[speaker002:] okay I guess we're going to discuss food and cooking
[speaker001:] alright
[speaker002:] do you enjoy cooking
[speaker001:] sometimes not all the time
[speaker002:] I'm kind of that way too when I have I I enjoy cooking when I have time
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] I don't enjoy preparing three meals a day everyday
[speaker001:] yeah that that's about the same boat I'm in too
[speaker002:] it gets kind of boring
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] how big is the family you cook for
[speaker001:] uh five
[speaker002:] uh-huh we have four so and two of them are teenage boys so
[speaker001:] oh yeah well I'll be hitting that fairly soon because all of mine are boys too so
[speaker002:] are they
[speaker001:] and they get pretty particular sometimes in what they want to have
[speaker002:] yeah yeah we have that problem too but also now it's just the amount that they eat it's just absolutely incredible
[speaker001:] uh oh yeah well see I my my oldest is nine and he already he already does that
[speaker002:] yeah does he well
[speaker001:] and I told him he's going to have to get a part-time job by the time he reaches teenage years so he can eat
[speaker002:] yeah that's true uh do you have any favorite things that you serve when you are doing a special meal
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] favorite recipes that you've come across or
[speaker001:] my husband and I our favorite meal is um and we do it like for special stuff celebrations and we have like steak and he does the steak and then uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh out on the grill uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh-huh and he marinates it in his special stuff that he does and it's real good and uh I do sauteed mushrooms so and asparagus and that's our favorite
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh  ooh yeah ooh that's sound good I love that
[speaker001:] dinner
[speaker002:] my husband really likes seafood
[speaker001:] yeah so do we
[speaker002:] um and uh I think that no matter what I do I don't serve enough of it really to uh to suit him I didn't grow up eating that much seafood and um so I don't know it's just kind of not natural to me but I like it and uh I don't know one of his favorite things is uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well it's called seafood stew and it's really it's really like a soup soup that that you serve over rice
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh it has oysters and shrimp and crab in it and
[speaker001:] it's not the one with all the shells and stuff in it is it
[speaker002:] no no that's kind of Louisiana I think if you do that yeah I don't either
[speaker001:] I don't know what that I don't see how you eat that but
[speaker002:] but uh no this is just really it is really good and and one thing that's good is it makes the a large amount and so I freeze usually we eat one and I freeze two containers of it then that's just real quick to get it out and serve it over rice
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] but neither of my kids will eat it you know so then they eat a pizza or
[speaker001:] yeah so it yeah it defeats the purpose
[speaker002:] yeah it really does one thing I've run across recently though a friend gave me a recipe that I really like for chicken enchiladas have you made them
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah my husband makes those I'm not I don't eat enchiladas I I don't like enchiladas I don't like the texture I don't know I guess it's the texture or something I don't like the taste of enchiladas but everyone else in my family does
[speaker002:] does he ooh uh-huh yeah well are these are done with a flour tortilla is that what he uses yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I don't know I it's I don't know what I don't know I I don't know what it is about the enchiladas I just and I'm the only one including my Mom and Dad and my brother I'm the only one that doesn't eat it but my kids love it you know
[speaker002:] isn't that something yeah I was going to say my kids both eat it I guess that's one thing that I particularly like um but I think it's good for you know for for company too and I've made it a few times um and you can make a lot at one time
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] when I needed to make something to uh to give somebody you know like you know to take over to somebody's house or something else
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I've got a chicken casserole that's like that that that I've
[speaker002:] it it's nice when it makes a lot because you can feed your own family and then uh-huh
[speaker001:] yeah because I when I make this chicken casserole I it it makes a real big casserole and then another one that I freeze
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so or I give it to my Mom and Dad if I know we're not going to eat
[speaker002:] what what does it have in it
[speaker001:] it's just you can use chicken or turkey because my Mom started making it like right after Thanksgiving and using the leftover turkey
[speaker002:] uh-huh sure uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it's rice and I I I when I do recipes I just throw stuff in I don't I'm not real good about measuring because I just I do it to taste
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh sure sometimes those are the best ones
[speaker001:] and well yeah but it it's like it's just chicken it it's as much as you want you know torn up and and rice and cream of chicken soup and some mayonnaise and lemon juice
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and celery and that's it and some hard boiled eggs
[speaker002:] yeah ooh that sounds good
[speaker001:] and that's it you just mix it all together and pop it in the oven just to you know heat it through and you sprinkle uh that those um toasted onion rings
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh yeah those are good aren't they uh-huh
[speaker001:] on top of it for the crunchy and that's it you know and it it it goes and it's filling because of the rice
[speaker002:] um that sounds good right
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] you cook the rice before you put it in yeah
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] I bet the mayonnaise in there makes it really kind of gives it a tang that would be good
[speaker001:] yeah it gives it a an extra yeah little tang
[speaker002:] I guess I would now use the the new mayonnaise free
[speaker001:] yeah that cholesterol fat free
[speaker002:] yeah that's really wonderful that they're coming out with so many
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] new things like that because like I told my husband this summer I love to eat you know chicken salad and tuna salad and stuff like that and and you know basically it certainly a low low calorie you know good thing except then you put your mayonnaise in there and spoil the whole thing
[speaker001:] uh-huh I know
[speaker002:] you know and now it's it's it's okay and you can even I used to just put a tiny bit in well now I'm just putting more and more in
[speaker001:] I don't like tuna salad unless it's got lots of mayonnaise in it
[speaker002:] yeah and it's only it used to be like a hundred hundred calories per tablespoon and now it's like twelve oh I just think that's the best thing to have happened I'm just so excited about that
[speaker001:] yeah I know
[speaker002:] anyway
[speaker001:] yeah we did the low-cal stuff well with my kids I don't they get enough sugar and stuff anyway mine are bouncing off the walls normally anyway and they don't need any added help
[speaker002:] yeah yes right
[speaker001:] so when we're here at home you know with sweets and stuff they they don't we don't really do that much I do a lot of fruits
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] instead of the cakes and the candies and you know stuff like that and and drink wise they have Kool-Aid milk or water normally now when they go to their grandmother's house
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] which is every weekend it's a it's a different it's a different story all around
[speaker002:] that's when they as our family would say a pig out huh
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's exactly what it is
[speaker002:] that's good oh one of my boys that that's twelve um is has high cholesterol
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] have you ever found out about your kids
[speaker001:] no not yet
[speaker002:] and my other one does not so oh year or so ago he found out and he went on a fairly strict diet to try to get it down and did he was able to get it down
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] it's I think it's mostly hereditary because we really have never eaten high things in cholesterol he's never eaten any eggs he's never had anything but skim milk and you know I've never bought butter and things like that but um
[speaker001:] yeah huh
[speaker002:] oh he just left for the doctor again and it's it's kind of back up um so he needs to be careful again so we've really been talking about the foods you know for him to to be sure to eat yeah and uh
[speaker001:] yeah the lower cholesterol foods and stuff
[speaker002:] so he's eating an apple a day for the last two days so all that kind of stuff does really help well I think we've probably talked long enough and