I tried so hard (5 ALDIs!) to find the bread piece and could t find it. I did, however, got three 12 quart stock pots, a blue 4.5 quart crock for my son and a small 2 quart for my daughter! Yes, EXCELLENT price! I really couldn’t believe it! Thank you for that heads up!!!!!❤

Thank you so much for talking about your views about Halloween because i love Halloween and dressing the kids up and eating candy lol...but i have always felt so convicted. I just love the way you put it...that your not just going to accidentally partake in devil worship if you have the holy Spirit with you❤ perfectly said

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Just like Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians, food sacrificed to idols has no power over us who know better and are filled with the Holy Spirit, we would have to consent to being negatively affected - that’s the power of the Holy Spirit 🙌🏽

@gratefuldude82

10 ай бұрын

My wife and I have decided the same. There are so many things out here that are satanic and we don't realize it. Look into oreos and death wish water

@jeanettedeaver3894

10 ай бұрын

@@HopewellHeights🙏❤️

@mob4668

10 ай бұрын

The Bible also says to stay away from even the appearance of evil. You need to further your research on Halloween.

@mob4668

10 ай бұрын

You were convicted for a reason....

I just love your porch...I always wished for a porch and the Lord gave me one with our current house...love when He gives us the silly little wants of our hearts as well :)

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

It really is so special to have those little desires and prayers granted!

@ElaM__Christ_is_Life

10 ай бұрын

I like how you said “silly little wants”. The Lord also blessed me with a lot of these - but never had a good name for it. 😉😀

As Catholics, we have to reclaim these feasts that have been co-opted by the secular world. The liturgical year is so rich. My friend calls it reclaiming the rainbow and I like that!

Going to make the sweet potatoe casserole with the nut topping. Oh my Steff, it looks delicious 😊

Whaaat?? Cant believe you got all that cast iron for pennies, pretty much. Savvy buyer. Thanks for the tip, Steph!

My mama roots are English/Irish, she was born in Virgina raised there and in the Carolina's and Biscuits and Gravy were quite common in our family.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate this video! Thank you!

I bought 6 ( 1 for each of the kids) of the 2 quart Aldi pots last fall for $11 a piece as a close out. I will go back this year to look for different sizes. Thanks for the heads up!

Absolutely love your channel. So glad i found it. The pots are so nice, and diffently a steal compared to all the other brands. Love them. 😊🇨🇦

It’s a gorgeous collection!! I bought my Dutch oven at Aldi like almost 15 years ago and it’s still going strong. I love the colors of the ones you bought 👍

Yes I appreciate you expressing your views about Halloween I’m having a hard time with Halloween this year.

I am also Catholic and celebrate All Hallows eve! We don’t do trick or treating but we dress up and eat cakes and cookies. Then the next day we go to Mass to celebrate All Saints Day. This year I am going to attempt to bake soul cakes for All Souls’ Day. Wish me luck! Those cookies look delicious!

Awesome video thank you for sharing your home and kitchen with us!!

The enameled stoneware is so pretty! We do not have Aldi stores in the PNW at least in Washington where I live. I love the porch, it calls you in to sit and relax. I imagine the view from the porch is lovely! The cookies looked pretty good too! Thanks for sharing.

@abbyathome5162

10 ай бұрын

Yes! I also live in Washington and was bummed to know that there aren’t any Aldi stores in our state, or even neighboring ones at that. I looked online and people are up pricing them for ridiculous amounts. I cannot justify paying more knowing they’re sold in stores for less!

@cherylpresleigh6403

10 ай бұрын

@@abbyathome5162 Hi, it’s funny, I did all the same research! I agree with you about the extremely high pricing from those who are reselling. Are you in Western or Eastern WA?

@Lseverett5

9 ай бұрын

I live in PNW too...I had Aldis before and miss it now.

Love love love your Halloween stance. Your stories/ highlights on Instagram are wonderful too. Thank you! Happy fall!

I LOVE how you put your mums in cooking pots and chicken waterers. Very creative and beautiful!

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

All the things laying around the farm come in handy some time or another!

I just love all your videos. You are a super women!! Thank you for sharing your home and your recipes. Take care ❤ from Saint John NB Canada 🇨🇦

I love all of my Aldi dutch ovens and I've had them for years! They usually only have it during the Fall.

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Oh that’s good to know!

@jeanettedeaver3894

10 ай бұрын

We don’t have an Aldi’s here in N California, but looked online for ceramic cookware to no avail 😢

Thank you for the cookie recipe❤

You’re seriously so cute and inspiring! I am so glad to have found your channel. My boyfriend and I are planning to get married soon and our goal is to have a homestead. This channel is definitely comforting and encouraging as well as informative 🙂

I make my sweet potato pie with the crumble on top as well! Also add roasted bananas into the sweet potatoes. It’s amazing. People love it.

I loved the clip of the rooster 🐓 at the end there! Made me laugh! 😂

I have discovered you few weeks ago, and I am so loving your contetnt...I enjoy it so much. All the best from Croatia❤❤

I put both marshmallows and the pecan topping on sweet potato casserole! Sooo good together! 😊

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

I’m now I’m not opposed to this at all! 🤤

@MariahBaker17

10 ай бұрын

@@HopewellHeights I say why have one or the other when you can have both😋

Where can we order the beautiful stringy cheese? I'm going to bake your sourdough discard chocolate chip cookies for my hubby and our remodel crew today. Looks so delish. Thank you for sharing🥰

Steal of the year!!!! 🎉❤👏🏾🎈. Thank you

I love the colors of those Aldi crocks, but if I buy 1 more piece of anything my husband may make get a second job lol

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Haha I hear you, the struggle of being a home chef 👩🏻‍🍳

Good morning happy Wednesday morning and I just wanted to say that your Sunday reset vlogs is amazing I enjoy your channel

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@edwardleecaliforniausa

10 ай бұрын

@@HopewellHeights your welcome

I enjoy your channel and your content. I agree with your views on Halloween. Unfortunately many people make the holiday dark, so we opt out. The rooster calling at the end was perfect! Have a blessed day.

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

I don’t blame you for opting out of the dark stuff, we should definitely steer clear of all that!

I have been learning so much from your videos. I wish SO BAD that I could have this lifestyle!

I just love your videos ❤ you have such a calm soothing voice. All the food you made looked so amazing but those chocolate chip cookies were next level, yum😋

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🤗

I don't have an Aldi anywhere near me and would buy that cookware if I did. I have always wanted the 6 qt. but couldn't bring myself to spend that much! Love your porch!!

I don't measure either… I guess when you cook regularly you kinda just have an eye for it. With baking, of course, more tricky.

I like the intro music.

Love aldi, I got the bread cast iron pan, always wanted one, the french one sells for $300. At these prices is good to stock up, in the future they will be very expensive.. Love you blogs, thanks for sharing...

Great find on those new pots, Steph! I know they can be very expensive. In Australia some of the fancier, mainstream brands cost easily $600+ & that’s if you find it on an amazing, rare sale. Of course there are other fantastic brands that are half, but that’s still $350-ish. I recently started to get into dutch ovens, I need one of each in all the colours - I’m hooked! It’s still a learning curve for me but slowly getting there. Sometimes butter/oil does burn but I figured out if I turn the flame to low everything is much easier, I was going in too hot & heavy from the start. Next plan is to try the pans, those need a bit of care that I’m slowly working on, food is still sticking to the pan. Surely once I get the balance with the seasoning process it’ll all be fine. I recently got a few different sizes that I’m super excited to do a big cook up, just need some recipe inspiration - off to Pinterest once I finish the video of course 😋

The cream is so pretty.🫶🏻

Oh my goodness I’m so excited to be on the watch out for the beautiful enamelware u found at Aldi. I NEED the bread one! Last year I went and bought a Le Creuset large stockpot and I’m sad to say I’ve only used it once. (Not sure why…) So this is way more logical and economical!:) I agree with your point of view regarding Halloween, don’t get it twisted people;) Happy Fall!❤

The rooster was perfect!!

Oh my, I’m going to Aldi tomorrow for those Dutch ovens 😳🙏🏻

All that cream from a jersey 😮

I'm so excited to check out the cast iron at Aldi's!!

I love your videos Would you consider doing a video on perfect supplements The products you take and what they are for

YES!!! What you said about holidays... That's what I say! Stop worrying about it!! :) Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS.

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Exactly!!

this is so fun!! My name is Stephany too! Your name means Crowned One. Love your home and front porch, looks lovely. ♥️

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Love the meaning! ❤️

I am trying your sourdough cookies and I am thinking that the hot browned butter will kill the starter so I am trying to cool it first a bit. I’ll let you know how it goes.

I don’t know if you ever have time to sit and read the comments? If you do great… if u don’t, that’s okay I just wanted to share something special our family does. Maybe some of your other viewers might read the comments and maybe they will find it useful. Back when I first married my my husband, not long after we were married, and started a family, for Christmas one year my mother-in-law, had taken all of her favorite recipes and put them in a book that’s the size of a piece of computer paper and made a simple book of a bunch of her favorite recipes. They took it to Kinko’s and Kinko’s put it together with one of those plastic spiral attachments and that’s how all the pages were attached. It had a front and back page. It had a table of contents, and then it had like sections for appetizers, drinks, desserts, main courses, side dishes, etc. I’ve had this book about 30 years and I can’t tell you how many times it’s been used. The only thing I wish you would’ve done as had the pages laminated each page because I can’t tell you how stand up the pages are from cooking lol. But it has been one of my most precious gifts I’ve ever had. Unfortunately, she passed away not long after that and it has meant the world to all of us kids to have some of her best recipes. I lost my Momma when I was 25 and I did not get any of my Momma’s recipes before she died. Same with my Mamaw. They both died within a year of each other, and I did not get one recipe from either one of them. I was just heartbroken. It still hurts today that I don’t have any of their recipes to share with my kids. I have 9 children and all of them are grown except for my youngest who is 17. I have 8 sons and 1 daughter. Several years back my husband and I were talking and we were trying to come up with our (special)Christmas gift for our kids and their spouses. Only 4 of our children are married out of the nine children. We thought what could we give them that was something special? Each year we try to do one major special gift then we buy a bunch of small stocking stuffers, because with that many children, and we have a bunch of grandchildren it gets really expensive at Christmas. Like we’ve done platinum zoo passes in the past for a few of our kids and their children. That way they have a year that they can go do Christmas lights at the zoo. They can spend the entire year at the zoo and it includes parking and the water park. We live near the Columbus zoo. It’s a place that our kids can make memories with their children and sometimes we go with them. Instead of buying a bunch of toys that will break and go into the garbage eventually. We always try to do that one special gift. I like to do sentimental gifts as well and that year my husband and I talked about it, and I thought the kids no longer have access to their grandmother why not take and make copies of those books and pass them down to each of the kids like the ones that are grown and have moved out and we started that when you know the first couple kids left the house and then each Christmas after that when the next children would move out that next Christmas they would get there book of their grandmothers recipes. My older children obviously got to spend more time with their grandmother and my younger children, because when she passed my youngest at the time was 4 years old. So it was super important for me to pass that down to my kids and as we gave those gifts to our children, our children cried because their grandma meant the world to them. We made sure to tell them that it was their responsibility when our grand children moved out of their houses that they keep the tradition going, and that they have to make a copy and give to their children just like we did. My mother-in-law was an amazing cook like she could throw down some southern cook and let me tell u! She is the one that taught me to cook. My mom was a single mom and so she worked a lot of hours in the factory and so she didn’t have time to teach me that my mother-in-law taught me and I ended up being a great cook, and I never pat myself on the back, but that’s the one thing I can do and so it made me think you know I know how much I missed not getting my mom’s recipes so I thought about putting together a book of my favorite recipes and I cook like you a dash of this a pinch of that I do things by sight for the most part, they’re obviously those recipes that you have to have a written recipe for. so I thought about compiling my recipes things that my children love to eat my one son loves my banana pudding recipe and anytime he has a birthday or something like that. I make him a banana pudding instead of a cake, but when I have my book done, I’ll take it to Kinko’s and I think I’ll have all the sheets laminated and I will make sure each of my kids get a copy of that cookbook with, the understanding that they need to make copies and hand it down. Some of the most precious things I own are my mom’s. China and I have quilts that were handmade by my great great grandmother. They hang on a ladder in my living room they are very precious to me. I slept under those quilts growing up. I have my crate, great great grandfather‘s wardrobe and that belongs to my oldest son. He is the one that’s getting it and they are just buying their first house and once they buy that house that won’t go to him I think it’s very very important that we keep those family traditions going, you were talking about conveniences in your video and it made me think of how much today’s kids have lost the ability to know the old ways. That’s why it’s so important for people like you to post your videos because it helps people retain the old ways and how you were talking about making noodles and how the old grannies made homemade noodles and how perfect their noodles were. I think our children who are in public school need to be taught the old ways we have kids that don’t know how to change the oil we have kids so don’t even know how to sew a button are kids are not being taught the important things. I stood my children on chairs next to me when I was canning and I made them watch. It was not there for most favorite thing to do but I showed them. I said you will probably never ever do this, but mom wants you to know that this is how you do it because you never know when the system is going to break my husband roses eyes and thinks I’m crazy but I can I have a huge garden and I believe in preserving food, and I absolutely love your channel, so I just wanted to share that about sharing our cookbook talked about your recipes, maybe compile them and put them into a small book and give them to your children. That way they always have that, and even your sons when they grow up and Mary share those recipes with your daughter-in-law because believe it or not and I am speaking from a daughter-in-law’s perspective it was amazing and it’s so special and I still use those recipes to today. It was just something I wanted to share.

Lovely video! The cookies look amazing. Now I have to run to Aldi's 😆

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

They’ve been flying off the shelves, I hope they keep stocking them!

Love the porch decor and your dress is pretty where do you get your dresses any suggestions? Links?

@HopewellHeights

9 ай бұрын

Neuflora! www.neuflora.com/?ref=W4OeJ

Do you have a short video on making vanilla extract?

Ok so it’s NOT just my husband who waltzes into the kitchen, cursorily glances around and holds his arms out to the side like he is helpless 🤣🤣🤣 I am not alone!!!!!!!!

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Haha what would they do without us?

I thrifted a lodge 7qt for $25 brand new at our local consignment. It was amazing 😂

Curious to know what baby carrier you are wearing in the beginning of the video? Specifically at one minute and 43 seconds. It looks so comfortable!

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Onbuhimo from Lenny Lamb, great for pregnancy since it doesn’t have a waistband!

When and how did you find all those from Aldi’s I could only find the small at 1 of my local store

How do you keep that couch dry on that front porch when it rains ?

How long and what temp do you bake the buffalo chicken dip? ❤

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

350 for 20 minutes!

Oops I guess it doesn’t matter since there are other leaveners added. Lol

Good morning Steph! Do you have a link for your wrap? I’m looking for something a little more structured for wearing my baby on my back

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

It’s an Onbuhimo from Lenny Lamb - so great for pregnant babywearing since it’s doesn’t have a waistband!

Your food looked so good Steph ! And the cast iron was so beautiful ! I still prefer the original black tho. I would buy the bread one if I spot one at Aldi tho. Lol Little Ernie is so cute with his bib over alls. My son had a pair when he was little too. When their little shirts get too small for them they can still wear them with the bibs. Which is great. 😊 So I was literally shocked when you said your opinion on Halloween. I personally cannot see how any Christian can say Halloween is ok. I seriously do not mean to be rude here or judgmental but there is so much that goes on in our world that most people are so oblivious to. There is so much evil associated with that holiday. If you dig deep in its origin, you will see it’s based on paganism. Yes kids can be cute all dressed up and it may be seen as innocent. But we know Satan is a deceiver. We are called to flee from all evil. Sometimes things aren’t as we believe. I just didn’t expect your take on it. You know it’s the number one holiday for Wiccans. Which are Satanist. That is a fact. I come from a area that has the largest group in this country. 🤔 You have a platform that potentially can influence many people . Need to be careful. I hope I haven’t ruffled too many feathers here. Ultimately we are given free will. I do enjoy your videos Steph. Take care and God bless. 😊

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Hey! Halloween is actually another way to say All Hallows’ Eve or Hallowtide Eve, which is a liturgical holiday and a vigil for All Saints Day (November 1). Any witch or pagan that celebrates Samhain on 10/31 has nothing to do with the liturgical holiday and has no power over Christians 😊

@karinjudge7277

10 ай бұрын

@@HopewellHeights Thanks for your reply. Yes I know about the all hallow eves and all. But there is more to the holiday then most people realize. And yes many churches nowadays approve things they shouldn’t. Many false teachings. But hey God gives each of us free will. Right ? I just wanted to share my knowledge. 😊 Everyone has the right to believe what they want. Take care !

Where is your onbuhimo baby carrier from? :)

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Lenny Lamb, I love it!

@emmawilkinson3764

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!! It is gorgeous!@@HopewellHeights

What are the ages of your children?

I love butter, but as a nurse using that much butter is bad for your cardio vascular health. Please be careful with how much butter you use because animal fats become plaques in your veins and that is irreversible and leads to heart attacks and many other health issues. Im not saying this to judge you as I too love butter im just saying it ao you can keep that in mind when caring for your beautiful family ❤ God bless

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

Hey thank you for your kindness!! I worked in cath lab for a few years so I’m pretty familiar with the cv system, did you know that the “clogged pipe” theory has been disproven? It’s actually polyunsaturated fats, rather than saturated fats, that cause damage. If you’d like to check out more info - this article in the BMJ is great! bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111

@rosea6653

10 ай бұрын

​@@HopewellHeightsohh wow! I have to look into that for sure. Working in a Cath Lab you would probably know better than me lol I work in oncology. I will do some research on that and see who debunked it because you know sometimes big companies pay labs to make scholarly studies in their favor too. I'm a little bit of a conspiracy theorist too 😅

@user-dv8bs7tb5c

10 ай бұрын

My mum's died..they were my first lol now I know!! Also those are incredibly cheap pots. Weird...like...HOW can they just give them away?! Lol Edit: I commented THIS in the wrong spot didn't I?! 🤣

@HopewellHeights

10 ай бұрын

@@rosea6653 absolutely, there’s always money motivation which is how the clogged pipe theory came to be! Consuming animal fats can be done in nature, without factory processing. So a person could theoretically get all of his fat from his own land (eggs, animal fats, dairy, etc.) BUT polyunsaturated fats like seed oils require extensive processing in a factory, so they’re not accessible in high amounts naturally. This presents a huge opportunity for profit in manufacturing these fats 😳 it’s super interesting looking at the scientific data and the marketing history behind this issue!

@jeanettedeaver3894

10 ай бұрын

@@HopewellHeightsexactly! Grass fed butter is great!!!🎉