嫁の妊娠49 ～大人数の食事会では食べられない～

出産まであと３ヶ月となった嫁は平日は働いている。

以前は外の現場に出る〝稼ぐ要員〟としてバリバリ仕事をしていたが、結婚と同時に『総務部』という事務職に移った。

まぁ、嫁としては第一線での仕事は精神的にも肉体的にも疲労困憊になるので早く総務に移りたかったと言っていたから、まぁ良かった。

それから１年後には妊娠発覚。

今、７ヶ月目を迎えている。

そして今日の金曜日は、総務部の新入社員や退社する人の歓送迎会だという。

サムギョプサルをみんなで食べに行くのだと。

いい気分転換になってくれればいいなぁ、と思い、ボクは晩御飯に麻婆豆腐を作って１人で食べた。

これが超絶美味い。店で食べるより、自分で作る方が美味いという幸せ。しかも大食らいのボクにとっては、中華料理屋の定食の量ではいかんせん足りない。

つまり、コストパフォーマンスが凄い。

入れるのは、市販の麻婆豆腐のタレ、挽き肉、玉ねぎ、絹豆腐（レシピには木綿を使えと書いてある）、ぐらい。

味付けは市販のタレで充分だし、決め手の片栗粉もタレと一緒に入っているので、白飯と味噌汁の材料を含めても、トータル３００円ほどで４人前の麻婆豆腐が食べられる。

結果、白飯４杯と味噌汁１杯と麻婆豆腐４人前を平らげた。

満腹にはならないが、充分満足できる。

ちょうど食べ終え、痕跡を消すため皿洗いを終えた頃、嫁が帰ってきた。セーフ。

サムギョプサル屋に行き、みんなでワイワイ楽しかったという。

しかし、どことなく不完全燃焼な面持ちを見せる。

どうした、と聞くと、

「やっぱり、大人数でサムギョプサル屋さんとかに行くと、そんなにちゃんと食べられないよね」

やっぱり不服だったらしい。

確かに大人数で行くと、それぞれ食べるペースがあり、１人でバクバク食べるわけにも行かない。

話したいだけの人もいれば、お酒を飲みたいだけの人もいるし、冷めてもゆっくり食べたい人もいる。

しかし最初に明言しない限り、みんな同じぐらいの量を食べるんだろうな、と思いながら、実は食べない人の分も一応残しつつ、鉄板の上のサムギョプサルを２枚か３枚ほどちょろっと食べたら、あとは控えないといけない状況もある。

そうして後半になってきて、「あ、オレ食べないから食べていいよ」なんて言う奴もいる。

『じゃあ最初に行ってくれ！』と心の中で叫びながら、美味しさがすでに２０％ぐらいになっている固くなったサムギョプサルを食べるハメになる。

そういう大人数のパーティーでは、食べたい人とあまり食べない人とほとんど食べない人、に分類して席順を決めるべきだと思う。

ただ、私事になるが、ボクはそんなことは一切気にしない。

なので、相手が誰であろうとまず最初の段階で『ボク、スゲー腹減ってるんですけど、ガッツリ食べていいですか？』と聞く。

すると１００発１００中、『いいよいいよ。食べて食べて』との返答がある。

というわけで、満足するまで、その料理が美味しいタイミングで食べ続ける。

かといって周りを気にしないのではなく、随所で気を配りながらだが。

とにもかくにも、近いうちに嫁をサムギョプサル屋に連れて行ってやろう。

ボクと食事へいったときは、嫁も何も気兼ねせずに食べている。

だって、その正面で食べているボクが嫁の３倍は食べているから。



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◆Wife's pregnancy49　～It isn't eaten by many people's dinner.～

My wife who became 3 months old more is even doing childbearing on weekdays.
I was working energetically as the "personnel who go out to the outside site who earn before, but simultaneously with getting married I moved to a clerical job as "general affairs department".
Oh, work at the front line becomes physical mentally as my wife in exhaustion, so because I was saying that I wanted to move to a director early, oh, it was good.
And pregnancy will be detected 1 year later.
The 7th month is met now.
And I say that today's Friday is a farewell and welcome party of a new employee of a general affairs department and the person who leaves the office.
That I go on SAMUGYOPUSARU to eat by everyone.
I thought it should be good change in pace, and made tofu and meat with spicy sauce in supper and ate by myself.
This transcends it, good. The happiness to which I say that the person who makes with himself is better than he eats at a store. Moreover I get it for me of big acceptance and don't go by the amount of the set menu from Chinese food shop, it isn't done, it isn't enough.
In other words, a cost performance ratio is wonderful.
It's over-the-counter sauce of tofu and meat with spicy sauce, ground meat, onion, silk tofu (It's written "Use cotton for a recipe.") and GURAI to put it in.
Over-the-counter sauce is enough for seasoning and there is also starch of conclusive evidence with sauce, so 4 servings of tofu and meat with spicy sauce is also eaten by the total of about 300 yen including the material of the miso soup with Shirai.
A glass of miso soup and 4 servings of tofu and meat with spicy sauce were eaten up with 4 servings of result and Shirai.
I don't become full, but you can be satisfied sufficiently.
When she finishes eating exactly and the dishwashing to put out a trace has been finished, my wife has returned. Safe.
I go to SAMUGYOPUSARU shop and says that it was fun noisily by everyone.
But the look which is an imperfect combustion somehow is shown.
When I ask what happened.
"When I go to SAMUGYOPUSARU shop by many people as expected, it isn't eaten so neatly."
They seem to have been dissatisfied as expected.
When I go by many people certainly, I have the pace eaten respectively and don't also go to the reason a tapir tapir eats by itself.
When there is a person who would just like to speak, too, there is a person who would just like to drink liquor, too and even if it cools, there is a person who would like to eat slowly, too.
But though I think everyone will eat the amount which is about being same unless it's affirmed first, after 2 or 3 ate SAMUGYOPUSARU on the iron plate with HODOCHORO, also leaving one for the person who doesn't eat actually just in case, there is also a situation that I have to wait.
I'll do that, and it's being the second half, and because I don't eat well, you "may eat", a guy who says what is there, too?
Gusto is about 20 % already while crying "Then please go first!" by mind, it'll be HAME which eats SAMUGYOPUSARU which became solid.
The person who would like to eat by such many people's party, the person who doesn't eat so much and the person who hardly eats. In I think I should classify it and decide seating order.
It'll be a private affair, but I don't worry about such thing at all.
So who a partner is, I ask first "I'm hungry, can GATTSURI eat?" at the first stage.
Then out of 100 shot 100, "I say and I'd like, stay here. I eat and eat, and.", there is a reply.
The dish is good timing, and I keep eating until I'm satisfied with the reason which says so.
But, it's worrying about the turn, and while taking good care everywhere.
While NI is also near an edge, I'll bring my wife to SAMUGYOPUSARU shop.
When saying me to a meal, with feeling hesitant to nothing, my wife is eating, too.
Because I eating in front of it am eating wife's three times.

thank you