hello hello hi my name is Leslie hi Leslie i'm Carol hi Carol where you from uh Plano Texas oh you're kidding so am i oh well we're right here in town then maybe we know each other yeah you're not from choir are you uh oh Leslie who Leslie French okay what choir are you from uh Christ United Methodist well of course i'm the little short one that sits on the end by Judy Dillon oh okay i'm in the soprano parts you're a soprano well i well we can chitchat easily without any sweat then yeah what a hoot i i'd forgotten about this thing i have been so bad oh good well i have too i have too and i obviously it's working now i should oh i guess so i've only had uh one other chance at this thing and i will do better well okay Leslie what are we gonna discuss Leslie we're supposed to discuss food and cooking fine and uh did it describe it to you at all well it i was hunting for all of my stuff and every time i pressed a button they were already talking by the time my phone clicked back in yeah i have a cordless phone that doesn't do well okay well and it says uh which foods would you recommend for uh a menu for a dinner party and then maybe we can share a recipe with what they kind of what it kind of said great we can do that i don't care what you serve i'll let you go first you're in charge of the call you ready to press one uh yeah okay let i'm pressing one right now okay go okay well i was thinking about if i did a dinner party right now i'd do a Mexican Mexican fare of sorts because that's about the only thing i'm creative at and uh what kind of things would you put on it well for appetizers i'd start with the you know the typical cheese nachos and uh melt the cheese over the chips and uh put some green pepper or i mean chili peppers on top of that for those who like it hot and then another good good um recipe for appetizers is uh bean dip i don't know if you've ever done that but you put just the uh refried beans and then a layer of uh um-hum of sour cream oh that seven layer dip well it doesn't really have seven layers mine doesn't anyway and then i put like a layer of cheese and then some salsa on top of everything and then you just use it for dipping your chip into and okay okay you that's a wonderful recipe yeah it's real good and then a what would you use for your main course probably go with fajitas oh yeah uh season up some good chicken and beef and chop up a whole bunch of things so that they could kind of pick and choose what they like and that's an easy way to please everybody yeah yeah that way if there's something that they don't want then they can just simply leave it off on their own that's right that's a good idea so i haven't done many dinner parties though lately i've just been uh well i'm a very casual informal person so most of my quote dinner parties um-hum would probably be very laid back we'd probably do ribs or chicken or something like that on the grill put with corn on the cob and maybe a tossed salad fresh fruit that type of a thing yeah um-hum i'm a i'm a lover of paper plates in the summer time and disposable plastic forks throw them away for an easy cleanup yeah uh-huh uh-huh so i i'm afraid i'm not a real fancy sit down kind of use your best china oh dinner party kind yeah that's me too in fact we don't even have our dining table yet so i guess we've been pretty casual for most of everything so well my life is kind of casual so my dinner parties would be also well speaking of dinner parties are we still doing this uh um well what's a good potluck for eight to ten people what do you yeah we you know what i was planning on doing i didn't know if it was needed but was a salad i mean that's i didn't know if it had to be a casserole of sorts it can be anything okay it can be anything i i may just bring fresh fruit because i know everybody will eat that even though it's not okay you know someone'll bring a meat yeah yeah if not we go meatless i don't care yeah we don't we don't we eat too meach too much meat at dinner parties anyhow that's right yeah it's kind a yeah yeah well that's that's my my love of if i'm not going to have a full meal is to make sure i get a good salad in there and a good you know thing of fruit and that that'll satisfy most anybody so i think they always go over well yeah okay how long we supposed to talk on this about three minutes i hope i think we've probably discussed all they need to discuss yeah okay well then if we're done it's all we do is just say good-bye right well okay i've enjoyed talking to you and i if i have a Mexican dinner at anytime i'll do i think i'll run your yours by and have fajitas and bean dip and the whole nine yards yeah i'll get yeah yeah sounds good nice talking to you bye-bye okay i've enjoyed talking to you bye