okay i'm a meat and potato man yeah
you are huh
yeah i love to cook outdoors
you barbecue steaks
barbecue steaks and fry fish
but uh no exotic foods although i did order a uh
a uh wok that i saw advertised on TV and i'm looking forward to getting that and cooking some Chinese food
oh okay
pardon me
but uh
i think my standard thing when i have company and i'm not too brave trying new recipes so a lot of times i will get the grill out
and sometimes we do like surf and turf like we'll get some little filets wrap them up with bacon and then maybe do some little salmon steaks at the same time so that's my husband's deal he's out there you know
yeah
with the grill trying to get those things he likes to put sometimes even hickory chips on the barbecue you know get a little different flavor
yeah
and then you do your mashed potato and your salad you can't go wrong with that that'll push please pretty much any guest
i like to kind of make my own barbecue sauce
oh you do
yeah i'll take some of the uh thick and rich barbecue sauce and put a little red wine in it a little uh uh liquid smoke
uh-huh
ooh
um-hum
a little soy sauce
and uh some uh seasoned salt mix all that up together and put it on the steak
um okay
tastes pretty good gives it a kind of a hickory flavor
but uh grill i have i i don't normally put hickory chips in it but it's got the uh uh rocks
uh-huh
in the bottom of it and a lot of times the the juice from prior steaks will give it a a good flavor
oh okay
my only other standard menu i guess is uh Thanksgiving i know how to put the bird in cook the bird and make all the trimmings
oh yeah
oh yeah
yeah i can remember the big Thanksgiving dinners my mother would make
yeah
well what kind of things do you normally have with it people have different ideas of what goes with it
yeah uh you mean Thanksgiving
yeah
uh i i can make a meal just out of the the uh uh corn bread dressing and goblet gravy
oh okay
and uh cranberry sauce i i could eat just that and be satisfied
yeah my uh mother-in-law is into the corn bread stuffing now i never really had that much
before i came to Texas but she is always she makes her corn bread and then of course you know she uses that to to make the stuffing we didn't do that so much uh i'm from kind of like Ohio area
and uh we're you know not into the corn bread as much so our stuffing was um lot of times was uh like sausage or what not we would make it with you know varied uh meats like that
yeah
inside the turkey and then of course we always had to have mashed potatoes
oh yeah
and your standard vegetables like you always had to have some peas and corn
peas and corn and green beans
but uh
and you got to have your cranberry sauce now i like jellied kind
got to have the cranberry sauce
yeah
and you got to have your pumpkin pie
so being from the north i guess corn bread and black eye peas are strange are strange to you
well yeah
most people never from north when we mention having black eye peas and corn bread and green onions
yeah and it's funny because people call things differently in different areas um
my parents grew up a lot in the Philadelphia area i was very young when we lived there but you call things differently like um uh we called them all hoagies down here they call them submarine sandmiches
yeah
yeah
and we didn't ever call it uh Cokes and such you know we call it soda
yeah
um so it's just different terminology for the same thing
different terminology
i don't care much for those subs there's too much bread for me i don't like that much bread
yeah that's it's a different kind of bread and it's somewhat of a harder crust it's not the soft
yeah
you know kind of uh rolls that they have here it was a harder crust and some of the hoagies were cooked like the Philadelphia um steak
yeah
the the hoagie steak that they they sell
but uh Thanksgiving i i don't really care that much for turkey
it's too dry for me
um
i'll eat the dark meat but you can have the white meat
that's like eating sandpaper
well what is it for um New Year's lot of people make ham and sauerkraut
yeah well also New New Year's down here you've got to have black eyed peas
they're supposed to bring you good luck or good or good finances
uh i think they cook cabbage up north i think that's one of the things they want i'm not sure i'm not
i'll eat it as long as i'm not around while it's being cooked
now we always had a ham like on uh uh Easter
yeah
you always have to have a ham or something on Easter
yeah i much prefer ham than i do turkey on Thanksgiving
i think last let me try to think i think the last time we had a big meal like that we did have both i think we did have both on Thanksgiving just in case people you know have a variety
well plus ham if you're going to give a party or something ham's always good for one thing you can carve it and eat it with your hands you don't have to have a plate
yeah
but you can just snack on it
oh that's true well um you work here at the Expressway site
i work at the Lewisville site
oh Lewisville any decent food in your cafeteria up there
uh-huh
i i've heard people that uh have come and visited that plant that uh from other plants that our cafeteria is head and shoulders above the others
really
yeah that's what i've heard
oh
but of course you you know you eat day in and day out at one particular particular place and i guess you get tired of it or whatever and it doesn't seem like it's
um-hum
as good as as people say it is
hum
well i normally work in the north building and um you would think that since you know the executives are there that we would have a pretty good one but
i don't know i think it's just kind of standard like we've got anything while they do cater to the executive dining room but i think they give them different food
yeah
i think so too
and i i at Lewisville i'm not fond of their vegetable selection
oh
uh
they have as far as i'm concerned because i'm i'm not a big vegetable eater they have too many uh yellow vegetables on the same day and
it seems seems like it's it's a variety of the same type of vegetable
um
like they'll have uh
they'll have broccoli and they'll have squash and cauliflower all on the same day
um
and that that doesn't
i'm i like more of a variety than that
in fact one day they they had they had three kinds of potatoes
they had mashed potatoes they had French fries and they had au gratin
now that is a little overdoing it
that's overdoing it
well my husband he used to complain at the cafeteria because it seemed like so many of their different items
they always added garlic to it like he would get tuna salad this is what is that and the first ingredient no matter what you're making garlic
yeah
and he said tuna salad shouldn't taste garlicky but everything always seemed to have a garlic flavor to it
yeah
yeah and every once in a while they'll have dressing but uh whoever makes it uh goes crazy with the sage
um
got to to strong of a sage taste to it
um
but uh
i usually i can usually find something to eat there even if it's a hamburger
well i'm i spend a lot of time over in Park Central
yeah
but we have just a little deli downstairs but in the mornings they make these really good muffins
yeah
they don't make a lot of them and i don't think they make them at other places this little deli is like RC Cooper it's a little place you know it's a little chain here in town it's real small
but uh they make the best muffins we're talking it's a real good size one you know and they make them different flavors like
um-hum
oh they have a chocolate chip one poppy seed is my favorite and uh they'll have like a banana nut and a apple one and a zucchini and a blueberry
yeah
really good they usually pretty much go fast they don't make a lot of them You have to get here early in the morning
yeah
yeah they have muffins there at the TI cafeteria too in the mornings
pretty good
yeah they got uh blueberry and
i guess it's apple or some kind of a
maybe cinnamon cinnamon apple it's it's got the cinnamon on top of it
um-hum
hum
and uh they're pretty good sized too
but i usually wind up getting a donut
a chocolate donut
well you ought to try a muffin if you haven't
yeah like i really need the cholesterol
oh well we all indulge right
um yep
but i love to cook
i wish i was a better cook than i was but i i love to cook
well
i don't like them cleaning up the dishes
yeah i know my husband he'll cook every once in a while but like the kitchen is a disaster area afterwards
yeah
because he has to get everything out and he loves to season i mean he's like he gets every seasoning out of the cupboard you know and uses it and he likes to put lemon
yeah
