5 Types of Seasonal Foods for Autumn
When choosing products for your everyday menu it is better to choose them according to the season.
Nature already provided us with everything our body needs during colder days when the sun energy is low.
Preparing warm meals during cold weather will improve your immunity, mental abilities and even your mood.
Proper choice of spices can benefit your digestion system and give balance to your body.
Dill, fennel, ginger, horseradish, chili, rosemary, basil and curcuma are just some of the spices you can use in this time of year.
How a Walk in Autumn Forests Benefits to Your Health
Autumn is a season that is accompanied by feeling of peace.
During autumn our life is slowing down and we are getting ready for winter. We are trying to rest, save energy and maintain the psychophysical balance.
Contact with nature and feeling of peace along with calming colors of autumn will help you relax and get rid of negative energy, and at same time, it will fill you with positive energy.
Autumn stimulates creativity. Shades of autumn fruits can be used as a healing therapy and can also improve your creative abilities.
Autumn fruits are rich with healthy ingredients such as vitamins and minerals that can improve your health.
Autumn days are a perfect time for stopping and rethinking of past period, and getting ready for the upcoming period.
Hot Vegetable Soup with Ravioli – Perfect Meal for Cold Weather
Warm soups with their enchanting smell that heat you from the inside are an excellent choice during cold weather.
The ingredients they contain are precisely what the body needs during winter.
You can add ravioli to your soup and use the vegetables you prefer. Tortellini can be used instead of ravioli as well.
Prepare this tasty vegetable soup that will bring out a warm smile in cold days.
Fried Chestnuts with Vegetables and Apples
Do you like chestnuts, apples, beetroots and sweet potatoes, but you never combined them together?
Then this is a recipe for you.
This is a tasty family meal and a chance for you to try something new.
Heat the oven to 200°C. Peal beetroots, onions and sweet potatoes and cut them into chunks. Cut the apples into medium slices.
Into a saucepan add apple cider vinegar, vegetable broth, butter and heat until it boils. Reduce to medium heat and boil for 15 minutes.
Chestnut’s sweet benefits
Now is the ideal time to go out in the nature, enjoy fresh air and find chestnuts.
Sweet chestnut, lat. Castanea sativa, is one of the first food items humans ever ate.
It is mostly found in southern Europe and around the Mediterranean and historians believe that this plant came from Greece into Europe.
The chestnut tree resembles oak tree, it is much appreciated and has high quality and it can live for 500 hundred years.
The oldest chestnut tree, dubbed “Hundred horses”, is located on Sicilian mountain Etna and it is believed that it is between 2000 and 4000 years old.
Nine essential oils used against the common cold and sinus infection
Respiratory pathways’ occlusion, headache, annoying coughs… Common cold caused a variety of health problems.
Although there are many products for treating common cold, we recommend you to try natural remedies.
One of the best natural remedies is aromatherapy, which has proven to be really successful in reducing inflammations, nasal occlusions, cough and pressure in sinuses.