all right
all right what are some of your favorite foods i imagine with Argentina you've got some great foods
mine well
yeah well we got um a lot of uh European dishes well we got we got what some people call the best beef in the world
uh-huh
yes uh
so it's uh Bishu like every Sunday you go out and you buy all these parts of the cow and then you just cook them over a grill that's like in our house it's already built in there's this whole special place in the back so that you can make a barbecue
i've had i've had that meal in New York uh where they bring you a plank sort of with all this wonderful beef parts of beef cooked and barbecued and it's marvelous uh i have
yeah
yeah
and then
i have to find a place around here that has that
well they have one in uh they have an Argentinean place down in Georgetown
okay i'll keep that in mind yeah you serve that yourself or the for a family
so um uh
excuse me
you ever serve that yourself when you have company
oh no well see what happens is i'm only twenty two but like when like when i'm down at home and like somebody says okay when are when are we having this you know and i'll and i'll cook it
uh-huh
yeah
oh that
you know like you have to prepare the fire and then put the sausages on and then you know you put all these different meats which take different times
do you buy them um separately at you know an American grocery store now or do you have to or you don't you don't go buy it from a a wholesaler
no but uh what happens is in Argentina they have like all these little places like the fruit stand and you know the dairy and products and whatever and so
little butcher shops yeah
yeah i've i've lived in Mexico so i know
and so they got they got the meat place and so you just go there and you can't find chicken there you got to go to another place to find the chicken
yeah yeah
yeah you have to you have poultry place what do you what other what dishes do you serve with it
well basically it's what we call empanadas which is which is like right right meat turnovers
yeah i the turnover the stuffed turnovers oh i love those uh-huh
and uh then we also put sausages on a bun and then that's that's to start out with and then what you have is also like you know like three different kinds of salad
yeah
uh-huh
and uh that's about it
do you remember when you were in Washington Sam the Argentine baker
uh no
it used to be in Georgetown years ago he moved i guess he he retired and went back to Argentina i guess in nineteen the early seventies
oh okay
yes so that must that's before your time your parents might remember if they were here then
yeah
no we we were only there for two years
okay i mean he was wonderful i we used to get the most marvelous empenadas and other Argentine things
so
yeah
and uh what what i also eat now since i'm in college i have an Italian roommate and
yeah i'm Italian
are you and since being Argentinean we also have a lot of pasta
uh-huh
yeah well because there're many Italians in Argentina
and you know like
yeah and my mom you know like makes like what we call niokes and and all this stuff that it's just you know everything like lasagna and everything
um-hum
uh-huh yeah
my grandparents my grandfather came to the United States through Argentina this was around the turn of the century
oh okay
yeah that's
actually actually a little bit later like nineteen uh nineteen thirteen nineteen twelve nineteen thirteen
at at one point one third of the population of Argentina was Italian like pure Italians
yeah well i'll tell you it's interesting because when we cook here i'm of Italian descent my husband is Chinese
okay
so we and we both love European Continental cooking French cooking so we cook uh our meals are well we don't do we don't usually mix i mean that's well sometimes well if we're entertaining we'll do a Chinese recipe
okay
right
right
and um there are really easy recipe that is you know with Chinese you always have several dishes
yeah
and nowadays with microwaves you can steam many of the things in a microwave i don't know if you have one
yeah yeah
and if you like Chinese food you can take filet of fish and put a little bit of soy sauce and a little bit of sesame oil on top of it
okay
okay
and chop some scallions and a little ginger
okay
and just cover it with some uh waxed paper and steam it just until the fish is done and it's a wonderful
is it
um flavorful piece of fish yeah
because i was uh you know it's like when when you go buy fish you know like well like i buy like the fish that you can do in the microwave you know the breaded fish and you know i've seen you know the filet
um-hum
um-hum
yeah buy a fresh filet of fish a nice one at the fish market uh the fish counter
what kind of fish
um uh any white fish sole is good um um flounder sole or flounder is real good
okay
so we put soy sauce and sesame
and even grouper
little bit of soy sauce and sesame sesame seed oil
okay
and not too much soy sauce uh some chopped up scallions um you know slivers of scallions
okay
and slivers of ginger and then just cover it and put it in the microwave for just
just two say two minutes check it after two minutes to see if the fish flakes and if the fish flakes it's done don't overcook it though
okay because i got i got um one of those little uh microwaves the ones that take forever to boil a cup of water
yeah well till you just check it you know during and another quick dish if you like um if do you know what hoi sin sauce is it's that sweet Chinese sauce
yeah
no i don't
well if you go in a Chinese store ask for hoi sin H O I S I N
wait wait wait H wait ah
H O I
H O I
S I N or S E N either way they'll spell it hoi sin sauce it's a very sweet dark sort of a purplish plum sauce purplish brown
S I N okay
and if you take uh little pieces of pork and you fry them like little cubes of pork
okay
and you fry them with garlic and a little bit of couple dashes of hot pepper
okay
and then mix some hoi sin sauce with sherry
just a little sherry to thin it and stir that in you can even put a spoon of ketchup in and that makes a great pork dish with a sort of a spicy sweet sauce
okay
that you can serve over rice
how how much uh how much uh
how much pork do you buy for two people
um well for two people um American uh if it's American style i'd buy a half a pound if you know we if you're just serving that but if you're serving another dish with it say the rice dish
right
um well with guys pretty healthy appetite i'd probably go a third of a pound and then you know you could
yeah i could i could probably go half a pound
and you can always you can always heat it up again and save you know
so but there's there's just since i'm from Argentina i just love meat and we just
yeah you can also do the same thing using um if you have ground beef just stir fry the ground beef drain off the oil use the same hoi sin sauce and um some of the frozen mixed vegetables
okay
okay
just stir that in and you've got a very colorful side another dish
and how much does it cost
um the hoi sin sauce oh a dollar twenty nine a can a can would serve would serve you for you know for quite a few um meals
yeah
oh okay
yeah okay i thought it maybe it was like you know like five fifty or something
you know
oh no no no no no it's not it's not expensive at all it's one it's one of the Chinese cooking basics
so
oh okay
yeah well listen it was good talking with you
same here
hope you enjoy your recipe
all right thank you bye-bye
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