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Beat the heat with this cucumber salad. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . We've had record breaking heat this last week. Sebastopol topped its record with 111 degrees. So needless to say, we've been eating a lot of raw foods and foods that are cooling. Cucumbers are very hydrating and I just happen to have a cucumber plant that is presenting me with 2 enormous and perfect cucumbers a day!  Here's a quick salad that we made for lunch yesterday. It also uses our garden cherry tomatoes. With protein-packed garbanzo beans and good fats from the avocado, this is a perfectly balanced vegan and gluten-free meal for two hungry people or a side dish for 4 to 6.              *                         *                          * Cucumber Salad with Garbanzos and Cherry Tomatoes Vegan, Dairy and Glu...

Enjoy this Italian-style potato salad in minutes. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Working my way through our Potato Harvest In my quest to use the 50+ pounds of potatoes that we harvested, I whipped up this potato salad yesterday using my Instant Pot. This is an Italian-style potato salad that my dad used to make for me using lemon and oil instead of mayonnaise. It also uses parsley from my garden and fresh garlic that I harvested a while back. New potatoes only take a few minutes to cook in the Instant Pot and don't need peeling, just a good scrub. I only use 1 1/4 pounds of potatoes in this recipe because it's best when served warm and fresh.                         *                         *                         *  Lemony Instant Pot Potato Salad Vegan, gluten and ...

Here's a great dish for your 4th of July celebration! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Perfect for Guests If you are going to a potluck, picnic, or entertaining at home this 4th of July, this salad is sure to please your guests. Besides being delicious, it's gluten and dairy free. It's also served at room temperature so no worries about making it at the last minute or heating it up. I know the dressing has a lot of ingredients, but it really is quite easy to put together. You can also make the dressing ahead of time. Buckwheat is rich in high quality protein.It's also high in dietary fiber and is a good source of iron, manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and potassium. It also provides a good amount of B vitamins. If you are gluten intolerant, make sure the package says 100% buckwheat as some brands mix buckwheat with wheat.                 *                       ...

Fresh corn makes a great salad topping. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Preview my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen ! Corn I love corn. I love everything about it. I love to eat it raw, right off the cob. I love throwing it into soups , salads , muffins , well - you name it. But the thing I love the most is growing it. This year was our second crop and we actually harvested it on time at the peak of its tenderness (lessons learned from last year!) Having grown up in apartments in New York City, where one is lucky to have a flower pot of parsley on the fire escape, the very thought of having enough land to grow such an enormous vegetable still blows my mind. My corn stands proudly in the entry to our little farm - a monument to a more sane life.  Me and my daughter, Linda, playing in the corn. Last year we planted 35 seeds and got about 48 ears of corn. This year I planted 65 seeds which yielded about 85 ears (hard to keep track as I kept eating them ...

Use a mandoline to thinly slice cucumbers. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest. How Slicing Makes a Difference How a vegetable or fruit is sliced can make a big difference on its texture and even its flavor. My daughter was here this week and when I asked her to make a side dish with the garden cucumbers I just picked, she made this beautiful salad. Although this recipe has few ingredients, the thinly shaved cucumber slices give it an elegant presentation. Its tangy lemon dill dressing coats every little slice and makes a great low-calorie summer side dish. If you are a fish eater, this lemon dill salad pairs perfectly with grilled wild salmon. A mandoline is used to slice the cucumbers  To cut the cucumbers this thin, you will need a  mandoline slicer. Please be careful when using this tool and ALWAYS use the guard, although it's tough to do when cutting these thin cucumbers. This is what happened to me last year when I didn't take my own advice wh...

This new potato salad is perfect for summer BBQ's. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . My Expectations are High If you've been following my post on " How to grow your own potatoes ", you'll see that my plants are doing exceptionally well. After 6 short weeks, the plants have taken over the bed, are 3 feet tall, and have begun to flower! Since my expectations are high, I've begun to think about what I'm going to do with all of these potatoes. In the meantime, while I anxiously await the birth of my own purple and gold new potatoes, I found these adorable baby new potatoes at the market this week. I thought they would make a very colorful and delicious salad using the dill from my new herb garden. These cute little multicolored potatoes are only 1" across Dill from my garden                  *                               *       ...

This simple and colorful side dish is vegan and gluten free. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Getting the Menu Together Thanksgiving is only 2 weeks away so I'm finalizing my menu. I've got a full house this year so I'm trying to pick recipes that are delicious, simple, and that can either be prepped or made ahead.  Since my persimmon tree finally blessed me with over 4 dozen fuyu persimmons, I will definitely serve them in at least one dish. They pair beautifully with pomegranates, so I'm thinking of making this simple raw vegan relish.  Persimmons and pomegranates pair beautifully and reflect the colors of fall. A lot of people avoid pomegranates because they think they are difficult to clean. I know I avoided them for years until I figured out how to clean them. It's really pretty simple with the trick being that you have to do it with the fruit submerged in a bowl of water. Check out my post on How To Clean a Pomegranate ....

Raw cabbage is inexpensive, delicious and healthy! And it's only 53 calories per serving! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest. Hampton Creek's Egg Replacer Whether you eat eggs or not, there's something interesting brewing in the food industry. Hampton Creek, a fast-growing food company, is trying to develop food that is eco-friendly, compassionate, and healthy. And, of course, delicious - something many vegan food products are not. Their first target is to replace the egg. They haven't come out will a product that will make scrambled eggs yet, although they are supposedly quite close, but they have developed a pretty delicious mayo substitute called "Just Mayo."  Just Mayo comes in four flavors: Original, Chipotle, Garlic, and Sriracha. I'm not a big mayo eater but now and then you need a little bit for a creamy dressing like the one I'll share with you today. I'm also not terribly fond of vegan mayo because it doesn't have th...