Att komma till ett annat kök är både kul och utmanande. Om jag ska på semester tar jag väldigt sällan med mig det jag är van att använda varje dag. Det jag “tror” jag är beroende utav.
Om jag är på jobb så är det mer köksredskap och råvaror än kläder i packningen. Påsar av gröna saker och pulver gör packningen minsta sagt intressant…..

Det är kul att komma på lösningar och mycket utav det som hittas på på resor jobbar sig senare in i vardags köket.

Livet i köket är sällan idealiskt precis som livet själv. Att lösa “problemen” är en del av utmaningen som gör det så spännande att leva och jobba med det jag gör.

Nästan allt annat finns i Grasse bästa möjliga råvaoro och miljön to die for. Men saker som där min Vita Mixer och torkugn finns inte.

De flest jag pratar med säger ofta att jag skulle gärna pröva att tillreda det du gör men har inte en mixer, jag har bara en mixerstav. Att äga en “sate of the art” mixer är inte nödvändigt och inte att ha tillgång till torkugn. Att torka i din vanliga ugn går minst lika bra. Mer om det i senare inlägg.

Hos mina föräldrar är det mixerstav som gäller och för att undvika smoothies, nötmjölk och annat flytande i hela köket klär jag in tillbringaren eller skålen i folie eller en plast påse. Jag klipper ett håll för själva staven och vips så undviker att själv bli helt ned skvätt och slipper få skäll av mamma för att jag stökar omkring.

Sista kvällen gjorde jag en kall soppa på rå pressad sötpotatis och morots juice som blev jätte fin utan svin dyr mixer.
Låt inte recepten jag postar här eller på mitt IG konto @detoxlife få dig att tänka att det går inte utan det ena eller andra. Fråga mig så hjälper jag er!!!
Jag har själv inte alltid ägt allt som det ser ut som man behöver och har haft jätte kul när jag hittat på lösningar på vissa svåra recept. Practice make perfection.

Till soppan gjorde jag raw food sushi med rotselleri ris som jag gör på hakad rotselleri, kokosvatten och citron. När jag sen skulle rulla ihop rot riset med alla grönsaker var sushi mattan borta.

Har ni underlägg som det som finns på bilden nedan går det minst lika bra, eller något annat platt och rullvänligt.

Raw sushi:

Rot riset görs på palsternacka, persiljerot, rotselleri eller jicame roten. Mixa i omgångar med lite kokosvatten och citron saft. Du måste pröva dig fram och låt riset hellre kännas lite torrt än att sushi blir blaskig.

Till en rotselleri behövs 1 citron och ca 1 dl kokosvatten.

To use another kitchen is both fun and challenging. If I’m going on vacation I don´t bring my kitchen applinces. What I think I am dependent of when a prepp and make plant food.
If I’m on the job there are more utensils and veggies than clothes in my packing. Plastic bags of green plants and superpowders makes my suitcase look very suspecious.

It’s fun to come up with solutions and it can make its way into my everyday kitchen life afterward.

Life in the kitchen is seldom ideal like life itself. To solve the “problems” is part of the challenge and what makes what I do so interesting and creative.

Almost everything can be found at my parents house in France. The best possibel local produce and the environment to die for. But things like my Vita Mix and a dehydratore is a no show.

When I talk to people about raw food or plant food they really want to try to make some of it but feel they can´t without this and that. Belive me I have tried my way thru alot when I didn´t own what I do today. It works and it tastes just as good.

At my parents it´s a hand mixer and drying in the regular oven or sun that is the sollution. More on drying in oven in later posts.

The last night of my mini vaction I made a cold soup of raw pressed sweet potato and carrot juice. It was lovely without THE Vita Mixer.
Do not let the recipes I post here or on my IG account @detoxlife scare you away. Everything can usually be made with what you got at home. If you want to. Ask me and I will help you!!!
Practice makes perfection.

I dressed the bowl with the juice in it in tin foil so the liquid would stay in it and save the kitchen from soup and me from my mothers scoulding I´m making a mess. You can use a plastic bag as well.

Raw Sushi:

The raw rice is made with parsnips, parsley root, celery root or jicame root. Blend it in batches with a bit of coconut water and lemon juice. You have to see for yourself how much of the liquid you need. But it´s better to make it dry than too watery.

For one celery root I needed 1 dl of coconut water and juice from 1 lemon.

Cleaning out the fridge

Abundance

Violetta

Last juice of vacation, oldie but goodie

When in france one needs at least one butter croissant

Coco whip and raw juice for soup

Cassava chips in the baking

Last dinner, raw sushi, cold soup and baked chips

The solution to a splatter free kitchen.

Padmasana

Back at work making glasses of raw love at Stockholms Matmarkand

Drink mixers for Paolas Open Air fiesta

Blogging and making menues at Fredriks and Elins apartment, best view around

As you might have noticed I get a lot of my inspiration here in France.

Coming to this place which is filled with memorabilia from all the places we´ve lived in.
Books, pictures, paintings and china together with it´s beautiful surroundings makes creative marks in me that last till the next time I come back.

The food I use today in Stockholm I´ve used here for years. Everything is bought locally and is mostly organic. If not picked from the garden.

Also coming down here means time to rest, eat well, do lots of yoga and sleep.

My mother usually presents me with one or two objects each time I´m here from my past.

Books and reading, putting words together like therapy for me. I keep different dairies of words, photographs and plants.

This time around she gave me my old book Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
Dr.Seuss along with Alice in Wonderland and Marilyn Monroe are my favourite quoters.

Although I´ve mustard thru most of the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali Yoga sutras. All filled with amazing descriptions of the mind, the body and the soul.
I still love the easy quirky children’s books more. Quotes like “today you are you that´s truer than true there´s none alive who is your than you” are brilliant.
As we all know a child mind is still uncoloured by society and often more openminded.

Green Eggs and Ham made me think of how it´s to serve and get people to see the possibilities with plant raw foods.
No one wanted to drink something green 7 years ago. Now it´s everywhere.
But sometimes the reaction can be:
Kombucha what the fuck is that?
Dry pizza for 24 h?
I hate plants!
Why eat flowers and drink birch sap?Why make nut yogurts and banana nice creams?

Because it´s good for you? Well not only that. It´s a magnificent way to prepare food. We actually use really old metods of how to preserve the greens and fruits in raw food.

When I made the psychedelic glass the first time it was kind of a smoothie mix going for a fail that turned into a win.
When shit went crazy in the glass I thought that´s pretty. I love it.

I thought if Jimmy Hendricks was a health drink he would be just that glass of taste and colour. Also I never felt full drinking just a smoothie and thought eating just chiapudding was a drag.
Layering healthy trips like this is all around us and it´s a beautiful way to eat what´s also good for you.

The book is about how this little dude is trying to make Sam eat green eggs and ham. Sam doesn´t want to because it looks different and is wierd.

I overheard famous Swedish chef looking at one of the glasses I made saying it´s just mushy stuff in a wine glass. Which is true if you see it that way. So I´ll give him that, it´s not for everyone.
In the end though Sam eats his greens and loves it.

I eat everything.
I´m quite the mix of both the detox and the retox. I´ve tried the hardcore eating nothing. The eating not this and that.
I´ve done to much yoga and Í´ve lost all focus and space.
The only way that makes my life work is “balance is key”.
You might find me on a yoga mat, sipping a juice or eating something planty.
And you might find me messing about with my friends at my favourite bad behaving places.
Or you might not find me at all. Sometimes I just turn of reflect and go into my “man cave” mode. A necessary need in my fast moving forward world.
Then my friends sms and ask are you alive Jo?

My mom always said taste everythingat least once and I´m happy I did. In each country we´ve lived I´ve tried and learnt about flavours. Experience is the best teacher.

So I add to what she said by saying this, play with your food to open your mind.

Rejuvelac yogurt in the making

Plant food

Cracked eggs omelette

Real tomatoes

Green stuff

Green stuff with salt

From the garden

You might like it

Green eggs

The color purple

Memorabillia from Iran and cheese from plants and animals

Eat my peach

Man caving

Idag spenderade jag halva dagen på en marknad för inhandla råvaror och inspireras av det lokala. Fantastiska ostar, fiskar och annat gott inhandlades.

Andra halvan spenderade jag vid poolen. Man vet att man är i vacation mode när man kan ligga i 2 timmar och titta på fjärilar och trollsländor. Att drömma sig bort i böcker och tidningar känns helt onödigt när allt är så vackert. Paradisiskt.

Ikväll blir det pasta, ugns torkade grönsaker, ost och vin. Riktig pasta blir det för oss. Jag behöver äta något rejält, har levt på jos och grönt i 5 dagar nu och min kropp behöver grundande mat.

Alla tål inte gluten och vissa undviker det helt. Det finns fina raw food pastor att göra och zuccini pastan är väl den vanligaste. Jag föredrar pumpa eller sötpotatis men hittade inga idag.

Om du inte har en grönsaks spiral och vill göra “pasta” utan pasta…. finns det olika alternativ. Se nedan billiga alternativ som inte tar så stor plats i köket. Och inte kräver tid eller en massa diskande.

Today I spent half the day on a market purchasing loads of local and organic products. Getting inspitration from local farmers. Amazing cheeses, fish and other goodies where purchased.

The second half I spent by the pool. You know you’re in vacation mode when you spend 2 hours watching the butterflies and dragonflies. The need to dream away in books and magazines feels totally unnecessary when everything is so beautiful. Paradise!

Tonight we´re having pasta and oven dried vegetables, cheese and wine. Real gluten rich pasta, yes I eat this and pizza too.

I love the freedom to be able to eat what my body needs, knowing what and when after beeing so restrictive with my diet before.

Tonight I need to eat something substantial. It´s been lots of juice and plants  for 5 days now and my body needs grounding food.

But not everyone can eat gluten and some just avoid it completely. 

What´s great is that there are greatare raw food alternatives you can make. I guess zucchini pasta is the most common. I prefer to make mine out of pumpkin or sweet potatoes it´s crispier.

If you do not have a vegetable spiral and want to eat “pasta” without the pasta there are various options. I´ve placed out a few easy to handel and quick to use in the pictures so you can see how they look.

Dagens jos

Jos lurre

Plants

Vit aubergine

Plantlove

Zuccinis

Julienne peeler & zest järn

2 sorters skalare

In i torken

Beauty