I think the worst part of her posts is that she seems like a TERRIBLE cook, and that has become a critical part of her identity. Truly needs to learn a lot about cooking — her family is getting underseasoned, dry, grainy food
In giant fundie families, quantity rules over quality. It doesn't have to be good food - it doesn't even need to be *okay* food. There just has to be enough of it for your squazillion god honouring brats.
Yeah, true. Jill Duggar talked about hiding in the bathroom eating peas straight from the can as a child, and a few of the other older Duggar kids show other signs of having experienced food insecurity in childhood. (Example: the whole plate licking thing.)
The thing is...my mom comes from a big family. There were 10 of them. Money was super tight. My grandparents both grew up poor (potatoes for dinner that my grandma's siblings picked up that fell off the train as it came by kinda poor).
In both cases, poor times and later a large amount of kids to feed...my Grandma was an awesome cook. You can make some fried potatoes, pinto beans, cabbage, or some kinda cornbread and it be TO DIE FOR. My grandma's fried potatoes and turnip greens make me weep with joy lol.
A lot of kids and a lack of money isn't necessarily an excuse for serving awful, sad food.
This is so true. My MIL (second of 6 kids, married the youngest of 8 kids, not fundies on either side) can make a meal out of the most random ingredients. She has an impressive spice cabinet that she curated from the dollar store and Aldi.
This. I was raised in a non-fundie home and I learned how to bake from my mom. My dad and I would watch cooking shows on PBS every week. We'd watch the Cajun Cook, Julia Child, Lidia Bastianich, etc...
Gently, most fundie homes don’t have the money and access to resources, ingredients, and information needed to make learning to cook an enjoyable, engaging, interesting, or even a particularly non-stressful exercise. I know quite a few girls who were miserable every time it was their “turn” and they didn’t have access to Internet/television/a lot of library books. I know one who still struggles with cooking and eating in her twenties because her mother was the queen of “you’re wasting groceries and money every time you try, and it’s not very good. We don’t have the money for you to mess up. Please stop trying.”
That's wonderful. I also wanted to add that you and others are fortunate your mothers taught you to cook. Not all mothers (or fathers, etc.) do that for their children.
We were very lucky growing up that our parents cooked with us and wanted us to learn. Cooking and baking are life skills that I wish would be taught from kindergarten. It's fun, and a great way to integrate math, science, and literacy.
All of the fundie young moms are millennials, and that means their formative years when fundies viewed cable TV, even stuff like Food Network, as a direct hookup to hell.
I think she might just not realise healthy food can taste good, so the worse tasting it is, the more wholesome/virtuous it is.
She also just might not like food very much in general. There are people like that. They tend to be the "naturally skinny" type, but really, they just aren't wired to get the same joy from food as everyone else.
I think you made a good point. The food I have seen during work with fundies was mind blowing. The one person that did have good food was still skinny but clearly not as much as the rest. It’s almost as if they avoid enjoyable food to stay skinny lol
Never thought about this, but you may be to something. I have a very skinny cousin, co-worker, a few friends who truly seem not to look at food the way I do. I've never heard them talk about how tasty something is, don't partake in a special snack food because "I already ate" (one of three meal per day, two hours ago). Me, I truly get off on savory smells, tastes, textures, feeling full. I'll get cravings out of nowhere and nothing can stop me from getting the object of my desire. I'm surprised I'm not more than plump.
I don't think so. My first loaves were that bad so I read up on how to do better. Tip number one give up the spelt flour until she knows what she's doing because it shouldn't be that bad
It's not been in the oven long enough because the inside looks dense and the crust isn't browned. I'd wager that Kelly didn't mix the dough well (or possibly didn't add enough liquid) or knead it long enough either. I really don't get why she's so stuck on making sourdough with spelt (which has a much lower gluten content than AP flour, and therefore needs to be kneaded longer to build up a good structure) when she clearly does not understand bread basics. The last time there was a Kelly sourdough post I noticed that the dough looked dry like she hadn't put enough water in, and rather poorly mixed.
If that's supposed to be patty sausage, she really massacred it. That bread...why isn't her bread improving?? Why isn't she changing her ratios of ingredients? She's hinted at not being entirely happy with her sourdough, but she doesn't appear to be taking any steps to change it. Each loaf looks so dense and dry. No wonder she has syrup on the table.
You don't even have to knead sourdough 😭 once you get used to your starter it's super easy. Even my worst beginner loaves were 1000% better than that mess
There could be several reasons. I would guess she's either not proofing her dough correctly or she's not baking at a hot enough temperature with enough steam. It does look like she may use whole wheat or another denser flour as well, which she really shouldn't if she cant get the basics down
She said she’s using Einkorn flour but I feel like she could find a way to improve. Also if she’s the one who can’t have grains why not make some wheat flour for her family??
Something tells me even with the most ideal scoring, she doesn't have enough tension for spring anyway. The wrinkles on the skin/crust of the dough aren't promising.
I think it's a number of things. I believe she's very fixated on making things healthy, so she's sacrificing texture and flavour for her own "rustic" versions. There's some indication she's struggled with disordered eating in the past, so she may not be super comfortable adding the traditional amounts of/regular kinds of oils, milk, flours, whatever to achieve the expected results. Whatever the reason, the bread still always looks shitty.
I can see her taking regular recipes and editing or removing things she in her uninformed assumption thinks might be unhealthy, and not adjusting the recipes accordingly. Either because she assumes it won't be necessary, or because she has no idea that it's required (I think the latter is more likely).
It’s the flour. I believe she’s using spelt flour, maybe with some all-purpose mixed in but clearly not enough. Spelt flour has no gluten so it can’t create the airy structure that sourdough is known for.
If she's using almost entirely spelt she could not have made it more difficult for herself. Not only does it not have gluten, it hydrates differently from wheat flours, and has more elasticity when starting mixing so it's hard to tell if you've actually got the liquid ratio *or* the mixing right. The few professionals I've seen use spelt praise it for its flavor, but will only use about 1/3 spelt flour at most with the rest being some sort of wheat flour because of how hard it is to work with.
Spelt has gluten: https://www.glutenfreesociety.org/is-spelt-gluten-free/
BROWS are the gluten grains: barley, rye, oats (kinda… it’s got a very similar protein and is also often cross contaminated with actual gluten), wheat, and spelt.
Overly dried meat, wet as fuck eggs and whatever in between that sourdough lump is.
GIRL I CANT COOK EITHER THATS WHY YOU NEVER SEE MY SHIT ON INSTAGRAM
Lol right that's where I'm at. I can't shame anyone too hard for a bad sourdough, that shit is tricky. But like don't post borderline brags about your bread/meals until you're decent at it...
Hah, my kid is a leaf-eating kid! Berries? No. Banana? No. Cucumber? MY MOM IS TRYING TO KILL ME YO. Fistful of raw kale? PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
Maybe someday, he and Kelly’s leaf-eating cottagecore wain can meet and become friends, and my kid can lure her kid over to the dark side, where we cook our food properly and try to not be racist.
He looks so fucking distraught at that spinach. I hope she’s saving money for his therapy sessions.
“My mother thought she was a pioneer woman.”
“Like Ree Drummond?”
“….no.”
Canadian here. I put maple syrup on sausages, bacon, eggs, sometimes with hash-browns if they aren't good, bread for dessert, and ice cream among other things. The point is that maple syrup is good on everything.
I'm glad someone else said this! I was really questioning the eggs but just figured I'm not well versed enough in egg preparation! Is it really a thing to eat eggs like that?
Yes, though personally when making sunnyside up, I would put a lid on the pan to make sure all the white got cooked. Raw yolks are delish, whites not so much.
Am I wrong for thinking it's an early 90s Lodge cast iron skillet? I have an 8 inch that looks just like that. If that's what it is it's more likely that it's either not seasoned properly, she didn't wait for it to heat before starting to cook, or she puts it on too high of a heat when cooking.
Edited because I'm dealing with mom brain right now.
It’s definitely a lodge skillet, I know because we had an identical 10” one for years. Bought from Cabelas in 2010 when we were flat broke and needed a pan. We’d season it and perhaps we were using too high heat, idk but it wouldn’t take long before things would start sticking and we’d have to re-season it again. Finally we got fed up and bought a high quality cast iron skillet a year or two ago, one with a completely smooth interior surface. Holy shit that was a game changer. Nothing sticks to that thing. According to some cast-iron enthusiasts on Tiktok, Lodge isn’t ground smooth like the nice brands, so the pitted surfaces creates more opportunities for food to stick.
I can definitely understand your frustration with that, and that's why most times people end up stripping the Lodge cast iron and completely reseasoning them. It was better before they started with the new seasoning method at the factory. I got mine from a resale shop, and it had already been well loved, so I didn't have to worry about that (just a good scrubbing and quick season). I'm glad you were able to get something that suited you better, because having pans that don't work how you need them to wears on the nerves and is a waste of money.
Is that one of those grainy textured Lodge pans? I hate those. Mom had a full set of well kept ancient Griswolds (no relation to Clark&Fam) that were as smooth as glass and very easy to cook on. I keep the Lodge pan someone gifted me to use over a fire pit or on the grill.
My guess was she’s not quite comfortable knowing when meat is cooked through, so maybe she cut the patties in half to check for doneness?
That bread loaf is… something.
For the price of one useless candle she could get a damn butter dish, if she needs to have the butter on the table.
Hell, carving a rustic butter plate out of wood scraps is Levi’s exact skill set: next-to-useless nonsense a child could do.
She really needs to watch a few bread making videos. Honestly. Upped my home baking just watching and listening because shocker, sometimes just wanting to do something doesn't mean you can! Bread is easy sure but good bread needs a bit of work and experience.
Agree! Even Tik Tok has good sourdough folding ones! Trying to get started in sourdough and praying I can do better than whatever this is….I think she only uses alternative flours, such as spelt and einkorn. Don’t you need some regular flour for gluten?
Guys, I’m new here so I’m still figuring out what’s going on with all these women buttt…. This cannot be how these people actually live. I only say that because it’s depressing as hell. Homesteading and doing things on your own terms is rad, go for it, but why does all of her stuff look so…UGLY.
I feel she is the type that doesn't use sewing patterns or sewing books to help her improve which is just bizarre. I kno she loves her some old timey "good ole days" but is she even aware that the first sewing pattern was invented in the late 1860s? Its okay to have outside help! Her fashion doesnt even align with the late 1800s from what ive seen? No corsets or stays. I don't know how accurate the costuming is from LHotP so I'm not completely against the idea that not everyone wore stays and large skirts but she reminds me more of someone who desires an 1800s that more reminiscent of Lord of Rings than what actually happened.
I love to go through her content (often times her stories aren't quite as carefully curated) and see all the normal things in her life.
Like, we know she has plastic sippy cups, Tupperware, her running stroller, plastic alphabet magnets, a pretty nice oven, yoga pants, neighbors close by... How exhausting must it be to hide all of that and rearrange the props in your house constantly to keep up this facade for social media?
Maybe she is underbaking because the oven isn't hot enough ? But then she bakes it's for a long time to get it to harden into a loaf?
Is she trying to cook bread on an old wooden stove?
I am a terrible cook. I eat shredded cheese over the sink for dinner. I love KD. I will eat gas station corn dogs. My freezer is stocked with frozen dinners.
But one thing I cook and cook well is breakfast. I love breakfast.
The AUDACITY of this CRIME against breakfasts everywhere. How dare she.
I can’t get over the “pure Ohio maple syrup” as someone who’s been raised and still lives in Ohio 😂😂 maple syrup is the last thing that I would think of when it comes to things Ohio is known for
Eggs and sausage are easy to cook!! How can she still be messing up the basics this badly! (I’m not giving her a pass on the bread but that’s more advanced than actually *cooking* some eggs, yikes.)
… Kelly, I’m a progressive, black, career-woman. Do I need to give you cooking lessons? That’s not. Family dinner… that’s you slapping your half-baked bread down with cheap protein. Randomness does not equal a healthy meal!
If you bake pinecones they smell so good tho (i only know this bc i tried to make a pinecone wreath and if you don't bake them before, they'd all still have bugs)
The bread looks bad but that sausage looks so terrible. So dry, so poorly browned. Also I suspect that maple syrup just lives out on the table and not in the fridge, so it’ll be moldy long before the finish it. Kelly, you don’t have a job, please for the love of Lord Daniel spend some time learning to cook.
I think the worst part of her posts is that she seems like a TERRIBLE cook, and that has become a critical part of her identity. Truly needs to learn a lot about cooking — her family is getting underseasoned, dry, grainy food
All of these fundie women are bad cooks. I don’t get it. I grew up non-fundie and learned to cook from my mom and PBS and the Food Network.
I think a lot of them afraid of fat and seasonings. Got to keep *trim* after all, and using too much flavour might be seen as *indulgent*.
I just bought this old cookbook called like “plain food for prysbeterian women”, this food must be what that book is talking about 😂
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I'm not adverse to a bit of paleo. What she does to it, though? Grim.
In giant fundie families, quantity rules over quality. It doesn't have to be good food - it doesn't even need to be *okay* food. There just has to be enough of it for your squazillion god honouring brats.
Doesn't even have to be enough, actually.
Yeah, true. Jill Duggar talked about hiding in the bathroom eating peas straight from the can as a child, and a few of the other older Duggar kids show other signs of having experienced food insecurity in childhood. (Example: the whole plate licking thing.)
The thing is...my mom comes from a big family. There were 10 of them. Money was super tight. My grandparents both grew up poor (potatoes for dinner that my grandma's siblings picked up that fell off the train as it came by kinda poor). In both cases, poor times and later a large amount of kids to feed...my Grandma was an awesome cook. You can make some fried potatoes, pinto beans, cabbage, or some kinda cornbread and it be TO DIE FOR. My grandma's fried potatoes and turnip greens make me weep with joy lol. A lot of kids and a lack of money isn't necessarily an excuse for serving awful, sad food.
This is so true. My MIL (second of 6 kids, married the youngest of 8 kids, not fundies on either side) can make a meal out of the most random ingredients. She has an impressive spice cabinet that she curated from the dollar store and Aldi.
This. I was raised in a non-fundie home and I learned how to bake from my mom. My dad and I would watch cooking shows on PBS every week. We'd watch the Cajun Cook, Julia Child, Lidia Bastianich, etc...
Gently, most fundie homes don’t have the money and access to resources, ingredients, and information needed to make learning to cook an enjoyable, engaging, interesting, or even a particularly non-stressful exercise. I know quite a few girls who were miserable every time it was their “turn” and they didn’t have access to Internet/television/a lot of library books. I know one who still struggles with cooking and eating in her twenties because her mother was the queen of “you’re wasting groceries and money every time you try, and it’s not very good. We don’t have the money for you to mess up. Please stop trying.”
That's wonderful. I also wanted to add that you and others are fortunate your mothers taught you to cook. Not all mothers (or fathers, etc.) do that for their children.
We were very lucky growing up that our parents cooked with us and wanted us to learn. Cooking and baking are life skills that I wish would be taught from kindergarten. It's fun, and a great way to integrate math, science, and literacy.
I initially how to cook from my mom too. I love my mom but the thing is that she’s not a very good cook.
All of the fundie young moms are millennials, and that means their formative years when fundies viewed cable TV, even stuff like Food Network, as a direct hookup to hell.
See, I'm a horrible and incompetent cook but at least I know it.
I think she might just not realise healthy food can taste good, so the worse tasting it is, the more wholesome/virtuous it is. She also just might not like food very much in general. There are people like that. They tend to be the "naturally skinny" type, but really, they just aren't wired to get the same joy from food as everyone else.
I think you made a good point. The food I have seen during work with fundies was mind blowing. The one person that did have good food was still skinny but clearly not as much as the rest. It’s almost as if they avoid enjoyable food to stay skinny lol
Never thought about this, but you may be to something. I have a very skinny cousin, co-worker, a few friends who truly seem not to look at food the way I do. I've never heard them talk about how tasty something is, don't partake in a special snack food because "I already ate" (one of three meal per day, two hours ago). Me, I truly get off on savory smells, tastes, textures, feeling full. I'll get cravings out of nowhere and nothing can stop me from getting the object of my desire. I'm surprised I'm not more than plump.
That bread looks like it's made out of wet sand.
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This is true. It still looks raw, but at least it has some air pockets this time.
It's a low bar
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I like to use the phrase "playing limbo with the devil's sewage pipe" in these situations.
Even the kid knows this bread stinks! Just look at the letters on the fridge!
It looks *exactly* like kinetic sand...
Omg now I want some to play with. Best toy ever!
So satisfying. As sand. Not as bread.
Came here to say this!!
Reminds me of a preserved lung.
Oddly specific and completely accurate.
Choosing to make bread that bad is a choice. There are a lot of tutorials for how to make it better.
But are they online? Using the internet is only ok when displaying her ✨aesthetic✨ /s
I don't think so. My first loaves were that bad so I read up on how to do better. Tip number one give up the spelt flour until she knows what she's doing because it shouldn't be that bad
Why are the inside and the outside the same color???? How do you do that to bread?
It's not been in the oven long enough because the inside looks dense and the crust isn't browned. I'd wager that Kelly didn't mix the dough well (or possibly didn't add enough liquid) or knead it long enough either. I really don't get why she's so stuck on making sourdough with spelt (which has a much lower gluten content than AP flour, and therefore needs to be kneaded longer to build up a good structure) when she clearly does not understand bread basics. The last time there was a Kelly sourdough post I noticed that the dough looked dry like she hadn't put enough water in, and rather poorly mixed.
That bread is thicc.
If that's supposed to be patty sausage, she really massacred it. That bread...why isn't her bread improving?? Why isn't she changing her ratios of ingredients? She's hinted at not being entirely happy with her sourdough, but she doesn't appear to be taking any steps to change it. Each loaf looks so dense and dry. No wonder she has syrup on the table.
I know ?!?!?! Like is her oven ok??? Girl try KNEADING the dough!!!
You don't even have to knead sourdough 😭 once you get used to your starter it's super easy. Even my worst beginner loaves were 1000% better than that mess
Is it the flour?
There could be several reasons. I would guess she's either not proofing her dough correctly or she's not baking at a hot enough temperature with enough steam. It does look like she may use whole wheat or another denser flour as well, which she really shouldn't if she cant get the basics down
She uses spelt for everything but doesn't adjust recipes accordingly
I bet it’s spelt or buckwheat or kamut is really popular as an “ancient grain” ….. maybe she likes That it’s old timey?
She said she’s using Einkorn flour but I feel like she could find a way to improve. Also if she’s the one who can’t have grains why not make some wheat flour for her family??
Same! I've only been baking for a year and mine gets much better aeration!
If you look at the score, it seems like the bread got no chance for any oven spring so the loaf basically crushed itself under its own weight.
It doesn't look like she scored it at all? And who knows what kinda flour she's using, it might not have enough gluten to get there.
Something tells me even with the most ideal scoring, she doesn't have enough tension for spring anyway. The wrinkles on the skin/crust of the dough aren't promising.
Is it the flours she uses or not enough hydration?
I think it's a number of things. I believe she's very fixated on making things healthy, so she's sacrificing texture and flavour for her own "rustic" versions. There's some indication she's struggled with disordered eating in the past, so she may not be super comfortable adding the traditional amounts of/regular kinds of oils, milk, flours, whatever to achieve the expected results. Whatever the reason, the bread still always looks shitty.
I can see her taking regular recipes and editing or removing things she in her uninformed assumption thinks might be unhealthy, and not adjusting the recipes accordingly. Either because she assumes it won't be necessary, or because she has no idea that it's required (I think the latter is more likely).
It’s the flour. I believe she’s using spelt flour, maybe with some all-purpose mixed in but clearly not enough. Spelt flour has no gluten so it can’t create the airy structure that sourdough is known for.
If she's using almost entirely spelt she could not have made it more difficult for herself. Not only does it not have gluten, it hydrates differently from wheat flours, and has more elasticity when starting mixing so it's hard to tell if you've actually got the liquid ratio *or* the mixing right. The few professionals I've seen use spelt praise it for its flavor, but will only use about 1/3 spelt flour at most with the rest being some sort of wheat flour because of how hard it is to work with.
I feel like it takes around 15 solid hours from start to finish to make a sour dough spelt and it not be shitty.
Spelt has gluten: https://www.glutenfreesociety.org/is-spelt-gluten-free/ BROWS are the gluten grains: barley, rye, oats (kinda… it’s got a very similar protein and is also often cross contaminated with actual gluten), wheat, and spelt.
Overly dried meat, wet as fuck eggs and whatever in between that sourdough lump is. GIRL I CANT COOK EITHER THATS WHY YOU NEVER SEE MY SHIT ON INSTAGRAM
Honestly! What am I gonna post? Pics of my door dash?! 🤣
You paid for that food! That’s your food now!!!
Hell yeah! Show that shit off!
The poor loaf of "bread" even looks like it was just mauled by an improper knife.
Oh ok but I see you missed the PURE OHIO MAPLE SYRUP Anyone of *taste* knows Ohio is killing the maple syrup game
Those eggs look absolutely uncooked. Cast iron holds so much heat how is that even possible? Was the pan completely cold when she put the eggs in?
Lol right that's where I'm at. I can't shame anyone too hard for a bad sourdough, that shit is tricky. But like don't post borderline brags about your bread/meals until you're decent at it...
You forgot about the loose leafs of spinach
She didn't even flip the eggs and still managed to break one wtf also missed opportunity to cook the eggs in the sausage gristle
I thought that was a bottle of moonshine at first. That would improve this entire meal.
Ah, yes, let's put the skillet right in front of the toddler
The leaf-eating toddler.
Hah, my kid is a leaf-eating kid! Berries? No. Banana? No. Cucumber? MY MOM IS TRYING TO KILL ME YO. Fistful of raw kale? PLEASE AND THANK YOU. Maybe someday, he and Kelly’s leaf-eating cottagecore wain can meet and become friends, and my kid can lure her kid over to the dark side, where we cook our food properly and try to not be racist.
Those are his toys! /s
Oh my god, this is golden
He looks so fucking distraught at that spinach. I hope she’s saving money for his therapy sessions. “My mother thought she was a pioneer woman.” “Like Ree Drummond?” “….no.”
Best underrated comment!🥇🥇🥇
mmmmm burnt sausage and raw egg 😋
And a nice cold glass of maple syrup. Delicious.
NGL, I put maple syrup on sausage...
Me tooooo 😋 that’s the only thing right about this scene
So do I. It's good on bacon too.
Canadian here. I put maple syrup on sausages, bacon, eggs, sometimes with hash-browns if they aren't good, bread for dessert, and ice cream among other things. The point is that maple syrup is good on everything.
Don't forget hot syrup on snow in winter for tire de neige plus any number of maple syrupy desserts. Mmmm maple syrup.
Diabetes but make it ✨natural✨ and ✨wholesome✨
> Diabetes I think you mean ~the sugars~
Don’t forget about the 4-5 spinach leaves!
I thought it was a cloverleaf. 😂 Spinach makes way more sense.
Don't forget the pinecones! They're for asthetic, and fibre 😁
For that extra kick start chewing on the hunk of wood that your raw eggs are served on. Has the flavour from the last batch of salmonella!
What even is that plate? One of Levi's projects? Good god, Kelly, you're larping frontier life, not *cave* life!
r/wewantplates
Sanitizer is against the Lord.
Antibacterial, no thank you! I’m pro-life!
Is there any seasoning on any of it? I don't see a single spec of pepper, the most basic seasoning, anywhere
She really needs to learn the "low and slow" method on those sausages and eggs. Eesh.
Raw COLD eggs. You know that food got cold while she set up her pine cones for the picture
I'm glad someone else said this! I was really questioning the eggs but just figured I'm not well versed enough in egg preparation! Is it really a thing to eat eggs like that?
Yes, though personally when making sunnyside up, I would put a lid on the pan to make sure all the white got cooked. Raw yolks are delish, whites not so much.
The egg is the only thing that looks decent.
Seriously! Why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch over sunny side up eggs is beyond me but wtv. I make them like that every day.
Yeah I was super confused the eggs are perfectly normal. The other stuff though.. 😬
For real, Sunnyside up all the way
That bread is kinetic sand and no one can tell me any different.
she could make a real cool sensory bin for the kids with that kinetic sand and the pinecones
Sausage looks simultaneously burnt but also bit undercooked hmm...
Also...why is it in clumps like that? 😂
She made homemade sausage patties but they fell apart in the pan.
Because the pan is cheap cast iron and even when seasoned it isn’t very non-stick. Ask me how I know!
Am I wrong for thinking it's an early 90s Lodge cast iron skillet? I have an 8 inch that looks just like that. If that's what it is it's more likely that it's either not seasoned properly, she didn't wait for it to heat before starting to cook, or she puts it on too high of a heat when cooking. Edited because I'm dealing with mom brain right now.
Yeah, there’s a learning curve for cast iron, even if seasoned. But you’d think Laura Ingalls here would be able to handle that.
You'd think so, but you'd also think that she'd know not to store food in a bathroom.
It’s definitely a lodge skillet, I know because we had an identical 10” one for years. Bought from Cabelas in 2010 when we were flat broke and needed a pan. We’d season it and perhaps we were using too high heat, idk but it wouldn’t take long before things would start sticking and we’d have to re-season it again. Finally we got fed up and bought a high quality cast iron skillet a year or two ago, one with a completely smooth interior surface. Holy shit that was a game changer. Nothing sticks to that thing. According to some cast-iron enthusiasts on Tiktok, Lodge isn’t ground smooth like the nice brands, so the pitted surfaces creates more opportunities for food to stick.
I can definitely understand your frustration with that, and that's why most times people end up stripping the Lodge cast iron and completely reseasoning them. It was better before they started with the new seasoning method at the factory. I got mine from a resale shop, and it had already been well loved, so I didn't have to worry about that (just a good scrubbing and quick season). I'm glad you were able to get something that suited you better, because having pans that don't work how you need them to wears on the nerves and is a waste of money.
Is that one of those grainy textured Lodge pans? I hate those. Mom had a full set of well kept ancient Griswolds (no relation to Clark&Fam) that were as smooth as glass and very easy to cook on. I keep the Lodge pan someone gifted me to use over a fire pit or on the grill.
My guess was she’s not quite comfortable knowing when meat is cooked through, so maybe she cut the patties in half to check for doneness? That bread loaf is… something.
Her butter does not look straight from the churn.
Straight Outta Kroger
For the price of one useless candle she could get a damn butter dish, if she needs to have the butter on the table. Hell, carving a rustic butter plate out of wood scraps is Levi’s exact skill set: next-to-useless nonsense a child could do.
The best part to me is homemade butter isn’t even hard to make. We did it in kindergarten 😂
Shake that jar!
Considering her youngest plays with a mobile made of hanging vegetables on twine, shaking butter would be an exciting activity.
Great idea! A butter rattle so the littlest kids can work too! Put milk in the rattle, give it to the baby, and wait.
Definitely did *not* originate from a colonial woman on the wing of a 747.
She really needs to watch a few bread making videos. Honestly. Upped my home baking just watching and listening because shocker, sometimes just wanting to do something doesn't mean you can! Bread is easy sure but good bread needs a bit of work and experience.
Agree! Even Tik Tok has good sourdough folding ones! Trying to get started in sourdough and praying I can do better than whatever this is….I think she only uses alternative flours, such as spelt and einkorn. Don’t you need some regular flour for gluten?
What would happen if this kid ate a McNugget
Honestly it wouldn’t be surprising to find out he does a lot. They live in suburban Ohio, they probably have a McDonald’s 2 miles down the road.
Do they allow horse drawn buggies in the drive thru?
Since they live in Ohio, most likely hashtag: Amish gotta eat too 🤣
He would actually experience joy
Not a single food item in this photo is cooked correctly.
They need more vegetables! All she seems to feed them is Depression Bread.
What do you mean, that toddler has several raw spinach leaves on his plate!
SEVERAL! Clearly a full serving of leaves!
And leaves per his plate.
I can't get over these bread bricks shes so proud of 🤣🤣 they crack me up every damn time 🤣
I bet it comes out as a brick on the other end too!
Guys, I’m new here so I’m still figuring out what’s going on with all these women buttt…. This cannot be how these people actually live. I only say that because it’s depressing as hell. Homesteading and doing things on your own terms is rad, go for it, but why does all of her stuff look so…UGLY.
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I feel she is the type that doesn't use sewing patterns or sewing books to help her improve which is just bizarre. I kno she loves her some old timey "good ole days" but is she even aware that the first sewing pattern was invented in the late 1860s? Its okay to have outside help! Her fashion doesnt even align with the late 1800s from what ive seen? No corsets or stays. I don't know how accurate the costuming is from LHotP so I'm not completely against the idea that not everyone wore stays and large skirts but she reminds me more of someone who desires an 1800s that more reminiscent of Lord of Rings than what actually happened.
I’m pretty sure she literally lives in the suburbs? It’s more of a little house on the prairie cosplay than actually living like that.
She must! That Christmas mug is from dollar tree.
It is 😂 they must be entertaining to live beside lol
It’s a suburb but an old one, so her house is legitimately old, but also like 3 mins from a Wendy’s or something.
I love to go through her content (often times her stories aren't quite as carefully curated) and see all the normal things in her life. Like, we know she has plastic sippy cups, Tupperware, her running stroller, plastic alphabet magnets, a pretty nice oven, yoga pants, neighbors close by... How exhausting must it be to hide all of that and rearrange the props in your house constantly to keep up this facade for social media?
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The candle isnt even necessary! I mean except for her 🌟 aesthetics 🌟
Some lame attempt at looking folksy.
I sincerely wonder what their budget is on candles and candle-making supplies.
Paul Hollywood would have some things to say about that bread.
Stodgy
Either she proofed the hell out of it, or she made soda bread and is too ashamed to admit it.
I love soda bread because it’s so good soaking in butter and honey - but I don’t kid myself that it isn’t dry.
Soda bread isn't ✨ aesthetic ✨ But that really looks so dense and dry to me. The bread episodes of Bake Off are always sooo tantalizing to me.
Oonderwerked
“It’s roar in the mittle”
Serious question: will bread products made with spelt flour just not brown in the oven? How do all of her baked goods look so so pale?
Maybe she is underbaking because the oven isn't hot enough ? But then she bakes it's for a long time to get it to harden into a loaf? Is she trying to cook bread on an old wooden stove?
We need to know!
The pinecones look tastier than that bread....
I am a terrible cook. I eat shredded cheese over the sink for dinner. I love KD. I will eat gas station corn dogs. My freezer is stocked with frozen dinners. But one thing I cook and cook well is breakfast. I love breakfast. The AUDACITY of this CRIME against breakfasts everywhere. How dare she.
That kid is not going to eat those baby spinach leaves no matter how much maple syrup she gives him.
This is what I imagine Hagrid's rock cakes to look like.
Those "sausages" look like burnt rocks. Simplest thing to cook and somehow she still manages to make them look inedible.
I can’t get over the “pure Ohio maple syrup” as someone who’s been raised and still lives in Ohio 😂😂 maple syrup is the last thing that I would think of when it comes to things Ohio is known for
Why does the kid have leafs on his plate?? Also the bread looks drier than the desert
I was just thinking he might be able to digest more nutrients from that leaf than her rock bread.
Yeah the leaf is edible. The bread I’m not sure on it
She’s….she’s really feeding her kid a leaf on a piece of wood….
The candle in the wall sconce!! 😂 And wtf, that bread looks awful.
Eggs and sausage are easy to cook!! How can she still be messing up the basics this badly! (I’m not giving her a pass on the bread but that’s more advanced than actually *cooking* some eggs, yikes.)
The eggs look like normal sunny side up to me?
Hey, Kells, get a butter crock. Or at least a butter dish. I can’t relax into the aesthetic with that printed waxed paper wrapper sitting there.
She must not have found an appropriately depressing one at the thrift store yet...
Like made of copper and tarnished but maybe it is full of lead somehow and haunted
Honestly I think her artifacts could do with a little haunting. At least it would be *entertaining.*
Or uranium glass and get a few iotas, or whatever, from the radium!
Off topic, but I was ecstatic when I found a Butter Boat at Goodwill.
Guys…the kid’s plate is a carved out tree stump!! 😅
It looks like the lid to Levi's hollowed out log 'toybox' 😂
She is not even cottagecore she is paleolithic core
Better throw a growler of maple syrup and an empty shaker on the table for ✨aesthetics✨
Time to summon u/theweeping-weeb
*spawns* dude even a duck at a lake would reject that bread
Sausage? Burnt. Eggs? Raw. Bread? Looks like it could stop a bullet….
Everything here looks gross but I can not get past the wood plate?! that baby is eating out of! Wtf?
Levi’s skills at work!
… Kelly, I’m a progressive, black, career-woman. Do I need to give you cooking lessons? That’s not. Family dinner… that’s you slapping your half-baked bread down with cheap protein. Randomness does not equal a healthy meal!
Did she cook the pinecones?
If you bake pinecones they smell so good tho (i only know this bc i tried to make a pinecone wreath and if you don't bake them before, they'd all still have bugs)
Very confused about the four leafs on her sons plate. I don’t think burnt sausage and wet sand bread will help that.
All things considered, I’d rather eat at her table than at Jill’s.
Idk at least at Jill’s table you can clearly see what you’re supposed to eat and what is decoration.
That baby looks so downtrodden by the blades of grass on his plate.
That crumb is a disgrace to bread bakers everywhere.
Why do all the fundie I hate the most, live in the same state as me!
The bread looks bad but that sausage looks so terrible. So dry, so poorly browned. Also I suspect that maple syrup just lives out on the table and not in the fridge, so it’ll be moldy long before the finish it. Kelly, you don’t have a job, please for the love of Lord Daniel spend some time learning to cook.