You know when you have that last swim of the summer. You enjoy it and it feels great but it also feels kind of bitter sweet.
Like you know it won´t be the same tomorrow.
You can walk to the same spot look into the water and turn around because now the magcic is gone.
Summer has left the buliding. Like a lover has left you and you him.

All is like it should be you have new grounds pave and other paths to walk.

But it also feels a bit sad. Those feelings feelt will not to come again, you get reminded that life changes with the seasons and you have to follow along.

I always turn Miss. Melancholy when this happens. I want to turn around and throw in the towel no matter how good my life is.

To get out of this slump I do three things.

I meditate and practice yoga.
I stare into a wall and daydream.
I plan ahead and keep busy.

Meditation and yoga is a remedy that works well. Like brushing my teeth. It just does its thing.
Staring into the wall and daydreaming I try to do when by myself….. People don´t really get this part.
Plan ahead and stay busy was very easy this year. Things have finally fallen into place and I´m very busy.

Apart from my jobb this fall I`m booked to fly out on the 17th of september with Yogiakademin to Biarritz. I get to indulge in my passions yoga, food, be by the sea and also I get to bring someone I love with me.
This will be my vacation this year. I´ve worked too much and need to breath a bit.
At the moment I don´t feel happy. I feel kind of sad, tired and far away from myself.
That´s what happens when you focus on one thing and loose the rest. That´s what happens when you leave to much of your life in other peoples hands.
You should never have to prove yourself just be who you are.

MORE YOGA

Then in october and november I´m going to cover a few classes for AnneSophie/YogaKungsholmen when she is of to India.
A-S was my yoga student and went on to be a great theacher on her own. Funny how life turns out:)
I´m glad yoga is moving more into my life after a long absentness.

SOAP AND WATER GIRL

About beauty and all that shit. People think I eat cleaner than I do. My regime is my life.

I love my coffee, pizza, chocolate and I eat loads of it. I move around all the time but then when I rest I´ve learnt how to be still.

This is all I do. No fancy creams on my skin or luxurious workouts. I´m just soap, water and some simple stretches everyday.

Anyway as I always say let pictures speak more than my words

Catwalking

Getting my make up done at the Björn Borg fashion show

Fashion week lunch by the lily pads

The last of the summer in a glass

Like a healthy apple pie…

Yoga girls TW

Wheat grass shots

Raw sushi

Market made plant food

Without make up

With make up

Raw beauty

Sweetness

Farmers market love

My idea of a sandwich

I´m sorry for my no blogging. I´ve been busy at work and the time at home has been sleep, shower, dress and back out into the world again.

I work at Stockholms Matmarknad as a raw food chef, but I like to call it plant food since I don´t follow the strict rules that raw food has.
Flavors and texture are more important than not heating food over 40°. I do use only plants when at the market but I eat and enjoy eating everything organic and made with love.

It´s also been really great weather so the little free time I´ve had I´ve been social beeing with my friends and family. Places I love in Stockholm are resturants such as Babett where they serve a amazing pizzas and brilliant natural wine. I love love this place.

At work I make plant food breakfasts as usual, psychadelic glasses of cashew yoghurt colored with red beets and Blue majik powder. 

I also started to make lunches as take-away and one raw dish a day served in the market. I love the way raw food now has moved from just a health nut fly to a great and beautiful way of presenting and eating plants.
I also love that it´s served in a posh and beautiful setting where you also can get some of the best foods around made by other “traditional” chefs. No one is excluded and this is the future of food.
Last week and tomorrow our juices and lunches have been deliverd to Rachel ( Yoga Girl ) and her husband Dennis. I think this is the third time around that I make them healthy eats. See their blog where you can follow this yoga super star. She is healthy, honest and has the happiest of smiles.

There are so many projects bubbeling in my calander and I will share more this week. Untill then here are some of my favorite things.

Pictures sometimes speaks louder than words.

Blue Majik cashew yoghurt

Blue Majik

Overnight oats

Psychadelic plants

More glasses of plant love

Yoga girls lunch

Cauliflower rice to go

Cauliflower rice to stay

Setting for a shoot I did last weekend

Vintage is THE best designer here chez Lisa Larsson

Farmers bliss

Gold of the woods

Picked up at work

Buckwheats and blackberries

The color black

Wine from Etna

Chez Skogkvist and Edlund

Night out with my boys Fox and Rasmus

Babett pizza

Life on board

Farmers bliss

Took a U trun to the Hidden House

Vin & Natur

Cray Cray party

Fire walk with me

Corn on the barby

The Hidden House

Midnight photo session “craycray” photo by Fox

Some hours later

Summer bliss

Bumble bee

Stockholm Fashion week and I´m doing a catwalk. Sunday fitting.

The days when vegan food was considerded weird or too “hippie like” are numbered. Very soon we, who love this food will all be able to get what we desire and have longed for at other places than in our own kitchens.
And it will look beautiful and taste even better.
The plant food movement around the world is seeing to that.

Top of the line resturants such as Noma have vegan chefs and use water cleaners to enhance their vegetables, both taste and quality. No one is excluded. And in the process nature is taken care of, local products are brought to light as well as local farmers.

At my work Stockholms Matmarknad we seek out the best products. Plant or animal. We get inspired and learn from each other so we can bring our hay to the stack in this movment.

More and more people grow their own veggies. Foraging and urban farming are two of this seasons most used words on IG.
People are starting to care about thier food and where it comes from. Food is starting to matter.

Raw food is not only for hardcore yogis and health freaks.

To use products such as chia seeds, buckwheat and drink juices are becoming more than a silly trend.
The methods used by raw food chefs have caught the eye of other chefs, or it it the other way around.
Who really care as long as the word is spreading that this is just another way to prepare food. It broadens the spectra of what we can eat and it makes us healthier even if that isn´t what we sought out to become.

I´m one of the lucky ones and can eat almost everything in normal amounts. If I overindulge or underindulge I feel bad.
Both body and my mind gets disturbed. BUT note this it has taken me all my life to get to this point and the journey has been hard and painful.

But it was worth it and it continues everyday. I hope for the rest of my life and the richness it has brought to me I hope to share with others.

I practice yoga daily and have done so for the past 15 years, no day is the same. The practice changes as life moves on. It´s just like brushing my teeth. I don´t really think about it but without yoga as without the brushing it is just unthinkable.

All of this and more has helped to deal with my low self esteem and disrespect to my body. I´m 41 years now and as I look at pictures of me at lets say the age of 20, I can´t get passed the thought, why was I so unhappy with that?

Well the answer is simple to me now. Your body and how it looks has little to do with what you eat or don´t eat. That´s just the headache, the symptom of something much deeper rooted in you.

The eating is just a way to control what can´t be. And to not deal with what actully can be dealt with.

As with alot of these issues we deal with them in quite harsh ways. We feel bad that we have issues and this becomes a hinder to becoming more healthy.

Who doesn´t have issues, if it´s not food it´s something else.

This is why plantfood is not diet to me and it´s not food as medicine. It´s just like brushing my teeth. I don´t really think about eating this way and would rather eat a good goatscheese than over eat nuts and seeds. Just as anything else when eaten to much makes me sick.

Thur my blogging here I want to create a forum where instead of talking about detoxes and cleanses as removing the lustfullness in life. To transform the “detoxlife” into finding the tools to add the good stuff first.

First you learn how to crawl then walk. And then you can make what you want with your world.

Recepie for sprouted wild rice risotto below.

WIld white currants

I make plantfood every weekday at Stockholms Matmarknad

Plantlove

Homemade

The color purple

WIldrice risotto with almond parmesan

Just me and some petals. Photo: Fredrik Skogkvist.

Wild rice rainbow risotto.

Soak 2 dl of wild rice over night.

Rinse in morning and let them sprout for 3 days.

Turn the rice in tarrogon, lemon zest, cold pressed apple cider vinegare and cold pressed oil of your choice.

Mandolin half of a small cauliflower head into the rice mix. If you can find purple this will boost the dish in color without effect on the taste.

Pimp with small tomatoes, again use color!

Color is such and easy way to make any dish go from a bore to a beauty!!!!!

Almond parmesan is easily made with soaked and rinsed almonds and for better taste you acctivate them in 40° in your oven. I prefare to work with dry nuts instead of wet.

Here I used 1 dl of almonds.

3 tbs of kombucha.

2 tbs of nutrient yeast.

1 tsp of turmeric.

Lemon juice and zest, maybe half a lemon.

1 tsp of pink salt.

Mix and use straight away or store in a cheese cloth for 2-3 days.