all right what type of things would you fix if you're having company come over well i have a really great one that i make in the summertime because it's cool and it's uh it's just really pretty easy it's pretty much dumping things in and stirring and i like that uh-huh uh the only thing you have to do is cook the rice that goes in in it and then i you're supposed to do chicken but i just use those little cans of chicken uh-huh and it makes it so much easier and so you dump the rice you dump the chicken and then you put in fruit like pineapple and mandarin oranges and grape now grapes are the ones that you have to pull all that off but i get my kids to do that so i i don't have to do that oh and um and it really and you mix it all up with yeah there's a little dressing that goes in it that you have to stir up but it's so simple and it tastes really good because it's cool in the summertime uh-huh oh yeah you serve it cold oh yeah that sounds good yeah it has to sit in the fridge over night but but it's really good hum and i like that one yeah usually when we entertain we do something really simple because i like to visit with my company and not be scurrying around in the kitchen so a lot of times we'll barbecue like that for Memorial Day we had some friends over and we yeah exactly just bought a brisket and marinated it overnight in one of those like Adolph's Meat Marinate and put it on the smoker and uh-huh oh that sounds good cooked it and that it was real good you can buy a fairly cheap piece of meat that way and then people think they're eating steak or something yeah yeah and these days that helps doesn't it yeah yeah yeah it really does i know what you mean i don't usually i just pass on any recipe that's got more than five or six steps to it because i just know i'll never take the time to do it now spaghetti's such an easy one um i do that a lot uh-huh i do spaghetti a lot yeah it seems like most people like spaghetti yeah i don't like to do that if if it's hot real hot though yeah because um i don't know i have a real thing about being hot in the in the summertime i guess uh-huh well i think when you heat your kitchen up it really makes a big difference yeah in your whole house yeah i think that's right and um we don't entertain that often but when we do i'm like you i like it to be fast and easy and something so that we can talk and not uh-huh yeah and not have to worry about being in the kitchen all the time most we don't entertain like people from work or stuff even often usually friends from church and stuff and it's usually kind of like yeah you want to come over and they say well what can we bring and so it's real easy because you just make one or two things and everybody else brings something yeah that's exactly like us from our church we just do it yeah oh yeah yeah it's a lot more relaxing i don't know if i could take the pressure of having to make you know put on this really fancy dinner for someone oh well you see all that on TV and i could never be that person huh-uh it just uh i'm just not well i'm so i'm pretty laid back yeah and uh and so i don't i know a lady in a my church and uh she like does her own bread and does her own stuff and so when she um does food she really goes all out and i don't know how she can do it and be calm yeah yeah do you work i guess no i don't do you stay home with kids uh-hum yeah yeah i i've been working we're going to have a baby this summer and i'm not going to work anymore yeah so hopefully i think i'll enjoy cooking more when i don't have to work all day i don't like to come home and oh how exciting stand in the kitchen and spend an hour fixing something and then have to clean it up and by then it's eight thirty or nine o'clock at night so yeah well i usually start about six and an and cook and and then eat at seven i mean cook cook at five and eat at six rather uh-huh eat at six yeah yeah and uh my family and i we're a sit down together family oh that's good uh yeah i don't like the run in and out part and yeah i like to be able to sit down after school and have them talk with me and and my husband about what's happened and yeah that's neat i think i that was ingrained in me during my family time at home and uh uh-huh you know we could learn to talk about things and i think that's good yeah that really is it keeps the family in touch with what's going on with each other yeah i think right now we eat in front of the TV but since it's just the two of us it's yeah yeah well that happens to us sometimes too uh yeah sometimes if something uh is on that they want to watch i leave it on but we eat in the kitchen and their heads are always poking past the door uh-huh see what's happening yeah anyway food is is uh a real lifestyle kind of thing and i some people don't like to do this but i like to cook uh cook with my kids oh uh-huh and if they're going to have other kids over then then they help and we make real simple things you know those oh i don't i don't know if you've ever made them maybe not since you don't have kids yet but those JELL-O uh gelatin things you can pick up with your fingers i can't think of what they call it oh i've seen those in the magazines yeah they're so simple uh-huh and the kids love to do that uh finger food is is a biggie with them and yeah and like now one thing i wish i could find a a better way to do are celery sticks and carrot sticks because they love to do that and it's just really hard and if they have to work with a knife i don't like that so yeah that's uh they like to eat it but it's a hard one to have to to prepare yeah i'll bet but they like that with the the cool ranch dressing that goes along with that so yeah oh yeah yeah we like that that's good that that's a good way to get kids to eat vegetables too yeah my son's getting to be a a real good cook so uh oh neat sometimes he fixes me breakfast oh wow that's great yeah i like it i like it a lot how old he he's eleven eleven wow that's good uh-huh yeah so he's do you cook breakfast like you cook a breakfast every morning or uh not every morning uh mostly during the summer it's hit and miss and we usually have like uh cold cereal or something like that um during the summer during yeah yeah wintertime when they're in school um then i try to vary it so that we only eat that like a twice a twice a week or something and then have like when it's really cold i even cook oatmeal because i like oatmeal and the look they like it all right and um uh-huh yeah then sometimes we do something it has to be fast because they're on their way to school we do like Eggo waffles and stuff like that but oh uh-huh yeah yeah so i try to uh and sometimes we do eggs if i get up early enough to do that i used to do them in the microwave but they don't like that oh do they get rubbery or uh um i've never tried it it depends it depends if you let them cook too long uh-huh then they'll turn a little bit gray you can tell if they've gone to long because they'll turn a little bit gray and they will be a little harder and i don't like that yeah so you have to just let it cook a little bit less than what it says in if you have a microwave book but uh you cook it a little bit less and then let it sit with a like a plate over the top and let it steam and then and then stir it up oh uh-huh huh yeah an and that turns out okay and it's funny because if i turn them out on to a dish i on to like a plate for them to take what they want yeah uh-huh they don't know i've ever done it in a microwave it's really funny it's very deceiving you know because if they see it with their eyes they go uh i don't like want that yeah you know and yet if they don't ever see it then then it's like oh this tastes okay you know so anyway yeah we had my grandmother used to do that to us with things like squash everybody would say we don't like squash we won't eat squash so she would make these fancy casseroles and hide it in there you know and then we'd go oh this is really good yeah