Turmeric

I have always found that a good curry helps my arthritis quite a bit, so maybe it's down to the turmeric. I would imagine that eating a great deal of it might cause side-effects, though.
I have also noticed that a gin and tonic gives me more pain relief than you would expect from one shot of alcohol. I suspect that the botanicals in the gin are helpful, and I would love to know which are the active ingredients. I'm not much of a drinker and have no intention of becoming alcoholic in order to relieve my 'screwmatics', but believe me, it's tempting!

Here is the link Beammeupscottie the link for tumeric tea click on the highlighted blue words and scroll down.

The Tarka dal is delicious, except I double the onions, spices, garlic, ginger, everything and just add the amount of chilli I prefer, (I chop my chilli up, not just put it in whole as the recipe states) to the amount of yellow chick peas. I also put in a tablespoon of coconut oil. It's a BBC recipe and very delicious with the extra spices etc, I found it a bit bland previously. Tarka dal recipe.

I do have a cauliflower tumeric and ginger recipe my DD was told by a woman she worked with who is from India. I love it and a very different way to cook cauliflower. We wrote it down as DD was just verbally given the instructions, so will have to search for it. This recipe is not on google that I could find. Also the Indian woman made what we call flat layered bread, exactly the same as I have in an amazing vegetarian recipe book my exh bought for me over thirty years ago. Basically flat layered bread is:
1 cup of plain flour (I use half white and half w/meal).
Splash of olive oil
Salt
Enough water to make a dough
Mix and let sit in the fridge for at least half an hour. I now put some oil on my board, instead of flour and roll out thinly, it's so much easier. Cook in a wok or cast iron pan, pressing down and this gets nice air bubbles.
It was interesting this woman didn't use any oil to fry it as In my recipe book. If I was using a more delicate pan I would add a bit of hot oil.

I have in the last few years stepped up the amount of tumeric and ginger I eat, cut out dairy and processed sugar most of the time, added more greens and tried to follow a more alkaline diet. This was because of heartburn and indigestion problems and my arthritis symptoms have basically gone unless I eat things I shouldn't. Plus restless legs and a few other things have gone too. I feel better than I did ten years ago.

Beammeupscottie the cauliflower steak recipe looks great, I will try it.

Stuffed Cauliflower Recipe
Chop up one cauliflower in a food processor.
2 1/2 green chillies, 1 inch of fresh chopped ginger, 1 desertspoon of tumeric, 2 desertspoons of ground coriander.

Fry chillies and ginger in oil adding spices until they sizzle, add cauliflower and cook until softens but not too soft. Continually stiring the cauliflower. I use a wok.

Make flat layered bread, 2 cups of plain flour, oil, salt and water. Roll out pastry thinly, add cauliflower mixture, seal sides (like a pasty) and fry in oil.

Thanks a lot, Faye. All above much appreciated.
I think the warming factor of Indian spices is important. I find that if I keep warm (layering up clothes, as well) I feel so much better. Eating spicy food is basically good for me.