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

Om man tolkar om ordet falafel till sanskrit blir det lång peppar, arabiska het peppar eller något fluffigt.

Det summerar ganska bra hur det smakar, lite starkt och kryddigt. Och känslan om man träffar rätt är väl lite fluffigt.

Den här varianten är plant baserad och nästan raw. Ofta när jag tillreder maten bränner jag kryddorna i en torr panna för att få fart på oljorna i dem. Så inte helt raw då, men för mig är smaken viktigare än labeln….

Till dessa fluffiga tussar dricker vi cocktails idag. Jag har dedikerat dem till 2 av mina favorit bar-män i Stockholm.

Andreas Bergman som driver Tjoget och just nu huserar i Visby med sin nattklubb Get A NightLife.

Mathin Lundgren som jobbbar på TeaterGrillen när han inte är pappa ledig till sin Flora. Han har även gett ut boken Barmästarens Manual.

Bägge två är regelbundet på Matmarkanden och inhandlar frukt till drinks eller små shots att återställa sig med.

Bägge två prioriterar bra kvalite på råvaror och är inte rädda för att sticka ut. Sånt som jag gillar och respekterar.

Raw falafel.

3 dl groddade gröna linser.

2 dl blötlagda och aktiverade cashewnötter.

1 vitlöks klyfta.

1 citron zest och juice. Pressa själv och sila bort fiber alt använd en slowjuicer eller kallpress.

1 apelsin zest och juice. Pressa själv och sila bort fiber alt använd en slowjuicer eller kallpress.

4 msk olivolja.

1 tsk bränd cayenne.

2 tsk bränd spiskummin.

2 tsk bränd sötpaprika pulver.

1/2 hakad färsk koriander.

2 msk tamari.

I den här batchen använd jag även de oxhjärts tomater jag torkade i går till lasangen. Inte ett måste men om det finns ta ca 4 soltorkade tomater och blötlägg i tomat juice. Se varför jag använder råjuicen istället för vatten här.

Preppa juicerna innan och kyl. Blötlägg och aktivera nötterna någon dag innan. Det kan vara bra att göra mycket på en gång så det finns i skafferiet.

Bränn kryddorna.

Mixa allt till en krämig deg och lägg ut små rundlar eller egg över ett bakplåts papper eller torkungs underlag.

Torka i ca 6 h på 40° eller i tork ugn över natten.

Servera i gröna blad med hyvlade grönsaker och fruktiga såser.

Drick cocktails till.

Vi ska dricka de två jag gjort till A och M. “Flora the Bellini och Kinky KoKo.

If one interprets the word falafel from Sanskrit it becomes long pepper. In Arabic, hot pepper or something fluffy.
The meaning of the name kind of sums up how it tastes. A bit strong, a tad spicy and if you make it into perfection it´s a bit fluffy in the middle.

This variant is plant-based and almost raw. Often when I prepare the food I burn the spices in a dry pan to activate the oils in them. So not quite raw but for me the flavor is more important than label.

To acompany these fluffy balls we´re having cocktails tonight. I´ve named them after two of my favorite bar men in Stockholm.

Andreas Bergman who runs Tjoget and is in Visby this summer with his nightclub Get A Night Life.

Mathin Lundgren who works at Teatergrillen when he is not a father to his lovely daughter Flora. He has also published the book Barmästarens manual.

Both of them are regulars at Stockholms Matmarkand getting fruits for drinks or small shots to restore themselves with.

Both of them give lots of thought to good quality in what they use and they are´t afraid to stand out. Things that I love and respect.

Raw falafel.

3 dl of sprouted green lentils.

2 dl soaked and activated cashews.

1 garlic clove.

1 lemon both zest and juice. Squeeze yourself and strain out the fiber alt use a slow juices or cold press.

1 orange both zest and juice. Squeeze yourself and strain out the fiber alt use a slow juices or cold press.

4 tablespoons olive oil.

1 teaspoon burned cayenne .

2 tsp burned cumin.

2 tsp burnt sweet pepper powder.

1/2 dl chopped fresh coriander.

2 tablespoons tamari.

In this batch I used the oxheart tomatoes I dried yesterday. It´s not a must. But if you want to use it take about 4 sundried tomatoes and soak in tomato juice. See why I use raw juice instead of water here.

Prep the juices before and store in the fridge. Soak and dry the nuts a day before. dry loads so you have around in the kitchen.

Burn the spices.

Mix everything into a creamy dough. Roll into small balls or eggforms and place on a baking paper.

Dry in a regular oven for 6 hours at 40 ° or in the dehydratore over night.

Serve in green leafy vegetables with more plants and fruity hot sauces.

AND drink cocktails.

Tonight we will drink the two I made to A and M.  I named them “Flora the Bellini and “Kinky KoKo”.

Dagens jos

Jos lurre

“Flora the Bellini”

På sanskrit långpeppar