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Easy Homemade Chicken Liver Pâté Recipe (For Iron + B Vitamins)

January 31, 2023 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

Looking for some new and intriguing ways to cook chicken liver? This high-iron chicken liver pate recipe is just the thing.  Pâté– also more casually written as pate— is a French meat spread that’s traditionally served with crackers or bread. In recent decades, it’s come to be associated with fine dining and general epicurean fancy-ness, […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: fatigue, mood diet, recipe, seasonal affective disorder

Oprah’s Cornbread and Black Eyed Peas Recipe (Cold Weather Comfort Food)

December 30, 2022 by Admin Leave a Comment

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Today’s edition of Nourished By My Heroes features the ultimate comfort food combo: Oprah’s recipe for Southern-style cornbread and black-eyed peas.  The Maui-based mogul has openly stated on multiple occasions that her favorite meal is “cornbread, black-eyed field peas, and rosé”— and it’s easy to understand why.  This easy black-eyed peas recipe is so SO […]

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Gâteau au Yaourt (Yogurt Cake) Recipe from Bringing up Bébé

August 16, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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The latest Nourished By My Heroes recipe comes from Pamela Druckerman’s cultishly beloved parenting book, Bringing up Bébé. This recipe for Gâteau au Yaourt (Yogurt Cake), was referenced early on in the book’s discussion of feeding children and how to encourage them to become independent, confident, curious eaters. For me, this Gâteau au Yaourt recipe is […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes, Nourished By My Heroes Tagged With: books, dessert, parenting, recipe

Stress-Busting Turmeric Instant Pot Popcorn

May 19, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 6 Comments

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This easy Instant Pot popcorn packs all the flavor and freshness of homemade popcorn without any of the fuss. It takes only 10 minutes to prepare and combines several anti-inflammatory spices to maximize health benefits and taste– which is why this stress-busting turmeric popcorn is my favorite homemade popcorn recipe, ever. Made with stress-reducing turmeric […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: brain food, calming, gluten free, recipe, vegan

Gluten-Free Cinnamon Peanut Butter Cookies (Focus-Enhancing)

May 11, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 3 Comments

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These gluten-free cinnamon peanut butter cookies were adapted from Ovenly’s salted peanut butter cookie recipe– a New York City classic that we’ve modified to incorporate focus-enhancing adaptogens and some cinnamon and maple to round out the flavor. Gluten-free peanut butter cookies are all the rage in boutique bakeries across America at the moment. The lack […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: adaptogens, brain food, cookies, dairy free, gluten free, grain free, mood diet, peanut butter, recipe

Butternut Squash, Shallot & Steak Tacos (For Low Iron Folks)

May 4, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 4 Comments

In my opinion, there are only three ingredients that you need to make a really good taco: super flavorful meat, citrus, and avocado. This easy steak taco recipe highlights these flavors along with sweet butternut squash and buttery shallots– and notably grass-fed steak from Arrowhead Beef. (Their beef is pasture-raised, grass-fed, and grass-finished, and ships […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: dairy free, fatigue, gluten free, recipe

Garlic and Memory: An Intriguing Connection

April 20, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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Just when you think you know everything there is to know about garlic breath, a promising new link between garlic and memory has been traced to a compound in garlic known as allyl sulfide. Allyl sulfide is a naturally occurring flavor compound present in all Allium species, most notably garlic and onions. According to research […]

Filed Under: Cool Ideas, Mood Recipes Tagged With: aging, memory, recipe

Gluten-Free Vegan Olive Oil Quick Bread (World’s Best Anti-Inflammatory Dessert)

March 24, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 1 Comment

Olive oil cake is all the rage in the baking world right now. This vegan olive oil quick bread is versatile and moist enough to moonlight as an olive oil cake (if you want to bake it in a cake pan) or as olive oil cake muffins. We love it best as an understated olive […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: brain diet, brain food, dessert, fatigue, gluten free, recipe, vegan

How to Make Mangosteen Juice (aka Santol-ade)

March 10, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

I am so excited to share this easy recipe for making fresh mangosteen juice, aka Santol-ade: an electrolyte- and potassium-rich drink that tastes like tropical sweet tea.  This sweet refresher is an amazing electrolyte booster that can prevent dehydration and heat-related fatigue. And, for what it’s worth, it’s just a cool, rare, and exotic tropical […]

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Natalie Portman’s Vegan Hamantaschen Recipe

February 17, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 6 Comments

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The latest recipe in G&L’s Nourished By My Heroes series is a fun one: Natalie Portman’s vegan hamantaschen recipe. Hamantaschen are classic, triangle-shaped filled cookies that originate in Israel and enjoy massive popularity in many parts of Eastern Europe. The cookie casing can range from hard, almost like a shortbread, to more dough-y, akin to […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes, Nourished By My Heroes Tagged With: cookies, dairy free, dessert, nourished by my heroes, recipe, vegan

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