okay so do you do a lot of cooking in your family
um i do some every now and then i i work and my wife's home during the day so she usually ends up doing most of it
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oh yeah
when i was single we used to always cook around the house
yeah
do do you like to cook
huh yeah i really like it um there's a few dishes like i i grew up with the um you know having Polish and Ukrainian food
yeah yeah
oh really
and my wife she likes Italian and stuff so we we definitely have different tastes so
oh
yeah yeah but that's neat though because you get to have different stuff yeah i'm not i'm a pretty bad cook i'm pretty bad my husband is really good he put himself through college working in restaurants
uh-huh
oh wow
and uh he's a much better cook than i am so when i was home i still cooked a lot and i was into a lot of vegetarian stuff
and now that i went back to work about a year and a half ago so one of the things that he took over was the cooking and the kids are thrilled they're really happy that i don't cook anymore
they're like uh preferring it now right
yeah they say oh dad let dad cook mom let him do it but um
so so do you all do you have kids you obviously have one okay you have two
yeah two um-hum
yeah one is uh nine months and the other is two and a half
two and half oh
yeah that's the hard part is cooking with uh kids around because uh
i was just going to say makes a difference in what you eat doesn't it or are you not at that stage yet
yeah it does
yeah
we try our hardest to to get them to eat what we eat you know
right
and my sister uh she's the master of the fast order grill you know she can make uh she makes six different meals but we like to have one thing you know one likes chicken nuggets the other one like hot dogs
oh yeah
oh my gosh
oh my gosh i couldn't yeah
and then she makes noodles with uh with soy uh soy sauce or whatever so all things but um yeah our favorite let me think i was thinking of the one recipe that uh
boy i couldn't do that i
that we made i guess the thing that always turned out the best for us was something we thought looked really fancy but was real easy and that was um
what's that
uh scallops uh scallop um
oh really
it has a French name it basically means that it has a Swiss cheese cream sauce with it
oh yeah what's what is that Saint Jack or something scallops saint something or yeah yeah yeah
and you pour it over rice yeah uh
yeah i can't even remember what the recipe's name is anymore but uh it it basically just ground up Swiss cheese and then uh standard cream sauce base and then uh
really
with scallops
the scallops and it sounds sort of funny but it tastes really good
no no i'm from New England so we we had um a lot of seafood before we moved down here
uh-huh
and uh that sounds delicious to me that sounds great i think we're just thinking of having a uh dinner party we went to this dinner party the other night that
yeah
yeah but uh
was kind of like a game they had uh a murder mystery and you came dressed as one of the characters and you had to solve the mystery during the dinner
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and it was really fun and so we we were thinking we wanted to do you know we were going to try doing it ourselves but we're trying to decide what can we serve because at this one the hostess was pretty busy running around
trying to get stuff ready for the table and that kind of interrupted the game so
right
right yeah
so i was thinking there's this beef bourguignonne recipe that i've tried before that's pretty good and then you can make that ahead and you can just leave it in the pot on a stove until you're ready
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so that's uh
yeah that's another thing i have a problem with my wife
yeah
she uh she likes to um she doesn't like the beef dishes she likes the chicken and fish
uh yeah
and like i said we always ate beef and uh pork
oh yeah
you know a lot so
i know my husband did too his parents are Austrian and they uh always made sure they had a lot of meat at the table
oh yeah red meat plenty of good red meat
yeah yeah yeah
my dad could eat a a meal with out any vegetables at all
oh my gosh
and uh Susan's you know they had you know meatless meals you know my dad wouldn't know what to do
yeah yeah
oh gosh so do you
course she grew up Catholic so you know they they sort of come with the there's a certain amount of meatless meals you have to have
oh they did the
that you do right right that's just part of it
uh-huh
yeah we didn't my family didn't but when i got into the vegetarian cooking we got kind of used to that but my husband always did it kind of grudgingly he never there was dishes that he really enjoyed
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eating there there were several things that he liked but it never was really something that he would have chosen it's just that i cooked so he had to put up with it
right
so but there was one thing that he couldn't stand and that was soybeans i tried it like once or twice and he just could not eat it so i never i had i was limited i had to make vegetarian meals without using soybeans but
yeah it's hard to get a protein content up then
yeah yeah that's true
huh yeah i like i like them every now and then for a change yes it's nice
yeah some of the stuff is good but it just it was a tremendous amount of cooking because you do have to make sure you have the right combinations of different proteins to make sure they're complete
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and we had little kids at the time you know when i was home with them and it it was just so much cooking i couldn't i don't like to cook and i'm not really that great at it so it just turned out to be too much of a too much too much cooking
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so well i guess i'll let you get back to feeding your little one there
yeah
no uh he's all done yeah yeah i set him down
he's set oh okay okay
do you like to bake at all or do you do you get into that's that's
yeah we used to do that um my mom used to go crazy every Sunday until my dad like blew up you know after after he gained about eighty pounds after coming back from the Navy she stopped doing it
yeah
but um she used to have you know two dozen sticky buns three bread rolls you know every week
really no kidding
and um the sticky buns of course would last you know three or four days and that would be it
yeah then be gone i know that's the thing about baking i used to i i don't mind baking at all and i i can do a pretty good pie we have this pie crust recipe in our family that my grandmother gave my mother and my mother taught me how to make it
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and um so i can make a pretty mean pie but
um i don't do it anymore because it's just too fattening we had the same kind of problem if you make homemade bread i mean forget it's supposed to save you money but you eat like three times the amount of bread that you usually eat it tastes so good
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uh-huh we always we had that bread that was uh um you ever seen the the starter bread i can't remember what it's called they call it the um Amish bread here but uh it's made with you just leave leave it out
oh uh yeah
yeah i
you know and you let it spoil sort of yeah you know
yeah uh-huh i've heard of that i've heard of it but i've never done it
yeah
that sounds pretty good
yeah it tasted pretty good really
yeah oh yeah
but um it's the sort of thing where you let a portion of it go bad and then you add all these other ingredients to it but
yeah and then you save you make the bread but you pinch off a portion or save a portion of it for the next time or something
yeah right yeah you take some of the batter out and give it to someone else and that's how they continue the thing
yeah yeah yeah
i know it sounds it always sounded i don't know how safe that was sounded pretty bad
yeah i know it sounded strange to me too i figure well you're baking it so you know yeah yeah
yeah that's true that's that's got to got to kill anything i guess but
um-hum okay well i'll talk to you later where are you calling from by the way Texas
all right well yeah thanks Plano yeah Plano in Texas are you in Texas
where
Plano okay
no Falls Church Virginia
no kidding gosh it sounds so close
yeah i know we've got a good connection must be a uh TI connection yeah
yeah i thought for sure
yeah i thought for sure you were in Dallas or something
yeah i i talked to so many people from Texas that's where practically everybody i talked to is from i think that's why they call me because they want to get people outside the state you know
yeah
yeah
yes yeah they're do they're trying to get all different amount of people well jeez my husband is from Richmond and i went to UVA that's where we met yeah yeah
oh
oh really
yeah i went to school at uh well i went to school at West Virginia University but
oh you did yeah
but i grew up right here in Falls Church right outside DC yeah
yeah boy we'd like to get back over to the East Coast i'll tell you
it's nice over there
yeah it's sort of funny i have people that want to go to Dallas
oh really
yeah one of my one of my friends here he was just talking how he's thinking on leaving the company and going to Dallas saying how
oh yeah no kidding well its things are doing pretty good down here we we were we tried to move over to Raleigh last year and there just was there was so little
such little going on in Raleigh you know you couldn't get a job to save yourself over there so we decided we'll try in a couple of years but but business is
yeah
yeah we were saying we could sell our house here and buy one down there cash you know
yeah you probably could
well Northern Virginia
you probably could okay well it's good talking to you
okay
nice talking to you too bye bye
take care
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