Tag: winter
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Autumn & Winter kitchen garden
My autumn & winter kitchen garden is doing so well!! Inside; cress, radish, carrots, all sorts of herbs and germing the pea seeds to put them outside later. And outside: spinach, pepper and chives. Hoping for less 🐌… … found out with a farmer (how can we ever do without them?!?) that all these years…
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Winter remedies
It’s wintertime. That means a lot of flu, snot and coughing.. specially when you work with children like me. Here are some natural and organic Ayurvedic home remedies that function very well as antibiotics, anti virales and strengtheners of the immune system. Important is to keep eating Sattvic according to the yoga diet with lots…
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Kitchen garden lessons: Winter-ready
The last kitchen garden lesson for this year: how to make your small food garden winter-ready. First you take out all the plants with their roots. That is very important. The plant of the fresh mint is a real usurer and had roots all over the place. They were very hard to take out. You…
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Autumn is coming: find happiness within
Days are getting shorter. More clouds are coming. My garden is becoming less green and more colorful. The last buds of the gerbera are coming out. Birds are busy preparing for winter. I took out the last useful bits of my kitchen garden. Beans will not grow any further, the courgette plant has just some…
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Warm winter smoothie
Drinking cold smoothies makes us sometimes feel even colder these winter days, but smoothies are an important part of the Sattvic Yoga Lifestyle. A solution is to add some fresh ginger to your smoothie; this warms you from the inside. Another possibility is to drink a warm smoothie. The one in the picture came out…
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Salad for cold days with avocado, roasted courgette, ginger & pepper
A lovely Sattvic salad for these cold winter days: purslane, tomato and avocado with roasted courgette, ginger and sweat pepper. You can serve it either warm or cold. The ginger in combination with the purslane and pepper will make you feel all warm inside. Together with a cup of hot fresh ginger tea with cinnamon…
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Simple Christmas dish with purple Vitelotte potato and parsley root
The regular potato has almost no nutritious value, but the purple Vitelotte potato is very good for your health. The purple color means that it has anthocyanins, which protect the potato against free radicals. This beautiful colored vegetable contains a lot of vitamin C and is very good for blood circulation, it lowers blood pressure and prevents…
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A lovely Sattvic winter meal
It is always such a great pleasure to go to the organic market and find amazing new fruits and vegetables. This winter season I found a lot of nice different green leaves, which are according to the Sattvic lifestyle, the best you can eat. They contain a lot of iron and are a perfect antioxidant. Especially…
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