[speaker002:] okay so do you do a lot of cooking in your family
[speaker001:] um I do some every now and then I I work and my wife's home during the day so she usually ends up doing most of it
[speaker002:] um-hum oh yeah
[speaker001:] when I was single we used to always cook around the house
[speaker002:] yeah do do you like to cook
[speaker001:] huh yeah I really like it um there's a few dishes like I I grew up with the um you know having Polish and Ukrainian food
[speaker002:] yeah yeah oh really
[speaker001:] and my wife she likes Italian and stuff so we we definitely have different tastes so
[speaker002:] oh yeah yeah but that's neat though because you get to have different stuff yeah I'm not I'm a pretty bad cook I'm pretty bad my husband is really good he put himself through college working in restaurants
[speaker001:] uh-huh  oh wow
[speaker002:] and uh he's a much better cook than I am so when I was home I still cooked a lot and I was into a lot of vegetarian stuff and now that I went back to work about a year and a half ago so one of the things that he took over was the cooking and the kids are thrilled they're really happy that I don't cook anymore
[speaker001:] they're like uh preferring it now right
[speaker002:] yeah they say oh dad let dad cook mom let him do it but um so so do you all do you have kids you obviously have one okay you have two
[speaker001:] yeah two um-hum yeah one is uh nine months and the other is two and a half
[speaker002:] two and half oh
[speaker001:] yeah that's the hard part is cooking with uh kids around because uh
[speaker002:] I was just going to say makes a difference in what you eat doesn't it or are you not at that stage yet
[speaker001:] yeah it does
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] we try our hardest to to get them to eat what we eat you know
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and my sister uh she's the master of the fast order grill you know she can make uh she makes six different meals but we like to have one thing you know one likes chicken nuggets the other one like hot dogs
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh my gosh oh my gosh I couldn't yeah
[speaker001:] and then she makes noodles with uh with soy uh soy sauce or whatever so all things but um yeah our favorite let me think I was thinking of the one recipe that uh
[speaker002:] boy I couldn't do that I
[speaker001:] that we made I guess the thing that always turned out the best for us was something we thought looked really fancy but was real easy and that was um
[speaker002:] what's that
[speaker001:] uh scallops uh scallop um
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] it has a French name it basically means that it has a Swiss cheese cream sauce with it
[speaker002:] oh yeah what's what is that Saint Jack or something scallops saint something or yeah yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and you pour it over rice yeah uh yeah I can't even remember what the recipe's name is anymore but uh it it basically just ground up Swiss cheese and then uh standard cream sauce base and then uh
[speaker002:] really with scallops
[speaker001:] the scallops and it sounds sort of funny but it tastes really good
[speaker002:] no no I'm from New England so we we had um a lot of seafood before we moved down here
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh that sounds delicious to me that sounds great I think we're just thinking of having a uh dinner party we went to this dinner party the other night that
[speaker001:] yeah yeah but uh
[speaker002:] was kind of like a game they had uh a murder mystery and you came dressed as one of the characters and you had to solve the mystery during the dinner
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and it was really fun and so we we were thinking we wanted to do you know we were going to try doing it ourselves but we're trying to decide what can we serve because at this one the hostess was pretty busy running around trying to get stuff ready for the table and that kind of interrupted the game so
[speaker001:] right right yeah
[speaker002:] so I was thinking there's this beef bourguignonne recipe that I've tried before that's pretty good and then you can make that ahead and you can just leave it in the pot on a stove until you're ready
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so that's uh
[speaker001:] yeah that's another thing I have a problem with my wife
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] she uh she likes to um she doesn't like the beef dishes she likes the chicken and fish
[speaker002:] uh yeah
[speaker001:] and like I said we always ate beef and uh pork
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] you know a lot so
[speaker002:] I know my husband did too his parents are Austrian and they uh always made sure they had a lot of meat at the table
[speaker001:] oh yeah red meat plenty of good red meat
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker001:] my dad could eat a a meal with out any vegetables at all
[speaker002:] oh my gosh
[speaker001:] and uh Susan's you know they had you know meatless meals you know my dad wouldn't know what to do
[speaker002:] yeah yeah oh gosh so do you
[speaker001:] course she grew up Catholic so you know they they sort of come with the there's a certain amount of meatless meals you have to have
[speaker002:] oh they did the that you do right right that's just part of it
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] yeah we didn't my family didn't but when I got into the vegetarian cooking we got kind of used to that but my husband always did it kind of grudgingly he never there was dishes that he really enjoyed
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] eating there there were several things that he liked but it never was really something that he would have chosen it's just that I cooked so he had to put up with it
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] so but there was one thing that he couldn't stand and that was soybeans I tried it like once or twice and he just could not eat it so I never I had I was limited I had to make vegetarian meals without using soybeans but
[speaker001:] yeah it's hard to get a protein content up then
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's true
[speaker001:] huh yeah I like I like them every now and then for a change yes it's nice
[speaker002:] yeah some of the stuff is good but it just it was a tremendous amount of cooking because you do have to make sure you have the right combinations of different proteins to make sure they're complete
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and we had little kids at the time you know when I was home with them and it it was just so much cooking I couldn't I don't like to cook and I'm not really that great at it so it just turned out to be too much of a too much too much cooking
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so well I guess I'll let you get back to feeding your little one there
[speaker001:] yeah no uh he's all done yeah yeah I set him down
[speaker002:] he's set oh okay okay do you like to bake at all or do you do you get into that's that's
[speaker001:] yeah we used to do that um my mom used to go crazy every Sunday until my dad like blew up you know after after he gained about eighty pounds after coming back from the Navy she stopped doing it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but um she used to have you know two dozen sticky buns three bread rolls you know every week
[speaker002:] really no kidding
[speaker001:] and um the sticky buns of course would last you know three or four days and that would be it
[speaker002:] yeah then be gone I know that's the thing about baking I used to I I don't mind baking at all and I I can do a pretty good pie we have this pie crust recipe in our family that my grandmother gave my mother and my mother taught me how to make it
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and um so I can make a pretty mean pie but um I don't do it anymore because it's just too fattening we had the same kind of problem if you make homemade bread I mean forget it's supposed to save you money but you eat like three times the amount of bread that you usually eat it tastes so good
[speaker001:] hum um-hum uh-huh we always we had that bread that was uh um you ever seen the the starter bread I can't remember what it's called they call it the um Amish bread here but uh it's made with you just leave leave it out
[speaker002:] oh uh yeah yeah I
[speaker001:] you know and you let it spoil sort of yeah you know
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh I've heard of that I've heard of it but I've never done it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that sounds pretty good
[speaker001:] yeah it tasted pretty good really
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah
[speaker001:] but um it's the sort of thing where you let a portion of it go bad and then you add all these other ingredients to it but
[speaker002:] yeah and then you save you make the bread but you pinch off a portion or save a portion of it for the next time or something
[speaker001:] yeah right yeah you take some of the batter out and give it to someone else and that's how they continue the thing
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah I know it sounds it always sounded I don't know how safe that was sounded pretty bad
[speaker001:] yeah I know it sounded strange to me too I figure well you're baking it so you know yeah yeah
[speaker002:] yeah that's true that's that's got to got to kill anything I guess but
[speaker001:] um-hum okay well I'll talk to you later where are you calling from by the way Texas
[speaker002:] all right well yeah thanks Plano yeah Plano in Texas are you in Texas
[speaker001:] where Plano okay no Falls Church Virginia
[speaker002:] no kidding gosh it sounds so close
[speaker001:] yeah I know we've got a good connection must be a uh TI connection yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I thought for sure yeah I thought for sure you were in Dallas or something
[speaker001:] yeah I I talked to so many people from Texas that's where practically everybody I talked to is from I think that's why they call me because they want to get people outside the state you know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yes yeah they're do they're trying to get all different amount of people well jeez my husband is from Richmond and I went to UVA that's where we met yeah yeah
[speaker001:] oh oh really yeah I went to school at uh well I went to school at West Virginia University but
[speaker002:] oh you did yeah
[speaker001:] but I grew up right here in Falls Church right outside DC yeah
[speaker002:] yeah boy we'd like to get back over to the East Coast I'll tell you it's nice over there
[speaker001:] yeah it's sort of funny I have people that want to go to Dallas
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yeah one of my one of my friends here he was just talking how he's thinking on leaving the company and going to Dallas saying how
[speaker002:] oh yeah no kidding well its things are doing pretty good down here we we were we tried to move over to Raleigh last year and there just was there was so little such little going on in Raleigh you know you couldn't get a job to save yourself over there so we decided we'll try in a couple of years but but business is
[speaker001:] yeah yeah we were saying we could sell our house here and buy one down there cash you know
[speaker002:] yeah you probably could
[speaker001:] well Northern Virginia
[speaker002:] you probably could okay well it's good talking to you
[speaker001:] okay nice talking to you too bye bye
[speaker002:] take care bye