maybe some of you are
new to my channel and wanted to see my living space so here we go
this is just I rearranged everything the other week so things look different to
you it's because I changed things around sorry about all the glare I have a lot
of windows in my little homestead and there you go we had to move the big
chair out in the open here because of the big
table so there you go and my big sunny window and it's cloudy today that's just
shows how much light comes in and there's my table and chairs my table is
an heirloom table that is very old and it was handed down pretty much
everything in my home it was handed down all of the antiques that you see in my
home they are family heirlooms every single one of them I didn't buy any
antiques the rocking chair I spent many months on that rocking chair when I was
pregnant it was my grandma's and then I could show you up here what I'm gonna be
working on this week this here is where I house all of my heirlooms and I have
to clean it out and work on it so this is going to be a big job for me I don't
have a lot of air limbs but what I do have is all in here and I'm really
excited to get this cleaned out and get it looking a lot better it's been seven
years since I cleaned this trying to cover it out and there of course is lots
of photos have lots of photos from my husband's family not so much from my
family because my family were very plain and they didn't believe in taking
pictures so there you go you got a little tour it's just basically one big
room with a cathedral ceiling and that's the
whole room I don't think I ever did a 360 like this so that's the whole room
alright I'll get back to you when the potatoes are ready to mash so we're down
to 30 minutes the gravy is ready to be heated the
succotash which is lima beans and corn cooking the potatoes are almost ready to
mash and then I'll put them in the instant pot when Warren I'm hoping that
will keep them warm and the stuffing I'm ready to make so we're down to the last
30 minutes everything is moving along nicely and I will start bashing these
potatoes hopefully they're done one thing about my gas stove is it takes
forever to boil but once it gets hot it gets really hot but right now I'm
running a lot of the gas and so it's a hard time to keep up with everything so
my potatoes are taking a little longer then