[speaker001:] okay so you're into microwave cooking
[speaker002:] yeah it's just it's so easy nowadays you know and it's uh especially when people are working just to come home and pop something into the microwave and it be ready in just a few minutes
[speaker001:] and that yes and that's what we all are looking for isn't it something that we can just cook in a hurry after we get off work
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I've gotten in the habit of cooking something big on the weekends so that I have leftovers all week
[speaker002:] all week well we've done that too there's just my husband and I and he he sometimes makes a huge spot of uh pot of spaghetti and we
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know we're eating it for a week and a half and I kind of get sick of it after a few days
[speaker001:] I know I try not to make too much it's just my husband and I too and I try not to make so much that it lasts more than that week but uh I usually I usually like to make spaghetti or soup or chili or you know something like that or sometimes a roast but
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah right right
[speaker001:] what's your favorite thing to cook if you're having a dinner party
[speaker002:] um I have a great recipe for sour cream chicken enchiladas
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] it's it's really good I got it from a friend of mine that I used to work with and uh every time I've served it everybody just loves it
[speaker001:] uh-huh ooh that sounds delicious
[speaker002:] so that's that's one of my favorite things to make what about you
[speaker001:] um-hum we I end up with an old standby that we call Russian chicken because it's so easy
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh it goes you have to cook very little to go with it just some rice and some salad and that's about it you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh well what do you put in it
[speaker001:] uh you make you just take your boneless chicken breasts and then you take and make a a dressing out of uh Russian dressing one bottle of that
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and a package of Lipton Onion Soup mix
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and three ounces of apricot preserves
[speaker002:] ooh that sounds good
[speaker001:] and you mix it up and you just put it on the top of the chicken and then I cover the pan with foil and put it in the oven for about an hour
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then I take the foil off and let it brown
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] takes about another twenty minutes
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it's delicious
[speaker002:] ooh that sounds good
[speaker001:] and it's so simple because I can pop it in when I come in the door you know and then uh go about my business and by the time I've got everything else ready the chicken's ready chicken's done
[speaker002:] is done right
[speaker001:] so that's a real easy thing for me
[speaker002:] yeah that sounds good too
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I've got a um a great recipe for cheesecake
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] I don't know if you get Southern Living that magazine
[speaker001:] no I don't my mom gets that but
[speaker002:] they have one if you like to cook they have every recipe I've tried out of that has been a really good one
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] and um you know every month they've got all different kinds of recipes but I got one in there about a year or so ago on cheesecake and it's just a regular cheesecake and then you can put raspberry um topping on it but inside the cheesecake uh recipe you put um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] lemon peel and orange peel
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and it's just enough to taste it you know when when when you're eating the cheesecake and it is wonderful but it takes a long time because you have to cook it for forty five minutes and then you turn the oven off and you leave it in the oven for another forty five minutes and then you open up the oven door and leave it in for another forty five minutes
[speaker001:] hm oh my goodness
[speaker002:] and then you're supposed to um I think chill it to room temperature
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so sometimes I'll do that overnight and then put the topping on the next day but it's it's very good
[speaker001:] well I love cheesecake I have never been I don't know the ones I have made I have not done that well with
[speaker002:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] I like a baked cheesecake you know I don't I've had a recipe that someone has given me that it's kind of like you just mix cream cheese and stuff and refrigerate it you know but that's not the same as a a New York style cheesecake
[speaker002:] right yeah no no
[speaker001:] and uh the recipes that I've used everybody will say oh this is real simple and then I make it and it's it's really not very good
[speaker002:] it's not right
[speaker001:] but yours sounds good I bet that lemon and orange peel gives it a little bit of tartness
[speaker002:] it does and it it it is really good
[speaker001:] hm well that sounds interesting so there's your good dessert for your dinner party
[speaker002:] it is it is pretty good right
[speaker001:] are you into serving wines with your dinner party
[speaker002:] oh sometimes but I mean I'm not a wine connoisseur by any means
[speaker001:] me either I wish I knew more about it
[speaker002:] I've been to you know some wine tastings up in Napa Valley but um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know and I learned a little bit about them then but you know what would be fun they have some of those classes you can take
[speaker001:] um-hum they would be if you just had time to do it
[speaker002:] and yeah and then there's places um do you live in Dallas okay there's places here that um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] offer I think it's like once a month you can go and to a particular restaurant or whatever and you can kind of take a cooking class
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and then you get to eat everything afterwards and then they also go into the wines you know to serve with you know different types of of meals and that kind of thing and it sounds like it's a lot of fun we have some friends who've done that and they've really enjoyed it
[speaker001:] well how neat um-hum hm well I didn't even know they were offering that I guess I
[speaker002:] yeah this place is called like Medina's or Mesina's Kitchen or something like that
[speaker001:] um-hum oh well I bet that'd be a fun thing to do
[speaker002:] yeah it it sounds like like it