well we have an easy subject today i guess easier than trying to straighten the government out which was yesterday
oh that was a would be difficult yeah i had one on immigration
oh i didn't get that one thank goodness oh well you know i've been i went to back to school a few years ago and i tell you i haven't done much entertaining since
i know i i don't have the money to entertain so
that's another consideration
exactly i mean even hamburgers you know when you get all the fixings with it it's kind of uh expensive
well i know and uh time seems to be such a element nowadays
exactly you've got to get things that it can be done ahead or
and the house has to be clean that's the worse part to me
yeah that way i have to get my husband to help me with that because i'd never never be able to entertain otherwise
oh yeah do you have children oh well that's one less thing to mess up the house yeah i have two i have uh one that's in uh college and one that's uh in high school
no
yeah that's true do you have it
ah well i've got three black pets three two dogs and a cat and so i've got plenty of pet hair to contend with
oh
oh yeah i've got that too i have everything in the we're a family of slobs on top of that so the cleaning really is the worse for entertaining
well i guess they wanted us to talk about the the recipes i mean what do you what do you cook
right
well one of the easy things uh when i did used to entertain that i like to make is uh chicken in wine it's real easy and i can make it ahead of time and then just stick it in the oven
to uh to heat up you know so i don't really like to actually cook when people are already there
uh-huh
exactly i like to be able to entertain and not be killing myself while
right and it makes me nervous if they're all in the kitchen messing and i'm trying to cook stuff you know what i mean
uh-huh
and um so that's one thing that i used to make a lot
see usually we just like like you said i like to do something i can do you know and just put it in the fridge but i i'll make a chicken and rice and mushrooms dish or you know uh easy stuff i don't i i i don't do that much
um-hum
um
that sounds good we've done shish kabob several times and people always like that but it's a lot of work
uh-huh
yeah
because the vegetables are so hard you have to kind of parboil them a little
um-hum
and then um season the stuff and marinade it and then stick it on all those things
so you'd think it would be easy but it's actually you know quite a bit of work
at the last minute it's not so bad because you can throw it on the grill and it doesn't take very long but boy the prepreparation of cutting all that up in the right sizes and washing it and like i said parboiling some of the hard stuff
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exactly
well that's the problem for me like cooking Chinese food because you know they always have tons of vegetables
ooh
yeah it chop forever
exactly
i've never done that for um party
well i'll do it when we have a few people over but not a lot it's too it's too much for that
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i know
but i mean i've been known to go over to Sam's and and uh buy a a pan of uh ready made like enchiladas or or something i didn't like the enchiladas very much but they had some um
oh are they good
someone said the lasagna was good
the lasagna is very good and i've made that as well
i think it must be good because i have an Italian neighbor down the street that bought some for company i thought golly she she she cooks a lot too and i if she bought it it must be pretty good
yeah and you know when you i mean when you've got company on on days that you work it's almost impossible
oh well it is
so you know that's that's for me the easiest thing to do get something
i don't think i ever had something on a day i worked oh well man that's horrible where do you work
oh i have
um over i work at Park Central over it's at say LB yeah Central and LBJ and i work for a liquor distiller
Park Central on Central Expressway is it
oh do they give you any samples at Christmas
yes they do we get two bottles
oh
well that's nice that's the another expensive part about entertaining if you plan to drink i mean that is really expensive
exactly no we have beer and wine and that's about it
yeah that's what most people have nowadays
yeah it's just too hard to get yeah to get all the you know the different kinds of oh this person likes gin this one
for big parties at least
i know you could could spend well over a hundred a hundred fifty dollars getting all that stuff
yeah
so anyway
well what do you do for desserts
oh dessert um sometimes i buy it i have through the years i used to make this really neat pie that was was with crackers and pecans on
yeah
and you bake it and then you put whipped cream on the top it's just delicious um sometimes you can get it at Luby's restaurant
oh that's sounds good
hum i uh let's see i usually make a well something easy stuff as usual but you know the things that you can buy the ready made crusts and and then put like
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oh uh we'll have a chocolate nut pie um pie and you know
um
you make up the homemade filling but you use the oh that's a good idea
yeah
exactly so
i can't even remember oh i used i used to make a cheesecake with a easy recipe using Eagle Brand milk you know but it was it was pretty good
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and there was a time when i made Grand Boule and English Truffle
oh see and i just don't i don't dare try all that stuff because i don't even know if i like it to begin with if i don't like it it doesn't get made around here
that's right
oh that's the way i am we haven't bad a baked ham dinner since we've been married for twenty five years my i hate baked ham for dinner my husband's family loved it they're Polish and they live in New Jersey and that was one of their big
deals was baked ham
so you had to suffer through it when you were there
oh God yeah they'd have it a lot of time for Christmas
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i couldn't stand it because my family always say
