Meh, it's my life :)

I took my mum to Omotesando-Aoyama to the Organic Market today. Didn’t get off to a great start because on the way there a really hammered guy started chatting us up, so we lied and said the next station was ours. So we had to wait about 10 minutes for the next train.

Anyway, the market was brilliant - with a great variety of organic food (from multi-coloured tomatoes to chicory fake coffee). Nearly every stall offered us sample tasting and often when we bought things we got something free (like some fresh mint, or a yellow tomato, or an extra apple). It worked out a lot cheaper than buying fruit and veg from the supermarket as well. 

Plus, there were quite a few stalls selling hot food, such as freshly baked pizza (this guy had a FURNACE in his van, a real PIZZA OVEN!), falafel, soups, coffee, curry etc. A lot of it was vegetarian too.

This market is on every weekend, from 10am to 4pm on both Saturdays and Sundays. It’s just in front of the United Nations University, which is 3 mins from Omotesando Sta. exit B2. 

See you there! 

http://www.naturalhealingcenter.com/vegetarian.htm#mothers

Today I went to the Earth Embassy’s Solar Cafe (http://www.earthembassy.org/)  in Kawaguchiko (just outside Tokyo) with my parents.

In an area that is so beautiful, the Solar Cafe grows all of it’s produce - including pumpkins, kiwis and many types of herbs. We helped out for the day, planting seeds and weeding (which was actually quite therapeutic, there’s something about yanking out roots that appeals to me.) 

The woman who runs it (Mitsuko) showed us all around the farm (which is 100% organic) and it really inspired me to eat much healthily. I don’t mean more fruit and veg (as a vegetarian, that’s kind of a given) but more organic food. We really don’t know what chemicals are floating around in those unnaturally red Japanese apples.

Anyway, the title refers to the food we ate in the Solar Cafe. Two huge pizzas were brought out: one was tomato, cheese, aubergine and herb pizza, the other was tomato and tofu pizza (YUM). We polished those two off, before being presented with a pizza that was…interesting.

This was our ‘dessert pizza’. It was banana, mild cheese and garlic pizza. And it was delicious (I’m still not quite sure how).