12 tips to welcome the New Year

There’s just a breath left of 2020. No one denies it, it was a cycle of learning. In culinary terms, a year of changing molds, rectifying measurements, feeling frozen, fermenting, and with that miracle, a time for growth, becoming as elastic as the doughs we love the most. As things are a reflection of people, at Kiwilimón we had a busy year. First, we celebrated our first 10 years of life. Then, when the unthinkable happened, we stayed close to you so that the healthy distance existed only outside the kitchen. Mau Eggleton and Yolo talked to you about innovative techniques and preparations, and on the site, we wrote more diligently about the culinary topics you are passionate about. Did you notice? Our recipe videos got a makeover and we launched a new format with tricks that help shake off a few minutes. In the end, we recorded 537 videos with tricks and dishes designed to make you happier in your home office, during home schooling, or simply in the middle of a series.As a final act of 2020, we would like to share with you how we are thinking of welcoming the year: twelve tips –some delicious, others good vibes– to bring joy to our hearts. You know, rituals have been part of humanity in cycles of closing and opening, not out of superstition, but as acts that allow for a leap in consciousness. Take stock: not everything was bad, right? Be grateful for the time you’ve been able to spend with yourself and your children, for the challenges you overcame, for the time you had to practice that recipe.Close the year by forgiving and forgiving yourself. There are no blames or guilty parties, just people with unhealed wounds.Clean your fridge, your pantry, your closet, and your life of what is already expired, what no longer serves, and what takes up physical or emotional space for the new.Take the time to go inward and give yourself all the love that you didn’t receive in the way you would have liked. Ultimately, you are your true companion and hopefully, you are the best one. Embrace it, and 2021 will be easier.Sweep, clean, move the furniture around. Light candles and incense to restore the energy of your home and to thank it for welcoming you like never before this year.Express your love to others who, like you, are sometimes light and other times, shadow. How about some cookies, a pie, some cupcakes made with a lot of love?Make the most of cooking the New Year's Eve dinner to strengthen bonds with your children, your partner, your parents. They are your companions on your journey. Give each one their mission, respect their way of doing things.Send messages of love, solidarity, or reconciliation to people. If they don’t receive them as you expect, still, you are creating the causes of peace.Fill your house with white flowers. Play music that raises your heart rate, that excites you. This will put everyone in a state of joy.Plan to start a change in your lifestyle. Look for new diets and ways to care for your body in harmony, without overexertion.Welcome the year with hope, but without expectations. 2021 is as it should be and will be a thousand times better if you welcome it open to all possibilities.Welcome the New Year by jumping, smiling, embracing with your soul –or with your body, if you all live together–. Celebrate life. A new cycle begins and with it, an opportunity of infinite potential for it to be whatever you want it to be.