[speaker001:] all right all right what are some of your favorite foods I imagine with Argentina you've got some great foods
[speaker002:] mine well yeah well we got um a lot of uh European dishes well we got we got what some people call the best beef in the world
[speaker001:] uh-huh yes uh
[speaker002:] so it's uh Bishu like every Sunday you go out and you buy all these parts of the cow and then you just cook them over a grill that's like in our house it's already built in there's this whole special place in the back so that you can make a barbecue
[speaker001:] I've had I've had that meal in New York uh where they bring you a plank sort of with all this wonderful beef parts of beef cooked and barbecued and it's marvelous uh I have
[speaker002:] yeah yeah and then
[speaker001:] I have to find a place around here that has that
[speaker002:] well they have one in uh they have an Argentinean place down in Georgetown
[speaker001:] okay I'll keep that in mind yeah you serve that yourself or the for a family
[speaker002:] so um uh excuse me
[speaker001:] you ever serve that yourself when you have company
[speaker002:] oh no well see what happens is I'm only twenty two but like when like when I'm down at home and like somebody says okay when are when are we having this you know and I'll and I'll cook it
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah oh that
[speaker002:] you know like you have to prepare the fire and then put the sausages on and then you know you put all these different meats which take different times
[speaker001:] do you buy them um separately at you know an American grocery store now or do you have to or you don't you don't go buy it from a a wholesaler
[speaker002:] no but uh what happens is in Argentina they have like all these little places like the fruit stand and you know the dairy and products and whatever and so
[speaker001:] little butcher shops yeah yeah I've I've lived in Mexico so I know
[speaker002:] and so they got they got the meat place and so you just go there and you can't find chicken there you got to go to another place to find the chicken
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah you have to you have poultry place what do you what other what dishes do you serve with it
[speaker002:] well basically it's what we call empanadas which is which is like right right meat turnovers
[speaker001:] yeah I the turnover the stuffed turnovers oh I love those uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh then we also put sausages on a bun and then that's that's to start out with and then what you have is also like you know like three different kinds of salad
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh that's about it
[speaker001:] do you remember when you were in Washington Sam the Argentine baker
[speaker002:] uh no
[speaker001:] it used to be in Georgetown years ago he moved I guess he he retired and went back to Argentina I guess in nineteen the early seventies
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] yes so that must that's before your time your parents might remember if they were here then
[speaker002:] yeah no we we were only there for two years
[speaker001:] okay I mean he was wonderful I we used to get the most marvelous empenadas and other Argentine things
[speaker002:] so yeah and uh what what I also eat now since I'm in college I have an Italian roommate and
[speaker001:] yeah I'm Italian
[speaker002:] are you and since being Argentinean we also have a lot of pasta
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah well because there're many Italians in Argentina
[speaker002:] and you know like yeah and my mom you know like makes like what we call niokes and and all this stuff that it's just you know everything like lasagna and everything
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh yeah my grandparents my grandfather came to the United States through Argentina this was around the turn of the century
[speaker002:] oh okay yeah that's
[speaker001:] actually actually a little bit later like nineteen uh nineteen thirteen nineteen twelve nineteen thirteen
[speaker002:] at at one point one third of the population of Argentina was Italian like pure Italians
[speaker001:] yeah well I'll tell you it's interesting because when we cook here I'm of Italian descent my husband is Chinese
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] so we and we both love European Continental cooking French cooking so we cook uh our meals are well we don't do we don't usually mix I mean that's well sometimes well if we're entertaining we'll do a Chinese recipe
[speaker002:] okay right right
[speaker001:] and um there are really easy recipe that is you know with Chinese you always have several dishes
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and nowadays with microwaves you can steam many of the things in a microwave I don't know if you have one
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and if you like Chinese food you can take filet of fish and put a little bit of soy sauce and a little bit of sesame oil on top of it
[speaker002:] okay okay
[speaker001:] and chop some scallions and a little ginger
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and just cover it with some uh waxed paper and steam it just until the fish is done and it's a wonderful
[speaker002:] is it
[speaker001:] um flavorful piece of fish yeah
[speaker002:] because I was uh you know it's like when when you go buy fish you know like well like I buy like the fish that you can do in the microwave you know the breaded fish and you know I've seen you know the filet
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum yeah buy a fresh filet of fish a nice one at the fish market uh the fish counter
[speaker002:] what kind of fish
[speaker001:] um uh any white fish sole is good um um flounder sole or flounder is real good
[speaker002:] okay so we put soy sauce and sesame
[speaker001:] and even grouper little bit of soy sauce and sesame sesame seed oil
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and not too much soy sauce uh some chopped up scallions um you know slivers of scallions
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and slivers of ginger and then just cover it and put it in the microwave for just just two say two minutes check it after two minutes to see if the fish flakes and if the fish flakes it's done don't overcook it though
[speaker002:] okay because I got I got um one of those little uh microwaves the ones that take forever to boil a cup of water
[speaker001:] yeah well till you just check it you know during and another quick dish if you like um if do you know what hoi sin sauce is it's that sweet Chinese sauce
[speaker002:] yeah no I don't
[speaker001:] well if you go in a Chinese store ask for hoi sin H O I S I N
[speaker002:] wait wait wait H wait ah
[speaker001:] H O I
[speaker002:] H O I
[speaker001:] S I N or S E N either way they'll spell it hoi sin sauce it's a very sweet dark sort of a purplish plum sauce purplish brown
[speaker002:] S I N okay
[speaker001:] and if you take uh little pieces of pork and you fry them like little cubes of pork
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and you fry them with garlic and a little bit of couple dashes of hot pepper
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and then mix some hoi sin sauce with sherry just a little sherry to thin it and stir that in you can even put a spoon of ketchup in and that makes a great pork dish with a sort of a spicy sweet sauce
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] that you can serve over rice
[speaker002:] how how much uh how much uh how much pork do you buy for two people
[speaker001:] um well for two people um American uh if it's American style I'd buy a half a pound if you know we if you're just serving that but if you're serving another dish with it say the rice dish
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] um well with guys pretty healthy appetite I'd probably go a third of a pound and then you know you could
[speaker002:] yeah I could I could probably go half a pound
[speaker001:] and you can always you can always heat it up again and save you know
[speaker002:] so but there's there's just since I'm from Argentina I just love meat and we just
[speaker001:] yeah you can also do the same thing using um if you have ground beef just stir fry the ground beef drain off the oil use the same hoi sin sauce and um some of the frozen mixed vegetables
[speaker002:] okay okay
[speaker001:] just stir that in and you've got a very colorful side another dish
[speaker002:] and how much does it cost
[speaker001:] um the hoi sin sauce oh a dollar twenty nine a can a can would serve would serve you for you know for quite a few um meals
[speaker002:] yeah oh okay yeah okay I thought it maybe it was like you know like five fifty or something
[speaker001:] you know oh no no no no no it's not it's not expensive at all it's one it's one of the Chinese cooking basics
[speaker002:] so oh okay
[speaker001:] yeah well listen it was good talking with you
[speaker002:] same here
[speaker001:] hope you enjoy your recipe
[speaker002:] all right thank you bye-bye
[speaker001:] okay bye-bye