嫁の妊娠50 ～餃子がマズいとは言えない自分は大人になった～

７月に入り、嫁のお腹もどんどん膨らんでいる。

そんな中、どうしたことか、嫁が嫁らしいことをちょいちょい始めた。

今までは夕食の材料も夕食作りもほとんどボクがやっていた。

しかし最近、土日の休みに、１週間分とは言わないものの、数日分の食材を買い込み、冷蔵庫や冷凍庫やチルド室を満杯にする。

しかもそれを使って、土日は夕食を作り始めた。

もちろん平日になるとボクがその食材の中から考えて作るのだが、それでも素晴らしい進歩。

嫁は料理の腕はまずまずで、だいたいが美味いか普通かで、ほとんどマズいことはない。

しかしながら、今日作った餃子に関しては、どう考えても美味しいとは言えない。

嫁いわく、国分太一さんがやっている番組「男子ごはん」のサイトに載っているレシピを見たらしいのだが、なんというか、困った。

２人で楽しく笑顔の中で一緒にタネを包み、３０個を焼いた。

ボクは楽しみで仕方なかった。

というのも、以前嫁が作ってくれた餃子が、とんでもなく美味かった。

ジャキジャキと、みじん切りにした白菜やメンマが入っていて、大好きな触感と味だった。

人生で食べた餃子の中で一番美味いと言っても過言ではない。

しかし今日食べた餃子は、なんというか、中のタネが固く、肉汁は出ているのだが、とにかくタネがパサパサしてモサモサして、固い。

その最悪の触感のせいなのか、ほとんど味もなく、付ける餃子のタレの味しかしなかった。

ボクは今何を食べているのだろうと、餃子のタレを味わうために敢えて味のない餃子を食べているのかと思ったほど。

あの、以前食べた餃子が食べられると思っていた反動も、ボクの舌をマヒさせたのかもしれない。

しかしながら、嫁が「美味しいね」と言うと、ボクは「美味いな」と返す。

１口食べた瞬間から、今日の夜ご飯はただただ腹を満たすためだけの食料だと認識して食べていたが、ここで「マズい」とは言えない。

そもそも「マズい」という言葉は誰が作ったのだろう。いや、世の中にある否定的な強い言葉全部に言える。

それがあるから、思わず浮かんでしまう。

万が一にも「マズい」なんて言おうもんなら、お嬢様育ちの嫁は一気に逆上する。

そして「もう２度と料理なんかしない！」と、迷わず逃げるほうを選ぶ。楽なほうを選ぶ。

なのでボクはその言葉を飲み込み、「美味い。美味いけど、オレは前に作った餃子のほうが好きやな」と、一か八かで言った。

するとえらいもんで、嫁はボクの優しさも感じ取ったらしく、食べ終わった後、「よし、次は前に作った餃子作るね」と言う。

ボクはこういうとき、自分は大人になったな、としみじみ感じる。

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◆Wife's pregnancy50　～One who can't say that Chinese meat dumplings tasted bad was an adult.～

I enter in July and am also swelling with wife's stomach one after another.

It has been often begun that what happened during such or that my wife seems to be my wife.

I was doing the material of the dinner and dinner making so far.

I don't say week in one lot a holiday on the weekend recently, but the ingredients for several days are bought and the refrigerator, the freezer and the chilled room are made full.

Moreover the weekend has begun to make dinner using that.

I'll think from the inside of the ingredients and make in a weekday of course, still, wonderful progress.

My wife isn't almost bad by the capacity of the dish is fairly good and whether an outline is good or ordinary.

However, it can't be said that it's how good even if I think, about the Chinese meat dumplings made today.

They seem to have seen the recipe which appears in a site of wife reason and the program Mr. Taichi Kuniwake is showing "male rice", what to say would be a problem.

A seed was wrapped in 2 people together in the smiling face happily and 30 were baked.

I was pleasant and inevitable.

Because the Chinese meat dumplings my wife made before for me were unexpected and good.

There was JAKIJAKI, Chinese cabbage I minced and Chinese bamboo shoot, and they were shokkan I like very much and the taste.

Even if I say that it's best in the Chinese meat dumplings eaten in a life, it isn't exaggerated.

But solidly, the seed by which it's the inside what to call the Chinese meat dumplings eaten today has gone out to gravy, anyway a seed is dry, and, MOSAMOSA, please, it's solid.

Whether it was a cause of the worst shokkan was also almost tasteless and had only the taste like sauce of Chinese meat dumplings put with that.

To the extent I thought anyway tasteless Chinese meat dumplings were being eaten to taste sauce of Chinese meat dumplings whatever I ate now.

It may be the one by which the reaction by which I thought the Chinese meat dumplings eaten before that were eaten also made my tongue paralytic.

However, when my wife says "It's good.", I "am good", and, it's returned.

I recognized that rice is food only of the purpose which satisfies a mind and was eating at today's night from the moment when a gobbet was eaten, it "is bad" here, however I don't have that.

Who would make a word as the beginning "awkwardly"? No, you can say to the negative strong whole word in the world.

Because there is that, I appear unconsciously.

If running after a word that ten thousand "is also bad" in one, my bred like a princess wife becomes frenzied quickly.

And the way where I don't hesitate about "I'll never cook any more!" and run away is chosen. The easy one is chosen.

So I understood the word, and it was hit or miss and I said "It was good. It was good, but I liked and didn't like to the Chinese meat dumplings made at the front."

Then my wife is great and also seems to have sensed my gentleness, and after having finished eating, I say "After I give up, the Chinese meat dumplings made at the front are made."

I feel at such time, that one was an adult deeply.

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