At Kanna Mountain Run and Walk in Gunma held on the other day, after a trail running clinic by Tsuyoshi Kaburagi, there was...
地のお野菜の煮物から、
じゃがいもの味噌汚しに
地元の学校の体育館でウェルカムパーティーです。
a welcome party at a local gymnasium.
Let me introduce the feast.
地のお野菜の煮物から、
Simmered local vegetables,
spinach with sesame seeds,
じゃがいもの味噌汚しに
potatoes smeared miso
Shime-tofu (Shime means tighten), simmered tofu which excess water was removed.
sweet potatoes with syrup
kintoki sweet beans
大豆に
little sweet soy beans
卯の花。
u-no-hana, bean curd refuse.
焼き魚（これは紅葉鮎でしょうか？）。
grilled fish (is it momiji freshwater trout? See that red lines)
すいとん汁に
suiton dumpling soup
Pickled plum.
Turnip pickles, too.
「ここで採れたものばかりで、私たちが作りました」。食生活推進評議会の皆さま〜！ ご馳走さまでした、本当においしかったです。
"We cooked it all with local vegetables," members from a local diet promotion committee. Thank you very very much for everything, it was SO good!
そして甘味いろいろ。
And local sweet after meals.
ちなみにすだれ羊羹はこんな感じです。結構堅くて、私としては結構好きなのですが。
btw, this is sudare (bamboo blind shape) yokan. It is rather hard, but I kinda like it.
何かこの食感に似た、砂糖でコーティングしてある半生羊羹で拍子木の形してピンクとか白とかのお茶うけなかったでしたっけ… そうそう、「やどりぎ」！（あー、すっきりした）
Do you know Japanese sweet which has a similar texture of this and it is white or pink color to go along with tea. Sugar-coated... yes, it's yadorigi! I had it when I was little.
And this is...
Sake Sambaseki with char’s bone soaked. It was too much for me before a race, so I skipped it...
でもご当地の食材を使った食事で大会を迎えることができるって、嬉しいですね。何だかその地の自然から力をもらえた気がして！：）
But it's nice to welcome a race day with dinner made by local products, don't you think? I feel like to get really force from a nature in that area!
