[speaker002:] hi this is Donna Donahue
[speaker001:] hi Donna ready to get started
[speaker002:] hi ah yeah I think so
[speaker001:] okay sort of an interesting topic since I just got back from lunch here
[speaker002:] oh okay well what did you have for lunch
[speaker001:] oh it was uh it was I'm an officer in the Air Force and we went to the Officers' Club for a little Mexican food today
[speaker002:] oh oh well that's interesting okay so our topic is is food today is that okay
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah if you're having a dinner party what what would you serve
[speaker002:] okay uh do you want me to go first
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] okay if I was having a dinner party I would probably um have some um some uh um some fruit to start with with some apples sliced up and maybe some cheddar cheese and crackers and grapes and um probably serve maybe some wine and beer and maybe have some ah ah salsa and chips around and peanuts and then I would have um let's see I usually have like a little theme when I have a dinner party so um I would have maybe um say if it was like Greek night or something um maybe um on the barbecue we'd put um
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] cubes of lamb or I guess lamb used for Greek and um like a shish kebab and um mushrooms and tomatoes and onions and then we'd have um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] like a big Greek tossed salad kind of like a Caesar salad and um let's see what else um maybe some rolls and um I guess some um some rice or something like that
[speaker001:] um-hum jeez well well when's the party here
[speaker002:] how's that sound yeah um yeah that would take some planning but
[speaker001:] I don't know being a being the bachelor here that I am I I don't think I I'd be nah nah it I mean it it's not a question of capability here to do something like that it's just there's there's no motivation
[speaker002:] that's right
[speaker001:] you know I wanna I wanna throw some charcoal on the grill and and throw a steak on there and some baked potatoes and stuff like that but um
[speaker002:] oh that sounds good too but I have um I have three kids so um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] when we have friends over I have my oldest kind of babysit for the little two younger ones upstairs and um usually we just have very plain kind of you know interesting not very interesting meals pizza and that also
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] once in a while when we do something like that it's kind of fun but it's not a not a regular thing
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um now we supposed to talk for about five minutes is that it okay
[speaker001:] yeah it yeah that's what they they're shooting for here
[speaker002:] okay um let's see now what okay so you would have a barbecue wouldn't
[speaker001:] well I live on a I live on a lake here and uh so
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] it it during the summertime it's real nice to be able to entertain outdoors like that's a little more ah casual thing but in mine in the wintertime it's not bad too because then I've got a
[speaker002:] oh sure
[speaker001:] you know fireplace and a nice nice house and all that so it's uh uh really good place to do entertaining like that I just haven't uh really tried a whole lot but uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh that sounds wonderful uh-huh
[speaker001:] I don't know let's see I have had well one time I did have a dinner party I served a uh uh had a gang of people over and kind of made a fried chicken thing and biscuits and kind of southern uh southern food even though I'm up here in New York so I
[speaker002:] um-hum oh oh you're in New York right now oh I'm I'm in Texas I didn't know this was all from all over the whole country oh I see and I'm from originally from Long Island
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah yeah it is it oh no kidding
[speaker002:] yes and now where are you in New York
[speaker001:] upstate Rome a Griffins uh Griffins Air Force Base
[speaker002:] oh upstate oh okay oh okay is that where you you're originally from around there
[speaker001:] well I was born in Buffalo and uh been all over the place
[speaker002:] oh okay oh wow that's interesting okay let's see um well I like to have um sometimes when I have a dinner party I'll have um everybody bring something
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and that's real interesting because then you get different um different kinds of foods and new recipes and um ah sometimes somebody will bring something that you really like and get recipe from them and whatever
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and we just getting interested in in Mexican food because here in Texas they have lots of really good Mexican restaurants and um
[speaker001:] uh-huh sure
[speaker002:] we're we're just getting into the fajitas and all that stuff that you could do you know what a fajita is yeah okay
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I've been down to Texas a few times and uh had uh the pleasure of their good Mexican cuisine down there
[speaker002:] yes they have some delicious delicious things and I um sometimes make uh chicken burritos that just take chicken breasts and you boil them maybe like four chicken breasts and you boil them till they're cooked
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] maybe like thirty minutes and then you debone them and and kind of shred them up if the meat's gotten cooled and you take um salt little bit maybe two tablespoons of butter and a frying in a big frying pan and chop up some onion and put in oregano and salt