Cozy Fall Weekend Pumpkin Patch Cooking Reading Making Homemade Bone Broth

Hey friends, welcome back to my channel. Today I'm going to be sharing a cozy weekend at home. I do have some errands that I'm running so it's not going to be completely at home, but I wanted to share a cozy fall weekend with you. In the fall, I am much more of a homebody. I like to stay home, I like to get cozy, I like to read a lot more, so I just wanted to bring you guys along with me. I'm also making a rotisserie chicken because I want to make a bone broth and buying packaged bone broth at the store is very expensive. So I thought that I would share how I make a rotisserie chicken in the air fryer and then I use that to make homemade bone broth in my instant pot. But yeah, we've already gone on our morning walk and we're planning to go to a pumpkin patch later today. I haven't been to this pumpkin patch before. I'm hoping that they'll have small white pumpkins so we can paint those. If you missed my last video saying where I've been and giving you an update, I'll link that down below in case you missed it, but it's so great to be back. I've missed you all so much. I hope that you enjoy hanging out with me this weekend and I'll catch up with you in just a bit. One of my favorite ways to get cozy and unwind is curling up with a good book and I have a few comfort reads that I always gravitate to in the fall like Anne of Green Gables and Rebecca and the Harry Potter series. I recently got this illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and I love the illustrations by Jim Kay. It's been such a fun way to experience the story again and I highly recommend it if you're a Harry Potter fan. And I also want to say that I grew up with Harry Potter which is why the stories always bring me comfort. However, I do not agree with the harmful remarks made by the author. I really think it's a shame and in my mind the world of Harry Potter will always be a place where everyone is welcome. I just sat down at my desk to do a little bit of holiday window shopping online. I'm looking at Unique Vintage because their holiday collection just released. I love the vintage style and they had a beautiful kind of emerald green color dress, a swing dress, and then they also have a burgundy sequin swing dress that I thought was really beautiful. I don't really have any plans for the holiday season yet but I'm just kind of getting an early start. I also wanted to check out the collaboration that American Girl is doing with Stony Clover Lane. Everything that I would want is sold out even though I wouldn't buy it anyways because I'm on a budget and I'm trying really hard not to spend money. But the Samantha collection would be the one that I would want because she was my favorite growing up. Did you guys read American Girl books and did you have an American Girl doll? I had the Me doll so I got one to look like me but my cousin had Samantha and I was always very envious of her because I wanted Samantha. I liked her clothes I think the best and the furniture that came. You could buy different furniture collections but yeah they have the whole collection which is so cute to celebrate 35 years of the 35th anniversary which makes me feel very very old. So here's the pumpkins we got. We only got four. These two I have a place that I'm going to put them and then these two we're going to paint which I think will be fun. We did that last year and I wanted to do it again. When I got back from Trader Joe's it was time to start to make dinner so here I'm getting ready to make the chicken in the air fryer. I chopped up some large handfuls of fresh rosemary and thyme and then I grated about four cloves of garlic and here I'm just mixing them together with olive oil and I did a few tablespoons of olive oil. As you can see I did quite a bit but I don't have exact measurements or anything because honestly I'm not good at measuring things I just kind of eyeball it but the amounts will also depend on the size of your chicken so I bought I think our chicken was about four pounds. I decided to brush it onto the other side once I place it into the air fryer basket and I just figured there would be less handling this way so if you're making this in your air fryer you definitely want to use an oil spray so that it doesn't stick. I just have an avocado spray that I like to use and then I put salt and pepper on both sides as well and I let it rest before putting it in for about 10 minutes. All right so the chicken is in the air fryer and I put it on for 40 minutes and then we flip it over and do it for another 40 minutes at 360. While I was waiting for that to be ready to rotate I decided to make myself a cup of this yummy ginger and turmeric tea that I recently got from Thrive Market. I decided to turn on an old episode of Gilmore Girls while I tried to draw this very autumnal house in a drawing book that I got recently and I'm using my iPad. I'm learning how to use Procreate. This was one of my first times using it. It's really fun because I can just press the undo button instead of having to erase everything but I still have a lot to learn. First 40 minutes are up. Time to flip. That looks good. So once we rotated the chicken I put a few lemon slices to add a bit more flavor and then I brushed the rest of the herbs and olive oil mixture that I had on the chicken and then I put it back in the air fryer for another 40 minutes. We had leftover brussel sprouts and fennel from the day before that I also made in the air fryer. I pretty much use it for everything and then I just tossed a quick salad and olive oil with lemon juice to have with it too. Good morning. I wanted to share a little bit of what I have planned for today. So this morning I need to get a little bit of work done so I'm gonna go in there and get some emails done and a few things I need to catch up on and then I think we're gonna go to Starbucks. Matt wants to get a pumpkin spice latte or something like that so I think we're to do that and then I want to go for a walk. It's beautiful today outside so I want to go for a walk and take Mickey our dog and then I plan on making the bone broth so I'm going to share all of that with you as well. I'll catch up with you in just a bit. Pumpkin spice drink of the year. Cheers. Cheers to pumpkin spice for me. Oh so good. That hits the spot. Same. After our walk it was time to start the bone broth and I don't follow an actual recipe for this although I'm sure you can find something online if you want exact measurements but you don't really need to add vegetables or herbs in your broth you can just put the bones in and be done but I like to add a little more flavor with mine plus it's a good way to get rid of whatever veggie scraps and herb scraps that you might have. So here I'm using carrots, celery, parsnip, onion, garlic, rosemary, parsley, a few bay leaves, and several black peppercorns. I like to make mine to be extra peppery but I'm just roughly chopping them and then making it making sure that they fit inside of the instant pot. You don't really have to cut them into very small pieces and then once I had everything chopped I put the chicken bones and everything into the instant pot and then I added a splash of apple cider vinegar and then I cover the rest with water. You want to leave about quarter of an inch at the top just to give it a little extra room. Yeah so here I'm showing that I did use a splash of apple cider vinegar along with the water and so once you're done adding the water you seal the valve and then put it on high pressure and I set mine for two hours. I didn't really know what to do for dinner so I decided just to make a quick soup with some of the leftover veggies that I had just to keep things simple and I already had a box of veggie broth that I needed to use so I just added some fresh rosemary, thyme, ginger, and you can't have soup without cornbread so I'm glad I had this box of gluten-free cornbread from Trader Joe's. Now I used my hand mixer for this although you're not really supposed to but I've just found that you using this and then combine with canned coconut milk it makes the cornbread a little more fluffy and less crumbly so since I already had an open can of coconut milk from the cornbread I poured the rest into the soup just to make it a little bit more creamy. So after dinner we watched tv while we waited for the bone broth to finish and Mickey is funny because he always wants to be right between us no matter what but then once the bone broth was done cooking in the instant pot and the pressure was released I removed the lid and then I just let it cool for about 20 to 30 minutes before I strained it and then I carefully strained it into my bell jars to store in the fridge although I did test it and try a little bit just to make sure that it was good and it was delicious. So that is all for today's video thank you so much for being here and for watching I really appreciate it and I hope that you have a beautiful day and I will see you again soon!