okay what do you cook
well i have dinner parties quite often and so we we really i really enjoy cooking um
oh really
i like desserts and uh main dishes i'm a chocoholic
oh definitely
oh yeah well see i consider baking different than cooking though yeah i can i can bake
do you yeah yeah
well you know the best recipes that i have come from Southern Living
oh yeah
um do you get that magazine
no but my mother-in-law tells me and gets it and just loves to get the recipes
oh it's wonderful you know i've never had a recipe fail that i've gotten out of Southern Living and i've had dinner guests come over for dinner and
you know say i don't know what this is going to taste like i got it out of Southern Living it's a brand new recipe and i've never tried it before and and i've never had them fail
wow that's great yeah my mother used to like pick out a magazine and show us the pictures and say okay this is what we're going to have and we're like oh God no
yeah
right
i well well that's what i do too and it has a it's been wonderful right
yeah she did really good she did really well but i mean like her four basic food groups were kind of like mine they're frozen canned boxed and take home and
i'm i'm a very picky eater so that's another part of my problem when i look at a recipe there's ingredients that i don't like or won't taste and so it's kind of difficult
uh-huh uh-huh
yeah yeah where you from originally
i'm from Oklahoma and then i've been in Texas for a long time but uh
Oklahoma
uh-huh so you've had you you know Tex-Mex and that kind of thing i
oh yeah definitely now see i love stuff like that but and a lot of it i will eat but there's ingredients sometimes that i'm just like i don't even know what that is
yeah yeah yeah well i had never had chili in my whole life until i moved down to Texas and i had Connecticut and i had never even tasted chili and i moved down here and
where are you from
oh wow
it's hysterical because my kids have to have a refried bean fix at least once a week you know and it's like a week has gone by and we haven't had
oh yeah
fajitas or or something and and i just laugh and laugh my family would die if they knew all these things my kids were eating
oh yeah
how funny
that is funny that is funny
yeah we've always always had southern foods but uh mother my mother is from the deep south and so she would do like the hominy and grits and stuff and i couldn't do that
oh really
no no no i don't think i would i would care for that but you know what i recently discovered there's something um at the grocery store it's called Cajun Magic
no
oh really
and it's like in the gourmet section of the grocery store it's on the bottom shelf and and it's um
uh-huh
um uh like red beans and rice with all the spices already in it and all you have to do is add water and and cook it and it is so good
ooh
that does sound good
it is good it is good and it's called Cajun Magic and i'm sure you could probably you know i buy i buy it at Albertson's
okay i'll have to look for that
yeah
and um that's wonderful
huh and it's in the gourmet section
well you know where they have those kind of hard to find items you know the the real funny mustards and and that spices and things like that and that's that's where they have it at Albertson's and it's really good i like
yeah
yeah
huh
so your kids aren't picky eaters
easy
i have a daughter who will eat everything and a son who will eat nothing so as a matter of fact she's babysitting tonight and she called and she said
oh
mom they had the most wonderful dinner it was Hamburger Helper and it's delicious
how funny
and i laughed
well that's what when i got married um
both my husband and i had been living separately so my girlfriend wanted to give me uh a wine shower where people brought recipes
what a neat idea
yeah it was really neat because they brought the bottle of wine and then they brought a recipe that went with the bottle of wine
oh how nice
and one of my girlfriends brought a really nice bottle of wine and she had written down the number to Domino's Pizza
i love it i love it when i worked one time we had a thing where we had uh uh luncheon and everybody had to bring a dish and somebody
oh yeah
gave directions to a to a bakery you know turn left on Campbell Road and right on you know and that was cute that was cute
yeah
well
desserts are definitely a weakness but uh oh i love them and i'm definitely a chocoholic but i found something it's a white chocolate mousse cake
do you like desserts
oh
that is just heaven
is it wonderful
yeah but i wouldn't even know how to begin to make it
oh oh
but i need to definitely find the recipe and at least attempt it because it it's so good
oh i would love that i i like
yeah
i'm not crazy about sweets but i really have a passion for cakes any kind of cake i i really like chocolate cake and um apple cake
um yeah
ooh i've never had apple cake
love apple cake oh i love apple cake or spice cake something like that yeah yeah i really like that
yeah yeah
especially in the morning that's really good then
um-hum yeah it is yeah it is
um
well i'm getting hungry now
and i just got done with dinner so um we had beef ribs and a potato casserole and a salad yeah i do i well
oh really what did you fix
um
God you really are a cook
you know it was so funny when i was when i was reading the things and they said you know checkoff different categories that you could talk about i thought food i could talk about food have you not eaten yet tonight
well i i did i went to the doctor the other day and my cholesterol is really high and so he's putting me on a special diet on Tuesday and that's what when the category came up tonight i thought oh God i'm so glad this is tonight and not next week because
oh
oh
um he's putting me on a liquid protein diet and so
oh really was your was your cholesterol that high
it was two forty and i'm only twenty nine years old
hum
so he said let's bring that down so he's putting me on some liquid protein and i'm not doing to be able to eat for two weeks
really
yeah so
really wow
yeah i kept telling my husband while a go
is two forty really that high though
it is for for me and my age bracket
yeah yeah
um so i think it's supposed to be one eighty and he thought two forty was a little bit high for me
you know what i just recently got um a cookbook it's it's the oh what's the name of it
uh Love Your Heart
oh really
cookbook it's a low cholesterol
cookbook and then i got the American Heart Association cookbook now this is not Southern Living
huh
yeah
yeah lots of yogurt and stuff like that but if you go to like the Bookstop do you have one of those in Carrollton
yeah
uh-huh yeah
um they have lots and lots of of uh cookbooks with low cholesterol recipes
huh
yeah
and uh i every once in a while i get real ambitious and i think okay i'm going to do all this wonderful stuff and then that lasts for about a week and then i'm like give me the blue cheese dressing
yeah
i want a burrito
yeah yeah give me some more refried beans have you have you tried
well it's like like Oprah Winfrey says every once in a while you've just got to have ribs
oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah have you tried the the no fat no cholesterol dressings like the Kraft
yeah i i've tried them
the Italian is the Italian is not bad
well see that that's part of my problem though it goes back to being such a picky eater the only one i like is Ranch which is like the worst as far as cholesterol goes so
oh
yeah and does it take have you tried that is it terrible
um i haven't tried the new ones that Heart Smart or not
heartwise or heart yeah
i haven't tried the the newest one yet so what i've been trying to do is just cutback because i just recently even started eating dressing and the only one i like like i said is Ranch
