yep okay i i do a fair amount of cooking uh-huh and i love having guests to dinner i probably do that at about once a month and uh i usually prepare something depending upon the guests you know if if i like to prepare chicken that seems to please please everybody pasta or a casserole how about you um-hum yeah those are things i like the most i like fish and chicken the most um and um most i cooking i do just comes out of a can uh unless unless it is unless it is i catch a fish and i prepare it and then i just uh you know i just broil it and put lemon on it um-hum well that's about the way i prepare most fish um-hum uh i made scallops the other night that was unusual and uh basically uh i found a recipe to to make it in the microwave and you sprinkled the you you swished around a little melted butter and do uh oh i do not know microwave microwaved them for about nine minutes no no four four and a half five minutes and you had to add sesame seeds and bread crumbs on top very simple but very nice so if you are looking for a fish recipe that was good sesame seeds and bread crumbs sesame seeds and bread crumbs uh-huh and uh my husband liked it yeah and uh no unfortunately scallops are one of the more expensive uh fish items right uh-huh but you know i i look for them to go on sale at the grocery store uh one of the things i love to do eat out how about you oh yeah uh-hum do you have any particular places you like going oh there's a restaurant called String Bean on Spring Valley and Central uh-huh i like that it's just it's just home cooking yes i've been there um-hum and uh i kind of kind of like the black eyed pea but i don't think it's a chain right exactly uh-huh and that's that's the other restaurant also think they got black eyed pea oh so i don't really like uh you know uh chili places or what is it Judge Roy Bean's or oh i don't like greasy places yeah yeah i i i don't feel like they are very healthy and i always feel like the home cooking places are are the healthiest meals even though i tend to have chicken fried steak when i go go to them yeah right and i and i got uh chicken marinara the last two times you know oh how was it it was i was great because that's that's what i like i don't like it you know it's like a baked um you know a piece of chicken and then i get like green beans and mashed potatoes um-hum you know yeah i i tend to uh i get teased by my family a lot because uh i like experimenting on on food and sometimes i go for exotic fairly exotic things and and my father teases me about gourmet cooking um-hum which is not always true but and the thing about experimenting with cooking or anything else is that some of the experiments fail no that's true uh the last time we had some uh friends over for dinner i tried the dessert that sounded wonderful wonderful in the recipe and it was just total bust yeah i was sorry i didn't have ice cream to fall back on yeah my uh my brother tried to make a bunch of things uh way back he tried to make bagels one time oh my that's ambitious yeah and uh we took some and and we had uh German shepherds at the time and we took some and gave it to the dogs and the dog never you know he treated it like a milk bone and he never did finish it he barely made a dent in it hum yeah and and uh then he tried to make grapefruit citron one time uh-huh it's uh supposed to be a candy yeah and uh it it didn't turn out very well it was you know it it like made concentrated all the acid of the grapefruit into uh into a kind of a candy stick so huh see i am not that's interesting one of the things i don't make is dessert um-hum and uh my husband accuses me of putting him through dessert deprivation because you know we have ice cream or something like that and that's why when i took did this experiment for this company we had about three weeks ago it was just a total fiasco um-hum huh um everything else was fine but that was a fiasco well you have to put eggs and everything don't you or uh yeah yeah just about yeah and i i also don't have much of a sweet tooth so i can live without live without desserts for the most part uh-huh use about half the sugar or make everything diet yeah uh do you cook for yourself or do you cook for others mostly i just cook for myself yeah well when i was single i used to uh i think my favorite meal was a a baked potato um-hum it's easy that's for sure and oh yeah yeah oh yeah and i mean i never put anything other than a little butter on it if i had or or if i had a little cheddar cheese sometimes i would grate that up hum yeah i always put cheese on them and uh amazingly satisfying um-hum yeah but you know there's hardly any i guess there's hardly any protein it's mostly starch fills you up and then the cheese has to make up for whatever the protein you get yeah i didn't i didn't say it was nourishing but it was satisfying oh yeah it really is then you have to make a salad or and yeah yeah that but you know um i i never really enjoyed cooking for myself so i ate very simply and i was um-hum that's why i think that's one reason i like having people over because i could try things i mean i must be a frustrated chemist or something like that cause cooking is a little bit like like being in a chemistry lab right um-hum and uh except you get to taste the product instead of instead of having an explosion foam up or blow up or sometimes it blows up anyway oh yeah you know i i once had a an old boy friend over to to dinner when i was just briefly staying with my parents and uh i had this wonderful recipe and and you were supposed to make a a toffee like substance for a pie by uh boiling evaporated milk three hours and it does turn to toffee inside the can oh yeah and uh the only problem was when i opened the can it just flew all over the place it was on the ceiling on the walls and me and and the boyfriend saw that he was supposed to be there at six o'clock not seven o'clock so just at the time all this happened the door bell rang and there he was and i had to have my my my my dad sort of entertain him for a for for awhile while my mother and i scrambled to clean everything up right uh-huh did you let the can cool off uh i really don't remember that was about ten years ago i just remember how embarrassing it was and i have made i have made it since i've i i and several times before and i never had that problem just that one time yeah huh yeah and uh he he was a gourmet cook he was kind of person who acted like he came from San Francisco and he had a very sophisticated taste i i really wanted to impress the heck out of him and and well it was a memorable evening anyway right uh but i i do enjoy cooking so i was awfully glad i was given this