yep
okay i i do a fair amount of cooking
uh-huh
and i love having guests to dinner
i probably do that at about once a month
and uh
i usually prepare something depending upon the guests you know if if i like to prepare chicken that seems to please please everybody pasta or a casserole how about you
um-hum
yeah those are things i like the most i like fish and chicken the most
um
and um most i cooking i do just comes out of a can
uh
unless unless it is unless it is i catch a fish and i prepare it
and then i just uh you know i just broil it and put lemon on it
um-hum well that's about the way i prepare most fish
um-hum
uh i made scallops the other night that was unusual and uh
basically uh i found a recipe to to make it in the microwave
and you sprinkled the you you swished around a little melted butter and do uh
oh i do not know microwave microwaved them for about
nine minutes no no four four and a half five minutes and you had to add sesame seeds and bread crumbs on top very simple but very nice
so if you are looking for a fish recipe that was good
sesame seeds and bread crumbs
sesame seeds and bread crumbs
uh-huh
and uh my husband liked it
yeah
and uh no unfortunately scallops are one of the more expensive
uh fish items
right uh-huh
but you know i i look for them to go on sale at the grocery store
uh
one of the things i love to do eat out how about you
oh yeah uh-hum
do you have any particular places you like going
oh there's a restaurant called String Bean on Spring Valley and Central
uh-huh
i like that it's just it's just home cooking
yes i've been there
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and uh i kind of kind of like the black eyed pea but i don't think it's a chain
right exactly uh-huh and that's that's the other restaurant also think they got black eyed pea
oh
so
i don't really like uh you know uh chili places or what is it Judge Roy Bean's or
oh
i don't like greasy places
yeah
yeah i i i don't feel like they are very healthy and i always feel like the home cooking places are are the healthiest meals even though i tend to have chicken fried steak when i go go to them
yeah
right and i and i got uh
chicken marinara the last two times you know
oh how was it
it was i was great because that's that's what i like i don't like it you know it's like a baked
um
you know a piece of chicken and then i get like
green beans and mashed potatoes
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you know
yeah i i tend to uh i get teased by my family a lot because uh i like experimenting on
on food and sometimes i go for exotic fairly exotic
things and and my father teases me about gourmet cooking
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which is not always true but and the thing about experimenting with cooking or anything else is that some of the experiments fail
no that's true
uh the last time we had some uh friends over for dinner i tried the dessert that sounded wonderful wonderful in the recipe and it was just total bust
yeah
i was sorry i didn't have ice cream to fall back on
yeah my uh my brother tried to make a bunch of things uh way back he tried to make bagels one time
oh my that's ambitious
yeah and uh we took some and and we had uh German shepherds at the time and we took some and gave it to the dogs
and the dog never you know he treated it like a milk bone and he never did finish it he barely made a dent in it
hum
yeah
and and uh then he tried to make grapefruit citron one time
uh-huh
it's uh supposed to be a candy
yeah
and uh it it didn't turn out very well it was you know
it it like made concentrated all the acid of the grapefruit into uh
into a kind of a candy stick so
huh
see i am not that's interesting one of the things i don't make is dessert
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and uh my husband accuses me of putting him through dessert deprivation because you know we have ice cream or something like that and that's why when i took did this
experiment for this company we had about three weeks ago it was just a total fiasco
um-hum
huh
um
everything else was fine but that was a fiasco
well you have to put eggs and everything don't you or
uh yeah
yeah just about
yeah and i i also don't have much of a sweet tooth so i can live without live without desserts for the most part
uh-huh use about half the sugar or
make everything diet
yeah
uh do you cook for yourself or do you cook for others
mostly i just cook for myself
yeah
well when i was single i used to uh i think my favorite meal was a
a baked potato
um-hum
it's easy that's for sure
and
oh yeah
yeah
oh yeah and i mean i never put anything other than a little butter on it if i had or or if i had a little cheddar cheese sometimes i would grate that up
hum yeah i always put cheese on them
and uh amazingly satisfying
um-hum
yeah
but you know there's hardly any i guess there's hardly any protein it's mostly starch
fills you up and then the cheese has to make up for whatever the protein you get
yeah i didn't i didn't say it was nourishing but it was satisfying
oh yeah it really is
then you have to make a salad or
and
yeah
yeah that but you know um i i never really enjoyed cooking for myself so i ate very simply and i was
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that's why i think that's one reason i like having people over because i could try things i mean i must be a frustrated chemist or something like that cause cooking is a little bit like like being in a chemistry lab
right
um-hum
and uh
except you get to taste the product instead of
instead of having an explosion
foam up or blow up or
sometimes it blows up anyway
oh yeah you know
i i once had a an old boy friend over to to dinner when i was just briefly staying with my parents
and uh
i had this wonderful recipe and and you were supposed to make a a toffee like substance
for a pie by uh boiling evaporated milk
three hours and it does turn to toffee inside the can
oh yeah
and uh the only problem was when i opened the can
it just flew all over the place it was on the ceiling on the walls and me and and the boyfriend
saw that he was supposed to be there at six o'clock not seven o'clock so just at the time all this happened the door bell rang and there he was
and i had to have my my my my dad sort of entertain him for a for for awhile while my mother and i scrambled to clean everything up
right
uh-huh
did you let the can cool off
uh i really don't remember that was about ten years ago i just remember
how embarrassing it was and i have made i have made it since i've i i and several times before and i never had that problem just that one time
yeah
huh yeah
and uh he he was a gourmet cook he was kind of person who
acted like he came from San Francisco and he had a very sophisticated taste i i really wanted to impress the heck out of him and and well it was a memorable evening anyway
right
uh but i i do enjoy cooking so i was awfully glad i was given this
