okay while i was waiting for you to connect i i thought of a couple of menus i decided it'd to be if it's informal or not you know if it was informal i'd probably choose something i mean just like hamburgers or steaks out on the grill
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because that's a lot of fun especially this time of year where it's so nice out
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it was formal i'd probably go with something like a chicken breast or lasagna or something i'm not i'm not into formal dinner parties but
i see
i'd probably go with lasagna a green salad and garlic bread
so what what do you use for cookbooks
um i have a Pillsbury cookbook i got when i was married but it's kind of the bible of cooking for me then i have some from like church
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that are more family recipes that are more useful you know budget cookbooks but
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and of course you get a lot from when you're growing up
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um i cook a lot the same as as my mom did of course i've added several different recipes but what would you serve or what would you
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well i i i think we come from from different backgrounds um so the the
well that's good
i i i start with different you know have different perspectives that you are i find the Joy of Cooking to be a remarkably useful book to to fall back on because it has almost everything in it
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but on the other hand it's not very inspiring uh it's a good reference when you need to dig something up
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what we've find very useful is a a book called The Thirty Minute Cookbook i think that's the title uh by Marion Burrows
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uh which has recipes which allegedly can all be prepared in thirty minutes you know the whole meal
yeah that would be wonderful in these times
and so she's
yeah now now i i find that the cutting up of the food and all that really makes it take a little longer than thirty minutes
yeah either they're really fast or
but but they're but they're but they're interesting they're interesting menus um
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combinations that you wouldn't have normally thought of
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what's one of your favorites
um gee the one i had most recently was was one that was had she she describes as Jim Beard's favorite um summer menu or something and it consisted of
uh grilled kielbasa sausage um a
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potato salad with olive oil
and uh some tomatoes that had been chopped up with onions and curry powder and probably some yogurt was in there
wow sounds pretty good
um and that and that was you know that's that that's certain you can do in thirty minutes
yeah
but there are a whole lot of you know i mean i i would recommend you look at that book if you're if you are a busy person Thirty Minute Cookbook
yeah those Thirty Minute Cookbook
that sounds fun i find a lot of the cookbooks that i don't know that you buy over the counter
ask for really strange ingredients or things i don't keep on hand all the time
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and i have young children and our budget's set you know at this time but i want to use
simple recipes that i have things on hand i don't have to run to the store to buy
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or look for something i haven't heard of so that's why sometimes i shy away from uh more of a traditional cookbooks but
yes yes
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but well it was interesting talking to you it's a fun subject food is one of my favorite things too
yes
anything else you wanted to add
well you had said dinner
you know you know what would i put together for a formal dinner we had we had some friends over as recently as Saturday night and and um
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put here here the inspiration was a combination of Julia Child for the dessert
well you know a chocolate mousse recipe
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and a sort of palate cookbook which has a recipe for a thing called chicken Marabella
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um which is this wonderful thing you can do um
basically you're baking baking chicken in a in an open pan um having marinated it first hand my my wife did this part so i don't remember all the details but it's marinated in olive oil and some seasoning
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um and cooked with some olives and some and some prunes uh there's a little bit of brown sugar in there and it bakes up it's a delicious thing and it's easy
that sounds good
comparatively so i
that sounds really good
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i'm sorry i just love food
it sounds like you guys are a little more gourmet than i am i'm pretty simple right now but
well maybe we had a little more leisure time to do it i don't know
yeah that's probably that's true i have little ones and we and they won't eat you know too many different foods right now so
yeah
i found my kids were very frustrating when they were little
yeah
in terms of their tastes
yeah
on the other hand sometimes it was easy they'd you know canned ravioli was was one of their favorites and so it was easy to
yeah spaghetti's a pretty staple every other week or so so and it goes a long ways too so
open a can of ravioli or
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well nice talking to you Cheryl
all righty we'll talk to you later maybe
okay bye
