This homemade DIY body butter is perfect for giving your driest parts a little extra love during the coldest months of the year, and for sunburnt skin during the hottest months. Comfort and self-care is extremely important for mental wellbeing in the winter and the heat. Thus, this calming DIY lavender body butter can be […]
Mood Recipes
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Brownie 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. (And if you don’t want to add the superfoods, leave ‘um out. The recipe holds up either way. These are still the best brownies ever! 🙂 ) […]
Easy Acorn Squash Pie (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 […]
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– just use a variety of fresh vegetables and herbs to create a landscape design on a flat sheet of rising dough, then bake for ~25 […]
Gloria Steinem’s Breakfast of Champions (Easy Freekah Porridge Recipe)
Gloria Steinem is possibly the single most beloved feminist figure in American history. And with that distinction came no shortage of commentary on her looks, which were as admired as they were patronizingly weaponized against her. In a Washington Post article from 1984 (<— scary!), I recently unearthed a reference to a yummy-sounding wheat berry […]
Vegan Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread (Energy Booster)
This vegan double chocolate zucchini bread recipe is one our favorite nutritionist-designed desserts of all time! This super moist quick bread is luxuriously decadent and fluffy as a cloud. Chocolate, flax seed, and green veggies combine to make a surprisingly rich crumb that is the ultimate powerhouse treat, as these ingredients can also help ease […]
Easy Wagyu Meatballs with Sweet & Tangy Dipping Sauce (High in Iron)
This easy wagyu beef meatball recipe is one of my favorite meatball recipes of all time! I’m always tinkering to create tasty, healthy, high-iron recipes, and this is one of the best. I try not to eat beef too often (mostly for environmental reasons) but when I do, I make sure it’s super high quality […]
Fresh Papaya Seed Salad Dressing Recipe (For Gut Health)
Yes, you can make your own fresh papaya seed salad dressing. Why didn’t we think of this sooner?!? This homemade papaya seed salad dressing recipe takes 5 minutes to make– and all you need is the seeds of a fresh papaya (which most people throw out, anyway) as well as a few household pantry items. […]
Persian Pesto Frittata (Vitamin K Powerhouse)
This easy green Persian pesto frittata is a delicious twist off of a classic Persian frittata recipe. More importantly, it’s a great way to pack a ton of greens into a single, one-pan meal. Made in a cast iron skillet, frittatas are great for picky eaters, or if you’re looking for creative ways to eat […]
Gluten-Free Cinnamon Peanut Butter Cookies (Focus-Enhancing)
These gluten-free cinnamon peanut butter cookies were adapted from Ovenly’s salted peanut butter cookie recipe– a New York City classic which 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 […]