今日は久しぶりに陽がさしていたので、ランチの後、ウォーキングに出かけました。車で数分のところに車を停めて、森の中をぐるっと歩いたのですが、なにしろこのところ雨が多いので道が泥濘んでいて歩きにくかったです。ウォーキングシューズもどろどろ。森の中の人が歩いたことで出来た細い道をトゲだらけの枝をかき分けて歩く感じです。ま、歩ける時に歩かないとね。結構歩いた気がしたのですが、２キロちょっと、３０００歩くらいしか歩いていませんでした（笑）。森の中は広いでのたまに人を見かけただけですが、大きな駐車場は一杯でした。イギリス人って歩くのが好きだなぁと思います。
As it was sunny today after so many rainy or grey days, we went for a walk. We parked our car in a car park, which is just a few minutes’ drive from home, and walked in the woods. Having had rainy days recently, the ground was very muddy, the walking path is very narrow and covered with wet leaves if not mud, so it was quite hard to walk. You also have to walk between thorny branches. Not really my idea of pleasant walk. Still, it’s good for me. I thought we walked quite a lot but it was only a little more than 3000 steps (a little more than 2km). As these woods are large we didn’t see many people while we were walking but the large car park was quite busy. Brits love walking whatever the conditon.
日本ではみなさん、お節やお雑煮を召し上がったことでしょうね。我が家は、なんと餃子でした（笑）、しかも市販品。この時にネットオーダーした冷凍餃子がまだあったので、今日食べてしまうことにしました。味が濃いことを覚えていたので、タレは黒酢とラー油だけでお醤油はなし。それでも濃かったので、この後少しご飯と一緒にいただきました。味は悪くないと思うのですが味が濃くて、最初の１つ２つは良いのですがだんだん食べにくくなります。ご飯とビールがなくては厳しい。
I guess Japanese people are enjoying the special New Year foods today, but we had gyoza. There were still quite a lot of the gyoza that we ordered online in the freezer so we decided to have them for dinner today. I remembered that they were quite strongly seasoned so we used just black vinegar and chilli oil in the sauce, no soy sauce. Even then after one or two they started to taste too salty so we ended up having some rice with it. I think they taste quite good, I just wish they didn’t use so much soy sauce in the filling, you really need rice and beer with them!
この餃子、皮がとても破れやすいので優しく優しく扱わないとバラバラになってしまいます、初めて焼いたときにたくさん崩れてしまいました。今日は上手く焼けて、やれやれ。
These gyoza can het broken so easily, so you need to handle them very gently. When I first cooked them many of them fell apart. I learned my lesson and I managed not to break any today.
