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Easy Calming DIY Lavender Body Butter Recipe

April 7, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin 6 Comments

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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 […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: beauty, calming, gifts for stressed people, recipe, vegan

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

February 3, 2024 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

Easy Wagyu Meatballs with Sweet & Tangy Dipping Sauce (High in Iron)

February 1, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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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 […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: comfort food, fatigue, recipe

Juniper Glazed Walnut Shortbread Recipe (A Sweet Digestif)

November 5, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 1 Comment

This juniper glazed walnut shortbread cookie recipe might just be the perfect winter digestif. The cookie itself is not too sweet, paired with a sweet, herbaceous juniper glaze. Because juniper reminisces of pine and is super wintery, it’s a favorite among mixologists, who often use it in cold-weather cocktails. Here, we developed this delicious crumbly […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: cookies, dessert, 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

Healing Hazelnut Beet Salad Recipe (Fatigue Fighter)

January 15, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 2 Comments

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This healing hazelnut beetroot salad celebrates the flavors of the season, and frankly: it’s gorgeous! Composed salads make a beautiful addition to any holiday or spring meal; this one will have everyone marveling over how simple and delicious it is. This salad also makes an easy dinner option whenever you want to treat yourself, and […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: brain food, gluten free, grain free, mood diet, winter blues

Meryl Streep’s Pistachio Rose Shortbread

February 14, 2021 by Molly Beauchemin 3 Comments

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The latest recipe in our Nourished By My Heroes series is based on Meryl Streep’s cookie recipe, which I originally saw in an old Good Housekeeping feature from years ago. These delicious pistachio-rose shortbread cookies are an homage to Meryl Streep’s original almond shortbread cookie recipe.  The short crumb and delicate rose flavor of these […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes, Nourished By My Heroes Tagged With: cookies, dessert, nourished by my heroes, pop culture, recipe

Gloria Steinem’s Breakfast of Champions (Easy Freekah Porridge Recipe)

February 3, 2021 by Molly Beauchemin 2 Comments

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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 […]

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

Vegan Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe (Energy Booster)

January 25, 2021 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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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 […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: chocolate, depression, dessert, mood diet, recipe

Fresh Papaya Seed Salad Dressing Recipe (For Gut Health)

August 26, 2020 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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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. […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: brain food, dairy free, gluten free, grain free, gut health, recipe, vegan

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