To launch The House of Dagmars new sustainable bag collection I was asked to make some plant food munchies useing products from work.
Sustainability is something we strive for both in produce, products and production at the market.
The bag collection is made locally by Swedish craftsmen using organic leather and a specialized vegetable tanning process.
Read more about this original bag collection on my blog and Dagmars website.
Also an interview with me about my view of food, what, how we eat and most important taste of the future “the taste of ethics” will be posted soon.
You can of course get the Dagmar glass all October at the market.
I was totally worn out and sick when I boarded the plane to Biarritz. At home I wake up 45 minutes earlier to do my practice.
Peoples reaction to this is why?
I can´t see how I could not. Daily practice has been part of my life for the past 16 years in one form or another.
It´s a thermometer of my physical, mental and emotional state. It gets me through the days and mirrors where I am.
Of course the physical aspect is a big part of it, even more so when not working as a yoga teacher.
My body is active the whole day and stress is the key ingredient in my life at the moment.
Ideally it would´t be like this but life is seldom ideal. I´m working with and thru whats around me. Trying to not get sucked into the dramas at work and in my personal life.
Of course this is impossible but with the practice it becomes very apparent what I can change and what I can´t. This makes it easier to focus on transforming a shitty situation into something productive.
I have not succeed with this the weeks prior to my trip.
So even though not part of the yoga retreat as a student and with work to be done both there and else where.
The nature, silence, people, making food the way I love to, local organic markets, and with time to really practice every day made me feel a little bit less fragmented than when I left.
And we’ve laughed a lot. Josefin, Peter, Isabel, Gonzalo, Jessica and Shay where a great crew.
Yogaakademin and Surfakademin are run by Peter, Jens and Josefin. They are travel agencies for yogis and surfers looking to deepen or learn to practice yoga and surf in different parts of the world.
Vera learnt how to surf with Surfakademin who took her to the beaches along the coast of France and Spain to find just the right waves.
New friends where made and I remembered a part of me that has been neglected for far to long.
Today I made a raw lasange for lunch at Stockholms Matmarknad. I traded the usual nut based cream for pumpkin seeds.
Pumpkin seeds is an alternative to nut butters and pestos for those with food allergies. It is a great source of protein, vitamins A, E and C, zinc, calcium, iron and potassium. It also contains the valuable omega 6 and 9 essential fatty acids.
When making a real pesto no mixer is needed. I use a cutting board, knife and a mortel. But to make the pesto more like a butter I used a high powerd Vitamix to really make it creamy.
Some of the best basil you can get is Swedish and from Åkerby Handelsträdgård and can be bought at the market.
To make this pumpkin seed butter/pesto you need:
4 dl of pumpkin seeds.
3 dl of coldpressed olive oil.
Zest and juice from 1 lemon.
2 tbs of agave nectar. I used raw honey from our roof tops. City bee hive farming a couple of stories up in the air.
1 1/2 tbs of salt.
5-7 dl of good fresh basil.
Mix a little bit at a time in mixer. Always pour liquid or in this case oil first to avoid the seeds and leaves to get stuck.
Pumpkin butter pesto lasanga
Raw wraps
Raw cashew curry
Regram from a happy costumer
Filled peppers
Nature Wine tasting
Below you can see a selection of some amazing wine from Vin natur that we had last weekend at yet another epic day shoot that turned into a lunch, a dinner and some great pictures by Fredrik.
Grapes
Ange ou Demon
The amazing sea made these
Someone stired this risotto for hours and it wasn´t me
