Foods Long Life

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...

No soy or gluten and it's GMO free. And delicious! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Race to Replace the Meat Burger There seems to be a lot of upcoming competition in the field of vegan burgers that really look, feel, and taste like burgers. I had been patiently waiting to try the much anticipated Impossible Burger from Impossible Foods . But they are only served in restaurants and I discovered that they contain wheat and soy, two ingredients many people try to avoid. The Beyond Burger, on the other hand, is available in stores and is soy and gluten free. High in Plant-Based Protein If you love burgers but are trying to reduce or eliminate your beef intake, you'll be happy to discover the Beyond Burger from Beyond Meat. Beyond Meat has a mission. They want to create better way to feed the planet by replacing animal protein with plant protein. This tasty, meat-like burger is loaded with 20 grams of protein. The source is pea protein.  It's actually fo...

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 ...

Zucchini rollups for your next tapas party! Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Great Appetizer or Tapas In our quest to use all of our garden zucchini, Doug and I created this delicious rollup. This combination uses Miyoko's Winter Truffle vegan "cheese" but you can use any of your favorites or, if you eat dairy, it would work well with a goat feta. Since Doug loves roasted red pepper, we included that in the rollup but I can envision a schmear of pesto or hummus or olive tapenade. Use your imagination and your favorite ingredients - the combinations are endless. But they all begin with this BBQ'd zucchini. Here's how to do it. First, make some basting sauce by mixing together the following: Basting sauce Ingredients: 1/4 cup veggie broth 1/4 extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/4 teaspoon black pepper Directions Use medium size zucchini (not giant ones) and slice vertically ...

Simple Beets Salad with Balsamic and Scallions. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook and Pinterest . Beets - Delicious but Messy I love beets. When dining out, I almost always order a beet salad if it's on the menu. But I don't often make them at home because they are a mess to handle. But this morning with a single rubber glove, my Instant Pot and a butter knife I made this easy beet salad wearing a white blouse! I don't suggest the white blouse, but here's what I did. Instant Pot Beets I started with small to medium sized beets - about 2 inches in diameter. I rinsed them in a colander. Holding them by the tails, I cut the tops to remove what was left of the stem. I tossed them into my Instant Pot with an inch of water. I pressed the Manual button and set for 20 minutes. They take a surprisingly long time to cook. (You may want to start with 10 to 15 minutes and test them and if they aren't cooked, set them for another 5 or 10 minutes.) Do a quick release and te...

Is it time to pick pears? Follow Foods For Long Life on Pinterest and Facebook . When are Pears Ripe to Pick? For years we've had a small espalier pear tree. It's more for decoration but it yields a dozen or so pears each year. And each year, by the time I pick them, they are too mushy to eat.  Like many people I assumed this fruit ripens on the vine so I'd go up and squeeze the pears and see if they have ripened. Since they were always hard as a rock I let them go a bit longer. Well it turns out that pears don't ripen on the vine which makes it a bit more tricky to know when you should pick them. But here's what to do. Put the pear in the palm of your hand and pull it towards you until it's completely horizontal. If the pear comes off the branch easily, it's ready to pick. If it holds on the to branch, it's not ready. Holding it horizontally, give it a little tug. A mature pear will come off easily. So now you have a bunch of hard pears - what to do ne...

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.                         *                               ...