In this part of winter it gets cold, dry and rough so we need more warmth and softness through warmer water/tea/soups, spices, oils, and layers of clothes!

However, we need to make sure not to overdo with spices and acidic foods and drinks like pickles, alcohol, onions-garlic, as it would create too much heat trapped in our digestive system which might create too much acidity, heart burn and other digestive and eventually other health problems.

Ayurvedic Daily Routine for Winter

A healthy daily routine for winter is key to wellness as every season. In Ayurveda, this is the season of Vata and moving into Kapha. They both require warmth and a gentle fire in the digestive system. This means lighter meals and healing teas. Fresh ginger is a very good friend these days, to be used as tea with lemon and honey or cooking your soups and stews with it. It is your insurance to apply what is needed at that time of the year.

Here is what Ayurveda suggests for a healthy daily routine:

1. Start your day with warm water and a few drops of lemon or lime juice. Have 2 tbs of aloevera to support alkaline, too. Don’t  start your morning with coffee on empty stomach which creates so much acidity
2. Try regular abhyangha (oiling-self massage) with warm sesame oil before showers and avoid keeping body too dry
3. Go for exercises that gives you rejuvenating energy like yoga, brisk walks, easy jogs rather than exhausting ones.
4. Make cooked warm breakfasts like oatmeals, porridges or simply cooked apples with warming spices (see next) and do not start with cold cereals, dry and hard crackers, frozen smoothies, raw fruits (especially heavy ones like banana)
5. Use warming spices like cinnamon, clove, cardamom, cumin, nutmeg, oregano, thyme, turneric, black pepper, fresh ginger. However do not over do the “spicy” as it creates too much fire and acidity.
6. Make your lunch the biggest meal of the day and have light, cooked dinners with vegetable soups and stews. Use ghee or olive oil.
7. Avoid dinners with heavy, oily, fried and with animal protein and using cooling oils like coconut oil. 
8. Take it slow like nature. Slow down, rest more and get cozy with a blanket and sweet tea or golden milk! Sleep about 8 hours. Make sure not to exhaust yourself, running around, not sleeping 8 hours

8 Winter Wellness Tips

Winter Wellness Tips

What do you think about the tips above? Do you also feel like these will make you feel better these days? Enjoy this wonderful season and just make sure to be in synchronicity with Mother Nature

If you need a helping hand to go through these transitions and apply the daily routines, join one of my programs like 10 Day Online Ayurvedic Winter Cleanse, or Winter Yoga and Ayurveda Weekend Retreat, or 12 Weeks Online Holistic Coaching Program Zenfitgourmet.

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Baked Cauliflower Recipe | Turkish Kitchen

The Prettiest Cauliflower Recipe! We can even call is a cauliflower Birthday cake!! (no don’t try on teenagers!!)

I first tasted this in Barcelona in a great vegan restaurant in 2015! That trip changed my life as we had the seminar with @nutritionschool @joshuarosenthal and I decided to do Yoga teacher training.

Barcelona inspired me to be brave, creative and colourful again! I miss traveling soo much but for now we keep memories alive and travel with the food we cook at home!

This cauliflower taste will blow your mind and be a feast for the eyes! The tangly tahini sauce, colourful decoration and sweetness of pomegranate, crispy smoky pine nuts are the best combination.

Course Salad

Cuisine Turkish

Keyword Cauliflower, Salads

Prep Time 25 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 3 people

Calories 240kcal

Equipment

• pot
• pan

Ingredients

• 1 Cauliflower
• Olive Oil
• 1/2 cup Tahini
• Spices: mint, pepper(red and black), cumin
• 1/2 Lemon juice
• 1 clove Garlic
• 1 cup Finely chopped parsley
• 1 cup Toasted pine nuts and pomegranates to decorate (Optional)
• Salt and black pepper

Instructions

• Put the oven to 180degree centigrades
• Cover your cauliflower with olive oil and sprinkle your spices and salt
• Bake it in the oven around 40-50minute, watch out the color towards the end, don’t over brown
• Meanwhile, mix tahini with lemon juice, stir well and then add some water to make the consistency as you wish
• Add mashed garlic into this and mix well
• When cauliflower is baked, take it out of the oven and pour over the sauce and then decorate with parsley, pine nuts and pomegranates.

Notes

Plus sometimes you might want to try different versions of cauliflower, other then the almost too trendy cauliflower rice:) Here is a delicious salad that you can enjoy with a touch of Turkish cuisine a unique combination of flavors of pepper paste, mint and onion!

Have you tried Cauliflower pizza? Click to see my caulidlower pizza recipe now: Unbelievably Delicious Cauliflower Pizza