Preserving Our ONION Harvest | This Won't Be Enough

foreigner, good morning friends, as you can see, everyone is still waking up

this

morning, it is a beautiful morning, I think I woke up, it was like a glorious 56 degrees, it will probably warm up to 80 degrees, but yesterday I

harvest

ed all the

onion

s, nor Big

onion

year anyway, lots of small ones, but we have some nice sized ones. I don't know what I'm going to do about these today, but I know the first step is to simply clean them. I will not be using

this

batch as storage onions, we will go to our farmers market. I had great success with your onions last year storing them for a long time and if they had performed better I would have taken the time to cure them, but since you don't know what I'm going to process them, how I'm going to process them?

I haven't made a decision, you guys are coming for that and at least we have to start cleaning them up. I guess there are There are four or 500 onions sitting here so I guess I want to do it on my front porch because I want to be comfortable so we'll go there, well you know you're special when I haven't even finished my first cup. of coffee, but I'm like family and only my back bothers me, so I needed it. I couldn't sit at the counter all day doing this so I needed a pillow behind my back, by the way, welcome to that 1870's farmhouse, my name.

I'm Rachel and speaking of onions, does anyone know whose logo is for my girl Constance on a good living farm? Oh, her recipes are amazing. She also has a great blog, but she has a channel called Good Life Farm. Phenomenal kitchen canning recipes. like many vintage aunt calls her own DIY shows you her farm and I first learned about maple onion jam from her and it will forever be a staple recipe in my pantry so Constance, thank you for that and then what am I doing. Here, trying to be smart, I'm trying to remember the name of the channel and I'm not going to remember it.

They are from a country, Uzbekistan, maybe you see them and they are totally off the grid and she preserves them as something very old traditional. everything is water bath style in her country and she taught me how to do this to peel my onions. I'm so smart so I'm just peeling the outer leaves and then chopping because she processes like I told Todd. The day we were watching her and she was processing tomatoes and you talked, you talked, I said, and people think my roasters are big batches, I mean, she likes bats and bats, we make fun that she's feeding the whole town, she has to be like that.

So much food, um, but when she was processing her big onion crop, I saw her do this. I thought, that's cool and they come so clean, wait, so you just peel off the outer leaves and see how clean it is, you know? difficult, it's once an orange, an orange and an onion have cured and then you're fighting with those outer leaves and you end up removing too many of them and it's just great, so I'll peel them initially and I need to get them. another bowl because I want to keep my reds separate from my whites and when I decide what I'm going to do, it just depends on how much energy I have, I'll come back and we'll continue there, okay, I can't lift this.

This is what I have of white onions and this bowl is a mix of red onions and white onions for the most part, my red onions were negligible so that's one hand holding two small onions. White onions aren't that bad, I mean, I have some. well so the thing is I know how to grow baked onions I've mastered it I know how to do it and I didn't have time in the garden this year and I'm happy with what I got but tons of weed pressure where they were planted my onions, I mean, well, first, I don't know how many times I had to replant these starts because the birds came by and took them all out, replanting them, then the weeds came, I removed them twice, but the weed pressure kept coming back and I think I only fed them twice, I never gave them a spoon, it was a super hot and dry summer, we supplemented with watering, but anyway, that being said, that's not even close

enough

onions to last us, we eat onions daily. regularly and what I'm doing I already have a video on so this is not how to do what I'm doing I'm just letting you know how I'm

preserving

all my red onions. to dice, let me take that tool and show it to you guys, this tool has been used and abused.

I'm not really sure what the name is anymore, but put his onion here, cut it, he cuts your onions for you. I love it, you don't have to have all those fumes coming back to your face, these will be diced and put in the freezer. This amount of onions alone probably won't even be

enough

for my canning needs, so I'll have to go. to the farmers market and pick onions both for canning recipes and to store over the winter. I'm turning all of this into my caramelized onions and my sticky maple jam so I did a check while I was in the basement getting out my toaster and I make this in the toaster so I'm just talking about tools now that I use them so be the great thing about doing it, thinking about making caramelized onions and my maple onion jam at the same time your maple onion jam starts with caramelized. onions as the first step in the process, so if I run them until they're caramelized, I'll have caramelized onions to put in and then the start of my onion jam for caramelized onions, I don't do them diced, just sliced, um. not rings, but you know, horizontal slices and then it's horizontal, not vertical, I guess it's the way you hold the onion anyway and then I saved some because that's all there was of green like the strong necks, um, which were not all.

They are still very soft and I'm just going to dice them, put them in a freezer bag for quick green onions and add them to meals anyway, so this is my onion

harvest

for the year, that's what I will do with them if you are interested in farmers market we are going to we plan to make a video to bring you with us, go to the farmers market and buy some extra things that I need to put in for the year I didn't grow or like onions , my crop was Not enough, that being said, I have a lot of cutting to do to make my handy dandy helicopter known as Todd is in the shower, so when he gets out he will make very quick work of this if you know his cutting skills are far away. higher than mine, but yeah, if you're interested in canned caramelized onions or maple onion jam, we'll put cards and links in the description of those videos.

I can imagine my life without ready-made caramelized onions because that just makes such a quick job when all you need to do is prepare a meal that calls for caramelized onions and then you think of ways to include them in meals that you otherwise wouldn't include them in because of the It's a lot of work to caramelize the onions, so I'll see you guys. In the next video, thank you for joining us and happy growing and gardening where you are.