Foods Long Life

Dried Serrano peppers will spice up your winter recipes! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Preview my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen . End of Season Harvests I'm just wrapping up the summer gardening season. The peppers and eggplant are done producing, the rains are coming, and in about a week, I'll finally be finished canning, freezing and dehydrating - hooray!  I grew a single Serrano pepper plant and while it was growing, I only pulled a few green peppers from it to cook with. So by the time it was ready to harvest, it had almost two pounds of beautiful ripe, red peppers varying in size from one to two inches.  This is probably a life-time's worth of Serrano peppers, but I will dehydrate all of them and give them to whomever wants to spice up their life a bit! Last year I used them to make a lot of hot sauce, some of which I still have. It lasts a very long time in the refrigerator! Here's a recipe for  Hot Sauce using Jalapeños and Serr...

Farro, is an ancient strain of hard wheat. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Preview my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen . An Easy Side Dish I was preparing an eggplant and tofu stir fry for friends and was just about to cook some rice to go with it when I decided to make something different. I looked in the pantry and found a nice bag of pearled Italian farro. Farro, also known as emmer wheat, is not gluten free, but it is high in fiber, a good source of protein, magnesium and B vitamins. It's similar to barley and has a nice bite and texture. 1/4 cup dry farro provides: 170 calories 1 g total fat - 0 saturated 3 g dietary fiber 32 g carbohydrates 7 g protein Here's a simple farro recipe using your instant pot. Serve with a stir fry, ratatouille, steamed vegetables, or tomato sauce.                  *                        *         ...

Yellow tomatoes make a delightful soup. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and  Pinterest . Check out my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen . Yellow Tomatoes I picked up a yellow tomato plant at the farmer's market this spring. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the strain, but it grew the biggest, most beautiful, low-acid, tomatoes I've ever experienced. Some of them were a pound and a half! I am definitely going to save its seeds so that I can grow them again next year. Since they are late producers, I'm still harvesting them, even though it's early October. Since I've already canned dozens of jars of red tomatoes, I thought I'd make and freeze lots of soup so that we could enjoy it this winter. (If you are going to freeze this soup, do so without the corn or pasta. It will take up less freezer space and you can add the corn and cooked pasta when you use it.) It's also a very versatile soup so add any veggies and grain you desire. Or for ...

How much wine should we drink? Follow Foods For Long Life on Pinterest and Facebook . Take a peek at Health Begins in the Kitchen . Is Wine Healthy? Over the years we've seen numerous headlines about drinking wine, and other forms of alcohol, for our health. If you're from an Italian family with grandparents who lived into their 80's or 90's, you'd say, "duh", but there's a lot more to this story than that.  Benefits and Risks for the Heart The benefits of drinking wine and other forms of alcohol are mostly for the heart. Studies have shown that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol: * can reduce blood clots * increases your good cholesterol, or HDL * helps reduce your bad cholesterol, or LDL, which helps prevent damage to your arteries Despite these benefits, the American Heart Association and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute do not recommend that you start drinking just for health reasons. But if you already drink, you should do so in modera...