[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] okay um well actually I don't really cook um I'm I'm still a student in college and um
[speaker001:] you don't okay
[speaker002:] I'm fortunate to have my mom cook dinners for me so I'm not not very experienced because um
[speaker001:] okay I'm I'm a single parent so I I guess I have to do a lot of cooking for my son and I
[speaker002:] oh yeah hm well I have cooked like small dinners like just hamburgers and things like that and canned foods that you just heat up nothing great though so
[speaker001:] yeah okay well I was born in in Louisiana my dad was Portuguese and my mother was Italian so I can I'm familiar with you know some Cajun food Italian Portuguese food
[speaker002:] oh Cajun food's really good I've had that before in uh Mississippi
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] oh New Orleans that's it yeah I've I've had all kinds of different foods I travel a lot but never cooked it myself so
[speaker001:] yeah you all have some pretty good cheese up there don't you
[speaker002:] pardon me
[speaker001:] say y'all have a lot of good cheeses up there though
[speaker002:] cheeses oh yeah yeah that's right
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I kind of miss that up Dallas uh I said there Portuguese and Italian blood in me and I kind of miss the cheeses because in in Dallas only get a bunch of domestic stuff you know
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh I love Italian food though it's probably my favorite kind of food
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] is Italian food I don't think I've ever had Portuguese food
[speaker001:] well it's mostly they eat a lot of stews and soups and stuff
[speaker002:] what is that it's
[speaker001:] a lot of the stew and soup they they boil you know they boil or broil a lot of their food
[speaker002:] oh oh okay
[speaker001:] and it it's kind of like Spanish except it's not quite as spicy as the Spanish food
[speaker002:] oh yeah hm
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I like Mexican food
[speaker001:] yeah yeah the Mexicans they though Mexicans use a lot of hot peppers where the Portuguese use a lot of more garlic and stuff in the hot in the spicy food
[speaker002:] a real lot oh really oh so what do you like to make for you and your son
[speaker001:] yeah uh I like to cook spaghetti the kind that you cook the sauce for about three hours
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] so it's real thick and all you know
[speaker002:] uh my parents make their own sauce yeah it's really good
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I don't I don't think I can go the the jar stuff after after being spoiled by the real stuff
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and my son cooks a little bit he's sixteen he usually has supper cooked when I come home during the day so
[speaker002:] oh that's great that's really good I wished I would've cooked more when I was in high school
[speaker001:] yeah yeah we're we're both in Boy Scouts we learned to you know cook out over open fire in the woods and all
[speaker002:] oh that's great that's good to know sure it comes in handy
[speaker001:] yeah yeah and you know like to cook Cajun food when I when I can get the seafood it's kind of expensive in Dallas
[speaker002:] oh yeah I bet yeah
[speaker001:] but sometimes we had see we went into one of the grocery stores the other day and they had uh Cajun blackened shark
[speaker002:] oh wow
[speaker001:] and I tasted it and it taste pretty good and the shark was on sale so I bought some and the first time I'd eaten shark and cooked in it turned out real good
[speaker002:] oh that's good hm I've never had shark and I can't see it any
[speaker001:] it's first time for me and I didn't know I didn't know whether I'd ever eat it but I sampled it and it was it was all right uh
[speaker002:] yeah well that's good I like seafood but I hardly ever have it I haven't eaten it in a long time
[speaker001:] yeah well you you live on campus or
[speaker002:] um I used to I used to live in the dorm for two years but then I came back home I went to um University of Madison Madison so when you eat eat in the dorms you know there's a big cafeteria they have the food already prepared for you
[speaker001:] um-hum right
[speaker002:] so I didn't I didn't get a chance to cook much and now that I'm home my mom's home so she cooks so but I I do I make some things you know once in a while you know get hungry enough you're gonna cook for yourself but I'm still I'd like to learn you know I it's I like to bake I make cakes and cookies and things
[speaker001:] right oh you do
[speaker002:] yeah I can do that but
[speaker001:] okay I'm not very good at baking I'm you know good at cooking the main dishes
[speaker002:] oh oh yeah oh well I I'd like to learn how so it's one of my goals I'm sure I will once I move out on my own
[speaker001:] yeah yeah when I was living with my mother she she tried to teach me how to cook and I wasn't interested then
[speaker002:] see I'm not neither
[speaker001:] yeah and then once I moved out I miss her good food and I don't know how to cook it so I'm constantly looking up recipes or trying to cook what what I remember eating when I was small and wished I'd you know I'd learned from her
[speaker002:] yep yeah I should start doing that it it takes a lot of time though doesn't it
[speaker001:] yeah it it does course my mother never followed recipes you know she just cooked to taste I guess most good cooks do that anyway
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] they just add a little bit of that and a little bit of this and it comes out