okay i guess we're going to discuss food and cooking
alright
do you enjoy cooking
sometimes not all the time
i'm kind of that way too when i have i i enjoy cooking when i have time
right
i don't enjoy preparing three meals a day everyday
yeah that that's about the same boat i'm in too
it gets kind of boring
yeah
how big is the family you cook for
uh five
uh-huh we have four so
and two of them are teenage boys so
oh yeah well i'll be hitting that fairly soon because all of mine are boys too so
are they
and they get pretty particular sometimes in what they want to have
yeah yeah we have that problem too but also now it's just the amount that they eat it's just absolutely incredible
uh
oh yeah well see i my my oldest is nine and he already he already does that
yeah
does he well
and i told him he's going to have to get a part-time job by the time he reaches teenage years so he can eat
yeah that's true uh
do you have any favorite things that you serve when you are doing a special meal
um
favorite recipes that you've come across or
my husband and i our favorite meal is um and we do it like for special stuff celebrations and we have like steak and he does the steak and then uh
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out on the grill uh-huh
uh-huh and he marinates it in his special stuff that he does and it's real good and uh i do sauteed mushrooms so and asparagus and that's our favorite
oh
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ooh yeah
ooh that's sound good i love that
dinner
my husband really likes seafood
yeah so do we
um and uh i think that no matter what i do i don't serve enough of it really to uh to suit him i didn't grow up eating that much seafood
and um so i don't know it's just kind of not natural to me but i like it and uh i don't know one of his favorite things is uh
yeah
well it's called seafood stew and it's really it's really like a soup soup that that you serve over rice
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and uh it has oysters and shrimp and crab in it and
it's not the one with all the shells and stuff in it is it
no no that's kind of Louisiana i think if you do that yeah i don't either
i don't know what that i don't see how you eat that but
but uh no this is just really it is really good and and one thing that's good is it makes the a large amount and so i freeze usually we eat one and i freeze two containers of it then that's just real quick to get it out and serve it over rice
oh
but neither of my kids will eat it you know so then they eat a pizza or
yeah
so it
yeah it defeats the purpose
yeah it really does one thing i've run across
recently though a friend gave me a recipe that i really like for chicken enchiladas have you made them
oh yeah yeah my husband makes those i'm not i don't eat enchiladas i i don't like enchiladas i don't like the texture i don't know i guess it's the texture or something i don't like the taste of enchiladas but everyone else in my family does
does he ooh
uh-huh
yeah
well are these are done with a flour tortilla is that what he uses yeah
yeah
i don't know i it's i don't know what i don't know i i don't know what it is about the enchiladas i just and i'm the only one including my Mom and Dad and my brother i'm the only one that doesn't eat it but my kids love it you know
isn't that something yeah
i was going to say my kids both eat it i guess that's one thing that i particularly like um but i think it's good for you know for for company too and i've made it a few times um and you can make a lot at one time
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when i needed to make something to uh to give somebody you know like you know to take over to somebody's house or something else
yeah
yeah i've got a chicken casserole that's like that that that i've
it it's nice when it makes a lot because you can feed your own family and then uh-huh
yeah because i when i make this chicken casserole i it it makes a real big casserole and then another one that i freeze
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so or i give it to my Mom and Dad if i know we're not going to eat
what what does it have in it
it's just you can use chicken or turkey because my Mom started making it like right after Thanksgiving and using the leftover turkey
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sure
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and it's rice and i i i when i do recipes i just throw stuff in i don't i'm not real good about measuring because i just i do it to taste
yeah
uh-huh sure sometimes those are the best ones
and
well yeah but it it's like it's just chicken it it's as much as you want you know torn up and and rice and cream of chicken soup and some mayonnaise and lemon juice
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and celery and that's it and some hard boiled eggs
yeah ooh that sounds good
and that's it you just mix it all together and pop it in the oven just to you know heat it through and you sprinkle uh that those um toasted onion rings
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oh yeah those are good aren't they uh-huh
on top of it for the crunchy and that's it you know and it it it goes and it's filling because of the rice
um
that sounds good
right
so
you cook the rice before you put it in yeah
uh-huh yeah
i bet the mayonnaise in there makes it really kind of gives it a tang that would be good
yeah it gives it a an extra yeah little tang
i guess i would now use the the new mayonnaise free
yeah that cholesterol fat free
yeah that's really wonderful that they're coming out with so many
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new things like that because like i told my husband this summer i love to eat you know chicken salad and tuna salad and stuff like that and and you know basically it certainly a low low calorie you know good thing except then you put your mayonnaise in there and spoil the whole thing
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i know
you know and now it's it's it's okay and you can even i used to just put a tiny bit in well now i'm just putting more and more in
i don't like tuna salad unless it's got lots of mayonnaise in it
yeah and it's only it used to be like a hundred hundred calories per tablespoon and now it's like twelve oh i just think that's the best thing to have happened i'm just so excited about that
yeah
i know
anyway
yeah we did the low-cal stuff well with my kids i don't they get enough sugar and stuff anyway mine are bouncing off the walls normally anyway and they don't need any added help
yeah
yes
right
so when we're here at home
you know with sweets and stuff they they don't we don't really do that much i do a lot of fruits
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instead of the cakes and the candies and you know stuff like that and and drink wise they have Kool-Aid milk or water normally now when they go to their grandmother's house
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yeah
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which is every weekend it's a it's a different
it's a different story all around
that's when they
as our family would say a pig out huh
uh-huh that's exactly what it is
that's good oh one of my boys that that's twelve um is has high cholesterol
oh really
have you ever found out about your kids
no not yet
and my other one does not so oh year or so ago he found out and he went on a fairly strict diet to try to get it down and did he was able to get it down
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it's i think it's mostly hereditary because we really have never eaten high things in cholesterol he's never eaten any eggs he's never had anything but skim milk and you know i've never bought butter and things like that but um
yeah
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oh he just left for the doctor again and it's it's kind of back up um so he needs to be careful again so we've really been talking about the foods you know for him to to be sure to eat yeah and uh
yeah
the lower cholesterol foods and stuff
so he's eating an apple a day for the last two days
so all that kind of stuff does really help well i think we've probably talked long enough and
