[speaker001:] okay uh I guess uh you have any uh favorite foods
[speaker002:] well I like to eat um I like to bake a lot I'm not a gourmet cook but um just enjoy a lot of old-fashioned cooking
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah I I used we used to get the uh magazine Gourmet and uh stuff like that uh I I did try
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] a few of the the recipes in there and
[speaker002:] well how did those those turn out
[speaker001:] uh well I made a a um a bread pudding uh fancy style and it came out really good
[speaker002:] um-hum well that sounds good my son takes the Gourmet um or the Bon Appetite
[speaker001:] yeah uh
[speaker002:] a magazine and he has prepared several dishes uh and they've turned out really well one of those is uh was I don't even I don't even know what the name of the recipe is to this point but um it was just beef cooked with a a lot of wine and and uh all kinds of spices the rosemary and those kind of things and it turned out really really well
[speaker001:] um-hum I see yeah I I do a lot of I did I've done some uh you know things like chicken and and stuff in there but I I deviate from it I I never like to follow sometimes if there's something uh in there that I I don't like I'll substitute it with something else and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so uh I like to experiment
[speaker002:] well well I do too uh in fact uh lot of times I will just uh decide on a a meat and then just put some things around it add some gravies or or um uh sauces and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] the the thing I've found that's bad about that if I don't write it down while I'm being creative and it turns out wonderfully a lot of times the next time I think about it I don't have that recipe in mind I can't exactly remember exactly how I fixed it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so I've learned that when I am creative like that that I try and make sure I write that down
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um one of the things that I have had a lot of fun doing is collecting recipes uh well not really a I don't have lots but I have collected a few recipes from restaurants and uh we have um I don't know what part of the country you're from in but I'm in Dallas
[speaker001:] I'm in the northern area up here in Wisconsin Minnesota
[speaker002:] okay well I'm in Dallas Texas and um here for years and years we've had a waffle shop downtown it's closed now but they had famous waffles and I happen to have that recipe right in front of me which is really um doesn't look like a heart healthy recipe at all but it's delicious if you're into waffles
[speaker001:] yeah uh well I I like waffles but I usually go to restaurant and eat them
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] I uh I don't even have a waffle iron
[speaker002:] well you need one of those for sure but it has um like milk and it has half half-and-half in it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh course real butter and
[speaker001:] I like all those things that aren't good for you
[speaker002:] the me too me too and I'm beginning to show it too
[speaker001:] yeah I uh I mean we we do use a lot of the the margarines and that but I do miss actual butter
[speaker002:] um-hum I don't uh use butter unless I do some special things uh usually around the holidays
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and I tend to um feel like I can justify use the use of butter during that time uh not only just you know to put into the recipes but to serve on the table too
[speaker001:] yeah well I I know it's something that my wife picked up was uh we uh made some um butter from uh you just take heavy whipping cream
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and you keep churning it until it turns to butter so
[speaker002:] well I've done that a couple of times not on purpose
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I did that by accident a couple of times one of the things that I think I'm going to try this um uh this year for Thanksgiving is I um I've talked to a a gentleman who prepares turkeys by deep frying them have you heard of that
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] he deep fries the turkeys whole in a peanut oil and he says that um and I haven't tasted them um but he claims that they are juicy and just very very good um he prepares he can prepare up to a thirty two pound turkey uh with the method that that he uses which is just a big vat with you know lots and lots of the the peanut oil
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] so I think that I think that's um