[speaker001:] well what's your favorite dish
[speaker002:] oh for your question probably it's uh tough to decide between like some sort of a Chinese dish or something like pizza
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I understand that I like oriental cooking and uh pasta and I have the same problem uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] Italian heritage so I definitely like pasta but I like Italian and the two don't mix though I've tried that that doesn't
[speaker002:] no no although you can make a sort of a Chinese pizza
[speaker001:] yeah that doesn't work very well either uh I don't know sort of dumb what kind of food would you have in a dinner party well it depends on what kind of people you got coming over so we'll leave it at that
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] uh let me see what do you what you like to cook uh just everything or do you have specialties
[speaker002:] I'm I pretty much specialize I guess in uh Italian and Chinese um I'm a vegetarian
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] as uh Chinese gives me a lot of room to play with I've been I've been doing some stuff with um Middle Eastern lately you know cooking up dals and stuff which has been fun
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum um-hum yeah I um I I've been collecting recipes and modifying recipes for a long long time
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I run a little direct mail business on the side and I finally put together a cookbook
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] and uh I've got to I got to reformat it I I did it on my word processor and now I've got to redo the whole thing again and I'm trying to figure out a cheap way to a quick way to do it without having to retype it
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] because uh it's it's all size about it's not it's not very big I mean it's like a hundred and five pages something like that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but it's got lots of good recipes so I was thinking about trying to sell that on the side just for fun
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah yeah I usually um you know I get Usenet so I usually just uh look at the recipe groups in there uh for interesting things
[speaker001:] um-hum well see what else can we talk about food
[speaker002:] well what sort of cookbooks do you um do you usually use
[speaker001:] well usually hardly any at all anymore um I've I've gotten together sort of like basic recipes
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] and once you have those you can add to them or take away from them and come up with all kinds of different dishes
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] I I have several cookbooks uh Betty Crocker and New York Times and a couple of Japanese cookbooks a couple of Chinese cookbooks I even got a Filipino cookbook um
[speaker002:] um-hum hm
[speaker001:] they have a nice dish in there for a chicken dish I forgot the name of it but it takes a special kind of sausage and you can only get it at Filipino stores
[speaker002:] well that's interesting
[speaker001:] yeah and it's it's a it's a strange sort of it's sort of like a pepperoni
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but it's it has a much sharper flavor and it's uh it's almost like it has red dye in it or something when you cook it it bleeds and it colors the food
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] it's pretty interesting but it's a real good chicken dish it's sort of like a chicken potpie in a way you have a crust on top and all that
[speaker002:] um-hum  um-hum
[speaker001:] delicious though I love it
[speaker002:] do you yeah I pretty much I I guess I stick pretty much I got a couple of Moosewood books some
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] The Greens I find to be very handy
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um  other than that I mean I you know I got five or six others that I can I can look up for inspiration or something I don't know but uh yeah but
[speaker001:] yeah an idea yeah that's the way I am I generally get there and
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I have a have an idea of what I wanna do I don't really know how to get started so I I look at something get me get me ah yeah well I'll add this to it and do this and turns out pretty good sometimes
[speaker002:] right um-hum yeah I find it's usually pretty useful to cook you know some number of recipes out of a book to get a flavor of the style
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and then from that point you can pretty much improvise once you once you understand the spicing patterns and stuff like that
[speaker001:] yeah well I mean I mean that's yeah that's the fun of cooking improvising
[speaker002:] right absolutely
[speaker001:] if you're gonna sit there and just follow a recipe that's no fun
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know
[speaker002:] I agree
[speaker001:] you know a monkey can do that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I bet even my cats could do that no not this one she's dead to the world right now oh well well let's see I guess that's about it on food
[speaker002:] yeah okay
[speaker001:] all right good talking to you Brad take care bye
[speaker002:] nice talking to you bye