The Raw Girl

The next time you’re visiting Stockholm you should definitely visit Ecobaren, located in Centralbadet (The Central Bath) on Drottninggatan (Stockholms most central street). Not just because I work there and will make your lunch or dinner seem so much more fun with all my anecdotes about detoxing and green leaves (oh yeah) but also because the food and the location are amazing. The bar is located in a hidden quiet garden in central Stockholm and when you’re in here, all you can hear is relaxing sounds from our birds while you sit and meditate by the small pond. If you want to sit inside however, we have a café where we have sunlight therapy (yes, we Swedes only get 4 months of sun a year) accompanied by harmonic music.

Today I had a raw salad with a raw cheesecake while I was working in the light therapy room and I feel just as chilled out as it sounds. So Zen right now. Hope to see you guys here soon! Big Love.

Organic salad with hemp hoummus, avocado and fresh greens  it’s hard to smile and eat at the same time – but I did!

Greetings! So, as you guys been aware, this week the blog has been filled with pictures instead of words due to a week packed with lectures, food making and organising.

For those of you who aren’t really up to date, here’s a little update: Since April I have been studying under the Nordic Raw Living Chef Academy in association with Creative Health Institute, Michigan. We have been taught the teachings of Ann Wigmore and specialising in raw gourmet food as well as focusing on detoxification and living food. Yesterday I obtained my diploma and I am now ready to rock around the world of greens.

This week was the last week of the course and it was in-ten-se. The last week was organised as a festival in Mundekulla, Sweden where all the raw chefs from the nordic countries gathered with lecturers and festival-goers. I worked as an assistant to my wonderful teacher Janne Larsen who runs the course and I did everything from making lunch to being the festival’s toastmaster. We had amazing guest teachers such as the queen of green smoothies, Victoria Boutenko and the raw gourmet chef Boris Lauser.

Today I start my new job as a project manager for the Ecobar in Centralbadet, Stockholm where I will be organising detox programmes, lectures and raw after work parties. I cannot describe how much I’m looking forward to helping people live a better life by using food and nature as their medicine and please keep e-mailing and sending facebook messages on my page if you have any questions about detoxes or greens. Have a great monday and remember that every second is perfection.

Yippieee

I’m so thankful for this whole week. It has been spiritual and educating in so many ways. Recipes and posts will follow.

My friends! I am having the best time, enjoying life, eating raw food and playing with ponnies. As I’m working at this festival as a toast master and a raw food chef I don’t really have too much time to write a post so I hope these pictures on my phone will explain. Love light life.

Hey ya’ll! This week is going to be (r)a(w)mazing since I’m going to the south of Sweden to work at the Raw Food festival in Mundekulla . It’s going to be seven days filled with amazing lectures by Victoria Boutenko and food made by raw gourmet chef Boris Lauser. The festival is located in a beautiful place and we are going to be spoiled with yoga morning classes followed by green Ann Wigmore-inspired energy soups and chanting in the evening. Not weird at all. Just a great week.

I’ll post pictures of my spiritual journey (heh) both on the site and on the facebook page so if you can’t come there with me, you can follow my trip online! C’est bon!

Mundekulla Sweden

When I first tried these I had a proper foodgasm. As in I literally had to stop everything I was doing except chewing and take God’s name in vain because these little beautiful creations made my taste buds sing Halleluja. These savoury snacks are perfect to serve as aperitifs at a dinner party, especially since they’re so beautiful as well.

For the quinoa stuffing you will need:

2 cups of soaked quinoa (black, ride or white doesn’t matter)

1 cup of tahini

1 cup of fresh figs

some maple syrup

sea salt

blend this ingredients in a big bowl with a big wooden spoon or your hands. Add some finely chopped cauliflower and some apple cider vinegar after personal taste. Mix everything until creamy and add more maple syrup or tahini of you need to. Thinly slice some beetroot and stuff some quinoa salad in them, just like the pictures show. Enjoy.

This super simple dish is so creamy and bursting with flavours. It’s creamy “spaghetti” made on courgettes served with a basil pesto sauce and peppers. For this dish, you need a vegetable spiralizer which you can get from most health food shops. Spiralize the courgette and slice the peppers thinly and put in a bowl. Make the basil pesto sauce by blending 1 cup of olive oil, one cup of pine nuts, 2 bunches of fresh basil leaves, 2 cloves of garlic and some lemon juice. Mix it into the bowl with all the vegetables. Now this is what I call fast food.

Hey you guys! I’m back from London where I had some rawmazing experiences and I can honestly say that the raw, organic and healthy way to eat is growing in that city by the day (except if you look at the rising popularity of sausage makers and beer brewers but never mind those hipsters). One place which really embraces the raw vegan way of life in London is Saf, a restaurant placed on the second floor of the huuuge Whole Foods in Kensington.

Raw Maki Rolls starter at Saf

During the weekend I met their lovely brand ambassador Hannah who also runs the page Raw Jam. We sat for hours and talked about how many bananas a day you can eat, the wonders of greens and colonic irrigations. Yes, don’t ever go to lunch with a raw girl.

At Saf we had the wonderful maki rolls made with cauliflower rise and for our main course we had a vitality salad made on swiss chard and a beetroot miso sauce. It was all so delicious. I can’t wait for my next visit to Saf when I can try their new juice menu designed by the lovely Hannah!

Swiss beats

A lot of people aren’t big breakfast eaters and others have the problem of getting anything down in the morning. I am not one of them: I can eat at any time, anywhere – you name the place and time and I’ll be there. However, for you people with a more delicate stomach, this smoothie is perfect for those mornings when you don’t really feel like a full English or when you’re in a hurry. It’s also a great energy booster before going to the gym since it’s packed with natural fruit sugars which will make you the freaking queen of Zumba at 7 am. Believe you me, been there, done that.

For this smoothie you will need:

Half a cup of coconut cream

One banana

One squeezed orange

One Kiwi

One cup of Spinach

Mix everything with a cup of water, pour it in your gym bottle and you’re ready to go. If I have a really hard workout at the gym, Rocky II style, I add in some hemp protein powder just to prolong my endurance and give me the extra push I need. Hemp protein has omega 3 and 6 fats as well as chlorophyll, vitamin E and iron which helps you refuel even as you’re working out.

The coconut is not actually a fruit, but a nut and it has some amazing properties. Medical studies shows that it kills off bacteria, fungus and yeast as well as boosts your energy levels, enhancing physical performance.

As for the fruit, there’s a lot of debate whether too much fruit is bad for you, considering all the sugar in them, but being a natural food lover, I have a hard time believing in the evils of fruit, these little blobs of sweet nutrition, courtesy of our Mother Earth. I believe that you should eat everything in moderation, but if something makes you feel good – and I’m not talking about “Mm-mm, this Snickers sure makes me feel GOOD” but more like “Oh, this buckwheat oatmeal sure is healthy and makes me feel good”, then go for it. So blend these fruits, bless it with your thoughts and you’re ready to go!

Finally! Here are the ingredients for the Raw Tiramisu from Inspiral. Unfortunately they are a bit secret with the recipe but I’m going to try and make my own and post it here soon. However, I recommend you guys to go there and try it next time you’re in London. It’s deliciously creamy.

Ingredients:

cashew nuts
raw coconut
almonds
dates
raw buckwheat flour (soaked & dehydrated, gluten-free)
extra-virgin cold-pressed coconut oil
vanilla powder
decaffeinated coffee
raw cacao powder
raw cider vinegar
probiotics (Acidophilus)
xylitol (from birch trees)
Himalayan crystal salt
pure raw almond extract
pure raw rum extract (alcohol-free)

Hey ya’ll! I’m in London at the moment for a special birthday boy and that obviously had to be celebrated with some birthday cake. Birthday boy and I had a lovely Tiramisu cake at Inspiral which is in Camden Town. The cake was made on this amazing almond cream, however it was also made with non-raw coffee but that’s okay because we’re young and wild and it was birthday boy’s birthday! Grrr! I will put up a raw Tiramisu recipe as soon as I have time. Until then, enjoy these mouth-watering pictures.

Sweet juicy carrot bread, the bread that makes you feel like an orange coloured party is taking place in your mouth. This bread is juicy, naturally sweet and completely nut-free which makes it a lot less heavier, since nuts a lot if the time can make people feel bloated and tired. When I make raw bread, I usually try to use as much easily digestible food as I can, so a lot of fruit and vegetables as opposed to wheat or nuts.

So here we go.

Raw Carrot Bread

2 cups of buckwheat

2 grated red apples

4 grated big carrots

1 cup of mixed soaked flax seeds and psyllium

half a cup of olives

1/3 cup of olive oil

salt

fresh herbs and spices

Mix it all in a food processor and form into little shaped squares on a tex flex sheet. Put in the dehydrator for 12-16 hours. Remember to flip them around halfway through.