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 […]
Mood Recipes
The BEST Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Brownies Recipe (Dopamine Booster)
Let me just cut right to the chase: these delicious gluten-free peanut butter brownies are fudgy and decadent, made with serotonin-boosting bittersweet chocolate and happiness-inducing mucuna bean powder. Baking is a good stress reliever, and this recipe thoughtfully incorporates mood-supportive ingredients. (And if you don’t want to add the superfoods, leave ‘um out. The recipe […]
How To Roast Fresh Chestnuts in Your Oven
Roasting fresh chestnuts in the oven is the modern equivalent of “chestnuts roasting on an open fire…”, the iconic lyrics to one of the most quotable American Christmas songs in the canon. Every year when winter comes around, securing a bag of locally-grown chestnuts and roasting them in the oven is a local food lovers’ […]
We Love This Miso Maple Loaf Cake Recipe (For Heavenly Autumn Aromatics)
‘Tis the season! I love this Miso Maple Loaf cake from NYT Cooking SO much that I had to simplify the recipe and make a version that was easy to bake quickly, without a stand mixer or buttermilk (which can be a hard ingredient to source that’s not always accessible for many people). This version […]
Easy Acorn Squash Pie Recipe (A Cool Pumpkin Pie Alternative)
This easy Acorn Squash Pie recipe is a delicious pumpkin pie alternative that’s perfect for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s also a great recipe for anytime you have extra squash lying around, and you’re tired of making savory dishes. It’s so good! Beginning with our super-flaky homemade pie crust, we add just the right amount of seasonal […]
How to Make Mangosteen Juice (aka Santol-ade)
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 […]
Joni Mitchell’s Easy Lentil Soup Recipe (Comfort Food)
Joni Mitchell’s easy lentil soup recipe is a darling little gem that reflects the no-frills food ethos of the 1970s. Made with red lentils, tomato puree, and a hint of sweet paprika, this easy blended lentil soup recipe is the ultimate fall/winter comfort food. This recipe originally came from a repost in The Guardian, which […]
Easy Focaccia Garden Bread Recipe (To Lift Your Spirits)
This easy-to-make focaccia garden bread adds a cheerful dose of play to the traditional, olive-oil-rich focaccia bread you may have known in the past. Making a focaccia garden is easy and fun– just use a variety of fresh vegetables and herbs to create a landscape design on a flat sheet of rising dough, then bake […]
The BEST gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe (Focus-Enhancing)
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 […]
Try This Vegan Pine Pollen Pesto Recipe (Stress-Reducing)
Looking for ways to cook with pine pollen? This easy vegan pesto recipe should be a staple in any health nerd’s repertoire. Much like bee pollen, pine pollen is an increasingly popular adaptogen that’s full of beneficial enzymes, amino acids, minerals, antioxidants, vitamins A, B, D, E, and phytosterols. Research even shows that consuming raw […]