This Wellbeing Thing: Recipes for Wellbeing & More

By Rosalia Barresi

Following on from my first cookbook edition, This Food Thing, this book is about recipes that are good for mental well-being. It also includes a section about well-being and how we can keep well with simple ideas and great lifestyle choices.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728389684

Rosalia Barresi

My name is Rosalia. I have worked for many years within the social care and the public sector in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and London. I began working in mental health some time ago, and alongside training in alternative therapies including nutrition. I have been passionate about food and healthy eating for most of my life. Coming from an Italian family I love cooking healthy tasty food that makes you feel good. I am a huge advocate to health and wellbeing, meaning that nutrition is so important as well as learning to live a healthier lifestyle through the way we live our lives. I had a few articles published four years ago and this is my second cook book to be created.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/09/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8969-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8968-4 (e)

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Contents

This Wellbeing Thing

The Definition of Wellbeing

Recipes for Mental Wellbeing:

Gram Flour Pancakes

Tuna Pasta with Olives, Parsley & Mushroom

Blackeye bean, Broccoli & Cauliflower Patties with Almond Butter Dressing

Thyme, Spinach & Walnut Pesto

Avocado Chocolate Slices

What does wellbeing mean to you?

Brown Rice Risotto with Pesto & Broccoli

Miso, Roast Sweet Potato & Mushrooms with Brown Rice

Miso Hummus

Kale & Sunflower Seed pesto

Kale and Sweet Potato Tarts

The A to Z Wellbeing Meaning

Sweet Pepper & Coriander Marinade Salsa/Salad Dressing

Roasted Peppers Stuffed with Feta, Salsa & Sweet Potato

Cashew Cream with Cranberries & Blackberries

Sunflower Seed and Miso Dressing/Marinade

Thoroughly Beetroot Chocolate Cake

Broad Bean Pate

Pistachio Encrusted Salmon

Feta, Red Onion & Fig Tart

Wellbeing Interventions That Can Increase Our Health & Wellbeing

Pistachio Roasted Beetroot

Beetroot & Feta Bregg

Chorizo & Flageolet Beans in Passata

Tapenade Chicken

Chicken Pizzaiola

Salmon & Pine Nut Salad

Prawn & Chilli Courgetti

Blueberry & Oat Breakfast

Cheese & Fennel Grilled Frittata

Salmon Salad

Risotto with Green Beans, Feta & Pesto

Cauliflower Steak with Pistachio & Sunflower Seed Sauce

This Wellbeing Thing

I have worked in wellbeing for many years. In different services that have included substance misuse, mental health, autism and learning disabilities. I was part of start-up which involved researching sugar and looking at how it works and how it affects the body. Sugar is bad for us physically and mentally if eaten in large quantities.

The link I began to find was that if we ate foods that support our mental health, we are half way to being well again. I think that we are lucky to have such a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips, but for some it is hard to differentiate that eating certain foods can do something positive to our mental and physical wellbeing. We sometimes need that little bit of help and to be able to source a place where there is a whole array of recipes and nutrient ideas that can give us the help we need.

This book is about just that. I have managed to research thirty recipes that are quick to use and make,