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A good way to use your garden zucchini! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . It's Zucchini Time There have been years when I've planted so many zucchini that I was ready to set the garden on fire.  This year I promised myself I would scale back and only planted a single zucchini. However, it's so prolific that I'm still having a hard time keeping up with it. So you may be seeing more zucchini recipes this summer. My one and only zucchini plant. Today's recipe also uses potatoes since we just harvested over 50 pounds of new potatoes a few days ago. They are so easy to grow and what's better than a freshly harvested new potato? Our potato harvest. Although I cook this in my Instant Pot, you can easily make this on the stovetop. I include notes on stovetop directions below.                         *                               ...

These large, fluffy vegetarian matzo balls are  made  in an Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker . Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest .          With Passover approaching, here's an easy way to make matzo ball soup in your Instant Pot. One of the secrets of making great matzo balls is to never uncover the pot while they are cooking. Well, there's no chance of that happening while they are locked in a pressure cooker!  For this recipe, I'm using Manischewitz Matzo Meal, not a matzo ball mix. Matzo Ball Soup Vegetarian [makes 8 matzo balls/4 servings] Requirements Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Ingredients For the Matzo Balls 1/2 cup Manischewitz Matzo Meal 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 2 teaspoons dried parsley 2 eggs from happy chickens 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons water For the Soup 8 cups water 2 stalks celery, small diced or thinly...

This simple butternut squash soup is a great first course for your holiday dinner. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . For healthy, vegan holiday recipes, check out my ebook,  Health Begins in the Kitchen . Quick and Easy Soup in the Instant Pot With several dozen butternut squash from my harvest, I've been trying to create a really simple, delicious, and healthy recipe so that I can enjoy them over the next few months. This recipe, using my Instant Pot Pressure Cooker,  makes a steamy, brothy soup that makes a wonderful beginning to any meal. I will be hauling a few of my squash to my daughter's house next week so that we can serve this soup on Thanksgiving day. Butternut squash can sometimes be tough to cut and a bit intimidating, so check out my post, An Easy Way to Cut a Butternut Squash Without a Machete . If you don't have an Instant Pot, follow the Stove Top recipe below.                 ...

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 ...

Curry-flavored, blended soup featuring kabocha squash. Follow Foods For Long Life on  Facebook and Pinterest . Check out my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen . Harvest Time I harvested my mini-kabocha squash and potatoes and still have a few zucchini left on the vine so I thought I'd combine them in this tasty soup. Kabocha adds a lovely sweetness to the soup and the potatoes make it creamy and thick. The soup is lightly flavored with curry. Mini kabocha squash Purple and gold potatoes Ingredients for Curried Kabocha Squash, Potato, and Zucchini Soup.                  *                                  *                                 * Curried Kabocha Squash, Potato and Zucchini Soup Vegetarian or Vegan, Gluten Free [Makes 4 servings] Requirements Soup pot Blender o...

This creamy soup is dairy free and only 200 calories a bowl. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . It's Asparagus Time! Asparagus is starting to show up in local markets and I couldn't be happier. Most of the time I just roast them in the oven and serve them over a green salad or as a side dish, but today I was in the mood for soup.  Here's a simple recipe that you can make in your Instant Pot Pressure Cooker or in a Dutch Oven or medium-size soup pot on the stove.             *                    *                      *                          * Asparagus Soup Vegan, Dairy Free, Gluten Free [makes 4 servings] Requirements Instant Pot Pressure Cooker (optional) Hand Immersion blender Ingredients 1 bunch asparagus (1 1/4 pounds) 1/2 pound leeks 1 tablespoon Ea...

You can add microbe-rich miso to any brothy soup. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Preview my eBook, Health Begins in the Kitchen . Today is our Anniversary  Twenty six years ago today my wonderful husband and I went on our first date and 25 years ago today we were married! I am the luckiest woman in the world to find a man who has provided love and kindness to me and the children, gave me endless encouragement in my many ambitious endeavors, and shared my obsession for living a healthy lifestyle. We worked well together as engineers in Silicon Valley and now we work just as well together as organic farmers, bloggers, and wine makers.  Today is our 25th Wedding Anniversary So yesterday when I felt like my allergies were getting the best of me and were possibly turning into a cold, it was time to make a pot of soup despite the warm temperature outside. We have big plans for our anniversary dinner and I want to feel my best.  Goals for this...